Ingenious Inkling

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/
6. Stephanie: https://ingeniousinkling.typepad.com/ <<<<----------- YOU ARE HERE

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.

New Little Bundle

My goal at the annual Art Camp Lauren & I had in the fall, my plan was to go home with lots of Gel Press Prints I could use on cards.  In past years I had made lots of fun prints, but the using the large Gel Press the scale was off for smaller card making.  I am glad to say I succeeded and have had a lot of fun incorporating this last round of prints into my designs.

The current challenge at the Unity Stamp Company is New Beginnings ... since I needed a baby card for my stash, I inked-up the never-before-used Bundle Congrats Itty Bitty.

 

I stamped them on a light blue cardstock panel that coordinated with my Gel Press Print background and then paper pieced the clouds and used a red marker on the hearts.  That font is so itty bitty it's almost hard to read (at least for these old eyes).  I was afraid to stamp it more than once or it wouldn't be legible.

I finished with a few enamel dots for texture and attached the panel with foam tape.

Pumpkin Inspired Wedding

For some reason, when I saw the current Fusion Card Challenge I thought WEDDING (could be because all of my Halloween Cards are already done & in the mail).

 

Black and white make an elegant wedding card.  I started with the wedding cake sticker and built my card around it.

 

I used some Echo Park Wedding Bliss paper, some texty Prima Flowers and a vintage wood block A Muse Sentiment.  I attached my texty paper to my 6 1/2" black card base intending to cut off the black edges, but ended-up liking how they framed the design.

Blessed

Tonight I needed a baby card, so I started with the current Paper Craft Crew Challenge Sketch.

 

I love the vintage Baby Carriage from Impression Obsession.  I didn't have any sentiment stamps that were the right proportion, so I used sentiment stickers.

 

Baby Baby

Tonight I realized I had absolutely no baby cards in my stash ... how does that happen?  So baby cards are on the creative agenda.

I started with Taylored Expressions Bubble Greetings - Baby.  I paper-pieced the sweet little onesie.

I used the Stitched Journaling Card Die from Lawn Fawn for the DiesRUs Challenge.  The tiny typed sentiment is from Memory Box Big and Little Words with some Valentine's Day Designer Papers (perfect for tiny little girl cards).

I'm also linking-up at the Simon Says Stamp Think Pink Challenge.

Technique Junkies New August Stamps

There is a stamp for every style in the August Release at Technique Junkies ... remember they are all 20% off through August 8th (with an extra 10% off your entire order including new stamps if you use my discount code TJ10Stephanie).

 

 

I started by practicing some of the watercolor skills I learned from Eff Cee on the gorgeous Framed Sunflower using golden yellows, oranges and browns.  When I was done painting, I added orange splatters to finish the design.

 

The sentiment is from Simple Sentiments Set 1b.  I'm linking-up at Watercooler Wednesday where the theme is Anything Goes.

 

Next I did a more free-form watercolor technique using the new Echinecia Stamp.

 

 

I used the colors from these Cheyenne Spirit Coneflowers as my inspiration for my color palette.  I found a scrap of water-colored paper in my stash that was the perfect background.  The sentiment for this card is from Simple Sentiments Set 2b.

 

I'm linking this one up at the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes Watercolour Challenge (no Ocean, but it takes a lot of water to keep those flowers blooming).

 

I thought the new Prickly Stamp was perfect for paper piecing.  I stamped it on green cardstock, cut it out, and added shading with colored pencils.  I stamped it a second time on wood grain designer paper.

 

I backed it with some hand-marbled paper I made before attaching to a Cactus Green Card Base.  The Prickly Cactus is also perfect for the {Cupcake Inspirations} Challenge this week.

 

 

I'm also entering it in the Anything Goes Challenge at Cute Card Thursday.

My final card features the new Inside Out For the Girls Set.  I could think of someone for each sentiment included in the set.

 

 

I paired this one with some Eyelet Outlet Sneaker & Water Bottle brads and washi tape.  The inside reads:

 

I'm linking this one up at the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge.

Make sure you hop to all of the other Designer's Blogs to see the entire release.

• Technique Junkies Blog https://techniquejunkies.blogspot.com/2019/08/technique-junkies-august-release.html
• Beth Norman-Roberts https://www.sunflowers-dragonflies.ca/blog/62725/technique-junkie…ase-and-discount/
• Ceal Pritchett https://simplybeautifulcreations.blogspot.com/2019/08/technique-junkies-august-release.html
• Giovana Smith https://giovana-believe.blogspot.com/2019/08/technique-junkies-august-release.html
• Holly Brown https://glitterstampsandink.blogspot.com/2019/08/august-2019-technique-junkies-release.html
• Janine Tinklenberg https://www.jantink.com/2019/08/01/mitten-state-stamps-tj-august-release.html
• Jeanne Streiff https://inkypaws.splitcoaststampers.com/2019/08/01/technique-junkies-august-release-discount/
• Judy Jackson - https://judysstampart.blogspot.com/2019/08/awesome-august-new-awesome-stamps.html
• Kia Gibson-Clapper - https://kia-splace.ca/?p=8801
• Lee Ann Barrett https://greytpapercrafts.blogspot.com/2019/08/celebrating-august-technique-junkies.html
• Lynda Pleckan https://paperartscafe.blogspot.com/2019/08/technique-junkies-august-stamp-release.html
• Pat Huntoon https://patstamps.blogspot.com/2019/08/august-2019-new-release.html
• Ro Donner https://rodonner.blogspot.com/2019/08/august-release-from-technique-junkies.html
• Stephanie Severin <<---------- YOU ARE HERE

Baby Baby

I needed a congratulations card for a new Grandma of twins.  I went to my favorite Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button stamp set for the win.

 

 

The layout is from Feeling Sketchy, sentiment is from Reverse Confetti Posted Note Sentiments & the papers are from Reverse Confetti Pattern Play.