Ingenious Inkling

The Best Thing to Hold Onto in Life

The August Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti is to make a Wedding Card.  It was perfectly timed, since a friend is getting married next weekend.

 

 

I decided to take my design inspiration from the Inspire.Create.Challenge.  I found some Alcohol Ink Designer paper that I paired with some texty paper from my stash.

 

 

I used the sentiment and flowers from Reverse Confetti Something Wonderful.   The finished card is a top fold 5" x 6" so I could add a wrap of yellow twine under the sentiment.  I finished with some coordinating crystal gems.

 

 

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

 

 

 

And Retro Rubber Challenge is Anything Goes.  These stamps are from January 2018 and are still wedding favorites.

 

You Are Killing It!

This week's Just Us Girls Challenge is to CASE a Designer.  

 

 

I've always been amazed at my friend Seeka's Ink Blending prowess, so I chose this monochromatic ink blended card to inspire my design. 

 

 

Rather than limey greens, I went with the trio of yellow inks from Simon Says Stamp Saturated Ink Collection.  Seeka only used two colors (a light and heavy) and I went with three (but wished I had stuck with two due to the heavy contrast on the bottom fourth on my card).

 

 

My CZ Design Yay You sentiment didn't take up quite as much real estate as Seeka's, so I added a tiny one at the bottom.

I'm also joining the Crafty Friends Summer Color Challenge ... because nothing says summer like the color of the sun.

This card reminded me that the only way to get good at ink blending is to do it more often ... practice, practice, practice.  Thanks Seeka for the inspiration.

Cute as a Button

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

 

 

I decided to use Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button (retired, which makes me sad because it's my absolute favorite go to baby card set) to create both a masculine and feminine baby card with the Sketch from The Paper Players.

 

 

For the sweet little boy card I used plaid paper from Reverse Confetti Winter Wonder Designer Paper Collection and a sentiment from Reverse Confetti Fancy Word Coordinates.

 

For the precious little girl card, I used some rubber duckie background paper with two of my favorite vibrant colors ... and another Reverse Confetti Fancy Word Coordinates sentiment.  I also added a trio of sparkly enamel dots.

 

 

Stamp Joy 2022 - Day 2

I had fun creating for Day 2 of Taylored Expressions Stamp Joy, so I thought I would share a few.

I usually avoid what I would call cutesy coloring, but we learned how to add strategic white dots to really bring the images to life ... and I love how this little slice of watermelon turned out.

 

 

I also had fun ink blending and then stamping over the top for this cool background look.

 

 

I even had fun ink splattering (although I still hate embossing with white embossing powder ... it took several attempts to get one that I thought was good enough to use).

You Deserve a HAND

This week's theme at Shopping our Stash is You Deserve a HAND - to feature a hand (or in my case Hands) and/or a Congratulations Card.

I stamped three hands from the Essentials by Ellen Handful framed by the Essentials by Ellen Instant Photo Frames.

I colored the nails, bracelet and cup of coffee and embossed the decoration on the top of the cup. 

I used the Sketch from the Make the Card Challenge for my layout with a sentiment from the same stamp set.

 

 

I finished with the make-a-wish Dandelion in the third hand.

With my Latte, I'm also joining the Simon Says Food and Drink Challenge.

Washi Tape Congrats

Do you ever go wandering through your blog searching for inspiration?  That's what I did tonight.  I knew I needed multiple Congratulations cards that I could make fairly quickly.  I was okay if they were similar, but since they were going to members of the same team, I wanted them to be slightly different too.

I chose this washi tape card from June 2013 as my inspiration.

 

 

I set the Congrats stamp from Stamp Market A Few Words in my MISTI and went searching for tape.

I started with a combination of blues ... I love that bit of glitter and the clouds.  Like the inspiration card, I repeated some patterns.  

 

 

Next up were dramatic greys and blacks ... clearly I have a thing for measuring tape.

 

 

Next up are the greens (I realized when I was writing the post that I used some of the same tapes as the inspiration card).

 

 

And last up, a card built around the gorgeous wide Gilded Greenery AltaNew Washi Tape.

 

 

I think I could have kept making these cards all night long.

A Glimpse of Heaven

This week's My Time to Craft Challenge is about A New Home. 

My sister and her fiancé just got a new home, and I am so thrilled for them after years of apartment living that they will have their own space for them and for their pets.

 

 

I die cut a green Gel Press Print with the House & Trees Die and positioned it on top of a blue Gel Press Print before die cutting them both with a rectangle die.  I framed them both with a purple frame cut from a third Gel Press Print.

I finished with a poem written with Tim Holtz Sticker Sentiments.

I'm also joining the CCEE Stampers where the theme is to Create a Scene.

Purple Cheers!

My sister's favorite color is purple and in a few weeks I'll be joining her as Matron of Honor at her purple wedding ... I can't wait.

So of course, I had to join the Purple Challenge at Addicted to CAS. 

 

 

I paired the new Essentials by Ellen Cup of Cheer stamps with a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen Bear Ware Grand Tour to turn it into a Purple wedding celebration design.

 

 

I added a little marker coloring and decided to go all-in Purple with a purple card base.

I did a trial run of my nails for the wedding this weekend ... I love the glittery sparkle.

 

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.