I had a great time during my month as a torch bearer for Amber Ink’s Blue Team! Thanks again to Amber and Pam for such a fun month!

The great news is that I am excited to announce that I am passing the torch to my great friend, Jessica at The Paper Parade! I can’t wait to see what she makes with all the great digi-papers and stamps - she loves bright bold colors and perfectly layered cards, so please give her a visit and say hello!

Lastly, thanks to Lee Anne at My Happy Place who was so kind to pass this blue torch to me. She is just one of the absolute sweetest people ever!

I really can’t wait for the Fall. The heat and humidity of the summer are somewhat pointless unless I am on a beach with palm trees surrounding me. And the fact that there are so many yummy crafting goodies that are released for the fall and winter only makes me love those seasons even more.

This card has similar paper to the one from yesterday, including the Amber Ink digi-paper, but I had the chance to use my new PTI Simple Sunflower and Verve sentiment:

The card doesn’t have a doggy theme to it, because I decided this card is for my very cute and very sneaky dog just as I was about it finish it. I originally wanted those chipboard letters to read, “HELLO!” - I popped all the letters out of the set and lined them up on the floor, ready for placement on my card.

Then Teddy came into the room and left suddenly. I thought, “That’s weird…” And then he did it again…and that was my proof that he was up to something. I looked at the floor and one of the L’s from HELLO was missing. The little bugger had stolen it! I ran downstairs only to find the peel-off backing on the floor and Teddy licking his chops. Yep, the little sucker ate the chipboard and left only the white wrapper behind.

And since the chipboard letter set only came with 2 L’s, this quickly turned into a THANKS! card:

Thanks for eating my letter L, Teddy!

And this is my second to last project using Amber Ink’s digi-paper. My last project will post for you tomorrow!

Hope you had a fun weekend!

I am back today with a card for the latest Ribbon Carousel Challenge using my fun Amber Ink digi paper and digi image! And LOOK! I colored with pencils and I kinda liked it!

I had a lot of fun making this Halloween card! Looking forward to the fall, that’s for sure. Have a great day!

A super quick card for my most recent Amber Ink project, again using their awesome digi paper!

I wanted to do more detailing on the ribbon, so I layered the ginham green ribbon under the dark peach ribbon before adding the buttons, and I stamped off the Paper Smooches sentiment in Enchanted Evening a few times to come up with this:

Looking forward to a great weekend? I’ve got lots to do for work and preparing for the lung cancer fundraiser in September. So I am thinking “warm thoughts,” pretending I am on a tropical island until it’s over. I even wore my raspberry linen dress today — maybe I’ll order a Bahama Mama tonight at dinner too.

Have a fun day!

Today I am back with another project for Amber Ink, this time using their Fire and Ash plaid digi-paper, which went perfectly so many goodies in my stash… I have to admit that I am loving these digital papers! They are super easy to work with and they print beautifully!

I just think that the bird sticker is so darn funny and cute. I might have to go back and buy more of those.

I think you should try out digi-papers…and lemme know what you think!

I am here today with my first project this month for Amber Ink, and I decided to use some of their really fun Schoolgirl Plaid Picnic Gingham paper, since I am such a sucker for gingham. I needed to make a thank you card for a co-worker who invited me for the most delicious dinner tonight, and I wanted it to look summery; I also thought the picnic paper went with the whole dinner theme.

Because of Jen’s Papertrey Paper Dolls Challenge #41 to use twine on a project, I was also inspired to add some of my yellow twine in a little tiny yellow bow to the inside of the card, using a sentiment that I thought paired well with the dried flowers on the front of the card, as well as with my friend’s love for gardening! I know I didn’t go too wild and crazy with the twine, but being clever with wrapping it a million ways really isn’t my strong suit…I promise to try to work on that, Jen!

Before I go, I have to admit that I was channeling my inner Laurie Willison when making this card since TWO of her recent projects (here and here) have been etched in my brain since I saw them. Thank you, Laurie, for the inspiration!

Yeah! That’s me!

Thanks so much to my dear friend, Lee Anne, for passing the Amber Ink torch to me this month. I can’t wait to use some of their digital papers and stamps on my projects for you this month. My first project will be posted for you tomorrow.

I have already downloaded oodles of their patterned papers and a stamp - printed them out on my own and they look fantastic! I have never used digi-anything before, but now I am a believer.

And please let me introduce you to the other members of the team this month:

That’s all for now! See you tomorrow!