Ingenious Inkling

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.

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.