Ingenious Inkling

Dreamy Doily Design

Did you see they are having a 9th Anniversary Party at Paper Anthology.  I made a card for their very first challenge - Put a Doily On it!

 

 

I used a light blue doily together with a water-colored Amy Tangerine Oh Happy Life Circle.  I paired it with a Distress Oxide Blended background that I embossed for subtle texture.

 

I added some puffy flowers and fish stickers, as well as some bling to decorate my circle.  I finished with coordinating wood block stamped sentiment & flowers ... for a dreamy doily design.

 

 

The layout is this week's Tuesday Morning Sketch.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Santa will soon be making his appearance and he has no chance of getting here if not for his trusty Reindeer ... so that's the theme at Jingle Belles this week ... Reindeer.

However, we don't want to leave out their other cousins in the Cervidae family so you can also include deer, moose, elk OR caribou in your design … oh heck, just include any animal on your card (or even a monster if you're so inclined & want to stretch the theme ... yep, that's how we roll).

When I saw this week's Sunday Stamps Sketch and this Rudolph Ornament sticker in my stash, this card almost made itself.

 

I used a 6" snowflake embossing folder and embossed the background twice (meeting in the middle) and then added two strips of patterned paper from my stash.  A white doily, a sticker sentiment and a gold bow to match my sentiment, and I called this one done.

 

I'm also linking-up at Sweet Stampin' Challenge where the theme is Feature a Creature.

We've also got a nice little prize for one lucky participant, so pull out your favorite creatures and join the fun.

Fairy Princess Birthday

I needed a sweet little birhtday card for a girl turning three, so I thought this princess from the Angelica & Friends Collection CD-ROM from Crafter's Companion would be perfect.  

As she's sitting among the grass and flowers, it's also perfect for the Nature Challenge at One Stitch at a Time.

I used three cardstock scraps to bring out the colors in the image using this week's Paper Pals Arts Sketch.

I finished with an SRM Birthday Sticker Sentiment and a few Epoxy Dots (I skipped the sequins since I was worried about a 3 year old pulling them off).

 

You're My Person

I love the colors in the current Fusion Card Challenge ... they are the colors of my home.

I thought orange was perfect to feature my new little My Person {Fox} from Unity Stamp Company, which I colored with Spectrum Noir Blendable Colored Pencils.

Papers are from BasicGrey's Hey Boy Collection ... I finished with a scattering of sequins.

I hope you'll come join our Fusion Card Challenge fun ... can't wait to see what you create.

Not a CREATURE was stirring ...

We're having fun with our annual Creature Feature at Jingle Belles.

My creature is this cute little mail-puppy from Mulberry Wood.

I used a stamp from Crafter's Companion Jingle Bells with this week's Mojo Monday Sketch.  I added some fun digital paper buttons for the Crafter's Companion US October Buttons & Bows Challenge.

I'm also joining the Holiday Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and Anything Goes at Party Time Tuesdays.

Go for the Gold

Our theme at Jingle Belles is Baby It's GOLD Outside ... where we are celebrating the holidays with lots of glitzy gold.

I pretty much went all-out-gold with my card ... stamping done with Delicata Gold Glitz Ink ... gold DCWV Glitter bakcground ... gold sequins ... and snowflakes punched from gold foil paper.

Unfortunately, there was no gold ribbon in my stash (seriously ... how can that be), so I used blue glitter tape.  The layout is from Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Fusion Challenge ~ Old Door Charm

I think this week's Fusion Card Challenge is perfect for a little distressing.

I was inspired by the colors, theme and shape of the door.  It felt a little *Americana* to me, so I started with Crafter's Companion Starry Eyed Embossing folder on Core'dinations Kraft-Core Nostalgic collection that I sanded with a sanding block to bring out the design.

Unity Stamp Company's Hope builds Courage once in red & again in brown for the accent banner, that I attached with foam tape.  I liked how the word hope repeated in the inspiration image, so I added a few more text stickers to finish the design.

 

All Better Now Thank You

I love the cute little stamps in Lawn Fawn's Get Well Soon set ... and this week I added the coordinating Lawn Cuts dies to my collection, which makes them even more fun to use.

This week's Lawnscaping Challenge is texture, which I added by adding Lattice Embossing to my designer paper ... and using foam tape to make my cute little elements pop off the page.

The Thank You Chit Chat is also from Lawn Fawn (with coordinating Lawn Cuts Dies).

And with all of my cute little die cuts, I'm also joining the Cutting Edge Blog Hop.

The layout and colors come from this week's Poppy Sketch.

Fusion Challenge ~ Beach House

This week's Fusion Card Challenge is a peaceful beach house with a very versatile sketch.

I created a clean & simple birthday card design using the colors and flowers from the photo.

I used a floral striped Embossalicious embossing folder on the blue cardstock and an SRM Sticker for the sentiment.

 

• Betty J
• Dannielle Robeson
• Deepti
• Jeanne Jachna
• Julia Aston
• Katie Brooks
• Kelly Griglione
• Kimberly Wiener
• Lyndal Higgins
• Lynn Mangan
• Michelle Folland
• Michelle Lupton
• Sindu
• Stephanie Severin <---------- Me

Jingle Belles Inspired

This week we're still making cards inspired by Lauren's gorgeous blog header at Jingle Belles.  

For this card I wanted to capture the beautiful white-on-kraft portion of the design, so I stamped Hero Arts Holly Flourish with Gina K's White Pigment ink on a scrap of krafty designer paper.  

I tried heat setting the ink, but wasn't patient enough for it try dry, so I kept getting white ink all over my hands as I was working to assemble my design.  I finally took a cloth and just rubbed across the few places of the stamped ink that were still damp, and I love the soft muted effect.

I used a layout from Wanna Sketch? and added purple cardstock banners.  I used two different sentiments from Crafter's Companion Mistletoe Kisses.  I finished with larger silver pearls and tiny bits of clear bling scattered across the design.

I'm also joining Christmas in July at The Corrosive Challenge Blog.