Ingenious Inkling

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The TGIF Challenge is What Would You Do Without Stamps?

 

 

That's a pretty easy one for me, but today I'm picking Collage as the answer to that question.

I started with an inky foreign texty die cut piece with washi tape on the right side.

 

 

I added a few layers and decorated the traced butterflies with some hand-drawn bodies & some nuvo drops (you can see I got in a bit of a hurry before they dried, so there was a but of mush, but I'm okay with that).

The sentiment is a Dina Wakley Collage Words that impart a wise thought (one of the many options for sentiments that don't involve stamping).

My Time to Craft is celebrating their 500th Challenge with Numbers ... if you look at the top right of the text, you can see 1435.

Birdie Love

The newest challenge at The Paper Players is creating Clean & Simple with birdies.

 

 

I've had these vintage little collage images from Red Lead Paper Works in my stash for more years than I can remember.  Today they finally get to send some papercrafting love.

 

 

I paired this cutie with a doily, a coordinating color card base and a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen Valentine Vibes.

 

 

 

This little cutie gets paired with a strip of alcohol ink gel press print (I knew there was a reason I saved that tiny bit) and another Essentials by Ellen Valentine Vibes Sentiment. 

 

 

With a cup and saucer of Tea & Flowers on her bonnet (and a hat to protect her from the rain) I'm joining the Just Us Girls Moodboard Challenge ... sometimes even a little birdie needs a cup of tea to get her day started.

How Do You Spell Love?

The January Unity Stamp Company Challenge is all about Cozy Winter Colors.

 

 

When I saw the gold & the pink, I thought one of my new Winnie the Pooh stamps would be perfect.  I chose Unity Stamp Company Winnie the Pooh How do you spell love?, which I stamped & colored with my Spectrum Noir markers.

 

 

I used this week's Vertical Sketch from the Paper Craft Crew for my layout. 

 

 

The card felt a bit flat with all of the solid cardstock, so I embossed the light grey card base with Gina K. Designs Tapestry Embossing Folder for some texture.

Ravishing Red Hugs

The January Challenge at Memory Box is Ravishing Reds.

 

And If You Give a Crafter a Cookie is all about Red too.

 

 

I started with a Red Alcohol Ink Background.  Next I die cut the Memory Box Hugs Loving Heart from Red & White cardstock and layered it with a red shadow.

 

 

I framed the panel in more red before using form tape to attach it to the white card base.

Now to get those hugs in the mail.

You Can Do Amazing Things

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Anything goes with an Optional theme of Something New.

I had these gorgeous Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple Bright Bouquets in my newly purchased products that were just screaming to be on a card.

I discovered that they fit perfectly in one of the Penny Black Stitches of Love Cutting Dies, which gave them a cool die cut frame.

For this first one I used a layout from Sketch~N~Scrap.  I found green scrap of alcohol ink roll-off paper in my scraps that coordinated perfectly.

 

 

Instead of the flower in the Sketch layout, I used a couple of Butterfly Stickers from Penny Black Dreamscape and Penny Black April in Paris Stickeroo Sheets.

 

 

I finished with some green gems and a sentiment from Penny Black Words of Encouragement.

Since I was on a roll, I went ahead and made a second card with another panel from the Bright Bouquets.  This time I found cardstock scraps in the three colors of the panel and used a Horizontal Sketch from Paper Craft Crew Challenge.

 

 

For this one I stamped a sentiment from Penny Black Words of Encouragement directly onto the card and finished with a few enamel dots.

 

Snowflake Hope

For the new year, I did a purge and re-sorting of my gel printed, inked & painted backgrounds, so that hopefully they'll be more accessible, and I'll use more of them in 2023. 

I started with this wonderful painted and salted background on kraft paper of watercolor paint over gesso that I made some extras for an art journaling class.

 

 

Next I die cut two more Gel Printed background for layers 1 & 2 of the Birch Press Mini Snowflake Frame Layer Set (topping it with white cardstock for layer 3).  I added a pearl in the middle and finished with a Hope sentiment from Birch Press Rainbow Days Lingo Notes.

Since I did a good job of Using my Stuff, I'm linking at up the Real or Faux Stitching Challenge at Use Your Stuff Challenge.

Pajama Day

The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Pajama Day (or Pyjama Day depending on your spelling preference - make a card inspired by your Pajamas (and include a picture).  Since I don't really wear pajamas (the tops & bottoms I wear are different sizes, so pajamas have never been an option), I chose some Pajamas I would choose if I did wear them to inspire my card ... Sushi Pajamas from The Cat's Pajamas.

 

 

I created an all-over stamped background with Essentials by Ellen Wasabi two-step stamps.  Since the pajamas have Tamago (one of my favorites), I used yellow ink to turn what is likely tuna or salmon into Tamago.

 

 

I used a marker to color in the sesame seeds and finished with a sentiment from the same set.

 

 

Show us your cards inspired by your pajamas (or pajamas that inspire you) .

Go Boldly

The November Pinkfresh Studio Challenge is all about Texture.

 

 

I started with new paper from the Pinkfresh Studio Delightful Collection.

The first texture I added was the Pinkfresh Studio Art Deco Frame attached with foam tape.  Then I added Pinkfresh Studio Curvy Leaves also cut from white cardstock.

 

Next I chose my sentiment from the Pinkfresh Studio Delightful Puffy Stickers together with a tiny sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio Delightful Title Ephemera.  I added more Puffy Sticker flowers & a butterfly, and then finished with a coordinating Enamel Dots from the Pinkfresh Studio Delightful Collection.

 

 

I'm also joining the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge.

Texture Terrific in my opinion. 

Hello Sunshine

The current Lawn Fawn Challenge is to create a Monochromatic Card.

 

 

I looked through my Lawn Fawn collection and saw this Hello Sunshine Sentiment from Lawn Fawn Magic Messages and decided my monochromatic color was going to be sunshine (aka golden yellow).  I stamped it in sunshine yellow and die cut it with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle Stackable using the next size to cut the stitched mat to frame it and attachment the sentiment with foam tape for dimension.

 

 

Next I used the Lawn Fawn Simple Stripes: Diagonal Die on one of my Sunshiny Alcohol Ink Panels.  I finished with a scattering of sunshiny sequins.

World Cardmaking Day with Unity

Unity Stamp Company had a fun inspiration challenge for World Cardmaking Day.

 

I stamped the Unity Stamp Company Joy to Go Coffee Cup in Navy Ink and clear heat embossed. 

Next I painted my cup using Catherine Pooler Sauna & Daydream inks and then used the same colors on the Unity Stamp Company / Brutus Monroe Vintage Burlap background stamp.

 

 

I finished by stamping the sentiment from Unity Stamp Company's Whit's Words in the Daydream Ink and covering the *Joy* on the Coffee Cup (since this is supposed to be an Autumn card).  I finished with coordinating Enamel Dots.

Thanks to Unity for a fun way to create on this annual day.