Ingenious Inkling

Eighties Inspired Birthday

When I saw the colors from The Color Throwdown, I was immediately transported back to high school in the eighties where I layered my pink and green polo shirts with the collars up.  The pink and green color combination were a classic.

 

 

Since I was taking a walk back down memory lane, I pulled out a vintage Cuttlebug Happy Birthday Embossing folder and paired it with two woodblock stamps (Savvy & A Muse) and a layout from Paper Craft Crew Challenges.

 

 

I went with sparkly glitter paper for the gold and finished with some glittery enamel dots.

 

Holly Holiday

The December Stay Crafty with a Blog Named Hero Challenge is Deck the Hall.

 

 

I started by die cutting gold glitter paper with the Hero Arts Fancy Die - Bold Graphic Confetti.  I left the confetti pieces intact and trimmed it down slightly.

 

 

Next, I die cut the holly leaf branch from Hero Arts Holly Berries Stamp & Cut XL from heavy white cardstock.  I die cut the bow from the same set from a red glitter paper.

I finished with a red ink stamped sentiment from Hero Arts Christmas Messages before attaching to a red card base.

 

 

The colors are from this week's TGIF Challenges.

I'm also linking-up at the It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Challenge at Allsorts Challenges.  I'm also joining the Simon Says Make It Sparkle Challenge with all of my gold glittery sparkle.

Dancin' Yeti

When I saw a post featuring Rocky the Dancin' Yeti by Spellbinders, I knew I had to have him.  I had fun putting him together using the colors from the Color Throwdown Challenge.

 

 

I finished with a sentiment from Scrapbook.com Wordfetti December.  I love how his little legs swing back and forth.

 

Woodblock Belief in Goodness

This stamp quote from Kay Foley for River City Rubber Works (2005) sums up what I've been thinking a lot lately, so I inked it up for Amy Tsuruta's Woodblock Wednesday. 

 

 

When I first started buying stamps, it was the words that drew me into stamping more than the images, and River City Rubber had some great ones.  This one was purchased at one of my favorite stores - Stamp Thyme in Lockport, Illinois.  It was always our first stop whenever we would head into Chicago to all of the stamping & scrapbooking stores (my how I miss those road trips).

 

 

I paired that woodblock with another classic sentiment from Impression Obsession.

 

 

The layout is this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

 

 

And the colors are from this week's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge.

Donut Hugs

In my life, sometimes a donut feels like a hug.  So, I combined both for today's card with inspiration from the the Inspired by Tags Challenge.

 

 

I also chose to use the Colors from The Color Hues Challenge.

 

 

I attached several pink & aqua washi tapes at an angle to small tags from my stash.  Next I added donut stickers and finished with a sentiment from Ellen Hutson's Essentials by Ellen Besties.

 

 

I used the Sketch from the Inspired by Challenge for my layout.

 

Cozy Holiday Season

This week at Jingle Belles we're still creating holiday cards with Animals (or a Yeti or a Monster ... whatever critter works for you).

 

I chose to combine this week's card with the Lawn Fawn Monochromatic Challenge with the Lawn Fawn Ugly & Bright Bear and Reindeer decked out in their holiday sweaters and some tiny googly eyes.  I sprayed them with a shimmer spray to try to make my color choice a bit more festive (but I'm not sure it helped).  I used a sentiment from the same set.

I found a piece of Lawn Fawn Spiffier Speckles designer paper in the same grey-blue hue and embossed it with the Lawn Fawn Backdrop Stitched Snowflake Lawn Cuts.

 

 

I'm also joining My Time to Craft for their Winter Animal Challenge.

Dog Rose Sympathy

I wanted to make a card for the October AlteNew Inspiration Challenge inspired by this photograph & color combination.

 

 

I die cut the AlteNew Dog Rose Die cut from the Pink & Purple from the color palette and attached it to a white cardstock rectangle.  I pounced some of the gold ink onto the centers of the blooms.  I attached my layered die cuts to a gold rectangle to pull a bit more of that color into the design.

 

 

I finished with a stamped sentiment from AlteNew Sentiments & Quotes.

Monster Mash

I've had this little Frankenstein (who looks like he is by Darcie Heater Designs) in my Halloween stash for several years (I think I saved it from a card someone sent to me ... he was too cute note to use again), so I thought he was absolutely perfect for The Dream Factory Challenge based on the movie Hotel Transylvania.

 

 

Since the poster had several Monster friends, I added a few Doodlebug Shape Sprinkle Monsters for Frank.  I also found the perfect sentiment from Impression Obsession.

 

 

Since his pants were purple, I added some purple paper, purple bling and of course a purple Monster for the Simon Says Spooky / Add Some Purple Challenge.  The Layout is from Sketch Saturday.

 

 

And it's Spooky Season at the Papercraft Challenges.

Happy Halloween

Since there's still a little more time to timely mail some Halloween Cards, I had to pull out these googly eye pumpkin stickers and find one a home.

 

I used the color combination from Color Throwdown.  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp CZ Design Witch Please.

 

 

I also took inspiration from the Halloween Theme Challenge at TGIF Challenges.

 

 

And I'm joining the Double D Challenge to use a Pumpkin on your card.

 

 

Lastly, the Sketch is from the Sketch~N~Scrap Challenge (I liked the idea of using two different colors of embellishments).

 

PINK Christmas

Since my pink papers were all still piled on my studio table from last week's Jingle Belles card, I pulled out three of the scraps to make this week's card.  Remember, It's that time again here at Jingle Belles, our favorite prompt of the year: PINK CHRISTMAS! In which you make and link new holiday cards that are predominantly PINK and we (Stephanie and Lauren) donate $2 (apiece!) per card to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation! 

I topped the paper with the adorable Doodlebug Designs Baking Spirits Bright Doodle-Pop 3-D sticker.  I finished with a perfect A Muse stamped sentiment and Your Next Stamp Gumdrops Enamel Dots.