Please RELEASE me!

Today is the day!

At Amber Ink we like things pretty and we have a couple of pretty girls that will just NOT stay in a back room somewhere (you know how those pretty girls are) !

Tis the Season! & Perfect Package

'Tis the Season and Perfect Package wanted to come out and play again for the
Holidays!

Amber has created some Gor.Gee.us ipaper to dress them up even more!

We'll call these midnight blues for now, since the uploading part is making us blue and they should be up before midnight!

The patterns and rich colors are stunning.

Try printing them off on some top notch paper (or as one of our torchbearers would do, send them over to a print shop and have them print them off on top notch paper.)

Here's our new line of Holiday Cheer!

(oh, and see the size of this SQUARE...you know ipaper comes in 12 x 12 too!)

Add your touch of glitter and bling and WOWZA!

Instant paper to match your Amber Ink images!

The talk of the town is the set designed with Wendy from Challenge #2. We hope you've been following along with the process. At Amber Ink we love pretty, but we love love pretty cute. We were always a sucker for the class clown. Can you maybe spot a few stage stealers here?

Best Fishes

We added a new line to the shopping cart in the store to make it Simple-Simon for you to spot everything from the new release. You can spot it here, right underneath "shop by type".

Now...It's a debut for our new babes! Check out the creative flow-jomojo in these new projects.

ANGELA!

JULIE!

KERRI!

JULIA!

STACIE!

Did we buy the latest jump lower run slower shoes or something? It's hard to keep up with these torchbearer's. Lots more ahead - here's to hoping we can keep up ;-)

A new challenge, a new view for WOYWW and a new release!

The behind the scene desk is a little crazy because as usual we are burning the midnight oil

but we'll just put on some fresh lipstick and a dash of perfume and we'll be fine right?? I mean let's give it up for all things Pleasantville! Our release will be slow and steady over the next week, so please keep checking back - I mean was there even a word for "stress" in the late 50's early 60's? I think not. As long as dinner is on the table by 6pm we'll be just fine!   


Our sweet little hostess w/the mostess

   
So with no further hairdo...this is what is on the next AmberInk's InKredible 21 day challenge:

We go back to the days when June Cleaver was everybody's favorite mother

and we get to look at things with rose colored glasses. The world is kind and

gentle, the neighbors are willing to give a helping hand to anybody in need, we
treat each other with respect - and of course the entire time we are doing all

of this we will be wearing pearls and smiling!

It starts with each one of us, and we'd sure like to see things get nice again!

Please join us with your AK's and RAK's with A.INK's this month.

Last month Lynne Phelps won Challenge #2 and created this wonderful set with Amber

Lynne Phelps' "Let's Communicate"

Lynne has been a dream client - she knew exactly what she wanted and was clear and polite in every request. She has been on the "artist" end before so the artist understanding came through. See the progress in Winning Developments .

We are SO excited to work with Wendy Price who won Challenge #3.

AND WE'RE OFF...

To a running start!!!!
Smooth as silk. Without a hitch. Don't we love a happy story? Follow along and cheer them on...

For the Brown Team...
Take one look at Jackie Randolph’s blog and you will quickly see how VERY lucky her 6 (count them 1,2,3,4,5,6) grandsons are! This summer has been her first summer of semi-retirement so she claims that she can now be that “OFFICIAL” stay – at – home granny. Do stampers call that a SAHG? Probably. One of those grandsons has been fortunate enough to live full time with Jackie and her hubby for the past 10 years. They have one little girl too – 11 year old Abby who just happens to be a….dachshund! As a child Jackie dreamt of being a doctor, but who needs a zillion years of medical school when you’re a doctor of souls! We can say this because any blog that started a little over a year ago and now has nearly 400 followers must be offering the right kind of medicine. Go get your prescription filled @ http://papermoments.blogspot.com/

For the Blue Team...
Shannon Erskine does the kind of stamping that only the sweetest, most perfect of southern belles could do! She lives in country comfort in a small one stoplight town in the south of Georgia, USA. Her granny lives in the house in front, an uncle in the house behind, her MIL across the street and her dad down the road – all this about a block away from a peanut mill. She loves good southern cooking and even drinks sweet tea – but NOT from a mason jar! It makes us want to start writing a novel with Shannon as the main character!!! She has been married for nine years and has three of the most adorable little monsters you could ever find! The one word she uses to describe herself? Content. Forget the shrink this week and visit Shannon’s blog instead @ http://hoppycreations.blogspot.com/
For the Purple Team...
Only the very coolest of mom’s help their kids set up a stamping blog of their own! Rhonda Miller sets the pace for Abby (9), William (7), Lizzy (6), and Lydia (2) . She colors, they color. She crafts, they craft. She blogs, they blog. She cooks, they cook. Hmmm…do we hear dream mom in our midst? She shares the four of them with her DH of twelve years, their dachshund named Lady, kitty Coyote and kitty Miss Kitty! Rhonda says that her worst habit is losing things, but no doubt she is the kind of mom who will send the kids on a treasure hunt to find it. See how fun stamping can be again @ http://bluepoohbear753.blogspot.com/

For the Orange Team...
Can you just smell the creativity in the air? We can! Of course we are year of the dog girls (don’t go there) but we share a common trait with our next torchbearer…who by her own accord has “an extreme sense of smell…like a bloodhound!” Since we are experts, we know an amazing bouquet when our proboscises detect it! Emily Leiphart lives in the Great White North (Toronto, Canada) with her husband of six years, their two-year-old son and an earthy tabby feline. She loves to travel and if she could be anywhere, it would be in Italy where -let it be said right here and now- she and her family will be retiring to one day. Hmmm...our noses are acting up again!!! We are getting a whiff of excitement combined with orange and lemon trees, pink Neapolitan ice cream, truffles, chestnuts roasting and oh, what is that? Must be Emily's imagination and creativity again!! Smell See for yourself @ http://www.leiphartonart.blogspot.com/

For the Pink Team...
Lorraine Lowe comes to us from a very strong UK based PINK TEAM. She is an avid crafter, gardener and animal lover. Lorraine is a single mom to a loving son and two fur babies – a Loppear Rabbit named JoJo and a Jack Russell named Polo. She was first introduced to stamping on QVC and upon retiring, treated herself to a laptop and joined the land of blog! See her awesome stuff @ http://coldwaters2.blogspot.com/We're so excited to have her!

ALOHA FRIDAY, A RELEASE & A CHALLENGE!!!!

It's Aloha Friday!  No work till Monday.  Doo dee doo, doo dee doo dee doo dee doo dee doo dee doo. You know what that means?  Time to PLAY... all weekend long!!!!  And what will we play with?

The torchbearers have been on FIRE for the past three days.  They will show you.  Are the flames too bright?  Should you put on some shades before you look?

We have been amazed at the length of their stride! 

 Way to fly:

Lynne

Wendy

Tanis

Thanh

Lisa

Please have a snoop around Amber Ink today and see what's new.

You might see something that looks like this:

                                                                     Or this:

                                                           Or maybe even this:

And lot's more too!

We have an exciting new challenge blog too. 

 Lynne will tell you all about it  or you can check it out HERE

It has been exactly one month since our doors opened at Amber Ink.  Thank you all so much for sharing your knowledge,  your brilliance, but especially your compassion while we learn to be a real company.  We've decided that stamping is every bit about the wonderful people we are meeting as it is about the product.

Happy Earth Day!

We've got a brand new Amber Ink. Amber Girls Release!
'
Grow Green' is a 17 stamp set. It's uber fun and chic.
I think it's perfect for your favorite gardner.
I'd squeal to see it as packaging for those special treats from your own garden!

Hey, Bag Lady ;)

Today is my kid sister's birthday! When I think about April B. or Prilly, or the Apie, as she is sometimes called, Her particular passion for purses has not gone unnoticed.

When she was little she used to lug these gigantic bags around. She was BoHo Chic before the Olsen Twins had stopped saying "No Way, DUDE!" It was a common occurrence for her to drag a bag or two to the car, carefully climb into the car, reach down to grab the bag and fall back out of the car because the bag was so heavy it pulled her down. She might have been in diapers but she was stylish.

On one trip to Vegas when April was about four she lagged far behind us, again with more bags than we would have needed for a beach picnic. The bags just seemed so heavy and she was so small. Taking pity on her my mom and I went back to help her carry a few. When we picked them up we almost fell over too! She'd been walking along the Las Vegas strip picking up decorative landscape rocks and filling up her bags! That was the day we officially started calling her bag lady.

Now that she's all grown up her sense of style has changed a hundred times. She's always throwing together this or that, but the bags remain a staple of my April.

This set is straight from my sketchbook, and in just under the wire. My mom reported that my sissie tore open the presents I'd sent at the stroke of midnight last night, when she had just barely turned 23. When I asked April about it she defended herself by saying "Well, it is MY birthday and my birthday starts at midnight!" So this post happened on her birthday, March 9th and that is what counts ;)

Happy Birthday, kiddo. I love you. I think you're the tops.