Ingenious Inkling

Makeover Monday - Carpe Caffeine

This week's Makeover Monday is for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Card Hop and is inspired by this Coffee Card from March 2019.

 

I had a piece of recycled die cut coffee box left over from this card, so I used it at my card base ... since the images were horizontal, I flipped the sketch.

 

I used a different coffee pot from the same Essentials by Ellen A Breve Note Set and a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen Handful Stamp set.  I finished with a scattering of royal blue bling.

 

 

Also with my recycled packaging, I'm joining the Simon Says Recycle Challenge and Little Red Wagon Challenge who is also Recycling.

Coffee

I tried one more Monoprint experiment, but the background stamp I tried didn't have enough solid space to pick-up enough ink to work ... but the stamped-off image worked perfectly.  Oh well, you never know until you try.

I used the reject monoprint to mat my sentiment for a masculine Coffee Card for the Spring / Summer Coffee Lovers Card Hop.

 

The current Joy Clair Card Challenge is to make am Easy Stamped Masculine Card.

 

Background is Joy Clair Coffee to Go and sentiment is from Joy Clair Coffee Quotes.

Must Try Mono-Printing - Round 2

I had so much fun Monoprinting with Acrylic Stamps this morning with the Spring Card Camp class this morning, I did a second round combining three more Distress Oxide Colors (Seedless Preserves, Dusty Concord & Festive Berries), which produced a gorgeous raspberry like hue on my palette.

The color on my first Monoprint was deep and rich using the leaves from Paper Smooches Botanicals 3. 

Since the theme at the current Paper Smooches Challenge is Thank You cards, I used the Thanks from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler wrapped with some raspberry twine.

 

As anyone knows who does monoprinting, if there is any ink left on your pallet, you try to pull what is often referred to as a ghost print, which is what I did for my next card.

 

This one used the Sketch from The Paper Players.

 

And my final card was my stamped piece of cardstock from the ink that I picked-up off the plate during the monoprint creation process.

 

This one was the Sketch Saturday Layout.

 

Seriously ... so so much fun, I think I may go try it again to make some card's for Amy's Spring Coffee Hop.

Must Try Mono-Printing - Round 1

Today's Online Card Class Spring Card Camp technique was so fun, I did several rounds (and may do more before I am done).  Here are the two cards I made from my Round 1 results.

Dawn Woleslagle shared a Mono-printing technique using Distress Oxide Inks and the back of a large acrylic background stamp as your printing plate.  Of course, even though I own 5 different brayers, I couldn't find any of them this morning, so I used a sponge dauber to blend my inks.  I used three different Distress Oxides (Broken China, Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers) for my palette and the Leaf Stamp from The Stamp Market Big Botanicals.

 

 

Sentiment is The Stamp Market Tons of Type with a piece of flair and paper flower from my stash and the sketch is from the Paper Craft Crew.

 

For the stamped-off cardstock I kept it simple with a die cut Simple Sentiments Thanks from The Stamp Market and torn cardstock mat.

 

I'll be back later with even more results.

Born to Stand Out.

When I see a cute set of children's flash cards, I can't resist buying them.  Flash cards hold fond memories for me ... one of my earliest memories is a plane trip with my Grandma to Texas and the two of us passing the time on the flight learning with flash cards.  She always helped me learn ... and she always made learning fun.

 

I always think they would be cute to use on cards ... and when I saw today's CAS(E) this Sketch!, I knew it would be perfect to feature a few ... I took my inspiration from cards that Chris Dayton has been sharing using vintage Winnie the Pooh stamps in the Stamp Junkies Group on Facebook (if you haven't joined, please do ... so much inspiration).

 

The strip of paper covered the learning word on the flash card and I used the sentiment from Ellen Hutson Pure Magic for the Circle Element on the Sketch Design.  

 

For Tigger, I used another Ellen Hutson Pure Magic Sentiment and a Butterfly embellishment for the circle element ... how do you not smile if that arrives in the mail for you.

These cards were so fun to make ... and brought back such happy memories.  Remember, there are products other than standard cardmaking supplies that can be used to make fun cards.

Sending Hugs to You

The May Poppy Stamp Challenge is Winged Things. 

I die cute the Poppy Stamps Adriana Wreath Die twice from two of my Gel Press Prints and rotated them slightly before layering.  I then used the rest of the Gel Print as my card base.

 

I perched a vintage vellum butterfly sticker on the wreath and then decorated my wreath with tiny clear bling.  I did a little stamp surgery to Poppy Stamps Tidings of Joy Stamp set to end-up with the perfect sentiment for my card.

Abstract Background

Today's Spring Card Camp Class is all about Abstract Backgrounds. Yanna Smakula shared a video with an all-over inked background, but I was drawn to Seeka's partially inked designs, so that is what inspired my card.

When I was cleaning out some seldom-opened drawers this morning I found some dry mini ink pads that I had bought to ink myself.  I took inspiration from Yanna and created my own rainbow inkpad  using three colors of Catherine Pooler Blue re-inkers (Queen for a Day, It's a Boy and Stone Blue).  I swiped my ink pad twice down the side of a piece of white cardstock.

 

Stamps are from Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together.  Love how this one turned out.

Get It Girl

Today's Spring Card Camp Class was about layering Cover Plate Die Cuts with Dimension.  When I watched the video, I initially thought I would take a pass ... just too futzy for me.  May assured watchers that it wasn't futzy ... so I tried.  But indeed it was super-futzy.  Glad I tried ... highly unlikely I'll be trying it again.

I started by creating an orange and yellow ombre watercolor paper for my popped-up pieces, so it would have time to dry (turned out that you really didn't get to see much of the gorgeous painted piece, which made me sad). 

Next I die-cut the Taylored Expressions Mandala Cutting Plate from Black Cardstock.  May did white-on-white, but I thought black-on-white would be more dramatic (I didn't really think through that combining the black and orange would have a bit of a Halloween effect, but I stuck with it). 

I also die cut the plate from Foam for added dimension behind the pieces (I only had a felt foam, so that added to the futziness of getting it all to stick together ... note to self ... buy some more plain foam sheets).

 

After attaching two rounds of pieces to my mandala using tiny pieces of foam tape, I decided I was done and added some gems to fill in some more of the space.  I matted it on an orange card base and added a sentiment from Taylored Expressions Motivational Monday Planner Stamp Set.

Merry Little Christmas

At Jingle Belles this week we're BLING-ing it on ... creating cards with Bling and sparkle.

I started with one of my lessons from Spring Card Class 2 ... embossing with Stencils.    I used the Taylored Expression Poinsettia & Pine Stencil to Dry Emboss Pink cardstock background and then ink blended to bring out the texture.

 

 

Next I stamped & die cut my focal point sentiment from Taylored Expression Handlettered Holiday 2 Sentiment ... and then I bought out the Eyelet Outlet Bling to add some sparkle to say Merry Merry.

 

 

I combined my Jingle Belles card with the Taylored Expressions TEMakerChallenge (to use Pink, a Circle and Ink Blending).   

Wonderful Watercolor Washes

Today's class at Spring Card Class 2 was all about Watercolor Washes with Ashlea Crafts.  

I tried a monochromatic green wash, but didn't get quite the blend I was hoping for due to the texture of my paper, but I didn't let that stop me ... I went in with some gold metallic paper and added a second wash on top (because I've never been very good at following instructions).  I loved the final effect.

 

Next I die cut my watercolor paper with The Modern Motif Die from The Stamp Market.  II mixed up a few of the diamonds and reinserted them after attaching to my dark brown card base.

I finished with a sentiment from The Stamp Market Big Botanicals.