Ingenious Inkling

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.

Oh, Baby!

The theme for the July Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge is Oh, Baby!

 

I pulled out my favorite baby stamp set - Cute as a Button and a sentiment from Congratulations.  I added some fun little baby buttons to finish the design.

 

The colors are from the CAS Colour Challenge.

 

The layout is the Fab Friday Sketch.

 

Baby Baby

I needed a congratulations card for a new Grandma of twins.  I went to my favorite Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button stamp set for the win.

 

 

The layout is from Feeling Sketchy, sentiment is from Reverse Confetti Posted Note Sentiments & the papers are from Reverse Confetti Pattern Play.

 

Embrace the Journey

The theme at the Impression Obsession Challenge is Feathered Friends.

 

 

I thought about some penguins ... but settled on a stork to add to my baby card stash.  I stamped the Impression Obsession Stork in gray and then built my card around him using a paper from My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Flair.

 

The sentiment is from Impression Obsession Words for Art and the Sketch is this week's Freshly Made Sketch.  I really like the strip of grey cardstock on the left side of the design ... need to remember to incorporate more of that.  I repeated the circle theme of the paper with some Eyelet Outlet Enamel Dots.

 

A New Baby

The theme of the current Impression Obsession Challenge is New Beginnings.

I needed a baby card for my stash, so that seemed like the perfect New Beginning.

 

I have never been a liquid adhesive user ... but after watching several people have success with Gina K. Designs' Connect Glue, I took the dive ... and haven't looked back.  I used it to attach those cursive letters from Impression Obsession's Congrats Word Set and it worked like a charm.

I die cut the four icons from Impression Obsession's Baby Set from Red & Blue cardstock and finished my design.

I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Cute Card Thursday.

The Biggest Footprints

I was thrilled to be chosen as the winner of the Color Throwdown Challenge a few weeks ago ... and even more thrilled to be invited to Guest Design for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.

I was inspired not only by the colors, but also by the pair of boots and the patterns in the shingles & door on the house.  Instead of L. L. Bean Boots, my pair of shoes are baby walking shoes from Technique Junkies Welcome Sweet Baby.

 

I used the sketch from Crazy 4 Challenges for my layout.  I needed a little texture on the triangles, so I took the inspiration from the shingles & doors in the picture and embossed with bricks.

 

I finished with some Little Stars Washi Tape from Alexandra Renke.  You can save 10% on everything in the Technique Junkies Store if you use my code TJ10Stephanie at checkout.

 

The Snuggle is Real

The Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti is Baby Cards ... since Jen has made my absolutely favorite and most used baby set of stamps (Cute as a Button), I knew I had to ink them up.

I decided to use the colors from the CAS Colours & Sketch Challenge since they were pretty gender neutral (which is good to have when you're making stash cards).

I stamped my Cute as a Button Onesie in Grapefruit and added Scalloped Square Confetti Cuts in the other two hues.  I finished with a sticker sentiment (if I win, I'll be adding her Congratulations set to my stash).

I'm also joining the BABY Challenge at Addicted to CAS Challenge.

Baby Congrats

I love the graphic for The Library Challenge.  I had to look it up ... it's an award winning cookbook of vegetable recipes.

 

I thought about several food-themed ideas, but ultimately, I wanted to stack stamps or die cuts like the pots and bowls on the book cover.

I found several baby-themed die cuts in my stash (Memory Box & Little B), and I die cut them from scraps of Gel Press prints.  I used the Pink & Main Congrats Die Cut, which allowed me to use a white sentiment like the book cover.

With my Stork at the top of my creation, I'm also joining the Simon Says: Animal Magic Challenge.

Blue Baby Tax Deduction

It's an Anything Goes Challenge at the Joy Clair blog in April inspired by this photo board.

For some reason, even though the pictures are tea/coffee themed, all of the blue made me think of a baby card, so that's what I created.  I just love the Joy Clair New Baby Onesie set.

I pulled in yellow from the sash on the dress in the upper left photograph together with the caramal color of the tea/coffee ... and added hearts inspired by the heart on the teapot handle ... and I couldn't resist adding a mustache just because.

The layout is this week's Match the Sketch.

Onesie Funsies

I love Baby Onesies, so when I saw the New Baby! Stamp Set from Joy Clair, I knew I wanted to use it to create for our March Collaboration with Joy Clair & My Sweet Petunia (remember leave a comment on all posts with the Collaboration Image for a chance to win at the end of March).

I decided to use a piece of Gel Press Print that I created with my MISTI for my Onesie "fabric" ... it's the perfect shade of red for gender neutral designs.

I also used my MISTI to position the sentiments & images to adorn the front of my Onesies ... so many possibilities in this set.

I fussy cut the images and then used a Black Sharpie to make sure the edges were nice and defined ... so stinkin' cute.

 

I decided to go with some Clean & Simple designs for these cuties ... the first one uses this week's CAS(E) this Sketch!

I added a blue strip of paper and coordinating blue enamel dots from Eyelet Outlet.

The second one uses the layout from CAS Colours & Sketches.

I love that the set has both a Congratulations & Congrats Sentiment ... and what a fun font.