Ingenious Inkling

Bringing the Christmas Tree Home

I always buy fun ribbons like this Red Truck bringing the Christmas Tree home, but then they just sit in my ribbon drawer.  For this week's Jingle Belles Ribbon Prompt, I used the fun ribbon to cover a Kraft Tag.  I just cut strips of ribbon, put adhesive on the back of both sides of the tag, made sure to alternate the position of the trucks and wrapped the strips. 

I punched a hole through the top strip of ribbon and created a new grommet hole to position over the top (but ended-up covering it up when I stapled on my ribbon ... design works like that sometimes).

 

I used a combination of Coordinating holiday papers including several from BoBunny Merry & Bright and a Gold Thickers Joyous Puffy Christmas Tree Sticker decorated with Eyelet Outlet Bling at the top. 

A sticker sentiment finished the design using the Mojo Monday Sketch #538.

 

And I am joining the Heart2Heart Challenges where the Challenge Theme is Tags.

Everything In Between

The April Challenge at Unity is a Sketch Challenge with a Tag.

I wanted to use stamps from a new set, Unity Layers of Life - Grateful for All - June 2018.  I stamped the background stamp in light brown ink on my kraft tag.

 

I made the stripes from scraps of three different papers from Bo Bunny's Et Cetera Collection.  I stamped the sentiment in Dark Brown ink on Ivory cardstock and then cut it into four strips and attached those with foam tape over the designer paper.  I finished with some foil gold stars.

Such a good mantra to repeat right now ... gratefulness is so important.

 

I'll Have a Blue Christmas ...

My Mom is a huge Elvis fan, so I can never say today's Jingle Belles prompt without singing it in my best Elvis voice ... we're creating a BLUE Christmas ... cards that feature mostly blue.

The first thing I discovered was that I had four different vintage trading stamps in blue, so that's where I started together with this week's Sunday Stamps Sketch.

 

Next I cut out some postage stamps from a piece of designer paper from BoBunny's Whiteout Collection ... I used two other papers from that collection for my card base and backing for my stamps.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things Trio of Trees.

 

Can't wait to see what you do with BLUE.

To You and Your Kin

The challenge theme at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is to Recycle Something.  I keep a stash of packaging that I think is pretty enough to be recycled into another papercraft creation.

 

I decided to start with the front & center red, white & blue BoBunny Jewels packaging for my card.  I also found a glittery Christmas tag in the same stash (for some reason), so I decided to use it as my focal image since the reds worked together.

 

I put my elements together using this week's Mojo Monday Sketch.  The sentiment is from a favorite set Typed Christmas by Hello Bluebird.

 

Monstrous Birthday

The current Library Challenge is is Where the Wild Things Are ... which gave me the perfect opportunity to pull out some fun monsters from my stash.

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch together with some Monsters from BoBunny's Our Lil' Monster Noteworthy Collection.  They have the same primary colors as the book cover.

I used a sentiment from My Favorite Things Monster Love.

And it's All About Occasions (Birthday in this case) at the Watercolor Wednesday Challenge.

Faith

The STAMPlorations CAS Challenge runs through the entire month of December and the additional color challenge is to incorporate some GOLD.

I made two versions of the same card using Stencils, Bo Bunny Chiffon Stencil Paste and Stamps.

First one uses the Crisscrossed ARTPlorations Stencil with a stamp from STAMPlorations Faith Expressions stamped with Delicata Golden Glitz Ink.

For the second one I used the ARTplorations Gridlocked Stencil with the same combination.

You don't need STAMPlorations products to join the fun (but we'd love to see you feature them).

Yay, You!

For some reason, I couldn't really find a single stamp set in my stash to welcome someone to their new home ... so I got creative and combined sentiments and and image from three different sets together with the gorgeous new Garden Party Collection from Bo Bunny.

Yay, You! is from My Favorite Things Essential Sentiments; New Home is from Clearly Besotted Sentimental Type; and the House is from The Project Bin Fun is Good.  I found a little coordinating Cork House Sticker in my stash and punched a circle from Wood Paper to back my house to add some *new home* materials to the design.

The layout is my take on the Fusion Sketch with lots of Green inspiration from the photo (and the thought that my friends are no longer *Glamping* now that their house is finished).

I'm also joining the STAMPtember Stamp Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

But Not in a Creepy Way

I love sketches ... and I really love sketches with banners ... so I knew I had to join the fun at the Global Design Project.

I went through my Stampin' Up sets to find a set that would work with the vertical greeting and decided on That Thing You Did (so sad to see this set was retired ... I love it's subtle snark, so I will be keeping it).

Papers are new Bo Bunny Garden Party Collection on a cream card base wrapped with Lawn Fawn Grey Lawn Trimmings Cord.

PS - make sure you stop by my 10 year blog anniversary post for a chance to win some fun prizes.

Happily Ever After

The Challenge Theme at Shopping Our Stash is Always a Bridesmaid (make a card featuring a dress or dress form).  It just so happens, I need another wedding card for my stash, so this was the perfect opportunity.

I combined papers from Bo Bunny's Love & Lace Collection together with this week's Retro Sketch.

Let It Snow

Since blue & snowflakes worked so well for last week's Jingle Belles card, I stuck with it again this week.  I tend to gravitate to blue & purple snow-themed paper collections (like BoBunny Woodland Winter).

It also gave me the opportunity to layer on some felt snowflakes.  The layout is the sketch from The Paper Players.

I finished with an SRM Sticker Sentiment.