Dec 11 2009
Traditional Santa – Tutorial #286 and Homeless Ink Pads
My last post was of a non-traditional colored Christmas Card. Well today’s is definitely a traditional Christmas card. This tutorial is a long one since I show how to build a scene using the embossed resist technique.
Before we get into the tutorial, I want to give away some homeless ink pads and reinkers. One of these pads have never been used and the rest have been used very little and have lots of good life left in them. This give away includes the following Stampin’ Up Classic ink pads:
Riding Hood Red, Tangerine Tango, Pink Pirouette, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss and 2 pads of Baja Breeze. Also included is a reinker of Pacific Point and Kiwi Kiss. 
Can you give these pads a good home? If so, leave a comment on this post to enter the give away. If you are receiving this post via e-mail you will need to click this link and then leave a comment at the bottom of the post: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2009/12/11/traditional-santa-tutorial-286-and-homeless-ink-pads/
I will select the winner using a random number generate on Monday, December 14, 2009. Please help me find them a good loving home. Thank you.
Now on with the tutorial. . . . . . .
Supplies:
| Stamps: Stampin’ Up! Jolliest Time of Year, Baroque Motifs, Lovely as a Tree, Many Merry Messages |
| Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White and Real Red |
| Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise and Not Quite Navy |
| Accessories: Stampin’ Up Markers, White Gel Pen, Versamark Marker and Pad, Sponge, Gold Brads, Curly Label Punch, Brayer, Clear embossing Powder, Heat gun, Stamp-a-ma-jig |
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Using a Basic Black marker, colored in the part of the image that I wanted to stamp and then huffed my breath on it and stamped it on a 4″ x 5.5″ piece of Whisper White card stock.
Added some Bravo Burgundy marker to the dark parts of his clothing.
Added Real Red marker to his clothing.
Colored his face in with a Blush Blossom marker.
Added Pretty in Pink marker to his cheeks.
Colored his boots and belt in with a Basic Black marker.
Added some Sahara Sand marker to the darker places in his beard and cuffs.
Oops! Just seen that I colored the white fur on the bottom of his coat red. Never fail, added some white gel pen to the bottom of this coat.
Used a heat gun and heated up the image to set the markers.
Colored over the image using a Versamark marker. Heat embossed the image using clear embossing powder and a heat gun. Now the image is protected from further applications of ink (emboss resist).
Tore a bit off the top of a post it note and used it to mask my snow in my scene.
Stamped the flourish using Versamark only. Heat embossed the flourish using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.
Using a Stamp-a-ma-jig, Over stamp the Flourish by loading my stamp with Versamark and then Tempting Turquoise ink before stamping it.
Heat embossed the flourish using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.
Brayered Tempting Turquoise ink at the top of the card stock.
Wiped the emboss images off with a cotton towel or a paper towel. I use an old dish towel. Trying to stay green. Do this after each application of ink.
Brayered Not Quite Navy at the top of the card stock, not covering all of the Tempting Turquoise ink.
Sponged Not Quite Navy ink at the post it note edge to darken the horizon line.
Stamped the line of trees using Not Quite Navy ink only. Wiped off the embossed images.
Moved the post it note down and added two hills by sponging Tempting Turquoise ink at the post it note edge.
Created texture in Santa’s beard by streaking White Gel pen on it.
Using a heat gun, heated the embossed images again to bring back the shine and to set the white gel pen.
Added a shadow for Santa by sponging Tempting Turquoise ink under him.
I learn things from my workshop students all the time. Recently I learned from some smart ladies in Portland, Michigan, when you scrap a sponge full of ink against the card stock edge it is called “Whacking”, lol. Sorry, when I say whacking it reminds me of watching the Sapranos. Anyhow, I whacked the edges of the main image panel and a 5″ x 6.5″ panel of Real Red using Basic Black ink. I like to put dark ink around the edges of my panels. This saves me from putting a dark panel behind them.
Using my Stamp-a-ma-jig, stamped the sentiment using Basic Black ink.
Punched two Curly Labels from Basic Black card stock and folded each one in half.
Assembled the card, added the punched labels and Gold Brads.
Here is the completed card that measuring 5″ x 6.5″.
Have you been good this year? You know he is watching!
I realize this post has been long, but I have one more thing to share with you. This was sent to me by my Aunt Nancy. She said it remindered her of me since I travel so much and live by my GPS system.
Question:
What do you get when you mix PMS with GPS? Answer:
A crazy witch who WILL find you!
Do you think my Aunt is trying to tell me something, lol.
Until my next post. . . . . .
Hugs,
Michelle
Get ready for Brayer Workshops! I am coming to:
2010
Dayton, Ohio at Marco Paper
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Monroe, Louisiana
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Mechanicsville, Virginia
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Boise area of Meridian, Idaho
Riverside, California (Southern California)
Salem, Oregon
Wheaton, Illinois
St. Cloud, Minnesota
Rockville, Maryland
North Chili, New York (near Rochester)
New Johnsonville, Tennessee
Kenova (Huntington), West Virginia
Helena, Montana
Middleburg Heights, Ohio
Venice, Florida
Grinnell, Iowa
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Auburn, Washington (near Seattle)
Elk Grove Village, Illinois
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284 responses so far
Another amazing card…thanks for sharing the card and the humor! Hope all is well with you. Lisa in Columbia, MO
Once again you have made a lovely card! Thank you for sharing your talent with us! I’ll give those homeless ink pads a lovely a home–and a workout
Thanks again.
I would love to give those pretty ink pads a home. Your Santa card is gorgeous. Thanks so much for the inspiration. Sandy A.
This is the first time I’ve seen this santa used that I actually like the results. Maybe it’s the shading. Thanks Michelle.
AHHH!!! all those wonderful “in” colors that I could not afford to get ink pads for!!
Sure would love to win those, but whether I do or not, it won’t stop me from ooooohhhhing and aaahhhhing over yet another fab tutorial, Michelle!
Elaine
Nice card! It would be nice to give the ink pads a home. Thank you for the tutorials and the chance to win.
Oh, my, yes! The best home ever…with lots of love and handling. Thanks, Michelle. You’re tutorials are wonderful!
Love the santa card – so pretty! I couldn’t definitely find a home for those ink pads. : )
OOooooooh 2 pads of BAJA BREEZE — the one you use on a lot of your AWESOME CARDS!! And more awesome colors I don’t own — they would just love hanging out in my workshop!!! I would love to be the lucky winner — PICK ME PICK ME!!!
Pick me! Pick me! I would love to find a home for these little guys (I don’t think it would be much of a struggle, they would fit in nicely with my other little guys). I missed out on the in colors so it would be a great addition.
I love the card. I loved the santa before, but now I adore him!
I think your aunt is telling you that you have a great sense of humor.
Ohhh, love the santa card…..please sign me up fo rht blog candy, I do need more ink pads so would give them a great home!! LOL
Happy Healthy Holidays to you and your family! New ink pads is on my Christmas List….how did you know?!
I love Santa! I want to thank you for your wonderful tutorials. I have dusted off my brayer and am actually using it! It is a lot easier than I thought. But I know there is so much more that can be done with it. I will see you at your class in Auburn 2010!
Your Homeless ink pads would be a welcome addition here at our home!
Teri L.
I have a home that would great for these! Many of my inks and stamps have been “adopted” from other homes and seem to enjoy my place just as much! COME ON OVER!
I just love all of your tutorials and even I can create some beautiful images following your directions. Come to Sunny Florida for a demo — please.
As usual, your card is beautiful! Thanks for the tutorial.
Would love the stamp pads.
Gorgeous card, as usual, Michelle. I would love to have these ink pads. Add my name to the drawing. Thanks.
I can never get over your creativness! Beautiful card! I would love the ink pads also!
Yes, please add me to the drawing, I NEED these ink pads and they have a lovely, warm and cozy home just waiting for them! I love your Santa card and its always a good day when you learn something new. I learned whacking has multiple meanings!!
Oh Michelle, beautiful card! I am always willing to do a bit of charity work and if finding a home for these homeless pads is what I am DRAWN to do, so be it! Ha Ha! Have a Merry Christmas!
I have a nice warm spot just for these inks – I will love them and make them part of my bigger family – they will have lots of brothers and sisters and all will be happy in the world. (love Santa) Thanks Michelle.
I would definitely give these ink pads a loving home! Thanks for another great card. Mo
Love this fabulous card and tutorial! Thanks for the opportunity to win these ink pads- there is a nice home for them right here.
I like how the flourishes was used as the winter background. I never would have thought of that. Love the joke also. Must pass that on to others.
Will I give these ink pads a good time! We will brayer, sponge, and pounce ourselves into a frenzy! Oh, what fun we will have…pouncing through the snow….er, sand in Florida. Sing along with me…oh Brayer Master! kren
Sorry about the grammar error. Should have said “flourish was used”. Should check before I click SEND. :<)
Love this card. Can’t wait to give this one a try, but alas after the holidays. As we are closing on our house in 5 days and everything is packed. Since I will be getting a new home for all of my stamps and inks and everything else, this would be a perfect new home for these inks also. Missed getting them last year saving for this new home.
Thanks Michelle, you are the bestest. BTW, love your little joke also.
Poor little inkpadsand reinkers! I would love to give them a good cozy warm home. I will love them and treasure them! Please pick me!
I Love your Santa card. I also would love to win the ink pads. I could use them for my youth group at church. We make cards to share with the nursing home in our small town. We also make cards to take when we visit the shut ins and for members of our church. The kids enjoy making cards so much. Thanks for sharing. Mary
This has got to be one of my favorite tutorials EVER!! I love this design!! I only wish I had the Santa stamp and the Baroque Motifs stamp and I would be all over this!! Thank you so much for sharing!
I could also give those stamp pads a very loving home!! Thanks for the chance!
Jason
Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas with us. I would be so lucky to win these stamps pads, but here’s hoping.
what a cool card!!! I could give the ink pads a wonderful new home, they would be very well loved
I don’t have a 2 colored stamp pads so boy could I use them, and a brayer is on my list for Santa as well. Thanks for sharing! Love your Santa card.
I love Christmas cards with Santa on, and this one is sooo jolly
Would love the ink pads too…..
Those Ink pads would love my home. And I would love them while they are here.
Thanks for the chance to win them.
Beautiful cards!
I’d love to win the stamp pads and reinkers. I’ve never tried SU! pads and would love to give them a whirl.
This is just so creative, I just love how your mind works
. And I too would love to have these fabulous colors.
Can you ever enough ink colors….I don’t have these and i would really love to. Thanks for all your inspiration. LM
Simply beautiful, Michelle! Thank you for the wonderful tutorial – and for the chance to win some goodies!
I love your cards and I’ve learned so much from you. Thank you for taking the time to do the tutorials and teach us such wonderful things. I don’t have any of these colors and would love to win these stamp pads and reinkers. Thank you for the opportunity.
Merry Christmas!
Catherine
catherinesangels@yahoo.com
woooo hoooo……..would love to win these…..
thanks for offering.
Kathy
l love your cards! I even tried one of your tutorials using the witch stamp from Inkadinkado. I would love to give the ink pads a home. Thank you for the chance to win.
Having learnt so much from your tutorials I would love to give these inkpads a home.
They will be well used and loved.
Thanks for all the inspiration you give so willingly.
Merry Christmas.
Pat, Vernon Hills, IL
Love your techniques and all the great ideas you share Michelle…
I would lovingly “adopt” those precious inkpads and treasure them!
Thank you for ALL you do!
Merry Christmas to you and yours
Linda Gilliam
Springfield, Missouri
I would love to give these a home!!! My craft room will welcome them with open arms!!!
Thank you for the chance!!!
Geri
Wow! Nice colors! I want them!!!! Please, pick me up!
))
Have a nice day!
Oh how clever you are to pick colors that I don’t have yet! I have just the spot for these homeless pads and promise to use them gently. Merry Christmas everyone!
Lovely santa card, as always!!! I missed the opportunity to some of the inkpads. I still have some cardstock left but no inkpads. Hopefully, I can fill in these missing ones. Thanks for a chance to own these.
Hi Michelle
Your card is fabulous as usual. I can assure you that your ink pads can’t find better home than mine! Thanks for giving us a chace to win! Have a nice weekend!
I love this card! Now I have to buy the stamp set
Maybe if I start now, I can make a bunch of these to send NEXT year. I’m a sucker for homeless stuff, I’d love to take in your inkpads and re-inkers. I have just the spot for them and I promise to give them a good home. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, great santa and nice colors. Pick me! have a nice day.
Oh Michelle, that would be a great Christmas gift for me as I don’t have any of those colors. Sure would make my card making so much fun. Love the card! There aren’t any stampin-up demonstrators within a 30 mile radius of me that I know of. Thanks for the chance.
Hi Michelle, I have been following you for about a year now and just love your tutorials. I would be honored to give your ink pads wonderful home. They will be most welcome!. Thanks for all you do. Nita
Great card Michelle! I would love to give those stamp pads and re-inkers a home. Hope I win!!
Love the card ~ thanks for the tutorial. Also thanks for the opportunity to win the ink pads. Silly me, when I first started on this journey thought I’d only need black. Boy was I wrong.
Another great tutorial! I’d be sure to give those ink pads a good home, especially now that I know some brayering techniques!
Thanks for sharing your talents,
Niki
Wow! I don;t have any of those colors so I could definitely give them a good home. Your Santa is so cute! Just love this card! And the technique is new to me. I’ll definitely have to try this! Have a wonderful weekend!
Thanks for another great tutorial. Loved the way you “corrected” your oops on Santa’s suit with a white gel pen. I would give those ink pads a loving home.
Homeless inkpads – you’ll get a loving home with me. You’ll be pampered and get a really cozy place to life to the end of your life……
Beautiful card Michelle, as always. Thank you.
What a beautiful card as always! I just love your creations and look forward to reading each and every new tutorial. I could give those lonley ink pads a good home. They would be very happy in my craft room with my other ink pads. Thank you for the great tutuorial!
Such an adorable card today. Do you believe I don’t own a single Stampin’ Up stamp pad. Yup tis true, so I would love to give these pads a new home and you know what would happen when I start using them…..I would most likely want more I bet. I have heard and seen only good things with these pads.
thanks much too
oh my, you offer such nice blog candy. Love your card today, I look forward everyday for your email…. Please enter me in the drawing..
Ooohh…Miss Michelle…I would give your inkpads and reinkers a very loving home! I LOVE your Santa card…it is SOOOO adorable. I am so envious of your wonderful talent. I can’t even copy what you do (LOL)…let alone create it from the beginning! Thanks for sharing!
I would love to win these! I’ve been away from stamping for the last couple of years (my stuff has been stored at my brother’s house) and these would help me get going again!
Oh wowzers.. I love the Santa card. I didn’t recognize the set on the first look, but it looks fantastic and I’m a sucker for flourishes!
I would love to give a home to some stamp pads, because my mother and I often create together, more color opportunities would be superb!
Thank you for the plethera of ideas and abundance of creativity always!
Danielle
I could certainly give these ink pads and reinkers a wonderful home! The extended family (my other ink pads & reinkers) would welcome them all with open pads! As for me, I would love them as I do my other “children”!! Thanks for the chance to win these! You are so generous! Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
What a cute Santa card! I would love to win your ink pads! How kind of you to offer them. Thanks so much for all you do!
Wow, love the card!!!
Oh wow, such a nice blog candy! I don’t have those pads and would like to win them.
Hi Michelle: I have a warm, cozy home for those ink pads. Love the santa card.
This card makes me soooo HAPPY!!!! I feel like a kid again when I look at it.
Thank you again for sharing your ideas and talent-You are awesome!!!!!
Happy Holidays
Oh – I would love to give these guys a home!!! They are on my wish list – but there are so many things on it, that it might be a while!! Could promise you they would be well cared for & used!! BTW – love the card!!!
HERE INK PADS, HERE INK PADS, COME HOME TO MAMA!
Really I would love to provide a new home to your homeless ink pads and they will be so cared for and used with much love. Your Santa card is adorable. Love the inspiration you provide to all of us.
Stella Boatman
Wonderful card. I find your tutorials very helpful for the new card maker (myself). I am going to try some of your techniques on my holiday cards. Thanks for the inspiration.
Happy Holidays.
Cute card. And I would love to give your inkpads a new home. They will have lots of friends to play with and I’ll spend LOTS of time with them so they don’t get lonely.
Nancy
I actually have room for Homeless Ink Pads and re-inkers and know that they will be well taken care of…Oh btw, your card is awesome…..hope to meet you next year at one of your workshops….
What a CUTE Santa – and gorgeous card, as always! And, believe it or not, I don’t own ANY SU ink pads – CAN YOU BEIEVE IT??? So, I REALLY need them! Pretty please?
Wonderful card as always! I would give those SU ink pads a safe, comfortable home on my SU ink pad tower where they would be loved and cared for! Thanks – Merry Christmas!
I made 42 cards to give as gifts for my family. All but one were your designs. You do such beautiful work, and it is such a pleasure copying your designs. Thank you for all your tutorials! :^) I would love the ink pads, particularly the Baja Breeze and the Kiwi Kiss! Have a wonderful Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!
I am new to Stampin Up products and would REALLY like to win the ink pads to see for myself just how good they are. Those I know who do know, rave about them.
Thanks for the chance to get them! Mary Walker
Your Santa card is so cute. I wouldn’t mind giving your homeless babies a new home!!
Hi Michelle,
I would love to give your homeless ink pads a home here in warm, sunny Florida!!
Looking forward to meeting you when you come to Jax in Feb!!
A person can never have too many ink pads! I didn’t order some of these colors and of course, would love to have them. Thanks again for sharing your great talent with us!
Love all your tutorials….you make beautiful cards. I would love to give your homeless stamp pads and reinkers a home.
Michelle – thank you so much for taking such great care of us!! Your tutorials are absolutely awesome — and I would love to give a special home to your homeless stamp pads and reinkers… Thank you!
I love your blog site and your beautiful cards-would love to win the stamp pads and would put them to very good use!
I would love to win the stamp pads. I enjoy reading your blog and all your wonderful instructions.
I could definitely give those homeless stamp pads a home … have plenty of room for them!
This card immediately reminded me of my childhood in New Mexico and the wonderful times we had in the snow! I must try my hand at it today! Thank you for the inspiration. Also, I would love to provide your inkpads a wonderful loving home. I have just the place for them! BettyAnn
I would love to give those poor homeless ink pads a home! Love your work! Thanks for sharing and taking the time to show us how to make beautiful cards.
I would love to have these ink pads! i don’t have any of these colors and would love to use them with my stamps!!!!
Diane
How cute, and so festive looking! I absolutely love it! You can almost feel the wind blowing with the blue bacground and white swirls. I love the traditional Christmas cards.
Please enter me to win your pretty pads. Thank you.
can a stamper have too much ink?? i think not!! thank you for the chance to win some great SU ink…
What a wonderful jolly Santa! I love how you’ve used the swirl for the background. Please enter me in your draw – those inkpads would feel right at home over here in the UK! Thank you once more for all your inspiration.
I definitely would give those ink pads a good home! The memo your aunt sent was so funny! I hope you enjoy your holidays! Hugs, Harriet
Love your cards and blog. I would give the ink pads a very good home.
Angel Hugs and a very Merry Christmas.
Yummy ink pads. What a treat. Put me in the running. Love your blog. Thanks.
I’D LOVE ANYTHING YOU OFFER, NEW OR USED. I’LL KEEP ENTERING THE DRAWINGS UNTIL I FINALLY WIN SOMETHING.
THANKS,
This card is so much fun! I do love your tutorials and really enjoy the way you build a scene. I would love to invite your lost inky souls into my home. I have several ink pads that would be glad to move over and make room for the new kids on the block!Thanks for the chance to win and for this tutorial.
I can always find a home for ink pads, especially SU ones.
Love the Santa card. You do the best tutorials. Have inkpads that would love some new friends. Keep the tutorials coming.
I always have room for more ink pads and reinkers!
Great card! I love your tutorials! I would also love to give those ink pads a new home – I don’t own any of those colors… yet!
Michelle, your card is fabulous as usual. You are so very creative. I have this set and am going to “try” this technique but fear I’ll never get it entirely. I would love to give your ink pads a new home. I am a new demo this would really help built my supply stock. I hope I win, but if not someone lucky person is sure to be happy.
I don’t have any of these ink pads and would love to win one to try it out.
There seems to be no end to the ways to use Baroque Motifs and Lovely as a Tree; I don’t use them near enough. Thanks for the inspiration! AND, thanks for the opportunity to give your homeless ink pads a good home…..I need them! [I'm just a little OCD...hahaha].
Oh how I love your tutorials.!!! I would give these stamp pads a very good home. I will feed them regularly and never let then get too thirsty.
I have made many pretty Christmas cards thanks to your tutorials. thank you …thank you …thank you
Tangerine Tango!!! WooHoo, sign me up.
Hehe, thanks for the chuckle
I love your Santa card, he seems to be the director of the show. I mean snow 
I’d love to give a cosy home to your homeless pads and reinkers!! Bye, Kitty
These your tutorials are so wonderful and you make so beautiful cards!
And I would love to give home those inkpads-thanks for opportunity!
*keeping fingers crossed*
I love the santa you made! Thank you for the opportunity to win the inks.
What a great card, as usual.
I am so thankful for your detailed tutorials and wonderful ideas. Thanks for the chance to win!
oh I have the perfect home for the ink pads…pick me..pick me!
You do amazing work. I hope to be like you when I grow up!
I would love to adopt those poor little ink pads and refills.
And this card is so cute. I can’t wait until I have more time to stamp so I can
try my hand at this one.
Michele, thank you for sharing your talents! May you never tire of stamping!
WOW!!!!! You’re amazing, the ideas you come up with are WOW!!!! Love getting each of your posts to see what great idea you’ve got to share with us!!! Thanks for your blog and the chance to win some pads.
Oh I just love this one! Santa is so cute! Thanks for the chance to win your ink pads!
Have a great weekend!
Elizabeth
Due to issues with my bank account and christmas, I cant have ink pads of my own and would LOVE to adopt yours from you! I fell in love with them as soon as I saw them. They will be going to a very good home and will be in their own art room and will be well taken care of! Please consider ME!!!!!
Love the card!!!
Charlotte Barker
I LOVE SU inks and would give a good, loving home to your homeless friends. I would feed them, keep them clean, and give them a proper place to sleep at night. LOL Thanks for the great tutorials. Linda F.
I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to win these stamps. It would certainly help me recreate your beautiful cards as my stamp pad collection is very limited. Please allow me opportunity to create with you…….Kathy
Please enter me in the homeless ink pad giveaway. I do not have many ink pads at this time and could really use some, as you use so many different colors in your cards. Thank you.
Greta Bocsy
Love the card! Would love to win ink! ‘Tis the season … I could get lucky!
Thanks for continuing to share your inspiration with us!
I have all the SU ink pads already but I’ve got a sister who doesn’t so I’d love to win these for her!
Yes please to be included in the giveaway and THANK YOU so much for your great tutorials! So clear and helpful.
I surely can give them a good home! I love your tutorials!
It always amazes me how you come up with all these card ideas. I love them. Please enter me in the homeless ink pad giveaway.
Thank you.
Geke
I hope these lovely inks may have a new home in another country. I think they will love it here. They can work together with their colored friends already here.
Love, Loes
Love your Santa card, Michelle. If I won, I’d give those stamp pads a good home.
Michelle, what an absolutely cute Santa card. When I look at it, it appears that the snow is flying him in with open arms to great the little ones! The black curly labels with the gold brad on each side of the card looks like his belt buckle is holding him together…..
Thank you for the opportunity to be in the drawing for the stamp pads and reinkers. I can surely give them a very good home.
Happy Holidays Michelle,
Margaret
I would love to give these “little guys” a new home, in fact I have made their room ready, hope to see then soon! Thanks, and I love all your tutorials. joyce Arbogast
LOVE your Aunt’s jokes! Keep ‘em coming.
Brenda Cook
You really do not want to keep those poor stamppads homeless. I would love to give them a good home.
Love your work and tutorials and I visit you several times a week.
Have a merry Christmas.
Pippin
Hi Michelle Fabulous card once again. I am well able to house your homeless buddies. In face as their is Kiwi Kiss in there and I am a Kiwi in NZ I think they would feel very much at home in my home!! May I wish you the very best of Christmases and all good wishes for 2010.
I love that card! I enjoy seeing your creations and have been practicing a little but I have a long way to go. Thanks for the inspiration. Aunt Nancy’s joke is great! And I could definitely give those homeless ink pads a nice, comfy home
I love those in colours! I would definitely give them a good home! Thanks for the great tutorial!
Great tutorial. Always amazing. AND I could absolutely give the homeless ink pads a good home. They would be well loved here!
I would be a great mom to the orphaned little inkie pads!
Thanks for your kindness.
Teresa
Wow, would love to have the ink pads, can’t really afford to get a lot of in-colors.
Truly enjoy your postings. I thank you for the time you take to show us your tecniques.
Thank you, Kathy
Fab card and hysterical Aunt Nancy! I’d really give those ink pads and reinkers a nice, cozy, well-loved home. Thanks for offering them up!
Wow! what a cute card!
Double wow! Love the colors — don’t have any of them. Would be the glad recipient is chosen. Merry Christmas, Michelle!
There’s always room in my house for ink pads! lol Great Christmas card!
Awesome tutorial – and I sure could give those pads and inks a loving home!!
Loved the joke too
Have an awesome Christmas, Michelle
magnificent as usual.You really are an inspiration. i have even bought a brayer after seeing all of your gorgeous creations. Thanks for the chance ot win (although i dont know if i qualify cause i’m in aus.) Merry Christmas
I love your cards. I love how you make them come to life. What I have noticed in a few of your last posts that I love is how you use your punches on the side of your card. It’s that little extra thing that makes it complete. Thank you so much for sharing your cards with us. I try to read them all and I have learned SO MUCH from you. Your talent amazes me! God Bless! Have a wonderful Christmas.
I am so excited to be taking your class in Jacksonville in Feb. WHoopee! I can always use more colors of ink and reinkers. See ya in Jacksonville in Feb. Thanks!
I really enjoy color! Maybe that is why I get so excited to see the first spring flowers pop through the soil that has laid dormant all winter. Stampin Up has such a beautiful array of colors!! Please enter me in your give away. And have a Merry Christmas!!!
Great card. I can feel the wind blowing. (Like it did here the last 2 days, YUCK)
) TGIF, hugs…
Love the joke you Aunt sent, she is funny
That flourish is my favorite stamp I have!!! Thank you for showing me another way to use it!!! Merry Christmas
FABulous Santa card!! As always, I just love it!! And thanks for the chance to win such great candy!!
Denise
The ink selection that you are sharing is wonderful…I can only dream of what I can make out of all of them….PLEASE PICK ME, and in the mean time if you don’t I want to take this time to say.MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and yours….blessing be upon you.
You have awesome ideas and projects. I’ve tried my best to imitate your projects but you rock!
As a visual learner, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your wonderful tutorials. I get so excited every time there’s a new one to see. Thank you for your generous, creative spirit!
AND by the way, my house is like “The Island of Misfit Toys” for stamping supplies. I would LOVE to give your homeless inks a home. Have a merry and a happy!
Love your santa card!
I don`t have any stampin up ink pads yet.
They would be made very welcome in my craft room!
Love the joke your aunt sent you. LOL!
Wow! I’d love to give them a good home!
I’ve only recently found your blog and subscribed through Google Reader so I don’t miss anything. Your tutorials are awesome and I just love this trad Santa card.
I would love to give these ink pads a home, it’s such a shame they are homeless. Thanks for the chance to give them a good home.
I have a wonderful caring home ready for the ink pads. Thanks for helping make my Christmas warm & fuzzy!
All of my ink pads are the OLD style and really need to be replaced. Sadly I can’t afford to. I would love to give your homeless ink pads a home with me. ;~) I am so glad I have found your blog and all of your techniques. They’re great!
I would love to give your poor homeless ink pads a good and loving home
. I have just the perfect place for them too. ELena
I’d love to show some charity this season by giving a home to those ink pads! I’ve kicked myself several times for not getting Kiwi Kiss – maybe I’ll get it after all???
Hi Michele,
I certainly have a fine home and craft area for these candies:
eight room house and four story barn attached, newly renovated. They will be truly loved. I didn’t get these SU colors when they were offered as I was in physical rehab for a long time. They are welcome. Thank you.
Wonderful tutorial, Michele. I’m becoming a big fan of your work. I wish I knew the best way to keep the brayer clean.
Made room for the ink pads already! I do not have any of these you are giving away and would absolutely welcome them. I have the reinkers, so they’d be right at home with me. Thanks for sharing. Nelda in TN neldamc 765 @ charter dot net
Your cards are so inspiring and beautifully done !
I would LOVE to win the Pacific Point Ink Pad. It is the only one that I do not have.
I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Thank you.
I only have about 8 ink pads, they would enjoy company in their big drawer. The markers and stamp spots I have sit on a different shelf and they have each other for company so I would really enjoy inviting more stamp pads into my home. I would treat them very well! Thank you.
Michelle,
ANOTHER great card. Especially loved all the levels and mixture of embossing and brayer work. Somewhere I missed the step of embossing a last time to bring everything back to life…. NOW I know why mine looked a little sad when I tried a wedding card. Always love the tips. Hope Santa’s elves are good to you.
Thanks!!!
PS… please enter me in the lost inks…
Another awesome card Michelle! I’d love to give those ink pads a new home at my house!! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas season!
Anne
Oh you’re an angel !
I play again and i hope that i will a lucky girl
Thank you for all
(sorry for my english)
Baja Breeze and Riding Hood Red are favourite colours of mine — I can’t believe you are giving them away. I can assure you that I will give them a good home, use them well (but never abuse them) and keep them fed and watered!
LOL on the joke – and the whacking!
And oh how I would love those inkpads & reinkers. I’d hold them, and tap them and rub them and … uh oh, was that TMI?
Cheers!
My husband and I just “rescued” a fabulous cutsey little cat from the Humane Society and I would LOVE to “rescue” these fabulous cutsey little items….thank you for offering them to us…..have a Wonderful Weekend! L.
Linda LaCrone
Darling picture. The colors on the ink pad look pretty. I would love to give them a home.
I have been so bummed since I found out you were in Portland, MI!! I would have loved to have come to your class. I love everything you do, and CASE just about all you do!! Thank you so much for being such a giving person.
Sandi
Whew, that card was a lot of work! I’m tired just reading about it!
I could give those ink pads a good home. I already have 2 of them so I could “adopt them out” to someone else, but most of them would be welcome right here.
what an awesome card….as always!
i would give those pads a great home
I would love to give those homeless stamp pads a good home!! I do not have any Stampin’ Up pads yet so they would be welcomed with open arms and brayer at the ready!
Merry Christmas and thanks so much for all of the wonderful tutorials!
wish I could have been at the class you taught in stoughton, wi. would love to win the ink pads. thank you for all the give aways
cute, cute card. these are the in-colors I’m missing! how about that! Becky
I love your work and this card is no exception. You are an extremely talented artist Michelle and I thank you for all the inspiration you continue to share with the stamping community worldwide. I would love the chance to add these stamp pads to my collection. I wish you and your family a blessed Christmas Season.
Lonely little ink pads… I would love to give them a home. They will be loved and cared for and used for creating wonderful projects that others happy! I do hope that my craft room will be there new “forever Home”!
Deborah Makowski
Oh! Oh! I always try to help the homeless; and I sure will show these ink pads a nice, safe home.
Thank you always for your beautiful, beautiful work.
What a generous giveaway! I have very few SU! pads.
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Would love to give your stamp pads a good home. They would be greatly used, loved and appreciated.
I just love your work and I have used some of you tutorials. I will have to send you pictures of what I have learned. Thank you so much for your step by step tutorials. You are just awesome.
Judy Miller
Arizona
I would LOVE to give your homeless ink pads a new home. You can just send them my way. *wink* Thanks for a chance to win them.
WOW! what a beautiful card! i’ve got to give it a try! thanks for making it easy to follow!
I love this card. It’s almost, I say almost, enough to make me regret that I’ve got mine all done for this year. Although this is not a simple mass production number! But I’ve even got my extra special’s done and mailed! I promise to love those poor homeless ink pads and reinkers. You just ship them down to me and I’ll take VERY good care of them! LOL. Thanks for the chance and even more thanks for the inspiration!
R/
That card is so darn cute! I love it! Thanks for the tutorial too. Who doesn’r need more ink…..count me in!
Wow I can’t believe you are going to part with those wonderful colors. They will be great on Christmas cards I am making. I always can you ink the more the better as I always say (my husband really doesn’t agree with that but oh well)
I have a very good home for the inkpads. I keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Lots of friends come by to play so there would be plenty of company, also. This is very generous of you. Thank-you. Phyllis
Love you work and hope you do a work shop in the southern New England area!!
Beautiful card! I love that Santa. Thanks for giving us a chance to win the stamp pads. I’d love to win them.
Another beautiful card. I look forward to the next creation in my inbox. Oh BTW I would give the stamppads a wonderful new home to try to recreate some of your inspiring work.
I actually used this stamp set for my Christmas Card but yours is prettier than mine was. I would love your ink pads to come and live with me….pick me….pick me…
I love to see how you add just a couple extra steps to your cards & when you’re finished you always top the WOW meter! Since I started following your blog, I can’t stamp a single blah image anymore, thanks!
I would really love to give these ink pads a GREAT home. I promise to take them out & use them as often as they want, I’ll make sure & put them back in their beds for the night where they belong, I’ll feed them regularly with their reinkers when needed, I’ll make sure to keep them away from heat & cold that will harm them, I promise to use my Stampin’ Up! stamps with them to know that they are in great company, I’ll show them to my friends when they come to visit so they can see what beautiful images they produce & last but not least, I’ll let them visit your blog through my computer if they get homesick!
Michelle,
If you pick me, you won’t have to worry about those pads. They will have a loving home and get a well deserved workout on a regular basis! Thanks for the chance to win!
I know of a very good and loving home for those ink pads and reinkers – my home! What a fabulous Christmas card with jolly Santa on the front! Blessings, leanne
Love this card and the tutorial and YES, these orphans would be soooooo loved in my house. I would love to have them.
I would love to have the extra pads, what a special way to share stamping at Christmas. Beautiful card, the kids and I are trying it now. Thanks so much!
I want them,Please,please,please…..
This card has such incredibly deep color! You have amazing talent with mixing color!! I hope I get a chance to do wonderful things using those ink pads.
wonderful tutorial Michelle! My Oregon home would be the perfect setting for lonely ink pads in need of lots of loving. Finances kept me from aquiring these last year but I love the colors and would love to play with them. Wonderful of you to share.
Merry Christmas Mrs. Santa – Jean
I certainly can. I should of, could of and didn’t get them. I really would like to get those colors. They don’t sell those colors now, do they? Please pick me! My craft room will give them a place of honor!
Wow! Love those colors – would be glad to give them a new home.
I love your blog and just wanted to say how much I appreciate all the work you do for us. I have learned so much and have a lot more to learn (but getting better). Thank you so much for sharing your talent!
Sandi D.
You KNOWWWW, you make these cards look SOOOOO easy to create, that even I might be able to do them, although definitely not with the same skill and ease that you have. Thanks for sharing all your beautiful creations.
Now, about those homeless inkpads…. as long as they don’t require food and water, I just MIGHT have the perfect little home for them. Putting on my lucky bells……
Poor little ink pads – I’d love to give them a home!!! (and I love today’s card – the Santa is right on!)
I also would love to give the ink pads a good home. Your cards are amazing!!
Another beautiful card! Who doesn’t love Santa this time of year!! Homeless inkpads?? That’s a new one. I would love to give them a cozy spot in my house!
Michelle,
I was so-so impressed with the cards you have been creating with the brayer technique, that I have started to purchase the Stampin Up stamp pads and products. I have been having so much fun with this technique using my new ink pads. The colors are beautiful!
I would love to “win” the ink pads you are giving away and believe me they will have a good home as I am beginning my collection with these “much treasured” Stampin Up products.
P.S. I have a friend who is also beginning to purchase the ink pads as a result of me showing her your wonderful technique. Thank you for sharing these cards with us.
it’s difficult to stay up-to-date with su! i have the old in-color papers, but i don’t have the inks. i would gladly welcome them to my collection! brayering is something that i will have to think more about. there are so many techniques and supplies that when i sit down to create, it is hard to remember EVERYTHING! i will keep trying, though.
Gorgeous, Gorgeous card!!!
Michelle your tutorials are absolutely fantastic ! I never fail to be inspired. Would love a chance to win the ‘homeless’ inks. Fingers crossed ! Sue C x
Take this opportunity to thank you for your tutorials. Unfortunately i do not have any SU products yet but am very tempted and they are on my wish list. I love the gorgeous swirl and tree stamps you used. Would love to give your ink pads a home but i live in UK and therefore costly postage.
Great tutorial thank you very much and like always an awesome card!!!!
Hugs Franca
Would love to have you here in Germany for a workshop…
Thank you for another wonderful tutorial. I am always inspired by your work. I would love to give your inkpads a home. Thanks for the chance!
I would love to give your inkpads a new home in my stamping pit!! Love the tutorials. Need to take your brayer class this year too. I will start working on that. Rockin Robin Caldwell (stampinsavage at yahoo dot com)
Lovely card! I would give the inkpads a good home, and sure could use them!
I realy like your tutorials. Very well described, step by step. Thank you !
INK PADS, INK PADS, DID SOMEONE SAY FREE INK PADS? ????? I do a lot of group stamping with friends so extra ink pads are always welcome. Have a wounderful Christmas. You have such a giving spirt. (Iwould say that even if there weren’t free ink pads involved).
Michelle, first have to thank you again for a wonderful and very artistic
tutorial. second would love to give some ink pads a nice warm home here
in australia. please pick me for this great prize.
Ohhhh I love those colors & would be a wonderful early Christmas gift, thanks!
I would give those poor stamp pads a good home Michelle, please pick me. Thanks for all the great tutorials,
chris
Oh Mich elle Oh Mich elle you are so giving always
I wake up early to check your work
It always inspiiiires me !
With a little imagination, this was written to the humming of ‘O Christmas Tree’
I am always trying to build up my stamp pad collection so I don’t have to borrow from friends, so with that being said………………
I hope I win, I hope I win !!
Happy Holidays !
Hi Michele! They would certainly have a wonderful home with me! Thanks!! Liz
Choose me – this is my lucky day. I’d love to have the inks just as I
love to see your tutorials each day.
Hi Michelle! I’m newly retired and brand new at stamping. Needless to say, my “stamp grotto” is sparsely stocked. I would love to give the stamp pads a brand new home. They could jack my stamping up to the next level!
I’m hooked on your blog and the brayering tutorials. Your technique gives cards a professional and artistic look. I’m trying to emulate you even though I’m self-taught.
Thanks, Michelle. Lynda Bart
Love the card as always.
Keep warm -
Melba
Hi Michelle!
Have available a warm new home for ink pads…sibling ink pads to keep them company…lol
love all you work
thanks for the chance to win:D
Ang
I would give the inkpads a good home. Please consider me as their new mother.
Jill
pick me, pick me;)
I would love to have them in my collection. I share my stash with my grandma and we desperately need more inks! We are hoping next time u come around noblesville Indiana we can get a spot in your class! I hope you have a merry christmas.
I could give them a great home where they could enjoy making lovely images. I really enjoy your work – great inspiration – thanks!!
Oh my! I love traditional anything Christmas. He is so cute. Yes, I would love to give the ink pads a good home. I was working on some Valentines and used some Red Riding Hood but didn’t have the ink to go with it. They would receive lots of love and use.
Happy Holidays.
Yes, I would love to have the pad and reinkers! Your awesome Michelle! Thanks for inspiring me!
I love the dimension you ink into your cards- the shadowing and layers of hills.
Thanks for all the awesome tutorials
Holly
I could give these fellers such a good home. Lots of friends and family, warm and cozy and full of good cheer, music and an occasional audio book going.
I hope you have a very blessed and merry christmas. God bless you for sharing your talent.
Love that Santa! He is too cute ;o)
I would love to give the ink pads a new home
Great card, complete with swirling snow and belt buckle for the card! I love it!!
Have a great weekend!
Practice, practice, practice and maybe someday I can do creations as beautiful as yours, Michelle!! Every day when I open my e-mail I search for e-mail from you with the tutorials. I recently purchased ALL the ink pad sets and they are living very happily in my craft room. I am sure if I was lucky enough to win this giveaway the ink pads would feel like they are “home at last” along with all the others.
You are truly an inspiration to me and I hope to attend one of your workshops someday. Hebronstamper
Hi Michelle, you know in Holland it is not possible to buy SU inks, so if you would pick me I would be so pleased to give these inkies a new, loving home!
Love this christmas-fellow, like the technique, thanks for sharing!
Best wishes to you and your family from Lucy (Holland)
Michelle, Can one really have too many stamp pads? I guess so but if it were me that had to decide I love Lucy’s comment about not being able to get inks in Holland. So just because I would love them I think she deserves them more.
Looking forward to meeting you in Colorado. Jolene
I’m ready willing and able to adopt those poor homeless ink pads! LOL – thanks for the opportunity to win them.
Teri
You can send those pads to my pad! They will be used very lovingly. Thanks for the chance to get so new ink!
Another great tutorial – I love what you have done here!! And that Santa is just the cutest! I, too, would be happy to give those ink pads a home!! I’ve been wishing I had gotten them, particulary kiwi kiss (I DID get baja, but not the rest.) Thanks for the opportunity, and thanks for another great post. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Great tutorial. I loved your card. I know I could give the homeless inkpads a good home. Would love to win–have stampin up ink pads but not these. Would love the chance to win. Thanks for the inspiration.
Love your site. You always have wonderful pictures and easy to follow directions. I’m just starting out, so thanks for the chance to give a new home for those lovely inks!
I have the perfect spot for your ink pads as I have not been able to purchase any of them. Do the ink pads come with talent, I also need some of that.
All of your cards are just stunning.
I would love to make a home for the inks, right now our funds are pretty tight and that would be a wonderful Christmas present (for me). Our family has agreed not to exchange gifts this year and just be glad for what we have. So thank you for the chance to receive your ink gift.
I have never tried SU inks before, and would love to.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Great tutorial as usual.
Such a cute card! And yes! I could give those ink pads a wonderful home! Thank you
Thank you for another great tutorial- Your posts are so inspiring! I would love to give those inkpads a new home – they would be well loved here! Thank you for this generous giveaway and sharing your talents with us.
I will give them a good home! Just love the card.
Terrific tutorial, Michelle! I love the color of his suit using the burgundy and real red . . . WoW, but the bg has to be the best of all! Thanks for sharing your wonderful talent with us all. My Pennsylvania craft room would love the addition of those lovely ink pads!!
Watching your calendar . . . I would love to see you closer to Pennsylvania soon!!
I would be more than happy to give your poor, unwanted stamp pads a new home. I’d keep them warm and safe. LOL – JIL
you are such an inspiration, you have changed how i look at card making from being a hobby to being an art, thank you.
Once again your talent has wowed me. Thanks for sharing all the steps and techniques. I would love to give those inkpads a new home…thanks for the giveaway!
Donna
Love your cards! I visit your site a lot.
Love the card as usual!
I am a huge fan and would love some blog candy.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Shelley
Wonderful card! I would love to give your inks a new home. Baja Breeze is my all time favorite color and if I had extra I could use it freely. I follow your blog daily because you are such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas.
What a fabulous tutorial! I can’t wait to try this emboss resist technique. And yes, I would love to give those poor stray pads and reinkers a home.
I would be a very good and loving mom to those pads. Provide a nice warm home for them, give them regular excercise, and give them a drink whenever they need it. lots of friends for them too so they’ll have a good social life. Kathy Eddy
Thank you for the tutorial.
It would be my great pleasure to adopt your 7 ink pads since i only have a lonesome ink pad as of now. I promise to use them lovingly and i would be forever grateful.
Thanks for the chance to win.
I would be delighted to give your pads a home! You do lovely work!
Thanks for your tutorials. I always find inspiration in your work. Happy to give the pads a new home.
ooh! fabulous pads. I’d be happy to give them a home. thanks for all you do. M
i would love tp adopt those poor lonely sad homeless ink pads i have lots of other ink pads for them to play with and would love and cherish them there whole life lol thank for the chance
Please add me to the list of admirers and contestants. Your inspiration is greatly appreciated.
Please enter me in for the ink pads. I would love to give them a new home. I don’t have any of those colors. Thanks for another great card tutorial!
Great tutorial. Would love to give the pads a new home.
Another beautiful card! The resist technique gives the background multidimentional look. Please enter me in the drawing for the free ink. i would love to give them a good home. Thank you for offering this. Mitzi
Although all my inks are from SU, I don’t have any of those…it would be a big treat! Thanks for the opportunity.
I love checking out your tutorials! I always learn something new! Would be delighted to have some new stamp pads. Thanks for a chance to win them!
DeniseB
Wow, every once in a while I lose all my links and have to find my favorites again. Glad to have found you again Michelle! Tricia
Now this card is wonderfully done thanks so much for the tutorial.
I’d love to have those inkpads….. Oh they will be very very loved here.
Your work is beautiful! I would love to adopt your homeless stamp pads! My closet is calling for them!!!!!!!
Those ink pads could sure find a good home here. I love the Santa card and love the snow swirls. Great work again!
Trish
I would love to give these pads a new home. Thanks for the great blog candy again!!
This card is great! It makes me want to change the design of my holiday cards.
I love your web site! I am your newest fan. Every day or so, I go on your site to look at your latest cards and have tried my hand at some of them. I am so glad to see that you are coming to the South (Piedmont, AL) in 2010. My friends and I will drive over from Atlanta. Love the Santa card and would love to win the stamp pads!
Hope I’m not too late to enter. Always willing to give ink a new home!
Yet another fabulous card and tutorial, how do you do it!!!! Your work always amazes me and I save so many that I could make cards for weeks without coming up for air!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for keeping us inspired.
At this time of year when we reflect on the wonders and joy that we have had throughout the year, I just wanted you to know how blessed I feel to have found your blog. Your art is an inspiration to me everyday. Thank you for sharing your talent!
Great card as always.
I would be ever so greatful to give those ink pads a good home. I just came up with my onw scrap room over the week-end and they would fit in perfectly with all my other (be it limited) scrapbooking/card making stuff.
Michelle
Oh my, would I love to give these ink pads a new home. I really need some of those colors. Please please please pick me. Thanks.
Ballo ergo sum,
- Gitana, the Creative Diva
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