Ingenious Inkling

Outpost Anniversary

This week's SplitCoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge comes from the Galleria Arts & Crafts, the largest independently owned retail arts and crafts store in Canada.  Their 9000 plus square feet of space is teeming with handmade Canadian crafts.  I chose this photo of a Summer Storm from Brian R. Ewing to inspire my design.

It reminded me of this image from The Outpost set from Artistic Outpost.  I inked the top of the image in blue and the ground with green ink.

Next, I painted on Frost (blue) and Forest Green Glimmer mist with a paintbrush, keeping my brush strokes horizontal to give the effect of a cloudy sky.

I finished with a wrap of blue seam binding and a vintage Hero Arts sentiment for my rustic anniversary card.

Writing the Story of Your Life

At the Bo Bunny Blog this week, the Card Challenge Tuesday sketch theme is love.  This was perfect, since I needed to create an Anniversary Card.

I used a combination of papers from Bo Bunny's Gabrielle Collection together with stamps from Creschendoh & Hero Arts, a rub-on sentiment from Random Words by EAD Designs, and a Memory Box Kaleidoscope Butterfly die cut ... and of course the center piece of my creation ... a lovely crocheted paper circle I received from One Crafty Mama.

I die cut the butterfly three times & layered two colors togehter for the wings and added a third color for the body.

Here's another card I made using the sketch (confession ... this was actually the first card I made before I realized that even though I read the *love* theme in the challenge post, I completely forgot about it in the 5 seconds it took me to walk from my computer to my studio table ... although I suppose I could stretch and say that sending anyone a card for their birthday is an act of *love*).

For this card I used Bo Bunny's Blast Off! Collection.  I punched some additional stars from the green paper and added them with foam tape for a bit of dimension in my sky.  I finished with an EAD Design white rub-on sentiment and a spaceship & a star sticker.

50th Wedding Anniversary

Tonight I needed a 50th Anniversary Card, so I started by going through all of my specialty papers looking for pieces of gold.  I combined a wrinked gold paper with a natural fiber paper with gold threads.

Elegant Stamps Happen sentiment was stamped in Versamark & embossed with gold detail powder.  I used this week's Deconstructed Sketch for a clean layout adding metallic brown ribbon and several gold pearls to complete the design.

Feet Dangling Over the Side

When I saw the current Paper Crafts Third Go-To Sketch Challenge, I decided to see if I could make one more card out of the circle stickers from the 7 Gypsies 97% Complete Collection (you can see the first two cards here).  

I found eight stickers related to love that I thought would work for an anniversary card.  Since the colors were so varied due to the stickers coming from multiple collections, I tied them together by grounding each on a  1 1/4" circle punched from dark brown paper & using the same brown paper for my card base.  The background is Basic Grey Manila (love this stuff).

I used another sticker for the sentiment (click through for larger view) ... it says, "Then we sat on the edge of the earth with our feet dangling over the side, and marveled that we had found each other. ~ Erik Dillard" ... love that.   

Quick, easy & a fun way to use up those leftover stickers.

Sugar Rush Love

I needed an anniversary card, so I combined Basic Grey's Sugar Rush Papers with the fabulous sketch from Everything But The Kitchen Sink ... so perfect for using leftover coordinating paper scraps.  

Sentiment from Verses is stamped in Pure Poppy ink and clear embossed ... and works for the Quotes Challenge at Gingersnap Creations.  I finished with a layered punched heart embellishment.