Stampin' Up! Ice Cream Swirl ~ Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop

 Hey Stampers!  Welcome to the Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop.  I'm excited to be part of this fun & creative group sharing stamping inspiration with you today!

Our inspiration this month came from the sketch below.  As you may already know, sketches are my favorite!  They are a great place to start when creating a card, sometimes they don't end up anything at all like the original sketch.  I'm hoping that's not the case with my card this time!

Ice Cream anyone?  Ice Cream Swirl is a stamp set perfect for the summer, not so much for the day after Christmas.  However, I've been wanting ice cream more than usual recently AND I bought my husband a Ninja Creami for Christmas.  SO, I guess this set does make sense in my world right now! :) 

After stamping the ice cream and cone with Pretty in Pink and Crumb Cake, I used a Small Blending Brush to lightly blend each of those colors all over the stamped image.  Once I also had the strawberry stamped and colored with blends, I used the coordinating die cuts to cut them out. 

Yum! Another strawberry for the inside is the perfect finishing touch!  Another one was stamped on the envelope flap (not pictured) 

    Thank you for visiting my blog today!  Be sure to visit the rest of the blogs listed below for even more inspiration.  Hopefully you will find inspiration somewhere along the hop!

Happy Stamping!

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Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop ~ Sounds of the Season

Hello and welcome to my blog!  I'm excited to be joining the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop today.  I love being a part of these fun Blog Hops with other stampers sharing what we love and create!  Links to all the other blog posts for this hop are near the end of this post! - be sure to check them out! Hopefully you will be as inspired as I always am seeing what everyone else creates for this month's challenge.

This month's creative theme for this blog hop is Sounds of the Season ~ the sounds of the season that warm your heart.  Favorite tunes or carols that make you smile at this time of year.  I love that I was able to use one of my favorite current stamp sets, Shepherd's Care, to illustrate one of my favorite Christmas songs, Silent Night. 

I stamped the main image with Pebbled Path ink and that was perfect.  Then, I used versamark to stamp the stars.  After heat embossing with Gold Emboss Powder, I used a Blending Brush to add Night of Navy for the night sky. 

I always want to decorate the inside of cards.  After much (too much) contemplation, I decided the sentiment really says it all and nothing else was needed for the inside of this one. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today!  Be sure to hop along to the other posts by clicking the 'Next Blog' box at the end of each post.  (You can also click one of the names listed.)

 

Angie McKenzie  ●  Annette Ball  ●  Judith Patterson

Jan Musselman  ●  Mo Rootes  ●  Leonie Stuart

 Aurélie Fabre  ●  Tricia Butts  ●  Karen Henderson

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