Ingenious Inkling

Hexagon Happiness

Day 12 of Spring Card Camp is Geometric Patterns with Basic Shapes with Laura Bassen. Geometric Patterns were my first love ... pretty much all the first stamps I bought could fit inside a square or a circle. Geometric Patterns make me...

Burlap Thank You

I needed a masculine thank you card, so I thought some DCWV Burlap paper would be perfect. Background paper is Studio Calico Darling Dear. I used Die Cuts from Paper Smooches Quote Tag Dies together with a sentiment stamp from Chit C...

Genuine Birthday

I'm sneaking in a few more cards before all of my studio supplies have to be packed and moved ... I love the challenge of creating with what I have on my table ... in this case Authentique's Genuine Collection and Hero Arts stamps (Opera...

San Francisco Hello

I signed-up for the You've Got Mail card class at Studio Calico, and finally had the chance to play along this morning. Lisa Spangler's idea was to play with your masks and sprays with no intention of actually making something ... just ...

Camera Craze

After papercrafting, photography is my next favorite creative outlet ... so I had to join the Camera Craze at the Moxie Fab World Blog (obviously I'm staying ahead of the Moxie Fab curve since I made another favorite camera card right be...

A Pin Therein

I have really been enjoying the Card Design Handbook. I envy cardmakers who have design backgrounds and regret that I never took a formal art class after the 6th Grade. What I've learned about design has mostly been self-taught & resou...

Flying By

The Weekly Challenge at the Studio Calico Blog is to create something inspired by an image on their Pinterest Boards. This is the design I chose to inspire me: At the PageMaps Blog they're also celebrating Studio Calico's new Card ...

Let's Go

The challenge at Shopping Our Stash this week is Something New! ... to create using something you haven't used before. I have several packages of Wood Veneer elements from Studio Calico that I've been hoarding, so I knew it was finally ...

Travels to Spain

I've been saving this Studio Calico paper to make a special birthday card for a friend who loves Spain. I used CPS Sketch #102 to continue in their Anniversary Celebration. I added an orange lacy border, travel stickers, and a tiny red...

Caardvarks / Studio Calico SketchFest Day #3

We have arrived at Day #3 of the fabulous Studio Calico / Caardvarks Sketchfest. I've been having so much fun checking out all of the different sketch entries ... so much inspiration to be found. I think this is one of my favor...