Ingenious Inkling

Paris Pastel Birthday

The April #TEMakerChallenge is all about the pastel hues of the Taylored Expressions Color Combination Paris.

 

 

I used all four colors with the Taylored Expressions Gifted Background & Coordinating Stencil (I was able to quickly make 4 of these cards ... love that about these products).

 

 

Sentiment is from Taylored Expressions Simple Stripes - Birthday.  I'm also incorporated B is for Boxes & Birthday for the #TEMakerChallenge.

 

 

Since these products are from September 2019, I'm also joining the Retro Rubber Pastel? Yes Pastels! Color Challenge.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at The Paper Players Challenge for a Clean & Simple Birthday.

 

Platypus Happy Birthday

The current Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge is all about Birthday Cards.

 

Only one problem ... no birthday stamps in my Honey Bee Stamps stash. 

I saw that the adorable Penny Platypus had a gift accessory, so that's what I went with.  When I searched for Platypus colors, I saw Perry the Platypus from Phineas & Ferb, and decided I liked the fun cartoon color hue.

 

 

I die cut Penny the Platypus Paper Piecing Honey Cut from teal & gold cardstock and added some inking to the tail.  I stamped & die cut the gift from the Penny the Platypus Stamp Set and added some Spectrum Noir coloring to the bow. 

The black & white paper is from the Honey Bee Stamps Farm Fresh Holiday Papers.

 

I flipped this week's Fab Friday Sketch for my Layout and finished with googly eyes, sticker sentiments, and some enamel dots.

Kaleidoscope Ink Blending

I had a few leftovers from Saturday's Stamp Joy that were too pretty not to turn into more cards.

The first one was an OOPS from the final card ... as you can see at the bottom left, I accidentally dipped my Lemon Meringue blender brush into the Fruit Punch Ink by not following the instructions of only  have one ink pad open at a time.  Thankfully I caught it immediately and didn't ruin my mask (which you'll see in the next card).

 

But it was so pretty how the ink faded into the white, I thought it was perfect for the Less is More CAS Inking Challenge.

 

 

I added a birthday sentiment from Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Birthday for the Addicted to CAS Code Word Birthday Challenge.  It took all the effort within me not to add some bling to this design.

 

 

Next I used a technique I learned at Stamp Joy several years ago ... offset cover-plate shadowing by cutting a second cover plate from black cardstock ... with the Kaleidoscope Cover Plate Die cut we used as an ink blending mas for one of Saturday's cards (I loved that you can overlap 4 colors of ink to create the full rainbow).

 

 

I used a sentiment and the coordinating dies from our exclusive set and added some Iridescent Drip Drops to finish the design.

Orange Birthday

I love the Sketch at Seize the Birthday.

 

 

I paired some 3-D Happy Birthday stickers with a sentiment from Taylored Expressions Simple Strips - Birthday.  Then I added some fun Sticker Stitching from Pretty Little Studio.

 

Vintage Car Birthday

The current Seize the Birthday Challenge is to make a card using three shades of green.  When I saw the green gel press print on my studio table leftover from Saturday's Mixed Media Art Journal experimentation, I thought it would be the perfect piece to build my card around.

 

 

I settled on the sketch from the Sketch-N-Scrap Blog for my layout and pulled out three coordinating green shades of cardstock.  I need more masculine cards, and the first vintage car I remember our family having was green, so I chose stamps from Ciao Bella Paper Ride to Live.

 

 

I used four different stamps from the set and die cut the ivory cardstock with a stitched circle die.

I finished with a sentiment from My Favorite Things Anything-but-Basic Birthday Wishes.

 

 

I'm also joining the Going Green Challenge at The House that Stamps Built.

Mechanical Birthday

I have a 1949 copy of Popular Mechanics Magazine just for making cards for the men in my life. 

One of my brothers restores vintage electrical tools, so this birthday card is for him.

 

 

I added stamps from AlteNew's Engineers Rule Stamp Set.  I love that each outline stamp has a second stamp to stamp bits of color.  I also love the tiny little Ninja.

 

 

I'm joining the 7th Birthday Celebration at the Time Out Challenges.  I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

And with my AlteNew Die Cuts, I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at the Dies R Us Challenge.

 

 

And my texty background is perfect for the Text Me Challenge at Paper Anthology.

Pink Peonies Birthday

This card started is for the Washi Tape Challenge at the Paper Anthology Creation Inspiration Weekend.

 

I started by adhering the gorgeous wide Pink Peonies Washi Tape from The Ton to pale yellow cardstock (I love how you can totally change the look of the washi based on the paper you used behind it).

 

 

Next I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from The Ton Trophy Set in Rose Gold Embossing Powder.

 

 

My layout is from this week's Sketch Challenge at The Paper Players.  For my shape, I chose a layering of blooms that coordinated with my washi tape.

 

Layered Rose Birthday

I love these beautiful papers from P13 - The Four Seasons Summer.

 

 

I paired them with the Layered Rose from AlteNew.

 

 

 

I flipped the layout from Sketch Saturday using a sentiment from AlteNew Sincere Greetings.

 

I'm joining another challenge at The Paper Anthology Creation Inspiration Weekend.

 

 

I'm also joining the All Sorts Feminine Challenge. 

 

 

I'm also at WaterCooler Wednesday Occasions Challenge.

3-D Peony Dream Birthday

This afternoon I created a card for the AlteNew Flower to Inspire Challenge.

 

 

I used the purple and yellow for my AlteNew 3-D Peony Dream Dies and the deep green for my AlteNew Leaf Frame Cover Die.

 

 

My layout and design was also inspired by the CASE Challenge at the Global Design Project reversing the sentiment flags with a stamped sentiment from AlteNew Sincere Greetings.

 

 

I'm also joining The Paper Anthology Creation Inspiration Weekend Tic Tac Toe Challenge with diagonal from the top left - Spring, Stamping & the Color Purple.

 

 

I'm also joining Crazy 4 Challenges where they're celebrating Floral Design Day.

Featherly Birthday

The current Unity Stamp Company February Challenge is to stock your Birthday card stash.

 

I decided to also take my inspiration from the picture in the Just Add Ink Challenge.

 

 

I looked for a Fern stamp in my Unity Stamp Company, but instead thought the image in the Featherly border background stamp looked very similar.  I stamped it in green ink on Peach cardstock.

 

The Happy Birthday Stamp from Be Your OWN kind of Beautiful the January 2014 kit of the month.  that left a bit of blank space in the bottom center the way the feathers were positioned, so I stamped the single Feather from Good Things are Better (also by Angie Blom), and cut it down slight to work where I needed it to cover the space.  

 

 

Additionally, I used the colors for the current Color Hue Challenge in my design.