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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Hearted Valentine


Hi stampers:)  Today is a share of this super simple last minute Valentine idea... or of course just a card to tell someone you love them:)

This is using my left over pieces that I had from my Clipping Hearts die from the card that I shared the other day.  You can view that post HERE.  That is another nice part about cutting all those dies to get the stacked look like I did on that other card, you get all the little pieces so you can create another great project:)

I then just took a piece of black card stock and added my sentiment from the Just Sayin' stamp set from SU!.  It is now retired but I am sure if this is a set that you want you can find it on E-Bay or a site like that:)  And that is it my friends... super simple and cute:)

Here is a look at the Clipping Hearts die that I used:
Well, I hope you all enjoyed today's share!! Until next time...
Happy Inkin'
Sara
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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Love Our Life Together!


Hi stampers!!! I hope you all had an amazing weekend.  We went camping... well we went camping in our living room:) We put the tent up in there and everything.  My daughter thought that it was the coolest things.  It put on the "cool parent list" for the day:)

Today's share is of the card that I mad for my hubby for Valentines Day.  Well, that is the card as of now that I think I am going to give him.  I used the new Simon Says Stamp Clipping Heart die as well as the Kristina's Love stamp set.  Both were received in my January club kit.  I die cut my Clipping Hearts 6 times with some Neenah Solar White 80lb card stock and then layered all of my cutouts using some Elmers Spray Adhesive . I love this adhesive, it gives you a great hold and works really well for little intricit dies like this but gives you wiggle room when you are placing your dies on top of each other for a technique such as this.


I just love how it gives it that extra dimension.  For the background of my card I blended together Abandoned Coral and Picked Raspberry Distress inks with my Mini Round Blending Tool on some Tim Holtz Water Color Paper.  Then to give depth I used my Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer.  This sprayer gives you the option of a fine mist or bigger droplits, which I love that you have the choice in one bottle.

Here is a look at the Clipping Hearts die that I used today:


Well that is it for today.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a happy Monday!!!  Until next time...
Happy Inkin'
Sara
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Foil Valentine


Hi friends!! I am so excited to share today's card with you.  Today is a Valentines Day card where I used my new Heidi Swapp Minc Machine. OMGoodness... this machine is AMAZING!! Let's just say I have been foiling everything in sight!  I used the beautiful color Hot Pink Reactive Foil.  Let me just tell you that this picture does not do it justice.

I tried to angle my picture a little bit more so that I could try and show this foil, but again... doesn't do it justice as all!!

You can do foiling a couple of different ways, with this card here I used my laserjet printer (foil only sticks to toner), found some heart images that I liked and then arranged them on my card how I wanted them.  Really, the possibilities with the foil are ENDLESS!!!

Here is what the machine looks like:


Well that is all for today.  I hope you all enjoyed today's quick share.  Thanks for stopping by and until next time...
Happy Inkin'
Sara
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Inktense Pencil - Water Color


Hi there all.  So, I told you that I was obsessed with water color lately. Today I used my Inktense Pencils and my Aqua Painter Brush. I have to say I LOVE my Inktense Pencils.  I have found that if I take my brush tip and pull the court right off of the pencil tip I get much better color.  

I used the stamp set Hennah Elements from Alte & New. Love this set.  It is a great floral set that is awesome for coloring.  It has big open images that make it so easy.  Now I am not good, as you know, with shading really because I'm a newbie but these pencils kind of blend themselves. All you really have to do is put down color, blend it out and then place a tiny bit more color on top and boom... it's blended:)

My card is an average A2 top folding size card and I used Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper. I will say this too, anyone says paper doesn't matter they are totally lying to you:) It matters. I did this water coloring on Neenah Solar White 110lb and it was a mess... and that is a thick paper.

Here is a look at the stamp set that I used as well as the Strathmore Bristol paper and Inktense pencils. I am just showing you everything today;)




Well that is all I have for you today.  Thanks for taking a peek and until next time..
Happy Inkin'
Sara
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Marquee Birthday


Hi there friends.  Welcome to Mrs. Lincoln's Inkin'.  Today I am sharing a quick and simple card that I made using some Stampin' Up! product.  I used the awesome set Marquee Messages to create this birthday card.  Yup, another birthday card:)  

I stamped my image with some Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink so that I could do some simple Copic coloring.  The only coloring that I did on this image was the arrow and I used my C1, C3, and C5 Copic markers.  I then added tiny rhinestones all over the outside of the arrow to give it some bling:) Can't forget the bling:) This card took me all of 20 mins to make. A great last minute card for that one birthday that we all seem to forget:)

Hope you're having an amazing week thus far! Until next time...
Happy Inkin' 
Sara
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Monday, January 16, 2017

Roarin' Birthday


Hi there friends!! Welcome to Mrs. Lincoln's Inkin'!

Now, if you have ever checked my blog before in January you know that January is chalked full of birthday's for my family.  So of course I share a lot of birthday cards during the month of January.  Here is an adorable card that I made using this cutie-pa-tutie lion from the set Wild Birthday by Avery Elle.  This set is so cute. I used the party hat from the set as well, masked it off so he looked like he was actually wearing it and there you go... now he is a lion ready for a party:)

I wanted to keep this card simple and clean by just having it on a clean white background which I used Neenah 80lb card stock.  I then used a new border die called Stiched Borders by Lawn Fawn, it allows you to make that stiched border you see on the top and bottom.  It's new to my collection but already a favorite!  I then completed my images with some simple Copic coloring.  Well, right now that is all I can do is "simple" so it worked out well:)

I then took my image panel which is cut slightly smaller then my A2 size card and backed it with a sheet of fun foam for some dimension.  Here is a closer look at the set that I used today:
Well that is all for today.  Thank you for taking a peek today:)  Until next time...
Happy Inkin'
Sara
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Sunday, January 15, 2017

I Simply...


Hi there all!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend:)  

I wanted to share with you today a very simple yet elegant card that uses some embossing powder and some vellum.  This card is intended to be a birthday card but you could make it whatever you wanted.  I was going to give this card to my mother (who just had a birthday on January 14th), but in the end went in another direction.  We live in Michigan, so right now it is winter for us and is snowing... or should I say suppose to be snowing... we don't have one flake of snow on the ground right now, which is just WEIRD, but it is Michigan so you never know what you are going to get:)  Anyway, so I didn't think that it would be too far fetched to have a birthday card that had some snowflakes on it.

Now I do want to share two tips with you... when you are embossing on Vellum, make sure to 1) get your heat tool good and HOT.  I mean HOT.  Turn it on a few seconds (I normally let mine heat up 20-25 seconds) before you intend to use it and 2) don't stop moving it.  Keeping it moving is really going to help your vellum not to melt.

Hope those little tips help:)  That is it for today.  Thanks for stopping by and until next time...
Happy Inkin'
Sara
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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Giving a Whirl at Water Coloring


Hello there friends.  Thanks for visiting today:)  Today I wanted to share with you my Whirl at Water coloring card.  Now keep in mind I don't watercolor... at all.  I am like a fish out of water when it comes to water coloring.  I don't know really how to blend or where "shadows" should be so this is what I got.  I was actually quite pleased with it.  I used some of my new Zig Clean Color markers and some Ranger Watercolor Paper with a regular aqua painter (I think it was the one I had from Stampin' Up!)

The card itself is a regular top folding A2 card, 4 1/4" x 11", scored at 5 1/2 and I used the Dapper Denim card stock from SU!. The butterfly framelit too is from SU!, I just love this framelit. I think that it is so pretty and detailed.  I then took a think strip of black card stock and heat embossed my sentiment using Ranger White Embossing Powder.  LOVE IT!!! It is by far my new favorite white embossing powder. 

I hope you all enjoyed today's share.  Thanks for stopping by and until next time...
Happy Inkin'
Sara
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Sunday, January 8, 2017

Beginner Copic Critters


  

Well hello there stampers, remember me? It has been 6 months (or more) since my last post.  I needed to step away and take some time away.  I was finding myself in a rut and not feeling very creative.  As some of you may know I started by blog out as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator.  I love SU! dearly but was finding myself needing and wanting to be creative with other products that I found along the way. While being an active demonstrator of SU! I was unable to share with you on my own personal blog the things that I would create using these other products and I didn't think that was fair.  I have struggled with this before but have always gone back to SU!. This time, I needed to make sure that the choice I was making was the right one for me.  After weeks/months of contemplating I am no longer a demonstrator and am a free bird.

With that being said I am also a beginner. I have jumped into the world of Copic coloring, watercoloring and so many other wonderful techniques and used so many amazing products that I can't wait to share with you. However, like I said, this is all new to me... the coloring, some of the techniques but I want to share that with all of you.  Watching YouTube and reading different blogs everyone always seems to have it all together!! Well, I don't.  Everyone has to start someone and I want to share my learning journey with you.  So I will post cards/creations that I make... some may not be the prettiest... some may look like a hot mess but that is the journey of being a crafter right?  Not everything is perfect.  So I hope you take this journey with me and for some of you that are also new to the crafting world, learn with me.  I do plan to get back into videos, but one step at a time.

So, the first card that I am posting here is of some cute little critters from the Cuddly Critters stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.  I used copic coloring for them and freehanded in a background.  I wanted it to be simple but look like they were sitting on bleachers.  I used some Tim Holtz Distress Ink and my ink blending tool to create a halo of yellow around them.

Well, that you so much guys for peeking in today.  I hope you will all visit again soon!!!  Until then...

Happy Inkin'
Sara
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