Ingenious Inkling

Tiny Packages

Next on my to do list is to make a stash of baby cards for several upcoming births in my corner of the world.  For this one I used Valerie's Got Sketch? 113 and Hopscotch papers from Basic Grey.  I loved how the borders turned-in on the sketch instead of the usually facing outward.  

The dimension sticker is K&Company by Suzy Ultman (40% off at Michael's this week) and the sentiment is Memory Box.  I finished with a box using my favorite May Arts ribbon & a tiny blue A Muse gem in the center of the baby elephant's eye.

This card also works for the Pink Eye Challenge (to use touches of pink in your card) at the Res-Q blog ... which I thought was appropriate, since the only time I ever got pink eye was when I was working in the infants room at a day care.

Hello! This is Liberty Speaking

I was thrilled to see that my Season to be Jolly card made the Cream in my Coffee (honorable mention) at the Play Date Cafe last week.  

This week Julie Ranae (who is also our Guest-Designer at the Etsy Inspired Challenge for August) is taking us on a tour of Positano, Italy for our inspiration.  When I saw Sarah Anderson's card featuring the Graphic 45 Communique Line, I remembered that I still had some of those papers stashed away somewhere.  

While I was searching for those papers, I also found some neglected Jenni Bowlin Core'dinations Cardstock (which matched perfectly) and my Tim Holtz Nostalgic paper tape, which had yet to be opened (shame on me) ... and a card was born.

I used this week's Unscripted Sketch for my design.

I started by sanding the Core'dinations cardstock to bring out the embossed text.  Next I cut out Lady Liberty, the phone paper squares and the sentiment and mounted them all on black cardstock.  

The final step was incorporating the Paper Tape (which also works for this week's Res-Q Tape It Up Challenge).  A single layer of the tape was too translucent, so I added a second layer of gold Washi Paper Masking Tape, and then a third layer of Tim Holtz tape (leaving all of the torn edges messy) to finish my design.

I realized when I finished that my card is more France (with the Statue of Liberty them & the French text and postal markings on the paper tape) than Italy-inspired, but I still think I captured the overall feeling of the inspiration design.  Thanks ladies for another fun challenge.