Ingenious Inkling

Thursday Link Love

Fun links from skipping through blogland:

• One Bowl Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bars ... my crew at work love the chocolate PB combination, so I'm always looking for possible new recipes (although I'm sure they will ask if I would go back to making their absolute favorite named The Best Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Swirled Bars.
• I love the brick wall and shelving wall in this dining room redo
• Crock Pot Chicken Stew ... I love weekend Crock Pot cooking that feeds us all week
• are you all about Baby Zoo Animals
• How lovely is this Neapolitan Cake (shown)
• amazing Embroidery of Danielle Clough
• and these Embroidered Converse by nonakeddenim are amazing too
• Whenever I go to St. Louis, I always get Gooey Butter Cake
• How cool is this Hidden Room
• Beer Cheese Dip
• Forty Useful Concepts
• I always eat Peanut Butter on my waffles & pancakes (so much so, that I carry it in my purse to the restaurants), so this Peanut Butter Syrup intrigues me
• How to Improve Your Memory

Have a tremendous Thursday!

Woodblock Cool Yule

It's Woodblock Wednesday (woohoo).

 

 

I combined three different Woodblock Stamps for today's card - Kelly's Coffee & Donuts from Hero Arts, Memory Box Have a Cool Yule and JudiKins Retro Snowmen.

 

 

I went clean & simple with a pop of glitter using this week's Freshly Made Sketch.  I added a Doodlebug Shape Sprinkles Mini Heart for the Caffeinated Christmas Challenge Coffee & Hearts.

 

 

 

Love this cool little dude.

 

 

Glitter Little Thing Called Love

The current Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge is G is for Glitter.

 

 

The only glitter I really like to create with is glitter paper where none of the glitter rubs off ... otherwise I invariably find glitter on my skin & all over my studio for days.

Today in the mail I got new Love You Gallery Script layering die cuts from Memory Box, so I decided to try them out on some glitter paper to see if I could create a Snarky Valentine.

I layered white cardstock on top of the red glitter and then attached the die cuts to a blue Gel Print from my stash.  I added a few Eyelet Outlet Enamel Hearts and a perfect snarky sentiment sticker.

 

 

I finished with a mat of more red glitter paper on a white cardstock base.

 

 

I'm also joining the Global Design Project Love Challenge and Crafting Happiness Love Challenge.

Love is in the Air

The Challenge at Shopping Our Stash this week is Love is in the Air.

 

 

I started with a gorgeous Alcohol Ink and foiled background (just press sheets of foil while the edges of the ink puddles are still a bit damp).  I die cut it with a stitched rectangle and then added a white mat before attaching to a red card base.

 

 

I added stacked white cardstock Heart Outlines from Essentials by Ellen Essentials Hearts Dies.   The finishing touch is a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen Valentine Vibes.

I also took my overlapping hearts & pink/red inspiration from the Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge inspiration board.

 

 

If you're in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area, this card and others will be part of my Valentine's Day Cards Exhibit at Gallery One from 5-8pm on Tuesday, February 14th.  Bring a friend and stop by for drinks, snacks, art and a visit with me.

 

 

You + Me

Last year at our Scrapbook House Outing, I made lots of fun Alcohol Ink Panels.  This one featured lots of pinks including new glittery alcohol inks from Couture Creations.  It's glittery all over, but in the photo it's most visible at the top left and 

 

 

I die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle and then cut the small Essentials by Ellen heart out of the center.  I die cut the next size of Essentials by Ellen Essentials Heart and put it over the opening in the back panel before attaching the smaller die cut heart with foam tape for dimension.  I added an Essentials by Ellen Valentine Vibes sentiment in the center of the small heart.

I finished with some Pinkfresh Studio Essentials Crystals.

I'm joining the Cut It Up Challenge where the theme is Love & the Love is in the Air Challenge at Make My Monday.

White-on-White Birthday

This afternoon I'm watching football and restocking my birthday card stash.

I started with the Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge of Embossing with a Twist of Borders and paired it with the White-On-White Challenge at AAA Cards Challenge.

 

I used a vintage Cuttlebug Happy Birthday Embossing Folder with heavy white cardstock.  I trimmed it down and attached it to a white card base with foam tape for the border.

To keep it Clean &  Simple, all I added was a Simon Says Stamp birthday sentiment strip.

Just Us Girls is also having a Clean & Simple Birthday Challenge, so I'm linking-up there as well.  

 

 

 

With the Candles at the top left (on the cake), I'm also linking-up at Seize the Birthday.

 

Happy St. Paddy's

I found the Doodlebug Lots O' Luck collection when I was looking through my studio, so decided to cut into it and make a card.

 

 

I combined one of the Journaling Cards with the lovely rainbow designer paper using a Sketch from Global Design Project.  The sentiment is a vintage tiny woodblock stamp that used to be sold in the Michael's $1 bins.  I finished with a scattering of Doodlebug Shape Sprinkles Hearts.

 

Spend Energy on What Matters

The TGIF Challenge is What Would You Do Without Stamps?

 

 

That's a pretty easy one for me, but today I'm picking Collage as the answer to that question.

I started with an inky foreign texty die cut piece with washi tape on the right side.

 

 

I added a few layers and decorated the traced butterflies with some hand-drawn bodies & some nuvo drops (you can see I got in a bit of a hurry before they dried, so there was a but of mush, but I'm okay with that).

The sentiment is a Dina Wakley Collage Words that impart a wise thought (one of the many options for sentiments that don't involve stamping).

My Time to Craft is celebrating their 500th Challenge with Numbers ... if you look at the top right of the text, you can see 1435.

Stuck On You

This week at Jingle Belles we're Stuck on You.  Stickers were one of the very first things I started collecting when I began making cards … and I'm guessing you have some in your stash too. They might be fun little 3-D images or sentiment strips … whatever your sticker of choice, we're asking you to use them on your holiday cards.

I created with one of my absolute favorite stickers - Christmas Everywhere Stickeroos from Penny Black.  I attached this gorgeous poinsettia to an ivory card base.  

 

 

The sentiment is a sticker company from the past - SRM Stickers.  So quick and easy, I had to make another one.

 

 

Dig out those stickers and come join us.

Thursday Link Love

Another week of skipping through blogland:

• Have you been to Tulsa? It was a favorite big city growing up.
• Pecan Pie Bundt Cake
• love all of the marble, stone & wood ... and those grey cabinets
• Mini Loaf Pan Focaccia
• Paper Bag Heart Snowflakes (shown)
• Homemade Honey Buns
• DIY Birdseed Ornaments
• Lemon Chai Cake ... or Earl Grey Blueberry Lemon Cake
• Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes
• lovely Wood & Fiber Art
• Cinnamon Coffee Cake
• upcycled Headboard Coat Rack Tutorial
• Baked Breakfast Taquitos

Have a tremendous Thursday!