Happy Halloween!!

October 29, 2017October 29, 2017 Happy Ink Designs6 Comments

Happy (early) Halloween!! I’m so excited to announce this weeks’ theme for the Always Fun Challenges blog. Have you figured it out yet?? It’s HALLOWEEN!!! I LOVE Halloween!! I’ve been working all month on getting our road closed to traffic on Halloween. Which, I’ve learned, requires an encroachment permit. That means I had to get signatures from every house on our entire street!! The good news is, the City has agreed to close it!! WOOHOO!! The population of Fort Bragg is a little less than 7,300 and we handed out candy to a little less than 1,300 kids last year… That’s just crazy!! No one knows why the entire town comes to this street for Halloween, but they do. And we LOVE IT!! It was just getting too dangerous to have vehicles driving up and down with that many kids. At some points while I was handing out candy last year, I looked up and the line was out into the middle of the street!! I wish I would have taken pictures, but we’re always soooo busy!! They start coming at about 4pm!! Here are a couple pix that I did manage to get from last year.

Speaking of Halloween, let’s talk about this card I made.

If you can’t tell by looking at this, I was greatly inspired by Vicky Papaioannou’s “Glowing Moon Technique” card. She does this background MUCH better than I, but I still had a lot of fun making this one. The card came together pretty easy. First I made the distress oxide background, and then I created the moon and placed my Silhouette witch (design ID #65963) over the top and lastly I added my sentiment. As you know, if you’ve read any of my posts or watched any of my videos lately, quick and easy are about all I have time for these days.

I added some Shimmer Spray to top it off. Can you see it? It looks really cool in person. Pictures just don’t show the cool details sometimes.

If you’d like to join us this week, just make something Halloween related and click here to add it to our challenge or go to the Always Fun Challenges blog and add it there. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope everyone has a Spooktacular Halloween!!!

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Hello Friend

October 22, 2017October 25, 2017 Happy Ink Designs4 Comments

Hi guys!! I’m back with another card and a new theme for this week over at Always Fun Challenges. The theme this week is Black and White. How fun is that? You can do just about anything with B & W!! I started off thinking I was going to be making a Halloween card, since Halloween is right around the corner, but at the last minute, I decided to go with a ‘Friend’ card. If you’d like to see what I made for last week’s challenge, click here.

You can never have too many of these kinds of cards and I really wanted to use this embossing folder again, so this is what I came up with.

I had a little bit of a rocky go with the background, which you can see in my video below, but in the end, I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. And I LOVE the little flower die that was included in last month’s card kit for Simon Says Stamp. It was the perfect addition.

Well, it’s family night at the Elam Residence so I’ll leave you with a video and a list of all the products I used. Thanks for stopping by and I’ll see y’all next week!!

Amazon, Simon Says Stamp, Scrapbook.com, Blitsy Disclaimer:

These are affiliate links. What that means is at no cost to you, I will receive a small commission if you purchase something from the links I’ve provided. That small commission will help me maintain my blog and youtube channel while still providing the links to all the products that I use. Any time you use an affiliate link, I greatly appreciate it. And if you have any questions on any of these products, please feel free to ask!! I’ll always give you my honest opinion.

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Quick and Easy Monochrome

October 15, 2017October 15, 2017 Happy Ink Designs2 Comments

Hello crafters!! Welcome back!! Last weeks card had so much going on, that I’ve decided to keep it nice and simple this week. (To see my card for last weeks’ theme, click here.) Well, I didn’t really decide. Amy at Always Fun Challenges decided because the theme this week is “Monochrome”. Here’s my take on that.

I’ve never made a monochome card before. I think I say that every week, but keep in mind I’ve only been making cards for 2 years now. There’s a lot of things I haven’t done yet and a lot of stamp sets I’ve never used yet. But don’t fret, all in due time, my friends. Wow, I can’t believe it’s already been 2 years since I fell head over heals in love with this beautiful hobby. And I don’t see myself growing tired of it any time soon. Which is good, since I’m DEEPLY invested at this point. I think my hubby would kill me…

Back to the card. This was so easy and so quick to make that I plan on making several more in several different colors with several different sentiments. Just to have some cards on hand. I envy the people that have boxes of pre-made cards ready to go at a moments notice.

The measurements for the paper are:

Cardbase: 4.25″ x 5.5″, next layer (darkest purple) is 4″ x 5.25″ and the card front is 3.75″ x 5″.

If you’d like to join us at Always Fun Challenges, just follow this link and add your project!! Simple as that. I love seeing all the GORGEOUS entries each week. Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll see you guys next week!!

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Lots of Layers Featuring SSS Feb. Card Kit

October 8, 2017October 7, 2017 Happy Ink Designs3 Comments

Hi guys!! Happy Belated World Cardmaking Day!!! It was October 7th, for those that may not have known. I just found out about 4 days ago, but unfortunately we were at an out of town football game so I didn’t get to craft at all. That’s ok, I’ll make up for it this coming week. The theme this week at Always Fun Challenges is Lots of Layers. This is why I love being on this design team. It makes me try things I normally wouldn’t try. I don’t work with many layers very often so this was a little out of my league, but I did the best I could.

I mainly used everything from the February 2017 Simon Says Stamp card kit. All the papers and sentiment are from that kit. I wasn’t sure where to even start so I used a sketch to help get me going. As you can see, this card was very easy to put together. Here is the sketch I used.

Once I had this, the rest was a piece of cake!!

For the circles, the smallest circle I used was 1 3/4″. The next one up was 2 1/8″ (craft cardstock). The bigger set of circles start at a little over 2 1/2″ and the biggest circle I used is 3″. The strip of pink card stock is 2″ wide.

The banners: Smallest is 1/2″ x 2″

Biggest: 1/2″ x 2 3/8″

Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Misty

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Well Hello There… Distress Oxides again

October 1, 2017October 1, 2017 Happy Ink Designs7 Comments

Hi again!! I’m back with some more distress oxide backgrounds. I just can’t get enough of these!! I want to take an entire day and just play. In a perfect world, I’d actually have time to do that, but until then, I’ll settle with experimenting as I go. I had a lot of fun playing around with these last week too, I actually ended up making a few cards which is always nice. Seems like I just don’t have all that much time to make cards these days. These boys keep me on my toes!! You can check out my last week’s cards by clicking here.

This card was SUPER easy and super quick. The theme this week at Always Fun Challenges is Dies and/or Punches. I’m going to try and keep this post short and sweet as I am in the middle of yet another Birthday sleepover weekend. This time for my son’s BFF that is living with us. Hey! My Birthday is tomorrow (Oct. 2), maybe I should have a sleepover too!!!! That could be kinda fun, if I had some crafty friends that lived close by. We could craft the night away!!

I have to show you how cute these boys are. I just love them with all I got. This is everyone singing Happy Birthday to Bub. Mine is the one on the far right and Bubby is his BFF.

Here’s a recent one that I absolutely love. My friend had just made this shirt for me so we were showing some Jr Cubs spirit. This was right before a game. I shared this on my IG, but I love it so much, I thought I’d share it here too.

And one more of my card…

I am TOTALLY late to the show, but my crafty friend, Darnell is currently running her NBUS challenge so I’m also entering this into her 10 day long challenge. This is one that I’m sure everyone can enjoy. NBUS stands for Never Before Used Schtuff and if you guys are anything like me, you could participate in this every day for a month and still not get thru all of your NBUS… Please check out her blog for all the details and follow her!! She’s hilarious and she does this challenge a few times a year. It’s the perfect push to use those products that you’ve never used before.

Anyway, below is a very simple video and below that is a list of the products that I used. Thank you so much for stopping by!! And I’ll see y’all next week ~