Ingenious Inkling

Welcome Little One

My card for this week's Unscripted Sketch features Fancy Pants Baby stickers.

I roated the sketch 90 degrees to work with the text directions on my stickers ... border stickers make great frames ... and I love that sweet little owl.

Sympathy Butterfly Trio

Tonight I needed some sympathy cards ... and my stash was depleted.  When I saw the sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

These beautiful vellum butterfly stickers make a card come together so quickly, that I did one in another color palette.

A stamped sympathy sentiment and border punches, and they were ready to go.

Man-Tastic Drink Coffee

When I saw this week's Man-Tastic Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger, I hoped I could find a stamp in my collection with that same shape ... but no such luck.

So instead I went with the same loopy rounded shape found in the Hero Arts Artistic Circles (it reminds me of spirograph creations from my youth) and the great color combination of grey, brown, red & turquoise/teal.  I inked the background stamp with three colors of ink and stamped on light grey cardstock.

I created a tag using chevron paper from Lily Bee Design's Head over Heels collection (love the combination of patterns & colors in this collection..  I used this week's Retro Sketch, but since I was going for a masculine vibe, I replaced the ribbon with layers of washi tape, some punched circles & a laquered brad. I finished with a stickerz sentiment from EAD Designs & attached my tag with foam tape.

This will be a great Father's Day card for one of the many coffee-loving men in my family.

Birthday Celebration

My card for this week's Unscripted Sketch features papers and stickers from Authentique's Celebrate Collection.

I adore this color combination & the fact that it can work for both masculine and feminine designs.

Embrace Life

While I like embellishing a card as much as the next crafty soul, I really love when papers are beautiful enough to stand on their own.  When I saw the May sketch challenge at the My Mind's Eye Blog, I knew I wanted this lovely paper from their Lost & Found Blush Collection to be front-and-center on my design.

I added two more papers from the same collection for my broders with a bit of inky sponging.  I stamped a couple of banners from the MME Be Amazing Follow Your Heart set in maroon and finished with an encouraging chipboard sentiment ... embrace life.

It also works for this color challenge at the 365 Cards blog, as well as the Clean & Simple Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Floral Congratulations

My card for this week's Retro Sketch combines stamps from Rogue Redhead Designs with papers from Webster's Pages.

The polka dot background paper was stamped in grey with the Ledger from Relish Reading to repeat the soft texty look of the seed packet.  The Congratulations sentiment is from Bits & Pieces.

I embellished with grey linen twine and two colors of yellow pearls.

Marine Corps Birthday

I used this week's Unscripted Sketch to create a birthday card for my nephew Josh.  He enjoys participating in ROTC and plans to join the military after he graduates from high school, so I made him a Marine-themed design. 

Since there's a Piggyback Challenge at Unscripted Sketches this week to add ink to your design (could be stamping, pen, anything inky)  I inked up Hero Arts Distress Frame with Blue Iris ink and grunged-up the corners a bit. Paper is from Bo Bunny's Liberty Collection, dimensional stickers are from K&Company and sentiment is an EAD Designs Rub-on.

Tool Time

My father and my brothers love to play with tools ... so I used some measuring tape designer tape & this week's CPS Sketch for a Father's Day card design.

I stamped a few tools on the background to finish the design.

Embossing Around the Christmas Tree

We're celebrating all things embossed at Jingle Belles ... head embossing, dry embossing, even embossed designer papers.  

I decied to see what my metallic shelf paper would looke like with embossed texture. I attached the shelf paper to a scrap of cardstock before adding the texture, and then cut it into panels for this week's CPS Sketch ... love the effect ... all of the detail of embossed metal with none of the weight or sharp edges.

I also used clear heat embossing on my Hero Arts sentiment and a little more dry embossing on the edge of my larger die cut panel ... I do love my texture.

Can't wait to see what you create.

Sunny Days Ahead

I wanted to play along with the Spectacular Spectacles Challenge at the Moxie Fab World Blog.  

I wear glasses ... I love glasses ... but somehow I have very few images of glasses in my collection.  After a scavenger hunt through my studio, I found one sunglass inchie from Inkadinkado's Let's Celebrate and some tiny sunglass stamps from We R Memory Keepers' Shades of Summer.

So I stamped an eye glass background & added the inchies using this week's Retro Sketch.  Papers are the new Glory Collection from Authentique together with a wrap of ivory twine, ivory pearls & a perfect little EAD Stickerz sentiment. 

Here's to many sunny days ahead.