Ingenious Inkling

Oh Boy

I become a great-aunt again Friday night with the birth of Emmett Osiris.  I wanted to get a fun little card in the mail to celebrate his birth.  

I looked through my supplies for little boy things and found this cute felt dinosaur sticker ... and built my card around him.

I pulled out scraps of paper in the two greens from the dinosaur and combined them with some valentine love & a few EAD Designs Stickerz & Rub-ons using this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch.  I'm also linking-up with the Drunken Stampers where they're celebrating Love.  

My dear husband looked at me a bit wonky when I showed him my goofy little baby card ... but I love it.

Here's a picture of Great Papa (my dad) with little Emmett.

Two cuties for sure.

Monochromatic Steampunk Mayhem

This card combines Graphic 45's Steampunk Debutante paper with images from three sets of Artistic Outpost Stamps ~ Paris Exposition, French Flight & Steampunk ... a fun and easy single-layer collage.

It's perfect for the challenge at Totally Papercrafts where they're one of the few blogs celebrating Anything BUT Christmas.

Holiday Card Recycling

Each year at the office, we get lots of holiday cards from our customers and vendors.  After the season has passed, everyone always saves the cards for me ... I love the challenge of seeing how I can recycle them into new designs.  

This week at Shopping Our Stash they are celebrating recycling a greeting card, so it was the perfect opportunity to see what I could create.

I recycled these wonderful silver embossed trees using this week's Unscripted Sketch.

I added silver adhesive mosaic tiles toped with a blue snowflake punched from the back of the card.  I finished with an EAD rub-on sentiment ... love them in grey (did you check out my first Guest Designer Blog Hop with EAD for a chance to win some goodies?)

For this one I cut out the image panel and sentiment from a card and repositioned them on a silver glitter card base ... quick and easy.

Steampunk Debutante Thank You

Graphic 45 is having a Thank You Card Contest on their Facebook page, so I pulled out some of their gorgeous papers and joined the fun ... seriously, their papers are so gorgeous, the cards almost make themselves.

Papers are all from the Steampunk Debutante Collection (with a little black cardstock border to help define the layers)... I detail-cut several butterflies to add as dimensional embellishments.  A *Merci* rub-on sentiment from EAD Designs, and my card was complete.

My layout was inspired by this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

Enthusiasm

It's anything goes week at the Basic Grey Challenges Blog, so I used Sweet Threads papers together with this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

I just completed assisting with a session of Dale Carnegie training and wanted to make a thank you for the leader using this Dale Carnegie quote from Corona Island Stamps.  I didn't have enough contrast when I stamped it directly on the floral paper, so I stamped it on vellum, embossed, and layered it over the background.

I finished with a pink flower, green brad, and leaves die cut from Die-Namics Leafy Flourish.

The Best is Yet to Come

The challenge them at My Time to Craft this week is Friends.  I paired this wonderful quote from Artistic Outpost's Typography with the image from Generation Redux.  It reminded me of my sister and me when we're older together ... or two life-long friends who have been thorugh it all.

I added some layered blooms and an epoxy brad to the center.  I finished with a little chalk rouge on their cheeks.

London Adventure

Here's a card to celebrate Red, White & Blue at the Friday Mash-up Blog featuring stamps from Artistic Outpost's Loverly London & 7Gypsies Lille paper.

It's also for the Simon Says Stamp Show a Word Challenge ... love how my Adventure card came together ... makes me want to travel ... enjoy the day.

Sassy Turtle

I didn't have a lot of gumption left tonight, so I decided to just sit down at my desk and play with paper a bit.  When I saw this week's CARDS Magazine challenge is to create an animal-shaped card, I dug through my scrap box and started playing.

When we were young, my brother Mike always loved turtles.  When we would see one trying to cross the road, he would make my Dad stop the car, so we could help it to safety.  Brother Mike has three beautiful daughters, who I have no doubt will love turtles as much as their Dad did ... so I decided to make a Sassy Turtle for one of my nieces.

I used an oval cutter and border punch to create the shell out of a piece of Basic Grey designer paper.  Next, I free-hand cut the turtle body from green cardstock.  I embossed both pieces and added some ink sponging and shading.

I finished with some pearl eyes, a smiling mouth,a nd of course some fun green flowers ... because what's a sassy turtle without a decorated shell?

All Boy!

Paper Variety is celebrating The Guys this week with project about or for special men or boys in your life (I love how my card coordinates with their website).

I used Memory Box Valise papers, SRM Sticker Sentiments from Everyday Boy & this week's Sweet Shop Sketch to make a cute little boy card.  I added a bit of sponging around the panel edges to give them a bit more definition & added a wrap of packing twine to finish.

 

Mojo Jubilee

Since I have been on a roll with the K&Company Jubilee collection, I decided to keep going.  For this card, I used this week's Mojo Monday Sketch together with Butterflies & SRM Stickers (another for the Wee Memories Get Sticky Challenge).

I sponged some distress ink on the edges to help provide a bit of definition to panels & three orange pearls to finish.