Featured Stamper - Emily Niehaus

So today is the first day all of my kids are off of school for the summer and I'm already off schedule! Today is supposed to be Featured Stamper Monday & I totally forgot...sigh! Well, I know you will all agree it was worth the wait once you see the card I have to share with you.

Today's Featured Stamper is Emily Niehaus. She made this Elegant card using our Berry Picking set. Isn't her coloring and layout inspiring? I love all the different papers and visual textures she created with the different cuts she used on them.

Here is a little bit about Emily, in her own words:

My name is Emily Niehaus (stampingout on SCS). I am married with three boys, and work part time as a RN at a local hospital. I live in the Cincinnati area (Ohio). I LOVE to stamp and scrapbook! I am inspired by color. My must have embellishment is ribbon!

Not only is Emily talented, she is so sweet! She wrote some lovely things on her blog about Artful Inkables after having purchased from us. It sure is nice to see a customer so satisfied!

Now please check out her blog because this card isn't the only lovely creation she has made and be sure to leave her some love either here or on her blog.

Would you like to be a Featured Stamper? All you have to do is email me a link to your creations with Artful INKables Rubber Stamps or add a link to a comment on the blog.

Don't forget: Our new Release Blog Hop is this Friday, June 19th!! Be there to be part of all the fun and prizes!~

A Sneaky Peeky-

It is getting to be that time again...time for an Artful INKables New Release. We will have 3 Fun and somewhat different, new sets to share with you soon....along with a great grouping of pewter charms to go with them. We are planning our release and blog hop for Friday, June 19th, with another special treat happening on the 23rd. In the mean time, I have a little Sneak Peek for you all.



I made this card yesterday for the SCS sketch challenge. The layout was just screaming for the diamond background that is part of one of our new release sets so I had to give it a try. I used 2 stamps from the soon-to-be-available Into The Moonlight set. (Seven stamps in this set in all) I colored the main image with copic markers and stamped the diamond background with black ink on red cardstock. The white and black DP is from the Basic Grey Scarlett's Letter collection. The apple charm is a sneak peek too, I suppose, since it is part of our new charm set and it is tied on with silver cord.

Let me know what you think!

Please Note: The Bare Rubber sale is still going on...for now...but the animals collection is now sold out. The flora & fauna collection and the silhouettes collection is still for sale, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.

Our First Featured Stamper

As I promised on Saturday, today we will Launch our new Featured Stamper Program. And to start it off right I have a real beauty of a card to show you using the Artful INKables set Paradise Island:



This gorgeous creation was made by Diane Pomerleau from Montréal, Québec. (Her name is Miss Apple on SCS...be sure to check out her gallery the next time you are over there!) She has been a stamper for almost 15 years and writes, "When I started stamping it was on a white envelope that I embossed with the heat of a light bulb! Times have changed..." They sure have but look what Diane has done with a few stamps and some ink! I love all the little details on this card and that is why it caught my eye in the SCS gallery!

Diane has shared her recipe for her card with us here:
I stamped the Paradise Island images on watercolor paper and painted it with Twinkling H2O's. I put glossy accents from Ranger on the eyes of the fish and on the rocks in front of the hut. I just added a little accent of Waterfall Stickles on the body of the fish to give them that fishy look. I used glossy accent as glue and put gold microbeads under the hut to look like sand. I passed my Krylon gold metal pen around the border and layered it on metallic paper. Then, I took cheese cloth and sprayed green glimmer mist from Tattered Angels on it and heated it to dry. I layered it all on Coral Reef paper from Sandylion and then on green Bazzill CS. To finish it off, I embellished it with a gold star fish.

Thanks Diane! We really appreciate you letting us all enjoy your beautiful card. And I am so glad you agreed to be our very first Featured Stamper! Now, everyone leave Diane a nice comment or 2 here or in her gallery and show her the love!!

Get Caught Stampin' with AI

Most of the Stampers I know, love to be recognized for their creative works. There is just something about having another person praising their creativity that makes a Stamper glow with pride. So with this knowledge in mind, we will be starting a new program next week...The Weekly Featured Stamper.

This program will work in 2 ways. The first is, we may come across a card or project we love that someone has made using Artful INKables rubber stamps. In this case we will contact the person, ask permission to showcase their work along with a short bio or inspiration dialog. The second way is having our customers submit cards and projects for consideration. You can mail the card in, email us a link or just link to a comment you post on our blog. The only catch is your project must use our line of stamps.

I already have 2 WONDERFUL cards lined up for this program, but we will be needing more submissions soon. Wouldn't you like to be recognized for your creativity? Well get out your AI stamps and start creating...we want to see what you make!

I always share what I make here, and I love creating for you when I get a chance. Today, I made a cute little western card featuring the Rodeo Rodent stamp set. Hope you like it!



BARE RUBBER SALE is still in full swing! Get your while they last! (See June 2nd post below for details.)

Last Day of School

Today is the last day of school for my middle schooler and I'm SURE, this is the way she will be spending alot of her summer...that way she doesn't have to listen to us! LOL The other kiddos have another week to suffer through but they will be out soon enough as well.

This card was made using the recently released Music in my Heart set. It was colored using copic markers...as is my usual choice. Hard to believe that a year ago those fun markers use to scare me, huh? I was very intimidated by them, I have to admit! The DP is from Rusty Pickle and the ribbon was taken off of some packaging from one of my mother's day presents...talk about recycling! *grin* Oh and the colors for the solid cs are close to cocoa and sage shadow from SU.

REMINDER: Solid Rubber SALE going on now! I am blowing through my supplies for this sale fast! Especially for the animals set so if you want yours, be sure to order SOON!!

Artful INKables BARE RUBBER SALE

It's time for some Spring Cleaning over at Artful INKables. Some of the overstock on our older sets, really needs to find a new home. This is GREAT NEWS for you. Why? ... Because you can get images from many sets for about the price of one set! Our Bare Rubber Lots are just that, bare rubber only...no foam, no case, no trimming...but you sure get a deal if you dont mind a little extra work. (Sorry, there are no substitutions.) Though each lot is as listed in our Stamp Store, I have listed them here along with pictures for your convenience.

Animal Themed Lot includes: All stamps from Top Dog, Lion's Pride, Stay Cool, Phoenix Rising, Sweet Snail, Pretty Parrot, Leapin' Lizards and the Dragonfly and Fish ONLY from the Pond Friends set. Total stamps in this lot: 24 Approximate Value $30.00 Sale Price $10.00

Silhouette Themed Lot includes: All stamps from New Mother Silhouettes, Shop-a-thon & Nature's Heritage plus the Father and Son image, the Wine Bottle with Glasses image and a Stack of Presents image. Total stamps in this lot: 17 Approximate Value $24.00 Sale Price $8.50


Flora & Fauna Themed Lot includes: All stamps from Autumn's Flowers, Plant Prints, Pressed Petals, Friendship Flowers and a sentiments saying 'congratulations' in a curly script. Total stamps in this lot: 26 Approximate Value $32.00 Sale Price $10.50


If you want to order just follow this link to the store HERE or on our main site. This is a limited Time Offer, while supplies last...so be sure to get yours NOW. Grab your self a Great Deal!

Wonderful Things

Today I have a card to share with you using our new Boys will be Boys stamp set. We've gotten alot of positive comments about this set and I thank you all for your enthusiasm. Apparently good boy sets are hard to find and this one does work for boys of many ages.

When I use this set, I cant seem to help making the boy look like my son...right down to the red hair and worn jeans. I do have to say he usually isnt this clean though, especially if he has been out hunting 'critters'! He even helped out with this set some, writing 2 of the sentiments (including the one on this card) in his own boy-child writing.

The details of this card are pretty self explainatory. I colored using copics, did alot of cutting, used some great old dp from a SU scrapbook kit, some 1/8" stitched ribbon and some buttons. The escaping froggy is popped up on dimensionals as he hops away. And for the photo, I had to take the card out to our playground for the most appropriate setting, lol.

Hope you enjoy it and your day!