Ingenious Inkling

Happily Ever After

The current Color Hues Challenge is a lovely one - Pink & Purple.

 

My sister is getting married and I was honored to create her wedding invitations.  I chose the Impression Obsession Heart Couple Frame as my focal image.  I die cut it from light purplish Pink and again from a gold glitter cardstock, which I offset.  I added a gold glitter sticker on the left side.

 

The sentiment is from Couture Creations Forever and Always.

When I completed that assembly, I attached it all to a gorgeous piece of hand-made paper I found at Artist & Craftsman Supply on our trip to Kansas City (I loved that I found the paper on a trip, since traveling with my sister is one of my favorite things & we have explored Kansas City together many times).

I couldn't be happier to be gaining a new brother-in-law.  

Oh, Baby!

Oh, Baby! is the theme of the July Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti.

 

 

I finally added the Plaid Lines Small Confetti Cuts to my stash, so I paired it with the Plaid Lines Big Confetti Cuts in gender-neutral lavender and golden yellow.  I attached it to a kraft card base.

 

 

To get the Tag size I needed, I die cut the large tag from Celebrate Tag Confetti Cuts and then cut it a second time to shorten the size.  I went with my go-to Onesie from Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button and paired it with a sentiment from Reverse Confetti Fancy Word Coordinates stamped in kraft.

And what do you do with all of those little bits that pop out of the Plaid Dies?? Make another quick card of course.  I put them together like building with Legos.

 

The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti Best Sentiments.

Alcohol Ink Congrats

I had so much fun using Alcohol Inks on my Gel Press a few weeks ago. 

Here was the first print I pulled, together with the roll-offs from cleaning my brayer.

 

 

I was going to use that print for the Color Throwdown, but I went with my second one since I thought the shade of green was closer to the palette.

 

 

If you look around my studio, you will see those color speak to me.  I pulled the print with Golden Iridescent Silver paint, which is my new favorite for pulling prints.

 

I used Say It Loud stamps and Coordinating Dies from a new-to-me company Maker's Movement using the layout from Tuesday Morning Sketches.

 

 

I'm also joining the Just Us Girls Challenge where it is to use Script, so my scripty sentiment fits the bill.

 

Happy Saturday!

O. M. G.

The February Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge is Encouragement & Congratulations Cards.

 

 

I broke out my never-been-ink Reverse Confetti OMG Stamp Set and coordinating Confetti Cut Die and combined it with the current Mojo Monday Sketch.

The designer papers are from Reverse Confetti Winter Wonder Paper Collection.

 

 

I also used the Reverse Confetti Stitched Hex Tag Confetti Cut rather than the circle in the sketch.

 

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.

 

Oh Baby

The July Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti is .... Oh Baby!

 

The Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button is my most used stamp set for baby cards ... I just love those onesies.  This time the onesie is stamped in Ranger Archival Garden Patina on Yellow cardstock.

 

The base of the card is one of my alcohol ink experiments on glossy cardstock.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti Fancy Word Coordinates.  I finished with a scattering of enamel hearts.  

 

The layout is this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

Happy New Home

The current challenge at A Blog Named Hero is to combine new & old Hero Arts stamps from your collection.

 

My youngest brother (there are almost 20 years between us) bought a house this week, so I wanted to make him a congratulations card.  As I looked through my stamp, I thought how many of the statements from the Hero Arts I Love How You? Stamp set that were intended to go after the I Love How You stamp would also now apply to him as he would finally be living on his own (from 2017) ... so I found a few more sentiment stamps from other Hero Arts sets I could combine them with.   

 

 

I think the oldest set is likely Everyday Sayings ... and then there is Hello Gorgeous from 2016 and the newer Hang in There Potted Plants for the New Home sentiment and the plant that I colored with colored pencils and embellished with a few gems before I "hung" it on a gold brad before attaching the panel to my kraft card base with foam tape.

You're the Best!

Today I had fun combining a bunch of sentiments from The Stamp Market to make a set of Congratulations Cards to put in the mail.

I positioned stamps from Mini Messages, A Few Words, Big Botanicals, Tons of Type, Simply Said and You on my MISTI and typed Stamped the sentiments separate pieces of White, Blue and Red Cardstock.

 

 

Then I die cut each piece of card stock using The Stamp Market Color Block 2 Die.  Then I pieced the three colors together on a kraft card base.  

Unity Hop

 

Today we're hopping with the Growing in Unity Gals for a chance to win a fun prize pack.

 

I used the fun New to the Crew Set to paper piece this fun little Onesie Card for a fun little Baby Card.

Make sure you stop at each stop & leave a comment for a chance to win.

1. enia : https://jazzypaper.blogspot.com/
2. Miwa: https://miwannascrap.blogspot.com/
3. Kathryn: https://kathrynscards.blogspot.com/
4. Kim: https://mykraftkloset.weebly.com/blog
5. Jessica: https://polkadotorchard.com/polka-dot-orchard-blog/
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Makeover Monday - Hawkeye Baby Card

For today's Makeover Monday I'm doing a Congratulations Card for the Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti.  

 

I went all the way back to October 2016 for this cutie as my inspiration.

 

I decided to keep the layout and change-up the colors to use the hues from the Just Us Girls Color Week Challenge ... they might seem like odd colors for a baby card, but if you live near the University of Iowa, you know those are Hawkeye Colors, so they are just perfect.

 

I combined both metallic gold and the color gold for my design starting with a piece of Black and Metallic gold designer paper from a Christmas Collection with two other golden scraps of paper in my scrap box.

 

The adorable Reverse Confetti Onesie from Cute as a Button in Wendy Vecchi Ranger Archival Buttercup Ink.  I added some enamel hearts and dots for accents and finished with the typewriter congratulations sentiment from Reverse Confetti Fancy Words Coordinates.

The perfect baby card for a future Iowa Hawkeye.