Welcome to Ink N Scrap Habits!
I've created this blog to share my life & love of paper crafts with others. You will read bits and pieces of what goes on in my world and be able to see my paper craft creations! Please leave me a comment if you see something you like. I'd love to hear from you!
While blog hopping the other day, I was immediately inspired by this sketch on the 365 Cards Blog. It looked like a lot of fun, so I decided to give it a try. This Green Beer card was the outcome, and each part of this card easily fell right into place!
I couldn't help but add some Diamond Glaze to the Large Beer Mug (577H) to make it look like real glass and some Stickles to the foam really makes it fun!
Thanks for visiting! Hope you have a wonderful Day!
Smiles,
Jennifer
St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner, and if you love this day as much as my Husband than I bet you're all giddy about it too! He's like a silly little kid in a candy store and makes me laugh when he tells me all about his St. Patty's Day plans. To me, it's just another day and I will attempt to be festive and wear green that day, but unlike my Husband, taking the day off of work for it is not one of my priorities!
Lucky for me I am off of work today and have an all day date in my stamp room. I love days like this! More cards coming soon!
Smiles,
Jennifer
You can click HERE to see all of the details on how I made it. Stay tuned, more new cards coming soon! Smiles,
Jennifer
Happy Valentine's Day!
Several days ago I posted about this week's Spoonfull of Sugar Blog Challenge "Show Some Love." At the time, I was unable to post my project for it because it wasn't complete. Well, now that we've returned from our mini vacation (pics coming soon) I'm glad to say that I've finally finished it just in time for Valentine's Day. Since today is my day to post on the DRS Designs Blog you'll have to run over there to see it. Here's a sneak peek, just in case you need a bit of prompting! (*wink*)
Smiles,
Jennifer
My, how 2011 is flying by already! Valentine's Day is practically here and gone, and before we know it the world will turn green in honor of St. Patrick's Day. DRS Designs has just come out with some great St. Patrick's Day stamps to celebrate this festive holiday and I've used several of them on my card today.
The adorable focal image is the new Paddy Bear (638H). I colored him with Copic Markers. The background was created using the Celtic Knot (651D), and the sentiment is the Top O The Morning Greeting (620D). Embellished with a bit of ribbon and some green brads, I can't help but say I think this card turned out rather cute! I hope you enjoyed it!
Smiles,
Jennifer
While playing around with DRS Designs new releases, I was able to put together a card that follows last weeks Splitcoast Sketch challenge, SC318. I colored the Holy Bible image (542H) with Copic Markers. It is not one of their new releases, but I thought it went well with the new Lead Me Guide Me Greeting (629D). As you can see, I added the yellow background panel so I had a lighter color cardstock to stamp the sentiment on. This made it more easily seen than if I had stamped it on the red cardstock without adding the extra panel. I decorated it with a decorative border punch and used a Score Pal to add a single embossed line above it. Some red grosgrain ribbon was placed in a know just above this line. I also used 5 tiny brads on the card base front for some added decor. This finished card size is 4.25" x 5.5."
Hope you have a great day! Smiles,
Jennifer
Ready for the next sponsorship opportunity from DRS Designs? They are sponsoring this week's Spoonfull of Sugar Blog Challenge. You could be a winner of a $10 DRS Designs store voucher just for "Showing Us Some Love!" That's right, just head over to the Spoonfull Blog and link up your card that has a Love theme. Think Weddings, hearts, or tis the season for Valentines and you may get to shop DRS Designs New Release for FREE!
I apologize for not playing along. I know, its really bad planning on my part, but things are just too hectic as we prepare to head out of town for a mini get-away. I promise to show my Valentine card to you next week!
Good Luck to all of you who brave this challenge and give it a try!
I'll be back in a few days. Until then,
Smiles,
Jennifer
One of my favorite things about Spring and Easter is daffodils. Next to the Sunflower in the Fall, they are one of my favorite flowers. I especially enjoy coloring them and creating cards using images of them. The picture above is a sneak peek of what I created for today's post on the DRS Designs blog. I hope you'll run over there to see it.
Hope you all have a wonderful Monday!
Smiles,
Jennifer
As if we haven't had enough snow and "Winter Cheer" here in Southern Michigan already, My Husband and I will be traveling soon to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to visit family and go snowmobiling. No matter how bad we think we've had it here, there's always a ton more snow there. We've seen snow piles on the side of the road as high at 5 feet. Although I'm bummed that I won't be snowmobiling this year (something tells me pregnancy and snowmobiling just don't mix) I'm looking forward to driving to all of our favorite snowmobile places and meeting our family of snowmobilers at each location. One of my favorite places is going to Tahquamenon Falls. Here's what they looked like when we were there last February. A lot different from the unfrozen pics in the link, huh?!?!
Here's a card I recently made that was inspired by all of the snow we've gotten here lately, and the excitement of getting to go up North soon. Do you DRS Designs fans recognize this image? The Ice Skates image (373H) was one of their favorites that they recently retired and brought back due to popular demand!
I colored the skates with Copic Markers, matted it with purple cardstock and added 2 dark blue snowflake brads to the left side of the image. I created the background by stamping the Interlocking Snowflake background (015H) with dark blue ink. I matted this panel with dark blue cardstock that was decorated with a border punch, and adhered it to a purple A2 cardstock base. The Snowflakes and Winter Cheer sentiment (135G) was a bit too tall for the bottom of the card, so I cut it into 2 parts between the words 'friendship' and 'and' so that I could move the bottom portion of the sentiment a bit to the right to make it fit. A fun blue bow finished off this card nicely.
I know after this trip up North, I will be plenty done with the snow and Old Man Winter. If you, too are getting that feeling, make sure to check out DRS Designs new St. Patty's Day and Easter designs on their New Release page. They'll have you itchin' for Spring in no time! Until next time...
Smiles,
Jennifer
Here in Michigan we're experiencing one of the biggest snow storms ever! We're expected to get over 1 foot of snow and at this time it has already been snowing for over 18 hours! There's obviously no way of getting around Mother Nature and Old Man Winter today so, LET-IT-SNOW!
All of the stamps used on this card are by DRS Designs. I colored those cute little penguins on the Let It Snow Penguins stamp (571K) with Copic Markers. I inked the edges with a light purple Color Box ink pad, used a decorative corner punch and then matted it. The middle panel was stamped using the Interlocking Snow Background (015H). I inked the edges of this panel too with blue ink and added a purple and blue polka dot ribbon after it was matted. I stamped the Warm Wishes Greeting (611D) on the background panel before embossing it with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I added some random blue and purple brads and adhered these 3 layers to a blue cardstock base.
The good news for today is that based on the groundhog, only 6 more weeks of Winter! Yeah!
Hope you're all staying warm!
Smiles,
Jennifer
It's that time of the month again...DRS Designs is preparing for their next stamp release! This time St. Patty's Day and Easter themed stamps will be come available to the public for purchase tomorrow, Feb 1, 2011. Make sure to check out the DRS Designs Blog and the rest of the DT Blogs (can be found in my side bar) to check out all the sneek peeks this week.
Today is my day to post on the DRS Designs Blog and you can see my Bunny Line Up card there. I hope you'll follow me there and leave me a comment so that I know you were there ;-) Happy Monday to you all!
Smiles,
Jennifer
Valentine's Day is right around the corner and you can never send out too many! Here's another of my recently made cards. All of the stamps on this fun card are by DRS Designs. 
I created the background by stamping the Filagree Heart (599E), alternating it upside down and right-side up, with black ink on smooth pink cardstock on the upper half of the card front. I used a red Copic Marker to color in parts of the heart design. Under the Filagree Heart design, I added a score line and then stamped the I Love You greeting (608B) on the right side directly underneath it. Then I stamped the Small Happy Valentine's Day greeting (603C) below it, closer to the bottom, and added white grosgrain ribbon tied with a small red satin ribbon between the two sentiments.
The layout I used for this card follows SC313 from about a month ago. What's unique about this design is that the big Girl Swirl Heart (597G) is attached to the vertical white panel. It's a form of the Out-of-the-box technique. I used a decorative heart border punch on the left side of the vertical panel and placed a small strip of red cardstock behind it to make the tiny hearts more visible. I laced the small satin red ribbon thru the heart punch, at the top and bottom of the white panel, to add some color to it.
Stay tuned to my blog for Monday...DRS Designs is getting ready for their next release. I'll be showing off a sneak peek of what's to come!
Hope you all have a great weekend!
Smiles,
Jennifer
The bitter cold temperatures kept me warm and cozy inside my stamp room this weekend and I was inspired to make this card.
I hope you're staying warm in cozy too!
Hang in there...only 8 more weeks til Spring! ;-)
Smiles,
Jennifer
Happy Friday! I hope you all have a great weekend planned! I, unfortunately have to work both Saturday and Sunday this weekend (Monday too) but I'm looking forward to having Tuesday and Wednesday off. Oh, the joys of working in a hospital! :-)
However, I'm glad to report that I was able to get together with my stamping friends last Saturday. From about 4pm-1am we chatted, ate, and stamped the night away. It was so much fun! I wish we all could get together more often for days/nights like that!
Here is one of the cards I made during our stamping get together. All stamps by DRS Designs. I think I'm obsessed with the Halloween Moonlight Cat Serenade (605L) paired with the Love You To The Moon Greeting (580D). Did you see the other Valentine's Day card on the DRS Designs Blog that I made using it? 
This card, however, was decorated using the Girl Swirl (585G) in red and black ink to decorate the background, and I only used the middle cat with the moon from the Moonlight Cat Serenade stamp, rather than all 3. To make it more Valentine like, I embellished the area around the sentiment and image with baby pearls. I hope you like it! :-)
Thanks for visiting here today and have a wonderful weekend!
Smiles,
Jennifer
DRS Designs is sponsoring this week's Tuesday Morning Challenge. Simply just for playing along and creating a card with "Heavy Metal," you could be the winner of a $10 DRS Designs Store Voucher. What does "Heavy Metal" mean you ask...just use metal embellishments on your project!
I used stamps from DRS Designs to create this card for the challenge. I stamped the Heart Drops (344K) with black ink and colored them red with a Copic Marker. I matted the image on a piece of black cardstock that was punched with a heart border. To make the tiny hearts stand out a bit more, I put a strip of white cardstock behind them.
Next, I used Diamond Glaze on the hearts to give them a bit of shine, as suggested by my good friend, Thanks Kimmy! I used a metal book plate to frame the "I Love You" greeting (608B) to fit the challenge. The bottom of the card base was embossed with the Cuttlebug hearts embossing folder.
Create your Heavy Metal challenge card today and then run over to the TMS Blog to link up your project. A FREE $10 shopping spree at DRS Designs could be all yours! Good Luck!
Thanks for stopping by!
Smiles,
Jennifer
Well, I'm not sure about you but I'm about done with the cold Winter temperatures and all of the snow. I say, bring on the warmth and sunshine!
Ok, back to reality...I know we have at least 3-4 more months of this cold icky stuff before there's any improvement in the weather. Perhaps I can offer some warmth with the card I made to share with you today.
Hope you all have a great Monday!
Smiles,
Jennifer
We've got snow coming our way today so today is a good day to show off DRS Designs new Snowman in a Box stamp (581C). This little guy is so cute that I added 3 of them to my card front. Each was colored with Copic Markers. I used a pretty basic layout for this card, but wanted to dress it up with some fun colors. Tturquoise and violet were selected with a snowflake embossed background and some sparkly silver ribbon. The Warm Wishes Greeting (611D) is also new by DRS Designs and was stamped in Taken with Teal ink.
Make sure to check out the rest of DRS Designs new stamps. I'm sure you'll find something perfect for all of your Winter and Valentine's Day card making needs.
I'm off to get some Hot Cocoa! Brrrrr!
Smiles,
Jennifer
Valentine's Day will be here before you know it, so now is the time to get started on your Valentine's Day cards. DRS Designs just released some great Valentine stamps to help you "get in the mood." The card I'm sharing with you today uses 3 of them.
Unfortunately, I can only show you a sneak peek, becuase it's my day to post on the DRS Designs Blog. I'm hope you'll run over there to see how I've used a Halloween image and spiced it up to make it a very cute Valentine's Day card.
Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for more fun stuff coming soon!
Smiles,
Jennifer
Happy New Year!
Well, so much for me starting the New Year with more stamping. I guess one thing that doesn't change from year to year is how quickly time can pass right by you! I'm glad to say that I am really feeling much better now than I have been over the last 7 weeks--I mean it this time! Just when I was feeling better about a month ago, my all-day-morning sickness came back to prove me wrong. Unfortunately, with that icky feeling I completely lost the creative side of my mind, my desire to stamp was gone. But, now that I'm feeling better, I've been stamping more and having a lot of fun with DRS Designs New Winter and Valentine stamps that were recently released. Have you checked them out yet?
DRS Designs is sponsoring this weeks Top Tip Tuesday Blog challenge to create an altered tin. One lucky winner will win a $10 DRS Designs Store Voucher just for playing along! One if the projects I've been working on this week is altering a hot cocoa tin using DRS stamps for this challenge. Cold temperatures, shoveling snow, and hot cocoa go hand-in-hand, so I thought it was best to create a Winter scene on my hot cocoa tin.
I first measured and cut a piece of white cardstock to fit around my tin. Then I created a template for rolling hills from scrap paper and sponged the upper edge along the bottom side of the cardstock. I stamped the newly released Skating Penguin (569D) at the lowest point, since he's skating on ice in a pond.
I stamped some friends for the Skating Penguin by stamping Percy Penguin (122D) a few times along the hills. In the empty space near the top of the cardstock I stamped the "Let It Snow Penguins" (571K),
another new design. All of the images were colored in with Copic Markers. The final step in creating the winter scene was to mask all of the images and then stamp falling snow all over it. I used DRS Designs Snow Background (187H).
The top was decorated with cardstock cut from a scalloped and plain Nestie circle. I stamped the Treat For You Greeting (1063C) and the Snow Background around it. Would you believe this greeting is actually part of the Halloween collection? A few snowflakes stamped around it and it easily became perfect for this Snowy Winter treat!
Now that I've shared my altered tin with you, don't forget to link yours up over at the Top Tip Tuesday Blog to be considered for the $10 store voucher DRS Designs is giving away. It's another great opportunity to shop for FREE! You have until Monday, January 10 to get your entry in.
Well, that's about it for me today. Thanks to all of you who are still following me and have been patient with me while I made it thru my first trimester. I'm glad to say that I also completed this weeks Splitcoast sketch challenge and will share that with you soon too. Stay tuned for more projects...I'll be posting more frequently now! Yeah!
Smiles,
Jennifer
All of us over at DRS Designs are celebrating the New Year with some new fun Winter and Valentine stamps now available for purchase. You can find them all HERE!
The Valentine's Day card I created for today can be seen on the DRS Designs Blog. It is so cute and adorable, you won't want to miss it. And just to convince you further, here's a sneak peek!
Thanks for running over there to take a look. I appreciate it! :-)
Smiles,
Jennifer
