Tonight, we were re-watching Scott Pilgrim vs. The World ... and I was inspired to make a Rock Star card.
I used Inchies from Inkadinkado & an Outlines square sentiment stamped in India Ink and took my design inspiration from this image from Inspired By with orange, black and a clean graphic design.
And this week's CASE Study card with all of tha great white space and the contrast of the colors with the black sentiment.
Rock on!
This month at Rogue Redhead Designs we're Getting Griddy ... creating cards using grids of images. I love how Shar repeated one of the images from Snow Hugs in her card, so I did something similar with the cute little couple from Candy Kisses.
I pulled my colors from this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge using Echo Park's Season's Greetings papers & a sentiment Stickerz from EAD Designs.
And my inspiration from this cute little cake at the new Get Inspired Challenge.
The Sketch is this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch.
Link-up your Get Griddy Card by January 8, 2012 (you don't have to use Rogue Redhead stamps, but we love it when you do) for a chance to win a $15.00 US Voucher to the RRD Store.
To Celebrate Ellen Hutson's 5th Birthday, Sharon has posted a Back In Time Challenge at The CLASSRoom encouraging us to re-visit prior blog posts and choose an older project to inspire a new version. I chose this All Mixed Up Inchie INKling project from July 2011. Julia made this sweet little inchie card & shared how inchies can help unify a design.
I went with the same card design, but decided to make my elements 1 1/4" because I like the look of the frame around the inchie elements. To unify my design, I used traditional red & green inks for my stamped images. I also added a bit of sparkle pen to each inchie (in the picture you can see it on the candle flame and in the center of the stars on the top row) to help tie things together even more.
All inchie stamps are from Inkadinkado. I stamped the center element twice and popped-up the inchie for a bit of dimension to this other-wise very mailable 5" square card (I trimmed the card base down from a pre-made 5"x6 1/2" card, so I even have an envelope that won't require additional postage for a square design).
The red base paper is a piece of Basic Grey Fruitcake (oh how I wish they still put coordinating solid colors on the back of each of their patterned sheets ... those distressed solids are still some of my favorite go-to papers). The inchies are punched from a piece of chipboard packaging I saved from a shirt (because those thicker pieces are just too good to throw away) ... which is perfect for the Lost and Found Challenge at the Basic Grey Challenge Blog.
It is also inspired by the Christmas Tree Challenge at Our Creative Corner ... now to go get these cards addressed, so they can go in the mail.
Since I was already on a Rock Star kick from last night, I decided to stick with the theme using this week's CASE Study & Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger. From Jill's card I adopted the background technique, the contrast of the vibrant hues, the popped-up image, and the pop of white.
From the Tuesday Trigger I brought in the rainbow hues and my row of images from Inkadinkados Music Inchies mimics the row of spools.
I used five different Distress inks (yellow, oranges & reds) moving from light in the center to darkest red on the edges. Next I flicked on water with my trusty art studio toothbrush.
I added Inkadinkado Music inchies in the colors of the thread and wraped some gradiant yarn so it would resemble guitar strings. The inches were attached with foam tape. I finished with some musical notes to pull in the red color from the spools & a black sentiement of encouragement.
The Challenge at Daring Cardmakers this week is Let's Rock ... to make a Wobble card with a curved base that rocks from side-to-side. The Add-on Challenge was to give your card a "rocking" theme, which was perfect since I needed a Rock Star themed card for a friend who is fighting a valiant battle against cancer.
He loves playing his guitar, so I thought a muscial theme would be perfect for a group card. I used this week's Cardabilities Sketch for my layout.
I used some Tim Holtz DP for my base with Black Soot Distress ink around the edges. I added a strip of vintage sheet music and some Jolee's Rock Star Stickers (the two circles are holographic). I stamped two images from Inkadinkado's Music Inchies (love this set). I inked them with Black Soot, stamped off once, and then inked with Barn Door Distress Ink & stamped on a piece of the sheet music edge to get the grungy look/color I wanted.
This morning I needed a sassy, classy birthday card for a sassy, classy lady. When I saw this morning's CPS Sketch, it all came together.
Papers are Basic Grey Marjolaine & images are from Inkadinkado's Celebrations. I thought the bold graphic circles in the paper design were a goold balance for the focus on the squares.
I inked the images in Navy and then Charcoal before stamping to get the bluish shade of grey from the paper. I punched them out with a 1 1/4" square punch. I repeated the Three Squares theme with some grey Basic Grey adhesive gem stones.
Here's my version of last week's Get Sketchy design.
I stamped the hearts image three times & then put an SRM Sticker sentiment over the center heart for this week's Scrappy Saturday Live Laugh Love Challenge.
Love that elegant heart embossing folder.
In keeping with our Royalty theme at Gingersnap Creations, we're focusing on adding sparkle to our art, so we've decided to challenge you to add charms to your art. Go through your supply drawer and pull out all those charms that you've always meant to use and get going!
I went with Echo Park Be Mine papers & this week's CPS Sketch for my charmed design.
I mounted my Inkadinkado Heartful of Love Inchie on a black square of cardstock and then wrapped it with black scrapper's twine to attach my key-heart charm. I finished with a jeweled flourish & Hero Arts sentiment. Finished card is 4 1/4" square.
Over at Inchie Inkling they're hosting a challenge to a create an Inchie card featuring black, white, and one other color. Since Ellen's store is one of my favorite places to shop (great selection, fantastic service, awesome resource for tutorials and techniques, and she sends you a coupon code each month you shop to use the next month), I had to join the fun.
The tiny telephone in the Hero Arts Just Saying Hi! set was the perfect size to feature on an inchie.
I chose one of my favorite colors ~ fuchsia ~ as my third color using Crate Paper's Snow Day Collection paper. The card base is a 3 1/2" circle. I added a little touch of black bling on the sides of my embossed sentiment to finish the design.
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