Welcome to InKing Royalty’s August Blog Hop! During this year’s blog hops, we are having fun with our stamping favorites – our favorite themes for seasonal cards and projects. This month’s projects feature leaves and trees, so you are likely to find lots of inspiration for Autumn. I created my…
Sometimes a lot of layers on a card can be daunting, but other times, it adds just the right amount of interest and background to the focal feature. My Hand Penned card today is a CASe (copy and share everything or Creatively and selectively edit) of my leader Brian King.…
What is your favorite place to getaway? Ours is our cabin in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The cabin in the Peaceful Cabin stamp set is much fancier than our cabin but it still reminds me of being there. I made this card for a friend having surgery this week. I hope he…
Trees. What is it about trees that attract paper crafters? In every Stampin’ UP! catalog there have been more than one tree stamp or die or punch, or all three. This new catalog is no different and I’m sharing a project I made using the Inspiring Canopy Die set. The…
There are a lot of cards I make a lot right out of my own head but there are so many beautifully designed cards on the Interweb that it is impossible not to fall in love with them and want to make my own version. That’s how I felt about…
There is something so pretty about Navy and White together. Lots of colors are great and you can’t beat multiple color combinations but I have to say, a monochromatic look is one of my favorites, and Navy and White color combo top that list, right next to Black and white.…
Ok, I’m just going to say it – I can’t get enough of the new In-colors by Stampin’ UP!. It seems every project I start I reach for one of those fabulous colors. Pale Papaya, Fresh Freesia Polished Pink for any flower and oh those Greens with Evening Evergreen and…
Flowers of Friendship was one of the first stamp sets I picked up from the new catalog. I loved the simplicity of the stamp set and the so many options for coloring it. I’m using the new Soft Pastel chalks today and I’ll show you how. New techniques are what…
Plants are really in vogue this year. I’m thinking it could be because we have all been spending so much time in our homes that we are doing anything we can to make them as pleasing and pleasant to be in. Plants do so much for our environment and also…
Sometimes life is unfair and hard and we don’t understand why things happen the way they do. But how we approach those challenges can make all the difference in the ultimate outcome, even with something as serious as cancer. I recently found out a dear friend of mine discovered her…
