Ingenious Inkling

Tiki Happy Soul

We have several things that we collect and display in our home ... and one of them are Tikis.  We're always on the hunt for a fun new one to add to our collection, so when I saw the Luau Stamps from Honey Bee Stamps, I had to have them.

The current Honey Bee Buzzworthy Challenge is to use Patterned Paper, so I decided to combine the two.  Of course after I made that decision, I discovered that all but one of the Honey Bee Sentiment Stamp sets were Christmas, so I had to get a bit creative with the sentiments from Honey Bee Stamps Kindness given the layout I wanted to use.

The Designer Papers are both from Honey Bee Stamps Back to Basics Paper Collection.

 

I also used a new-to-me Color Challenge called Color My Heart Color Dare #421 where the challenge was to use at least three of the colors - I managed to use 4 - Paprika, Sundance, Sage & Mint.

 

I also used the sketch from this week's Freshly Made Sketches.

 

 

Here are a few of my favorite Tikis.  We display them on the edges of the metal ceiling beams in our loft ... love looking-up to see them smiling back at me.

 

Square Blue Christmas

I wanted to get in a few more of the Paper Anthology Challenges before this weekend slips away from me (why does the time in my studio always go so much faster than other time??).

 

 

I started with the Paper Anthology Blue Christmas Challenge ... and decided to combine it with the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge to make a Traditional Holiday card.  

 

 

I started by die cutting the Honey Bee Stamps Layering Snowfalkes Dies from a lovely piece of blue shimmer cardstock.  Then I paired them with a piece of designer paper from the Kaisercraft Whimsey Wishes papers.

 

 

I added some bling & finished with a sentiment from Honey Bee Joy to the World.

Since I had lots of Snow Flakes left (love when that happens) I was able to make another card for the Paper Anthology Hip to be Square Challenge.

 

 

I used a scrap of the same designer paper, this time with a grey 4 1/2" square card base.

 

I finished with more bling & another perfect sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Joy to the World.

It's almost time to start addressing those holiday card envelopes.  Since people are decorating early this year to bring joy to their lives ... I'm sending my cards early too.

More Falliday Fest Fun

I've been having a blast trying new techniques at the SplitCoastStampers Falliday Fest.

The first one is created by wrapping cotton cord around an acrylic block and inking it with white ink and then pouncing on navy cardstock to create a snowstorm.

 

The stamps are from Honey Bee Stamps Let It Snow ... I love the die cut for the sentiment.

The next technique used the leftover paint-covered transparencies from my Dendritic Technique Card.  I attached it to a piece of Razzleberry cardstock ... love how the color shows through the paint.

To bring out the metallic gold paint on the transparency, I mounted it on a gold glitter card base.  I miss Hambly's transparencies.

Kindness

The September Mix-It-Up Challenge at Essentials by Ellen is with Honey Bee Stamps.

My card is CAS combining Kindness Stamps & Die Cuts from Honey Bee Stamps & Bold Blossoms Designer Dies from Essentials by Ellen in one of my favorite color combinations.

There are so many possible phrase combinations in the Kindness stamp set ... love that.

Happy Mail

When I saw the current inspiration photo at Inspired by All the Little Things, I went hunting for a scrap of wood *paper* I knew I had in my stash.

The picture also reminded me of this week's Freshly Made Sketch, so that is what I used for my layout.

I found my scrap of wood and cut it into three equal pieces.  I thought I could dye the wood using some Distress Ink Refill, which worked fabulously ... except after dying, nothing at all would stick to either the front or the back of the wood.  I finally got some foam tape to stick, so that's what I went with.

The stamps are from a cute little Happy Mail set from Honey Bee Stamps.  The colors are from this week's Color Throwdown.

I'm also joining the Color of Love Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

 

Thank You For Your Kindness

I just added my first stamps from Honey Bee Stamps to my collection ... I love the words in Kindness.

I combined it with Essentials by Ellen Bold Blooms for the November Mix-It-Up Challenge.

I was feeling like regal reds and purples tonight.

I added the coordinating Bold Blossom dies ... don't you just love that big bold kindness ... the world could use more big bold kindness.

I'm also linking-up at the Thanks Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.