Design Team Announcement!

Good morning! Thank you to everyone who applied to be on the Inky Impressions Design Team for the September – December term. There were so many fabulous entries. You made our job very difficult! We wish we could pick you all, but unfortunately we can’t.  If you did not make it this time, do not get discouraged.  We will be having another design team call in the future and we encourage you to re-apply.

Without further ado please help us welcome the new members of the Inky Impressions team. We are so excited about them joining us in September!  :o) These ladies are amazing! We can’t wait for you to see all of their beautiful creations.

Audrey E

Babette

Ceal

Dilyana

Fabiola

Karen G

Margreet

Nanette
Vicky

We are so happy to announce that the following ladies will be joining us for another term!

Carrie

Domi

Judith

Kerry

Tonya H

Congratulations, ladies! It is an honor to have all of you on the Inky team!

New Inky Impressions Challenge - Use Dies or Punches

Good morning! We are so happy you stopped by for this week's fun filled Inky challenge. We would like to thank everyone who played along with us in last week's challenge. We are thrilled that you joined us!

We would like to thank 3 Girls Jam for sponsoring last week's challenge. The random winner of the fabulous 3 Girls Jam prize package is:

# 1 Janis

The random winner of a free Inky Impressions digital stamp of their choice is:

# 6 Deanne

Congratulations to our winners! Please e-mail Inky.Impressions@hotmail.com to claim your prize. We can't wait to see what you do with your new goodies.

The Inky Top 3:

# 3 Lisa Kind

# 11 Gunn's Kort

# 19 Mary C

Congratulations! Be sure to grab your Top 3 Badge, which can be found on the tab above called "Winner/Top 3 Banners."
Thank you to The Ribbon Reel, for sponosing us this week. One lucky winner will receive a £10 gift voucher!

This week we want to see you use your dies or punches. We can't wait to see your beautiful creations.

Here are the fabulous creations that the Inkettes made for you.

Dawn Bennett (GD)

Jackie Rakoski

Judith Hall

Kerry Stuchbery



Tonya Hopkins

We would love for you to join us for the dies and punches challenge. It is not required to use an Inky image, however we would love it if you did and as a thank you, you will receive two entries into the prize drawings. To play along just follow the current theme, add the link to your creation below, and link back to us in your post. If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery please use keyword IIC69.

Monthly Bonus Prize: We will award a $10 Gift Credit to one lucky winner each month. This winner will be selected from those entries through the course of the month that use one of our Inky Images (rubber or digital).

Have a fabulous week! :o)

Blog Hop Winner!!

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our July Blog Hop. We hope that we were able to inspire you. I bet you are ready to find out who the winner is, aren't you? Well, let's get to it!
The prize was hidden on Carrie's blog and the lucky winner of the Inky Impressions July Blog Hop is:

Shelby

Shelby said..

Awesome coloring Carrie! Love how you've done the sky and the die cut grass and fence just completes the design beautifully.

Shelby, Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to inky.impressions@hotmail.com to claim your prize. Please let us know if you prefer a "character" or an "animal" stamp from the Inky store and Nicole will pick out a fabulous stamp for you along with some fabulous Inky embellishments.

Thank you again to everyone for joining us. We hope you will join us again on August 15, for another fun filled Blog Hop. If you are not already a follower we would love if you became one. It is a great way to stay up to date with our challenges and other Inky news. We also have a Facebook page. :o)

Don't forget to get your entries in for this week's photo inspiration, Inky challenge. We look forward to seeing your beautiful creations.

Have a beautiful week!

DT Call Update

We would like to thank everyone who applied for the Inky Impressions Design Team call. We appreciate each and every submission and are thrilled with the talent that applied. You are making our job very difficult. ;o) We are in the process of narrowing down the applicants. Please be patient in our process, we want to give this our full attention. Stay tuned for the big announcement!

Thank you again for your interest and support of Inky Impressions! We appreciate it more than you know.

Inky Impressions Challenge - Photo Inspiration

Good morning! We are so happy you stopped by for this week's fun filled Inky challenge. We would like to thank everyone who played along last week. Are you ready to see who the winners are? Well let's get to it.

The random winner of the free rubber stamp Nicholas Firefly Frenzy and embellishment sampling from Inky Impressions is:

# 22 Peggy R.

The random winner of a free Inky Impressions digital stamp of their choice is:

# 3 Lisa S.

Congratulations to our winners! Please e-mail Inky.Impressions@hotmail.com to claim your prize. We can't wait to see what you do with your new goodies.

The Inky Top 3 this week are:

# 25 Dilyana

# 20 Kym's Crafty Cards

# 17 Laura Love

Congratulations! Be sure to grab your Top 3 Badge, which can be found on the tab above called "Winner/Top 3 Banners."

This week's sponsor is 3 Girl Jam! The winner will receive a Red, White, and Blue bundle plus two Crinkle Ribbon bundles. How awesome is that!

We are a small family oriented company ran by me (Julie) and my two daughters (Avery and Mackenzie).  We are 3 girls dedicated to bringing you a high quality hand-dyed crinkle ribbon, bakers twine, adhesive canvas border strips, and our super cute bow maker tool that you will enjoy crafting with- as much as we do!  Check out our store for more inspiration.

This week's challenge is a photo inspiration. Take whatever you want from the photo (colors, images, entire scene etc.) to get inspired.

Now let's check out the wonderful creations from our talented Inkettes! Be sure to stop by their blogs and leave them some love. We all like a little love, right!

Carrie

Domi

Joni

Kelli

Kerry

Lesa

Mary (GD)

We would love for you to join us for the Photo Inspiration challenge. It is not required to use an Inky image, however we would love it if you did and as a thank you, you will receive two entries into the prize drawings. To play along just follow the current theme, add the link to your creation below, and link back to us in your post. If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery please use keyword IIC68.

Monthly Bonus Prize: We will award a $10 Gift Credit to one lucky winner each month. This winner will be selected from those entries through the course of the month that use one of our Inky Images (rubber or digital).

Reminder: If you have not finished our monthly Blog Hop, get to hoppin! :o) You have until Friday, July 20 to leave your comments for a chance at a fabulous Inky prize. You never know where it may be hidden.

Have a fabulous week!

Inky Impressions July Blog Hop

Hello! You have made it to the end of the Inky Impressions hop. We hope that you had fun and found inspiration looking at all of the fabulous creations from the Inkettes.

If you did not start at the Inky Insprational blog head on over there, so you do not miss any of the fun. Be sure to comment along the way, you never know where a prize may be hiding! ;o) One lucky commenter will win their choice of "character" or "animal" stamp and a sampling of Inky charms! You have until the Friday, July 20th, to get your comments in and be eligible for our fun prize! Good luck!

In case you got off track here is the blog hop order:
Inky Impressions Inspirational Blog

Carrie Robinson

Dawn Bennett (GD)
Dominique Steigner
Jackie Rakoski
Joni Mastronardi
Judith Hall
Kerry Stuchbery
Lesa Smaligo

Mary J. (GD)
Tonya Hopkins
Inky Impressions Challenge Blog (you are here!)

Be sure to check out the Inky Impressions store for our newest stamps from our May release. They are all about summer! Also, Inky Impressions has a large selection of fabulous embellishments including twine, charms, Inky Dinky Drops, rhinestones, pearls and more. Plus you cannot beat the prices! Go take a look, you will not be disappointed.

A few reminders:
Our DT call is open until tomorrow at 8:00 PM.
Our current challenge is The Great Outdoors.
We have an online magazine called the Inkyzine. Be sure to check this baby out! :0)

Thank you for joining us for our monthly hop. We appreciate our Inky fans (new and old) so much!!

Inky Impressions Challenge- The Great Outdoors

Hello! I hope this finds you well. It is time for another fabulous and fun challenge here at Inky Impressions. We would like to thank everyone who played along in last week's challenge. We appreciate our Inky fans so much! There are only a few days left to submit your entry for our Design Team Call! Be sure to get your entry in before it is to late. Inky Impressions is a fantastic company to work for. Nicole spoils us with goodies and Inky stamps are fabulous to work with. I just love coloring Inky's adorable images.

Also be sure to drop by Sunday, July 15 for our monthly blog hop. You do not want to miss it!!

Ok, now on to our winners from last weeks Fireworks or Bling challenge.

Random winner of 8 free Kenny K digi's:

#2 Audrey G

Random winner of a free Inky Impressions digi:

#4 Pat W

Congratulations to our winners! Please e-mail Inky.Impressions@hotmail.com to claim your prize.

Inky Top 3:

#11 Kaija

#9 bastelarena

#4 Pat W

Congratulations! Be sure to grab your Top 3 Badge, which can be found on the tab above called "Winner/Top 3 Banners.

Now on to this weeks challenge. We want to see your creations featuring the Great Outdoors.

This week you have a chance to win a free rubber stamp (Nicholas Firefly Frenzy) and a sampling of embellishments from our very own Inky Impressions store. As always we will also be giving away a free Inky Impressions digi to one lucky person who participates in our challenge.

If you do not own any Inky Impressions stamps this is your chance. You will not believe the quality! Our stamps are deeply etched red rubber on EZ Mount and come in the best packaging on the market. All stamps come in a zip top bag and includes a full color, laminated insert that is great as a coloring reference.

Now let's check out the fabulous creations from our very talented Inkettes! Be sure to stop by their blogs and leave them some love.

Anne Cullen

Carrie Robinson

Dawn Bennett (Guest Designer)

Jackie Rakoski

Judith Hall

Kerry Stuchbery

Tonya Hopkins

We would love for you to join us for the Great Outdoors challenge. It is not required to use an Inky image, however we would love it if you did and as a thank you, you will receive two entries into the prize drawings. To play along just follow the current theme, add the link to your creation below, and link back to us in your post. If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery please use keyword IIC67.

Monthly Bonus Prize: We will award a $10 Gift Credit to one lucky winner each month. This winner will be selected from those entries through the course of the month that use one of our Inky Images.

Inky Impressions Design Team Call!

Click HERE for our current challenge.

It is that time again! Inky Impressions is having a Design Team call. We are looking for enthusiastic, friendly, and talented stampers to help promote our products and to provide inspiration to the stamping community, through your personal blog and online galleries!

This call is open to everyone! If you have applied for our any of our previous Design Team calls, please feel free to re-apply! You are not required to use Inky Impressions stamps for your submissions but it’s a plus if you do. This time we are going to do this call a little differently. You will have one month to enter our DT Call by playing along with the Challenge in this post. June 16th - July 16th you will be able to enter your creations into the inlinkz below to show us your skills!

The challenge for this Design Team Call is...."Lots of Layers and a Bit of Stitching!"  Stitching may be real or faux. I cannot wait to see your entries! Have a blast creating, I know that I will!

What we are looking for in our Designers:
~Original & creative designs
~Great Coloring Techniques
~Ability to think outside of the box
~Good color matching skills

DT Details

Requirements:
~Commit to a 4 month term (September 2012-Decemeber 2012).
~5 or more projects per month. This includes participating in our challenges, posting on the Inky Impressions Inspirational blog, (a minimum of one time per month) post on your personal blog, and participate in our monthly blog hop.

~The ability to take good quality photos of your creations

~Have an active personal blog and promote Inky Impressions Rubber Stamps whenever possible (this includes use of logos/blinkies, linking products to the online store, display a list of Inky DT members on your blog , and posting in online forums and galleries such as Spiltcoast Stampers).
~If possible we ask that you mail in 2 physical card/project samples per term for our Inkyzine and trade show booths. (Extras are always welcome.)

~Enter your creations into challenges outside of the Inky Impressions Challenges with creations you make using Inky products.

~Comment on Inky Impression Challenge entries. 

Benefits:
~You will receive a fabulous package at the beginning of your term featuring our adorable character stamps, sentiments, and all sorts of goodies from the Inky Impressions store!

~Extra goodies from our challenge sponsors.
~Various digital images and new releases as they become available.
~You will receive 20% off (retail prices) on all purchases online or from our trade show booth for the length of your term (designer to pay shipping if online order.)~ Publication in the Inkyzine.
~Your name and a link to your blog will be displayed on the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog and on the Inky Impressions Inspiration Blog.
~A great opportunity to work with a fun and friendly design team!

~All of the products you receive are yours to keep as long as you meet your term requirements!

Thank you so much for applying.

Inky Impressions Challenge - Fireworks and Bling

Happy Fourth of July to all of our Inky fans here in the States! We hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday.

It is time for another Inky Impressions Challenge! Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for our Beach Fun challenge. You all did a fabulous job! It was so hard picking our top 3! This week our challenge is “Fireworks and/or Bling.” Before we get to our fabulous DT projects for this week, let's announce last week’s winners.

Random winner of a prize pack from our sponsor Crafty Ribbons:

#11 Audrey E

Random winner of a free Inky Impressions digi:
#16 Jennifer Scull

Congratulations to our winners! Please e-mail Inky.Impressions@hotmail.com to claim your prize.

Inky Top 3:
#10 Pami
#2 Papersniffer
#12 Natali

Congratulations! Be sure to grab your Top 3 Badge, which can be found on the tab above called "Winner/Top 3 Banners.”

This week we are being sponsored by KennyK Downloads. One lucky winner will receive 8 free Kenny K digi's.

Digi and rubber stamps from KennyK are a fun and edgy way to add the perfect dose of attitude and style to all of your creations! The creator, the artist, the man: KennyK is a NYC-born professional illustrator who has brought his funky-but-slick, urban-influenced look to the cardmaking and papercrafts world. His signature style can be seen throughout his various collections of sexy pinup babes, sweet'n sassy girls, cool rockin'dudes, kid’s stuff, retro characters and more at KennyKDownloads.com.

Thank you, to KennyK for sponsoring our challenge and for providing our design team with some fun images to play with, along with our adorable Inky Impressions stamps. Check out the Fireworks and/or Bling creations from the fabulous Inkettes!

Carrie Robinson
(Using Inky's Princess LiLi)

Carrie Robinson

(Using Inky's Pretty Christmas Tree, an Inky sentiment, and Kenny K's Gift Girl)

Carrie Robinson

(Using Kenny K's Craft Girl)

Dominique Steigner

(Using Inky's LiLi's Secret)

Jackie Rakoski
(Using Inky's Baking Themed Tab Digital Set and KennyK's Chef)

Joni Mastronardi
(Using Inky's Independence Day LiLi)

Judith Hall
(Using Kenny K's Fourth of July)

Kelli Hull

(Using Inky's Independence Day LiLi)

Kerry Stuchbery
(using Inky's Independence Day LiLi)

Kerry Stuchbery
(Using Kenny K's Sweet Melissa)

Lesa Smaligo
(Using Inky's Happy Birthday Digi)

Mary J
(Using Inky's Angelica the Bride)

Tonya Hopkins
(Using Kenny K's Freshman)

We would be thrilled if you played along with us this week and simply ecstatic if we saw you use an Inky image! It is not required to use an Inky image, but if you do you will receive a second entry in the prize drawings.

Be sure to use the keyword IIC66 and link your creation below so we can all enjoy your work as well. Who knows, you may even be selected as a winner or one of our weekly Top 3!

Some challenge details: We will award a $10 Gift Credit to one lucky winner each month. This winner will be selected from those entries through the course of the month that use one of our Inky Images. Each week one lucky challenge participant will receive a free digi no matter what image they use! If that wasn't enough we will also be selecting a Top 3! To be entered to win some fun prizes be sure to follow the current theme, add your creation below, and link back to us in your post.

Design Team News!

Good Morning Inky Impressions Fans! Today we are saying goodbye to some amazing guest designers, as well as welcoming some new Guest Designers to the Inky Team ! Let's get started!

These past two months our Guest Designers Jen Leeflang and Patty Chalas have been wonderful! They have both brought their unique style to Inky Impressions stamps and we are thrilled that they were able to join us. Ladies you will be missed!

This month we welcome two fabulous new Guest Designers! Please welcome to the Inky family Dawn Bennett and Mary J!

We can't wait to see what you add to Inky Impressions!

Inky Hugs to all :)
~Jackie