Have Fun! ~ Summer Anya ~ The Greeting Farm

 Hello there crafty friend!

I'm having some summer fun with the super cute and adorable Summer Anya from The Greeting Farm!

I found this adorable stamp in my stash and she just needed to see some ink! Unfortunately, I can't seem to find Summer Anya on the website. But if you'd like to add her to your collection, you can check out the Farmers Market and submit a request via email... maybe she'll be available for the next Farmers Market.  

I inked her up with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her up with Copic markers. I fussy cut Summer Anya leaving a white border around her. I added foam tape to the back of her and popped her up on the card.

Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used:

Skin: E000, E00, E11, E04, R00, R20

Hair: Y11, E43, E44

Rubber Band / Bow: RV10, RV29, YG11, YG63, G07

Mouth: R20, R14, C0, C2

Top: YG11, YG63, G07

Shorts: N0, N2, N4, N6

Shoes: C0, C2, N0, N2, N4, N6

Ice Cream: E21, E25, R20, R14, RV10, RV29

Sunglasses: N0, N2, N4

I paired up Summer Anya with some fun watermelon papers from my stash. I cut my green layer down to 4 x 5-1/4" and adhered it to a black A2 top fold card base. The pink watermelon seed paper layer measures 3-3/4 x 2-1/4". And the watermelon layer was die cut with a wonky stitched die and measures approximately 3 x 4-1/4". I adhered the trimmed sentiment to the watermelon paper and popped up the layer with foam tape.

Such a fun summer card! Makes me want to get some watermelon sorbet and cool off! I finished off the card by adding a few 'watermelon seed' sprinkles to the ice cream with a black marker. I hope I've inspired you to get inky!

Thanks for stopping by!

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

Membership Wednesday ~ June 2025 KOM Squeeze the Sweetness ~ Unity Stamp Co.

Hello there crafty friend!

Happy Membership Wednesday! Today I'm sharing a card featuring another really cute stamp from the June 2025 Kit of the Month membership from Unity called Squeeze the Sweetness. 

I stamped the sweet gentleman with Black Amalgam ink and colored him up with Copic markers. 

Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used: 

Skin: E000, E00, E11, E04

Hair / Mustache: C0, C2

Glasses: N6, N8

Shirt: B000, B91, B93

Pants: E53, E15

Belt: N3, N6, N8, C0

Shoes: E53, E59

Cone: E21, E25

Ice Cream: R20, R14

Ground: C0, C2

I paired up this cute gentleman with the My Favorite Summer 6x6 Paper Pad from Echo Park Paper Co. I used the Stitched Wave Borders dies from Lawn Fawn for the fun edges on my paper layers. And I found a cute stitched heart in my scraps so I popped it up on the card, too.

I fussy cut the gentleman and trimmed the sentiment. I added foam tape to the back of both and popped them up on the card. I love the fun colors on this one!

Here's a quick look at this month's Kit of the Month membership!

Well, that's it for me today! I hope you've been inspired to play with your membership stamps! Have an ink-tastic day!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Membership Wednesday ~ June 2025 KOM Squeeze the Sweetness ~ Unity Stamp Co.

Hello there crafty friend!

Happy Membership Wednesday! Today I'm sharing a card featuring a really cute stamp from the June 2025 Kit of the Month membership from Unity called Squeeze the Sweetness. 

I stamped this little lady with Black Amalgam ink and colored her up with some Copic markers. 

Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used: 

Skin: E000, E00, E11

Hair: C0, RV000, RV10, RV02

Earring: B02

Dress: B000, B00, B02, RV10, RV02

Shoes: RV10, RV02

Cone: E21, E25, E29

Ice Cream: YG11, G000, G21, E25, E29

Ground: E00, E11

Outline: B000

I die cut the little lady with a die from the Deckle & Stitches Nesting Dies. I also die cut a piece of pattern paper from my stash. I used the Summer Splash 6x6 Paper Pad from Carta Bella for both of my background layers on a white A2 top fold card base.

I popped up the main panel using foam tape. I added some glossy accents to the glasses. And then I finished off the card with a few glitter enamel dots from my stash.

Here's a quick look at this month's Kit of the Month membership!

Well, that's it for me today! I hope you've been inspired to play with your membership stamps! Have an inkredible day!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Inky Paws Challenge #215 ~ Color Challenge Reminder

 Hello there crafty friend!

 There's still time to play along with the Inky Paws Challenge #215 - Color Challenge! You have until this coming Friday, February 2nd to get your entries in for the challenge and a chance to win a $20 store credit to Newton's Nook Designs!

Inky Paws Challenge #215 - Color Challenge

Here's another look at the fun colors... Pink, Teal, Ice Blue & Cookie Dough Brown.

I went with a simple card for today featuring the adorable Newton's Birthday Delights Stamp Set. The coordinating Newton's Birthday Delights Die Set came in super handy to die cut these cute kitty and ice cream!

I stamped kitty ice cream with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on white card stock and colored it all up with some Copic markers. I added some foam tape to the back of the image and sentiment and popped them up on the card. I mixed some papers from the Love & Chocolate 6x6 Paper Pad for my paper layers and adhered them to a kraft A2 top fold card base. 

I die cut the brown striped paper using the stitched and scalloped die from the Frames & Flags Die Set. I heat embossed the sentiment on kraft card stock using anti-static powder, white pigment ink, white embossing powder, and my heat tool. Here's a quick list of the Copic markers I used to color up the kitty ice cream:

Cherry: RV0000, RV10, RV13

Tortoise Shell Kitty: R00, R20, N0, N1, N3, YR21, YR15, Colorless Blender

Ice Blue Scoop: B0000, B00

White Kitty: R00, R20, C00, C1, C3

Pink Scoop: RV10, RV13

Grey Kitty: R00, R20, N0, N1, N3

Chocolate: E23, E25, E27

Teal Scoop: BG0000, BG11, BG34

Cookie Dough Brown Cone: E30, E31, E33

Now it's your turn to get your paws inky with your Newton's Nook Designs products and create a project with the color combo of Pink, Teal, Ice Blue & Cookie Dough Brown. Be sure to link up to the Inky Paws Challenge! Can't wait to see your projects!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Membership Wednesday ~ July 2023 Kit of the Month Anchored by Love ~ Unity Stamp Co.

 Hello there crafty friend!

I'm back for another Membership Wednesday and today I'm sharing a card using one of the sweet ice cream cone stamps in the July 2023 Kit of the Month called Anchored by Love from Unity Stamp Co. I just can't get enough of all the fun Summer stamps in this month's kit! I've wanted to color up this ice cream cone since I saw it!

I paired up the sweet ice cream cone with the Slices of Summer - A Watermelon Harvest {paper pack} from this month's Whit Kit membership. I was really wanting to do a fun pink color for a watermelon sorbet ice cream cone. Yum! These papers are perfect!

I stamped the cute ice cream cone on white card stock with Black Amalgam ink and colored it up with the following Copic markers:

Cone ~ E21, E23, E25

Sorbet ~ RV00, RV21, RV13, RV04

Leaves ~ YG11, G24

Stick ~ E21, E23, E25

Berries ~ BV01, BV13, B63

Grounding ~ C00, C1, C3

You may notice that my card design today is similar to my card design from yesterday. Well, I couldn't help but use the same design. It was perfect for the scraps of pattern paper tucked in with my paper pad. This is the Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Sketch 14. I host a fun little sketch challenge in my Tawny Owl Paperie Inky Inspiration Facebook group each month. I've had a lot of fun sharing sketches in my other group... Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Facebook group... but since that group is Christmas themed only I wanted to share sketches that could be used for any occasion. 

I trimmed a 4 x 5-1/4" panel of white card stock and adhered the triangle pieces on either end. I then adhered the strips of pattern paper down the middle. I did have to cut the white with black polka dot and pink pattern papers in half and adhere them to the edges. This left some white space in the middle which was okay because the focal panel covers it.

I cut my focal panel to the measurements on the sketch and adhered them together. I colored the bottom of the panel to ground the ice cream cone. I then fussy cut the ice cream cone and cleaned up the edges by coloring them with the edge of my Memento Tuxedo black marker. A trick I like to use to make fussy cut images nice and neat. I then adhered it to the card. I heat embossed the sentiment using Black Amalgam ink with a fine black embossing powder that I melted with a heat tool. I die cut the sentiment using the Scalloped & Stitched Sentiment Nesting dies and adhered it across the card.

Here's a look at the whole Kit of the Month for July!! The perfect Summer kit! Can you believe that you get this full sheet of rubber for only $44.99. That includes shipping! You also get a $6.95 discount on every order from Unity over $45. And you can purchase any past kits for only $34 plus shipping. Such a great value!

I'll be back for another Membership Wednesday blog post in two weeks. Next week, I'll be sharing inspiration for the amazing new August 2023 Background of the Month on my Instagram.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

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Scrapping for Less ~ March 2018 FOTM ~ Let's Make Some Birthday Cards

Hello! Today, I am sharing a handful of cards I created using an older Flavor of the Month card kit from Scrapping for Less.

I found myself in need of some birthday cards and I remembered this sweet March 2018 Flavor of the Month card kit in my stash called It's All About Ice Cream. The perfect kit to replenish my birthday card stash!!

For all of the cards I created, I went with a pretty simple design... I started with a 5-1/4 x 4" piece of patterned paper from the collection. Some of those I mat on a piece of 5-3/8 x 4-1/8" piece of coordinating card stock... some I just left as is and adhered to a white card base.

This first card I watercolored and die cut with a wonky rectangle die. I stamped the sentiment from the Flavor of the Month Year 1 sentiment stamp set and then popped it up on the card with foam tape. I added a few sequins and that was it for card one.

For my second card, I added a strip of the pretty ribbon that I adhered to the back of the patterned paper. I then stamped the cute Flavor of the Month Logo stamp masking the center so I could stamp Happy Birthday from the FOTM Year 1 sentiment stamp instead. I just used a ruler and a Memento tuxedo black marker to add the masked lines back in and then stamped the sentiment. I colored the image using the following Copic markers ~ R14, R20, R29, B02, B21, BG000, BB01, BG45, E0000, E00, E23, E25, Y15. I fussy cut the focal image and then popped it up on the card. I added a few red sequins and this one was done.

For my third card I had to get creative because I didn't have a full 5-1/4 x 4" piece of patterned paper left over so I combined two papers and mat them on a green piece of card stock. This card was pretty simple... I utilized the fantastic cut-a-parts included in the patterned papers. I mat this particular one on red card stock and then popped it up on the card. I added a few of the Silver Glossy Dots and then decided I wanted to also use the cute Lawn Fawn Treat Yourself stamp set. 

I thought it would be fun to add a gift card for an ice cream shop (only had this gift card to show... sorry!) inside so I paper pieced the ice cream tub using the papers from this collection and adhered it on a strip of the same patterned paper that I had stamped the sentiment. I colored the little bit of ice cream using R20, E27, E51. I left the bottom portion of the card empty so I can write my birthday wishes to the recipient.

Now getting creative again, I cut the music note patterned paper in half and adhered it along with the green/white polka dot paper to the mat of orange card stock. I mat another cut-a-part paper onto red card stock and popped it up on the card with foam tape. I used my last five Silver Glossy Dots to finish off this card.

My last card came together pretty simply with the layers of patterned paper and the addition of the tag. I stamped the Ice Cream Marci directly on the tag along with the sentiment and then set the tag aside. I stamped Ice Cream Marci again on a scrap piece of white card stock and then paper pieced her shirt with the pink/white polka dot paper. I colored her in with the following Copic markers E0000, E00, E17, E23, E27, E47, E49, B91, B95, RV10, RV14, RV21. I then fussy cut her out and adhered her to the tag. I added some pink and white ribbon that I tied off with some twine... all from my stash. I then popped up the tag on the card and called this last card done!

There are some March 2018 Flavor of the Month card kits still in the shop. There's also some mini collections available in the shop. You can check out all of those kits... here.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

~ Crystal

March FOTM Blog Hop ~ All About Ice Cream

It’s All About Ice Cream this month here at Scrapping for Less for the March Flavor of the Month card kit. Can you believe it has been one year since we began this card kit adventure? It has been a wild ride, but a very exciting ride!! We have grown with our subscriptions this past year by 8000%…and yes that is 8K percent growth! Baffles my mind! We are excited about this growth opportunity and even more excited with the new additions to our team…Keep looking to Scrapping for Less for some great inspiration in the future! Now onto these fabulous ladies, and our wonderful guest designers for what they have created for you with this super cute ice cream kit this month!

Don’t forget to enter in the Rafflecopter! And remember the best way to be reassured to receive a kit is to have a monthly subscription! Thanks again for hopping with us. Happy Crafting!

If you've already been hopping with us, you probably came from our Guest Designer Renuka Singhal's blog. I'm so glad to see such a turn out for Flavor of the Month's 1st year Anniversary! We have such a great reason to celebrate!!

For my first card I used Sketch #1 with Collection One. 

When I saw that cute cut apart piece with the little kids, it just spoke to me. I knew I had to use it as my feature piece for this card. I layered it with a piece of stars patterned paper from the Let's Party papers by Simple Stories. I then mat that piece on the Orange Fizz card stock. I cut a strip of the yellow star paper and the cut apart piece with the numbers and adhered them both to another piece of pretty paper from the same pack. I adhered the feature piece to the panel and then adhered the entire piece onto an Orange Fizz card base. I added a few of the Pink and Main Silver glossy dots from the collection and called this one done.

For my second card I used Sketch #2 with Collection Four.

I'll be honest, I was a bit of a rebel with this card... I didn't exactly keep to the sketch, but I think it turned out cute. My inspiration for this card was the piece of ephemera saying Happy Birthday and I just had to pair it with the adorable animal print paper from the Happy Hooray papers by Pebbles. I adhered the pieces to a Red Hot card base and then popped on a couple of the Happy Hooray puffy stickers. I then decided it needed an ice cream cone and the star, also from the ephemera pieces included in the collection.  

For my third card I used Sketch #3 with Collection Two.

I really wanted the stamp in this collection to be the focal point so I layered the papers from the My Favorite Things' Birthday Blowout papers included in the collection. I did veer away from the sketch a bit and made it work for my vision for this card. I stamped the image and colored it in using copic markers {Y02, Y06, Y13, E00, E55, R29, BG000, Bg01, B95}. I popped up the main image and then stamped the sentiment from the Flavor of the Month 1 Year Sentiment Stamp by Scrapping for Less... how cool is that?! Pretty cool, if you ask me! Anywho, I stamped the sentiment using the Turquoise ink pad by Darice that is included in the Banana Split level. I die cut the banner and adhered it to the card. I just love how this one turned out!

For my fourth card I used Sketch #4 with Collection Three.

I started by selecting the papers that I would layer together for this card... I liked the mix of prints in this collection, so fun! I cut all my pieces and adhered them all to a white card base. I then stamped Ice Cream Marci and the sentiment and colored them in using copics {Skin - E000, E21, E51, RV11; Hair/Cone - E55, E57; Hairband/Pants/Shoes - RV0000, RV11, RV13; Ice Cream - YG03, YG11; Letters - YG03, RV11, BG01, Y13; Ground - N0, N1}. I die cut the image and decided to layer it with the same size die cut just for a different look. I adhered the image to the pink patterned paper and then adhered them both to the card. I cut out the sentiment and mat it with a scrap piece of the patterned paper. I then adhered it to the card. I got to thinking that it needed just a little something so I added a few of the Gina Marie Paradise Matte Enamels.

That's it for me for this month's blog hop. Up next is Guest Designer Kristie Marcotte... I'm excited to see what she created! Let's go take a look!

~ Blog Hop List ~

Scrapping for Less

LeeAnn McKinney

Jessica Wilson

*Guest Designer* Renuka Singhal

Crystal O. Minkler <--- you're here

up next ---> *Guest Designer* Kristie Marcotte

Lucille Manos

*Guest Designer* Jess Gerstner

Katie Williams

*Guest Designer* Yolie Burke 

Courtney Kreeber

Tina Smith

Tanya Hahn

Desiree Pinterich-Kuemmerle

*Guest Designer* Jenn Bena

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

~ Crystal

March FOTM Sneak peek ~ Ice Cream!

Hello! Today I'm sharing a sneak peek of the March 2018 Flavor of the Month card kit from Scrapping for Less. My first thought when I saw this months kit was... I have got to color these chicks! Ha! So... of course, it was the first thing I did!

I inked these little guys up using Memento tuxedo black ink so I could color them in using copic markers {Chicks - Y06, Y11, Y35, Y38, YR15, YR68; Ice Creams - BG11, BG13, BG72, G000, G00, G12, G43, YG17, YG25, R20, R85, R89; Cone - E31, E55, E57; Sky - BG000; Grass - G000, G12}. I tried to keep the colors similar to the colors in the polka dot paper. I die cut the chicks using a rectangle wonky die and then popped the panel up on the card. I stamped the sentiment with the same black ink and fussy cut a banner and then adhered it to the card. I added a few sequins and called this card done.

I sure hope that you enjoyed my card and that you're getting excited for the March FOTM card kit!

Thanks for stopping by!

See ya next time.

~ Crystal