Many of you know that I made it through to the final stage of the design team for a brand new rubber stamp company, Inky Impressions. Well, it has been a long time coming, but today I am excited to announce the 'Grand Opening' of the
Inky Impressions Rubber Stamps webstore!
To celebrate the Grand Opening of the
Inky Impressions Rubber Stamps webstore, together with the beginning of the
Inky Impressions challenge blog, there is a blog hop happening today to showcase the new Inky Impressions rubber stamp line. So why don't you join in?
Before you 'hop off' to the next blog on the blog hop list, I'd like to share my Inky Impressions creations with you...

The first of my two creations is a card using the Inky Impressions stamp "
Angelica's Bunny Hugs". I have used some of my brand new MME 'Pretty Please' 12x12 double-sided paper entitled 'Brown Floral'. This paper is great, as it has different but co-ordinating patterns on both sides, which eliminates any time spent matching papers! I used my EK Success Retro Floral punch to punch out the blue flowers, ran them through my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder, sanded the dots and then coloured them in pink so they matched the strip of dotty paper at the bottom of the card but with the colours reversed. I'm going to enter this card into this week's
Cute Card Thursday challenge #63 which is to use punches and die cuts (I have used nesties and flower/border punches), and this week's
One Stop Craft Challenge #32 which is to use embossing.
Here's a close-up of Angelica. My daughter saw this card and instantly said "that's me mum, carrying my bunny!"...awwww!

The second Inky Impressions creation I'd like to share with you today is a 'Diaper Fold Pouch', the tutorial for which can be found
here at Split Coast Stampers. It's extremely easy to make. All you need is a square piece of cardstock or heavy-weight paper, and you're good to go! You can make it as big or as small as you like!

I've used a piece of 12"x12" double-sided K&Co Amy Butler 'Sola' heavy-weight paper for my Diaper Fold Pouch. The paper has a pattern called Brown Gracious Lotus on one side and is Flat Brown on the other. My trusty Martha Stewart Scallop Dot border punch was used (yet again! ... love this punch!) to punch out some border strips from some Core'dinations 12"x12" cardstock, which I then added to the edges of the triangular parts of the pouch. Some Prima flowers, roses, punched leaves, pearls, gems and a little hand-made tag with ribbons completed my pouch! I'm going to enter this creation in this week's
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #35 which is 'bling'.

I used the Inky Impressions stamp "
Lili's Prayer", which you could win if you take part in this blog hop! Although it's not easy to see in this pic, her belt has been coloured using a sakura gel pen to make it glittery and sparkly!

So....the blog hop! You should have started the blog hop at
Nicole's blog, hopped around several blogs by now, and should have arrived at my blog from
Shary's blog. If you didn't start the blog hop at the beginning, or think you may have missed a blog somewhere along the line, then hop back to the
start. Be sure to follow the blog hop all the way to the end for a chance to win some great blog candy! You have until midnight (EST) on Friday 12th June to enter (which is 5.00am on Saturday 13th June for us Brits!), and a winner will be chosen at random on Saturday 13th June.
So now I would like to invite you to hop on over to
Tanja's blog to see what fab creations she has made!
Thanks, as always, for reading peeps!
TTFN!
Hugs, Sem x