Ingenious Inkling

The Whole Herd

Living in the Midwestern farmland, I love all of the fun farm animal brads from Eyelet Outlet.

 

I gathered the entire herd of Farm Animal Brads together for this fun birthday card using sentiments from My Favorite Things The Whole Herd.

 

 

 

I couldn't find a fence die or punch in my stash, so I created a birthday-fence using a Stampin' Up Candle Border Punch.  It's hard to pick a favorite, but I love that little piggie.

 

I used more of those cute little piggie brads for my next card.

 

 

I grounded my piggies with some fun skinny grass washi tape.  Sentiments are from the same MFT The Whole Herd Set.

 

The new brads will be in the store very soon.

 

Eyelet Outlet Products used: 

• Chicken Brads
• NEW - Cow Brads
• NEW - Goat Brads
• NEW - Pig Brads
• NEW - Rooster Brads
• NEW - Sheep Brads
• Skinny Washi Tape - Grass

Feel Better Soon

Eyelet Outlet Nurse Brads are perfect for Get Well cards.

 

I combined them with band-aid die cuts & stamps from Paper Smooches for these clean & simple designs.

 

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Love the details on that little stethoscope.

 

 

I love how Brads turn a simple design into something special.

 

 

 

 

 

Get Better

PaperTrey Ink is celebrating their 10th Anniversary ... today's post features four stamp sets that were released 10 years ago.  While I don't own any of those stamps, I used option two, which was to make a card inspired by the designs shared today.  

I chose these lovely cards from Heather Nichols to inspire my design.

I love the boxed shape of the stamp from the Text Boxed stamps, so I used a stamp from Sentiment Signs (which was designed by Heather) and has a similar feel.

Rather than stamp on the bottom panel, I embossed using the PaperTrey Ink Sunshine Impression Plate.

Get Well Soon

I thought it would be fun to combine this week's Just Us Girls Challenge (All Over Stamping) with The Paper Players Challenge (Black + White + Any One Color). I chose Lawn Fawn's Lobster Red as my color.

Stamp's are Lawn Fawn's Get Well Soon (such a great little set).  I just stamped randomly on a larger piece and then cut it down for my single layer card.  I used the tiny heart stamp to fill in some of the blanker spaces.

Being Strong is the Only Choice

Sometimes things happen in life where there just don't seem to be the right words ... but you still want to show support and say something.

Tonight is one of those nights.  Sentiment is from My Favorite Things Vertical Greetings ... Layout is my version of this week's MFT Sketch Challenge.  

Rubbernecker Stamps and Eyelet Outlet

Our Eyelet Outlet Design Team had the privilege of creating designs using awesome Rubbernecker Stamps.  There were so many choices, I had a hard time narrowing down my stamps ... and the ones I picked are fantastic.

My first card features 7 images from the Rubbernecker Diva Inchies stamped in black.  I am a huge inchie fan and this set is filled with awesome girlie images.

 

I combined the inchies with the Women's Eye Glass & Cell Phone Selfie Brads from Eyelet Outlet.

 

 

I also cut individual gems from one of the Swirl Bling in Jewel Pink to embellish the stamped images.

 

 

 

My second card features Rubbernecker Stamps Heard You're sentiment, which pairs perfectly with some Bandaid Brads from Eyelet Outlet.

 

 

Here's a close-up of the text.

 

 

My final card features a gorgeous Rubbernecker Stamps Wild Garden Border 1 stamped in green on a piece of blue designer paper.

 

 

The Wild Garden was the perfect place for all sorts of Eyelet Outlet creatures to frolic.  There are two orange butterfly brads.

 

 

And a little baby bunny hiding in the grass.

 

 

I also added sun and cloud brads in the sky with some sticker sentiments.

 

I hope you have fun browsing through the Rubbernecker Stamp Gallery (they are so many cool images) and using lots of fun Eyelet Outlet products too.

 

Products Used:

 

• Rubbernecker Stamps Diva Inchies
• Eyelet Outlet Women's Eye Glass Brads
• Eyelet Outlet Cell Phone Selfie Brad
• Eyelet Outlet Swirl Bling in Jewel Pink
• Rubbernecker Stamps Heard You're
• Eyelet Outlet Bandaid Brads
• Rubbernecker Stamps Wild Garden Border 1
• Eyelet Outlet Butterfly Brads
• Eyelet Outlet Rabbit Brad
• Eyelet Outlet Sun & Cloud Brads

 

Get Well Soon

Having all of these great Color Burst Water Colored papers from art camp at Lauren's makes it so easy to create.  I stamped this inky background with my new MFT Writing Tablet Background on top of one of the water colored piece and die cut with Spellbinders Labels 1 to make this frame.

Sentiments are from MFT Get Well Wishes.  I attached my frame with foam tape for dimension and finished with some sequins using the current MFT Sketch Challenge.

I'm also joining You Could be a Card Design Superstar.

 

Watercolor Hope

The ladies at Shopping Our Stash are having a little Splish Splash Fun this week.  I decided to pull out my watercolors and paint on some designer paper.  

I painted onto some marbled paper from Dear Lizzy Serendipity collection covering-up the white with a coordinating paint hue.  I used my heat gun to help expedite the drying.

I added a cork flower sticker and a Tim Holtz word sticker to finish the design using this week's CAS(E) this sketch!.  Nothing quite like a little quick, easy, artsy fun.

TGIF ReMix

I just discovered a new challenge blog called the TGIF Challenge ... and this week's challenge is to combine 2 of the last four challenges (hence the remix) to create a card. 

I did a fair amount of crafty shopping online over Memorial Day which was delivered this week, including a gorgeous My Mind's Eye Just Sayin' Collection ... which is perfect for the color challenge.

I love ordering from Crafty Steals because it's fun to get the entire collection (chipboard, stickers, brads, etc.), which I would seldom purchase otherwise.

Using the sketch I combined two papers and one of the chipboard pieces.  I finished with an SRM Sentiment.

Feel Better Real Soon

I needed a masculine get well card tonight, so I thought the abstract patterns in this Nonoo Dress at the Runway Inspired Challenge were the perfect inspiration.

I pulled together cardstock in the three colors and assembled my design using this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

It's Anything Goes Week at Paper Smooches ... my card features the typewriter & paper from Just a Note and a Sentiment from Salutations (and yes, I did cut apart the sentiment so it would fit on my typewriter paper).

I embossed the background and distressed it with charcoal ink to try to emulate the feel of the designer dress.