Wednesday, July 24, 2013

IIC #118 - Birthdays

Hello Inky Friends!!

Thank you all so much for your gorgeous entries in last weeks competition, so many beautiful summery creations!!  Random.org has chosen the winner of the $10 Inky Impressions gift certificate as...

Tip Top

Congratulations!!!! please email me within 7 days to claim your prize.

And this weeks top 3 chosen by Bettina are...

Lucy Patrick

Scrappellen

Lynda

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All of us at Inky Impressions would like to send our huge congratulations to Prince William and Kate Middleton on the birth of their lovely baby boy, a future King for England.  And with births in mind, our theme this week is...

Birthdays

Just in case you need a bit of inspiration, and of course to show off the talent of our fab DT, here are their creations!!!  I'm really sorry I'm not joining in this week, but I took a tumble at the weekend, landed awkwardly on my left hand and fractured a bone in my wrist, and if you were wondering - no alcohol was involved, hehehe!

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous


Who are offering one lucky winner a ribbon bundle in gorgeous shades of pink



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Lori

We can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations. It is not required to use an Inky image, however we would love it if you did. 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 you creation below, and link back to us in your post. If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery please use keyword IIC118. You may combine your challenge with as many other challenges as you would like and you may enter as many times as you like as long as you follow the current theme. If you do not link back to us your entry will be deleted.

Please hop over to the Inkettes' blogs and tell them how much you love their cards



Wednesday, July 17, 2013

ICC #117 - Summer

Hello Inky friends!!!

I hope you are all getting the lovely sunshine that we have been having here in Warwickshire, England.  There is only one problem, it's too hot in my craft room, I have taken to crafting through the night when it's cooler.  But this weather certainly fits our theme this week, which is

Summer

But before I show you the inspiration from the Inkettes, we have a winner and the top 3 from last week.  We had some amazing entries, I can't believe you are all so organised, creating for Christmas so early!!  We asked random.org to choose our winner, and that is

Zora

Well done, please email me (Vicky) before next week's challenge for your prize.

And the Top 3 chosen by me (as Kerry is away), are

Lalkygirl


Papersniffer


Ivonne H


Congratulations, please grab a badge for you blog from our winners page.

Now back to summer, we want to see anything that means summer to you, beaches, sunshine, summer flowers - there is so much choice.  Here are some ideas from the Inkettes
We can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations. It is not required to use an Inky image, however we would love it if you did. 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 you creation below, and link back to us in your post. If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery please use keyword IIC117. You may combine your challenge with as many other challenges as you would like and you may enter as many times as you like as long as you follow the current theme. If you do not link back to us your entry will be deleted.
Please hop over to the Inkettes' blogs and tell them how much you love their cards


Wednesday, July 10, 2013

IIC #116 - Christmas in July

Good day to you all,  as always you stunned us with your gorgeous creations last week.  The red, white and blue cards are really striking, thanks everyone who entered.  Well done to...

Dawn Lancaster

Random.org chose you as the winner of the Inky gift certificate, please email me for details on how to claim your prize!!

And the top 3, chosen this week by Inkette Karen, are

Kelly


Danielle C


Kim T

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Great job girls, please grab your badge from the winners page (tab at top) and wear with pride on your blog!

Before I announce this week's challenge, I would just like to say "au revoir" to Katie.  She is taking a little break from Inky, take care Katie and hurry back!!

Now onto this week's challenge, we all know it's on the way, and I know many of have started your collection already!  Yes I'm talking about Christmas!!!  With us here in the UK having just had the hottest day of the year so far, it does feel strange thinking of snow and ice, layers of warm clothing and boots, but it will creep up on us very quickly.  So were are giving you nudge to start!!  One lucky winner will win $10 to spend in our Inky Impressions on line store!

Christmas in July

If you need some inspiration to get you started, here are the Inkettes projects

Jenée
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Tanya


Vicky PP


Jessie
Jessie

Lori

We can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations. It is not required to use an Inky image, however we would love it if you did. 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 you creation below, and link back to us in your post. If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery please use keyword IIC116. You may combine your challenge with as many other challenges as you would like and you may enter as many times as you like as long as you follow the current theme. If you do not link back to us your entry will be deleted.

Please hop over to the Inkettes' blogs and tell them how much you love their cards

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

IIC #115 - Red, White and Blue

Hello Inky fans!!

Thank you to all of you who took part in last week's challenge, it wasn't an easy one, but you wowed us again with your fabby creations!!!  Random.org did it's magic again and came up with our winner of four Inky Impressions digis.  And that is number 26

That's you Susan

Please email me (Vicky) to claim your prize!

And the top 3 this week are

Debra M

Lucy


Tracey

Great job girls, please grab your badge from the winners page (tab at top) and wear with pride on your blog!

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This is our first challenge of July, and I have some exciting news to share with you!! 

WE HAVE NEW INKETTES!!

Please welcome Jessica, Jenée, Julie Ann, Vicki and Elisabete, who will start next week, we are so pleased to have you join or fun team and can't wait to see what you create.

This week we are honouring 4th July, and our theme is 

Red, White & Blue

You don't have to base your creation on Independence Day, just use the three colours.  The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to spend in our on-line Inky Impressions store.

Here are the Inkettes creations

Katie
Katie

Karen


Audrey


Bettina


A side view


Vicky

Lori


And another one


We can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations. It is not required to use an Inky image, however we would love it if you did. 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 you creation below, and link back to us in your post. If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery please use keyword IIC115. You may combine your challenge with as many other challenges as you would like and you may enter as many times as you like as long as you follow the current theme. If you do not link back to us your entry will be deleted.


Please hop over to the Inkettes' blogs and tell them how much you love their cards

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

IIC #114 - 3-2-1

Hello everyone, and a huge thank you for everyone who took part in our Anything Goes challenge last week!  There were so many lovely entries, and random.org chose

#161  Debbie M

The Top 3 choice this week was left down to me...oh boy was it difficult, but in the end I settled on 

An


Vania


Anita


Congratulations to you all, if you would like to email me, I will arrange your prizes, and you can find your badge by clicking the tab at the top of this page, wear it with pride.

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Now onto this weeks challenge. We are offering a prize of 4 digis to the random winner this week, worth far more than our usual $10 gift certificate!!  And for the theme - we are counting down

3-2-1

3 different papers, 2 types of embellishments and 1 image 

Not quite so easy this week!  Need some inspiration?  Here is what the talented Inkettes created








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And because we always like to encourage the youngsters, here is a card by Tanya's 
daughter, Abby


We can't wait to see all of your beautiful creations. It is not required to use an Inky image, however we would love it if you did. 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 you creation below, and link back to us in your post. If you upload your creation to an on-line gallery please use keyword IIC114. You may combine your challenge with as many other challenges as you would like and you may enter as many times as you like as long as you follow the current theme. If you do not link back to us your entry will be deleted.  We are sorry, but as we are offering a lager prize for the winner, there will not be any prizes for the Top 3

Please hop over to the Inkettes blogs and tell them how much you love their cards