Ingenious Inkling

Alexandra Renke Clean & Simple

As I was cleaning my studio table this morning, I found several Alexandra Renke Bookmarks, which I thought would make lovely clean & simple cards.

I started with inspiration from this week's Just Add Ink Inspiration Challenge for my yellow floral design.  The bookmark layout also calls a bit to the vertical door element in the photograph.

 

 

I added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp CZ Designs Sassy Mama All the Feels in Fern Ink to match the green on the flower stems.

 

 

The background Dots paper is also Alexandra Renke with the finishing touch of a few gem clusters.  I am linking-up at the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

 

Next I made a sweet little baby card with the Alexandra Renke Baby Rocker Monkey Die Cut framed with the Frame Die Cut.

 

 

I had to add a few google eyes because in that dark of brown the facial impressions are lost in the color.  I finished with a few Alexandra Renke Best Wishes stamped sentiments.

 

I'm joining the CAS on Friday Challenge where the theme is Baby.   It's also a Boy Card Theme at The Paper Players.

Incredible Inchies

Do you ever sit down to make a card for a challenge ... and realize when you are finished, you didn't quite read all of the challenge? (oh, maybe it's only me).  I read the challenge box, and I looked at the Design Team cards, and then went off to create. 

When I started writing my post, I read the fine print that several of the design team members had not complied with the challenge terms, and therefore, since I followed their lead, I didn't either.  

 

 

In the pre-MISTI days of only wood mounted stamps, I was obsessed with tiny images and tiny sentiments, so I thought it would be fun to go through my wood mounted drawers and pull some of them out to play.  I used Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink on a heavy white cardstock.  I used a 1" punch for my inchie square.

 

 

Thankfully one of my cards complied with the sentiment inside the inchie (and not below), so that is the one I'll link-up.  I used the super-dark Hero Arts Pitch Black Cardstock from for my card bases because I loved the contrast.

 

 

This is a favorite vintage Stampin' Up image and sentiment from 2004.  I'm also linking-up at the Retro Rubber Challenge Tic-Tac-Toe because I think this would be perfect for a little boy's first birthday gift.  Mine is vertical down the left side with Birthday, Neutrals & a Punch.

 

 

I'm also joining the Less is More Baby Challenge.

 

 

Since I cut up that cardstock into four card fronts, I made a total of four little inchie cards from my punched images (I will likely make more later since they are so easy & fun).

 

That adorable gnomie is from NikoArt in 2008.  I paired it with a sentiment from Catslife Press, one of the best places to get tiny sentiments.  I used the fine tips of my Graph'IT Markers to color my image.

 

The little house is from a set of four wood mounted Houses stamps from American Crafts.  I added a bit of red marker to the heart and paired it with a vintage A Muse Sentiment.

 

The final one features a bride and groom from a 2002 Wood Mounted Hero Arts set of wedding images called Wedding Celebration.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up in 2006.

I had a lot of fun re-visiting these old stamps ... and the style of a lot of my first cards.

Now the Fun Begins

Stretching out my World Cardmaking Day fun with a Sketch Challenge from Scrapbook & Cards Today by Mindy Eggen (and CardMaps).

I inked-up some new Hello Baby Stamps from Kerri Bradford for this adorable baby card.

 

 

I used gender-neutral colors and ended-up repeating the sentiment flag for each of those cute little Bears.   I finished with some tiny gold bling.

 

Oh Baby

The July Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti is .... Oh Baby!

 

The Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button is my most used stamp set for baby cards ... I just love those onesies.  This time the onesie is stamped in Ranger Archival Garden Patina on Yellow cardstock.

 

The base of the card is one of my alcohol ink experiments on glossy cardstock.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti Fancy Word Coordinates.  I finished with a scattering of enamel hearts.  

 

The layout is this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

Unity Hop

 

Today we're hopping with the Growing in Unity Gals for a chance to win a fun prize pack.

 

I used the fun New to the Crew Set to paper piece this fun little Onesie Card for a fun little Baby Card.

Make sure you stop at each stop & leave a comment for a chance to win.

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Makeover Monday - Hawkeye Baby Card

For today's Makeover Monday I'm doing a Congratulations Card for the Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti.  

 

I went all the way back to October 2016 for this cutie as my inspiration.

 

I decided to keep the layout and change-up the colors to use the hues from the Just Us Girls Color Week Challenge ... they might seem like odd colors for a baby card, but if you live near the University of Iowa, you know those are Hawkeye Colors, so they are just perfect.

 

I combined both metallic gold and the color gold for my design starting with a piece of Black and Metallic gold designer paper from a Christmas Collection with two other golden scraps of paper in my scrap box.

 

The adorable Reverse Confetti Onesie from Cute as a Button in Wendy Vecchi Ranger Archival Buttercup Ink.  I added some enamel hearts and dots for accents and finished with the typewriter congratulations sentiment from Reverse Confetti Fancy Words Coordinates.

The perfect baby card for a future Iowa Hawkeye.

New Little Bundle

My goal at the annual Art Camp Lauren & I had in the fall, my plan was to go home with lots of Gel Press Prints I could use on cards.  In past years I had made lots of fun prints, but the using the large Gel Press the scale was off for smaller card making.  I am glad to say I succeeded and have had a lot of fun incorporating this last round of prints into my designs.

The current challenge at the Unity Stamp Company is New Beginnings ... since I needed a baby card for my stash, I inked-up the never-before-used Bundle Congrats Itty Bitty.

 

I stamped them on a light blue cardstock panel that coordinated with my Gel Press Print background and then paper pieced the clouds and used a red marker on the hearts.  That font is so itty bitty it's almost hard to read (at least for these old eyes).  I was afraid to stamp it more than once or it wouldn't be legible.

I finished with a few enamel dots for texture and attached the panel with foam tape.

Baby Baby

Another baby card using the MFT Die-namics Baby Onesie Die and this week's MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge.

 

I die cut the Die-Namics Baby Onesie from adorable Rockin' Monkey Paper from the Basic Grey Oh Boy collection and Blueprints 33 Die-namics with coordinating cardstock.

 

Sentiment is from MFT More Essential Sentiments.

Blessed

Tonight I needed a baby card, so I started with the current Paper Craft Crew Challenge Sketch.

 

I love the vintage Baby Carriage from Impression Obsession.  I didn't have any sentiment stamps that were the right proportion, so I used sentiment stickers.

 

Baby Baby

Tonight I realized I had absolutely no baby cards in my stash ... how does that happen?  So baby cards are on the creative agenda.

I started with Taylored Expressions Bubble Greetings - Baby.  I paper-pieced the sweet little onesie.

I used the Stitched Journaling Card Die from Lawn Fawn for the DiesRUs Challenge.  The tiny typed sentiment is from Memory Box Big and Little Words with some Valentine's Day Designer Papers (perfect for tiny little girl cards).

I'm also linking-up at the Simon Says Stamp Think Pink Challenge.