Monday, January 3, 2011

Easel card with Drawer tutorial

Welcome to the very first Inky Impressions tutorial.  Starting today, you will find a tutorial by one of the Inspirational Inkettes every two weeks.  We hope you enjoy them and you use the tutorial, we'd love to see your work so we've included a link list at the bottom of this post.    Today's tutorial is by Tanya, you can find the details of the items used on her blog.
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Easel Card w/drawer Tutorial



1. Cut the following size pieces of cardstock (note the pictures use black cardstock but my project is in another color)
 
 

Box

2 - 4'' x 6 7/8''
1 - 6 3/4'' x 5 1/4''


Easel Card

1 - 8'' x 5 3/8''

1 - 4'' x 5 3/8''



2. Score the 4'' x 6 7/8'' piece of card at 3/4'' and 6 1/8'' on both pieces 






3.  Place glue the small edges of the each piece to each other



4. Form a wrap for the drawer to go in




5. Take the piece of cardstock that is 6 3/4'' x 5 1/4'' score 3/4'' in on each edge


6. Form the drawer (you may have to cut one slit on each corner to make flaps





7. Create the easel card by taking the 8'' x 5 3/8'' piece of cardstock and scoring at 4'' and 6''



8. Decorate the top and base of the easel card as desired.
 



if you create one of these using the tutorial, we'd love to see it so please link to this post.



Sunday, January 2, 2011

Please welcome....

Sonja, Sandie and Vicki as the newest additions to the Inkettes!  These three gals did a fantastic job as a guest designer that we couldn't let them leave :)

Congratulations girls, we are happy to see you stay on!!!

Friday, December 31, 2010

Changes to Inky Impression in the new year.

Happy New Year Everyone!!  I hope everyone has a fantastic year!  With the new year, there are some changes happening here at the Inky challenge blog.  We are all very excited about these changes and we think you will be too!

*  Weekly Challenges - We will be going back to our weekly challenges.  Every Wednesday a new challange will be posted.  An individual from the participants will be randomly selected to be "Inked by the Inkettes" (which is not a new change).  A new feature to this is that at the end of the month an individual who participated in all challenges during the month will be randomly selected to receive a goodie back from Inky Impressions!!  

* Tuesday Teasers - Each Tuesday you will see a "teaser" from one of the design teams cards for the upcoming challenge.   

      *Tutorials - Every other Monday, you will have a new tutorial brought to you by a 
           member of the design team.  

      *Anything but a card - Every other Monday (the non-tutorial weeks), you will have 
           new creation made by a member of the design team. 

*This and That Thursday - You never know what it will be.  It could be an Oldie but Goodie Stamp that is highlighted by the DT, possibly a recap of what's going on or upcoming.  It's just a little bit of everything :D

*Friday Finds - This is where you will see a card featuring an Inky Impressions image.  This will be found through yahoo, facebook, splitcoast stamps, etc.).  So make sure you tag Inky Impressions in your posts so that you have a chance to be featured on the blog.


Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Inky Impressions Challenge - Animals

Good Morning everyone! I want to thank everyone that participated in our challenge a couple weeks ago, as always your work is amazing!!



Before we get to today's challenge, I would love to announce the  winner from our Black, White & 1 other Color Challenge  The winner is...............SHALA!!!!!  Congratulations Shala, make sure you grab your badge below :)



















For today's Challenge we would love to challenge you to showcase our lovable, cuddlable little friends and create something with an ANIMAL theme.  If you haven't had a chance to snag one of these adorable images yet, you can find them here in the store.

This weeks challenge will be going on for only ONE WEEK this time as we will have some new stuff for you starting in January. No need to use Inky Images but if you have them we would love to see you use them!!!! To be eligible to get Inked by the Inkettes you must have all creations uploaded to Mr. Linky by Tuesday January 4th by Noon Eastern Time. We can't wait to see your creations this week.

Here are some beautiful samples to get your creative juices flowing:









and now for our December Guest Designers:









Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Inky Impressions Challenge & Blog Hop Winner

Before we get to today's challenge, I would love to announce the blog hop winner from last week.  The winner is.......Dawn (aka Craftykitten).  Please email me your address at britanya94 at yahoo dot com and I will have your goodies mailed out.

Now on to this week's challenge.  We would love to challenge you to use Black, White and 1 other color.

Not only do we have a blog hop winner, we have our Christmas Challenge winner to announce.......LISA S...Congratulations please grab your badge to place on your blog



This weeks challenge will be going on for TWO WEEKS so you have plenty of time to come and join the fun. No need to use Inky Images but if you have them we would love to see you use them!!!! To be eligible to get Inked by the Inkettes you must have all creations uploaded to Mr. Linky by Tuesday December 28th by Noon Eastern Time. We can't wait to see your creations this week.

Here are some beautiful samples to get your creative juices flowing:


Tanya

Lorraine


Marley

Annette




Gio


Sammi


Joey


and our guest designers:

Sonja

Sandie

Vicki

Alberto

Ria



Sunday, December 12, 2010

Do you want to be a Guest Inkette??

We are looking for guest designers to be featured on the blog each month and as an added bonus, any one selected for guest designer will be eligible for a design team position the next term.  If you would love to take part in this, just include link below to a new creation using an Inky image and you could be selected!

This will stay open until the 24th so that the individual selected will have time to get creating for their first post on January 7th.




Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Inky Impressions Winter Release Blog Hop

Hello Everyone, You have made it to the end of the INKY IMPRESSION'S WINTER RELEASE BLOG HOP!!! If you haven't arrived here from Sandie's blog you might want to start back at Inky's Mama's Blog so you don't miss anything along the way!!!

I hope you enjoyed the hop!!!! All these ADORABLE images are AVAILABLE NOW for purchase at the Inky Store. Please comment here and let us know what your favorite image is...we would love to hear your feed back....

One lucky winner who has commented on every blog will be randomly selected to win an awesome prize.... 2 of the newly released images and 1 sentiment!

This hop will end on December 14th at Noon Eastern Time. The lucky winner will be announced on December 15th when we start our next challenge!!! Good Luck to everyone!!!!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

INKY'S WINTER SNEAK PEEKS TODAY & BLOG HOP TOMORROW WITH A PRIZE FOR 1 LUCKY WINNER!!!

Hello everyone! Tomorrow is the INKY BLOG HOP & also the NEW RELEASE day here at Inky Impressions!! WOO-HOOO!!! We have a brand new line of stamps coming out for the New Release.... The first ever "INKY ANIMALS"..... Yes, you heard right, and let me tell ya, these little babies are so stinkin' cute!!! However, you only get to peek of 1 of them today. But, more great news..... There is also a new little girl that we are welcoming to the INKY FAMILY! Her name is Marlee. You can also see a sneak peek of her below.







If you like what you can see of these 2 peeks, you won't want to miss the blog hop tomorrow. Be sure to stop by to see some lovely creations created by the Inspirational Inkettes. There will also be a prize package for one of our blog hoppers! See you tomorrow everyone!

HUGS!

Nicole : )

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Inky Impressions Challenge - Christmas

Good Morning everyone! I want to thank everyone that participated in our challenge last month, there were so many great creations submitted which made it very difficult for Nicole to pick a winner.

Today, also marks the first challenge with the new Inkettes and Inky-dude :) I believe we have an awesome group of crafters and I think you'll agree after you see what they have created using the digi "Rachel's Gingerbread Christmas".

For today's Challenge we would love to challenge you to show off your holiday cheer and create something with a CHRISTMAS theme.

This weeks challenge will be going on for TWO WEEKS so you have plenty of time to come and join the fun. No need to use Inky Images but if you have them we would love to see you use them!!!! To be eligible to get Inked by the Inkettes you must have all creations uploaded to Mr. Linky by Tuesday December 14th by Noon Eastern Time. We can't wait to see your creations this week.

Here are some beautiful samples to get your creative juices flowing:






and now for our Guest Designers

Alberto (our Inky-dude)




Friday, November 12, 2010

THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR "THE NEW INSPIRATIONAL INKETTES"

Hello everyone! The time has come to do the Announcement for the New Inky Impressions Design Team, The Inspirational Inkettes. I know you have all been wondering when the call will end. We had over 100 applicants & this made it sooo..... hard to choose just some of you! We truly appreciate all of you that took the time to submit some of your favorite creations. Each and every one of the creations we seen were very pretty! I don't like to turn anyone away, but the truth of the matter is we can only pick so many. I wish we could have picked all of you! If you are not one of the ladies chosen for this term….. please do reapply in the future.

The New Inspirational Inkettes Design Team Members are as follows:

Marley
Tanya
Annette
Lorraine
Joey
Giovanna
Sammi


Guest DT Members:

Vicki
Sonya (Flati)
Ria
Sandie
Alberto

Again, we truly Thank all of you who took the time to apply! We hope that you will all play along in our upcoming Challenges here on the Inky Challenge Blog! We will be having some really fun prize giveaways! And I want to also mention that you won't want to miss our Winter release..... You will see an entirely new line of stamps never before seen from INKY IMPRESSIONS!!! HUGS!

Nicole : )