Ingenious Inkling

Eyelet Outlet Design Team Farewell

This week is my final post as a member of the Eyelet Outlet Design Team ... come visit and see my project wrap-up.

 

Birthdays & Donuts

I love donuts ... especially a warm glazed donut, which has always been my kryptonite.  Because of my donut-love,  I tend to collect donut-themed paper products (because they have no calories).  Today I'm sharing several fun Donut Birthday Cards at the Technique Junkies Blog.

Remember, if you go shopping, use my discount code TJ10Stephanie for 10% off your purchase.

I Love You More

Having grown-up in a house filled with an intense love of the Beatles, I am always drawn to their music and lyrics ... so when I saw this new In My Life Stamp (C14709) at Impression Obsession, I had to have it.

It was perfect for the current Impression Obsession Challenge ... I Adore You.  I used the remainder of my Gel Press Print from yesterday's card, together with a scrap of navy cardstock embossed with hearts.  I thought it made a nice masculine valentine card.

Krafty Birthday

The theme of the Unity Stamp Company Challenge is Birthday with a Kraft Card Base.

I also decided to incorporate the challenge at Seize the Birthday for a Single Layer Card.

I combined stamps from ... everything comes full turn and ... blossoming thoughts & wishes, both by Lisa Arana.

Gel Press Thank You

This morning, I was going through all of the Gel Press Prints that I made during the Advanced Gel Press class I took with Sally Lynn McDonald at Creativation ... I had the extra treat of taking the class with Iliana Myska, so we could share paints & stencils and create together.

I decided to incorporate one of my prints into my Sketch for You to Try from Reverse Confetti ... because one of the other highlights of my trip was getting to meet & talk with Jen del Muro.

I stamped the Reverse Confetti Elemental Stripes Circles on my Gel Press Print for my border (I love how the bubble wrap circles in my Print echo that design element).

I used another piece of the same print to back my Thanks Square Confetti Cuts.  Since there was blue paint residue in my print, I used some blue cardstock for the other sketch design elements.

I'm also joining Tic-Tac-Tuesday at the Try Stampin' (or Not) on Tuesday Blog ... I went horizontal across the top with Black, Die Cut & Pink.

CAS Mailable Cards

After being immersed in creativity last week, I have actually found it a bit challenging to get back into my own creative groove, so I spent yesterday putting everything away and cleaning my studio.  

I decided to CASE the CAS design the talented Brian King and my new Stampin' Up Heartfelt Blooms stamps (available during Stampin' Up Sale-A-Bration) to restock my thank you card stash.  I started with a variation of his blue-on-blue color combination.

I found that the Stampin' Up inks seemed to work best to bring out the details of this stamp (and not over-stamping it) so I used the one I have that seems right for flowers - Flirty Flamingo.

I love how quickly these came together.

 

 

I combined the two color palettes for a final sympathy card inspired by the same design.

Yea for a hour of getting inky.

TEXT Me

This week at Jingle Belles it's all about the TEXT - it might mean using letter stickers, book pages, dictionary pages, phone book pages, texty patterned paper or just creating a card where the sentiment is the star of the show … make sure you get TEXTY.

As often happens in my studio, I go in search of one thing and get distracted by another ... in this case the distraction was a piece of Texty paper from My Mind's Eye the Merry Days of Christmas ... I love the randomness of the sizes and colors of text ... and I ended-up covering my favorite phrase (cookie taster) with part of my tag.

I used another corresponding pieces of paper from the same collection along the bottom and then added a Journaling Notecard from Prima's Sweet Peppermint collection on a kraft tag.  It continue with the text there are two more sentiments in the design.

We hope you'll pull out your favorite texty fun and come join us.

Whale-y Fun

When I saw the January Pin-Sights Challenge at Ellen Hutson, I knew I had to break-out my newest products and create.

The shape and color of the Sweet Magnolia Peas reminded me of the new Essentials by Ellen S'Whale Stamps, as well as the new Strands Die Cut.

I started by creating my background using Violet & Orchid Color Burst (I got to spend some time creating with Color Burst (and Ken Oliver) at Creativation ... so fun).  I die cut my strands, attached the watercolor paper to my background, and then replaced a few of the die cut pieces.

I die cut my whale from the same background after stamping in Versafine Black & Clear Embossing, so it would pop against the colorful background.

I'm also joining the Watercolor Background Challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks and Anything Goes at Tuesday Throwdown.

Thursday Link Love

Another week of skipping through blogland:

• Have you tried crafting with freezer paper?
• Sesame Miso Watermelon Poke sounds amazing
• Sweaters that blend people into environments
• Coconut Bites look like a super-tasty treat
• Amazing Digital Portraits by Phil Galloway
• 10 Interesting Lines of Furniture
• Fun Paint-Splattered Jean Jacket
• How cute are these Mini Cocoa Cheesecakes
• Painted Arctic Animals (shown)
• DIY Clay Medals
• I've been exploring a variety of Yogurt Uprades
• Love this Functional Modular Storage

Have a tremendous Thursday!

Washi Tape Collage Alphabet

For this week's card, I had fun exploring a Washi Tape Collage Technique.  I started with a scrap of white cardstock and then randomly began applying washi tape to the background.

 

 

I kept going to fill-up my background, incorporating lots of different designs.  I kept my tape vertical, horizontal or diagonal.

 

Then, to help bring all of the patterns together, I used several washi tapes in muted colors for the top layer.

 

 

Next I die cut lots of letters from my background and made two cards.  The first one uses the big PEACE Die Cut from Simon Says Stamp ... I love how the bits of flowers peek through in the design.

 

 

 

Next I die cut the entire alphabet using Lawn Fawn Cole's Alphabet Dies (with a few extra letters from the spaces I had left) and created this birthday card.

 

 

 

It was so much fun to put my alphabet background puzzle together.   I started from the middle and worked my way to the edges, keeping all of my letters vertical or horizontal to the cardstock square.  When I was done I trimmed the edges and finished with my Happy Birthday sentiment.

 

I hope this gives you ideas for ways to use your Eyelet Outlet Washi Tape stash.

 

Eyelet Outlet Products Used:

• Brick Washi Tape
• Flower Washi Tape - Wide
• Postage Washi Tape - Wide
• Stained Glass Washi Tape - Wide
• Butterfly Washi Tape
• Cardinal Washi Tape
• Airmail Washi Tape
• Zig Zag Washi Tape - Purple
• Skinny Washi Tape - Star/Heart/Pawn
• Skinny Washi Tape - Grass
• Heart Graph Washi Tape
• Flower Washi Tape