Ingenious Inkling

Hoppy Easter

I did a test spray of my new Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide Spray, and thought the pretty chalky color would make a cute little Spring Bunny.  I paired the Flora & Fauna Woodland Bunny Die with the Flora & Fauna Doily Die.

 

 

 

I used the layout from Paper Craft Crew Challenges (flipping the circle sentiment because of the way my bunny was facing) using cute bunny paper from the Pebbles Lullaby Collection. 

 

 

I punched grass from mint green cardstock & used the dioly to cut it out to fit inside the circle.  The sentiment is from Flora & Fauna Mini Spring Bunny.   I finished with some minty enamel dots.

 

 

I'm also joining the Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge to use Die Cuts and/or Stencils.

 

And my cute little bunny is joining the Animals Challenge at Just Us Girls.

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.

Merry & Brrright

Having some sticker fun this afternoon with {a vintage girl} & her daughter and a layout from The Spot Challenge.  Stickers are currently 40% off, so my discount code SMILYNSTEF won't work, but leave my name in the comments of your order so they know I sent you.

 

 

I combined stickers from Christmas Fun and Christmas Quotes.  With my Circle Dies I'm also linking-up at Cut it Up: Christmas Challenge.

 

 

I finished the card with a scattering of Eyelet Outlet Bling.  With my flying reindeer, I'm linking-up at the My Time to Craft Challenge where the theme is Christmas Animals.

 

 

You da Best

Now that #gellinktober has passed, I want to turn all of my great inky gel press prints into cards. 

 

Today's card is made from the print I made by rolling-off the Alcohol Ink onto regular cardstock using some blending solution (a technique I definitely want to play more with).

 

I paired it with the layout from the CAS(e) this Sketch! Challenge using the CZ Design You da Best Die Cut from Simon Says Stamp together with a Simon Says Stamp Birthday Sentiment Strip.

 

 

I'm also joining the Just Us Girls Wildcard Challenge to use Word Dies.

 

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.

 

Gell(i)nktober Let's Par-TEE

Today I tried one of Birgit's techniques using Distress Oxide Ink and Stencils.  The first print is made by putting the Carabelle Studios Circle of Stars stencil down on the inked plate and doing the first print.  Then there is a second print after picking-up the stencil.

 

 

I used my first print for a masculine birthday card inspired by the Sports theme at the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge.

 

 

I chose the golf ball to inspire my design with Golf papers from Authentique.

 

 

The Happy Birthday sentiment is a clear sticker mounted on white cardstock.

We All Deserve an Alcoholiday

I'm finally back in the studio today after almost two weeks of Derecho Storm disruption.  There are still a number of people without power, but when I drove this morning, all of the traffic lights were working, which was a major improvement.  The damages to our geo-thermal system on the roof of our condominium have been repaired ... the next thing will be removing all of the fallen trees (so many large oaks damaged on our property).

I decided some Punny cards for the Inspired by Challenge using my Stickers from A Vintage Girl & Her Daughter ... remember use my Discount Code SMILYNSTEF at checkout for 15% off your order.

 

I decided to make a set of cards featuring some Eyelet Outlet Beer Brads and Bingo Cards from Simple Stories Summer Fresh.

I started with We All Deserve an Alcoholiday from the Happy Hour Sticker Sheet.    An it a bit of punny brilliance, I paired it with Eat Drink & Be Merry from Christmas Quotes 1 (because Alcoholidays aren't just for Christmas)

 

 

Here are all the sentiments from the Happy Hour Quotes.

 

 

I used the sketch from this week's Try Stampin - or Not - on Tuesday Challenge (using only the sketch, although an Alcoholiday could certainly involve a ticket to the tropics).

 

 

I finished with some Beer Brads from Eyelet Outlet.

 

 

My next card focuses on Tequila from the Fiesta Quotes Sticker Set.  I used three stickers from the set to make  a "BINGO" on the Carefree Card.

 

 

I added a little bling to fill out my card for a BLACKOUT.

My final card features more stickers from Happy Hour Quotes.  I used more Beer Brads together with some Beer Washi Tape for a Clean & Simple Design for the My Time to Craft Challenge.

 

 

This one features more PUNNY goodness from the set.

 

 

Glad to be back in the studio ... and hope you've enjoyed my Punny cards today.

Close Knit Friend

In my recent crafty purchases, I picked-up this fun Hand Knitted Stamp Set from Darkroom Door.  Then today I saw a post where they have an Instagram Challenge each month, so I had to join the fun.  Here's the inspiration picture.

 

I felt rusty after not stamping a week, so I decided to go with a CAS single layer design using the three colors & inspiration from the photo.

I was inspired by the red lines in the road to stamp a red frame using the Knitting Needle Stamp on my kraft card base.

 

My black yarn basket is inspired by the night time image ... and used my colored pencils to add a pop of red with the knitting needles, inspired by the red criss-cross lighting framing the sign on the left.  

The sentiment is perfect for sending to those special friends I haven't been able to see like I would have in prior years.

I'm also linking-up at Simon Says Stamp Challenge to use your favorite Tool - I used two of my absolute favorite tools on this card - my MISTI and my Tidy Towel.  Can't stamp without them.

And I'm joining the Clean & Simple Challenge at Make My Monday.

Jaded Blossom August Challenge: Ask for Salt and Tequila

The August Challenge at Jaded Blossom is Feeling Fruity ... I am thrilled to be Guest Designing for the month of August, so I'll be sharing lots of fun projects for their awesome new release this month.

I made both a card and a fun little gift pocket for the Fruity challenge.

 

 

For the card, I used my MISTI and three different small Lemon stamps from Jaded Blossom Happy Hour Candies and Food & Drink and stamped them repeatedly using Hero Arts Lemon Drop Reactive Ink. 

 

I finished with several sentiments from Jaded Blossom Let's Toast.

 

 

For my little gift pocket, I die cut the Jaded Blossom Ticket Book Die from black cardstock with the inner pieces die cut from Lemon Glitter Cardstock.

 

 

I folded the ticket forward and attached it with a staple at each side to make a little pocket that perfectly holds a packet of lemonade.  I finished with a sentiment & lemon slide from Jaded Blossom Food & Drink.

We hope you'll break out your favorite fruits and join the fun.

Fearless, Independent and Original

Since Sunday was the final game of the Premier League, I had to make a Soccer-themed card.  It's been so fun to watch our team (Liverpool) do so well this year ... and even more fun that we have live sports back to watch.

 

I used this week's Sunday Stamps Sketch together with Doodlebug Soccer-themed papers from my stash and sticker sentiments.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at The Male Room Challenge where the theme is Sport.