Ingenious Inkling

Rainbow Snowboarding

This week at Jingle Belles we're making cards that feature ways to have FUN during the winter time. 

You might enjoy skiing, ice skating or sledding … or you might be more about sitting inside watching the snowfall from your favorite chair while drinking hot cocoa and reading a book. Whatever says winter fun for you, include it on your card & tell us why you (or the recipient) enjoy it.

While I have never snowboarded, I have several people on my Christmas card list who love the sport.  This 1997 Stampington & Company Snowboarder is one of the oldest stamps I have in my stash, and I still think he looks just as great today. 

I inked-him using four ink colors to create a rainbow with the overlap for the Caffeinated Christmas Challenge theme of Rainbow.  To bring in the Coffee, I stamped a tiny coffee cup from Hero Arts Kelly's Coffee & Donuts and placed it on the end of the snowboard.

 

 

My layout is the sketch from the Retro Rubber Stamp Challenge. 

 

 

I used Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders for my snowy slopes and finished with a sentiment from Memory Box Dashing with Reindeer inked in reverse rainbow order.

 

Plaid Yeti or Not

It's another week of playing with PLAID at Jingle Belles.  I went with another page from the Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid.

Stamps are Lawn Fawn Yeti or Not (and a bit from Lawn Fawn Offset Sayings Christmas) stamped on a white designer paper that sort of has a subtle snowflake-like pattern in the white-on-white design.  I used a blue alcohol ink marker to color their faces.

I used the plaid paper for the background, scarf, Santa Hat and even the Christmas tree.  I die cut the star from the same set form gold glitter paper and finished with a Love from Lizi Gold Peel Off along the bottom of the banner.

The layout is this week's Saturday Sketch.  

 

 

 

Don't Eat a Plaid Poinsettia

This week at Jingle Belles we're celebrating all things Plaid.  There are lots of great patterned papers in that category, not to mention stamps and stencils for creating one's own. You might use a  tartan ribbon, a buffalo plaid background or argyle accents, just find a plaid you like and incorporate it into your card. 

Lawn Fawn has the best plaid paper pads, so I decided to incorporate this lovely design from Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid.  I also decided to incorporate the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge to create a card inspired by a Book, Movie or Song.

 

 

For my inspiration, I chose the classic children's Christmas Carol - Don't Eat a Poinsettia.

I die cut the Lawn Fawn Stitched Poinsettia Dies from coordinating solid cardstocks.  I used small glue dots to assemble the poinsettia layers and attached them to the plaid paper using 3-D glue dots for dimension.

 

 

I added coordinating bling to the center of the blooms and finished with a sentiment from Lawn Fawn Simply Winter Sentiments.

And since I had bits left on my studio table, I decided to turn them into a bonus plaid card using a coordinating light blue card base.

 

 

We hope you'll pull out your plaids and come join us at Jingle Belles.

Lots of Heart

We're still creating cards inspired by the 12 Days of Christmas (or with Hearts or a True Love Card or all three) at Jingle Belles. 

There are a lot of animals in the 12 days of Christmas, but I don't remember any Bunny Rabbits.  However, the cute Lawn Fawn Snow Day Collection has some True Love and Hearts going on in the snowy woods.

 

 

I added a few tiny enamel hearts between the sentiments on the paper strip and blinged out the holiday tree to finish the design.

 

 

And with my Heart-themed holiday card I also took my inspiration from the Lawnfawnatics Lots of Heart Challenge.

Remember, one lucky Jingle Belles participant will receive Impression Obsession Christmas Words Stamp Set.

 

Let it Snow

We're still creating with things that Santa Brought Us at Jingle Belles ... and since I'm my own Santa, my stocking was pretty full.

My card features three new Lawn Fawn products Santa brought for my stash. 

 

 

The Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflake Backdrop die was cut into silver metallic cardstock. 

Next I used the Giant Let It Snow Die from Green Glitter Cardstock (that I aslo used to frame my snowflake panel). 

I finished with one of the cute little bunnies from Lawn Fawn Snow Day.  I finished with a bit of marker coloring and a glittery enamel dot for his bunny tail.

Pull out those new things on your studio table and come join us.

Lawn Fawn Happy New Year

When I saw the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch, I knew I wanted to use my diamond punch on some paper scraps ... I just had to go looking for inspiration ... and I found it at the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge.

 

 

I took the colors from the bottom right photo and punched out some Purple, Teal, Lime & Blues.  Next I added a woodgrain background from the bottom left photo.

 

 

I added some silver glitter enamel dots from Eyelet Outlet to bring in the glittery sparkle.  Now all I needed was a brass band to help us ring in the new year. 

The Fox, Bear and Little Note Sentiment are from Lawn Fawn Critter Concert.  I did some masking on a Lawn Fawn Simply Winter Sentiment for the Happy New Year.

I'm also joining the Simon Says Stamp Party! Challenge.

 

 

Celebration is the theme at Global Design Project.

Autumn So Thankful

Autumn is my favorite time of year ... the cool mornings and beautiful colorful landscapes. 

Today I made a card inspired by the Autumn Leaf Cookies at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie.

 

 

I've been on a quest to use more of my inky & printed backgrounds, so I started by stamping the Magenta Zentangle Leaf on an Autumn colored Alcohol Ink Brayer Roll-off paper from my stash.  I detail cut the leaf for more contrast.

 

I used a Lawn Fawn Outside-In Stitched Rectangle Stackables die cut on a Gel Press Print from my stash and mounted it on a kraft card base before attaching my leaf ... I left some edges without adhesive so I could curl them slightly.

I finished with a Simon Says Stamp Holiday Words on a Line die cut sentiment from the same Alcohol Ink paper.

I'm also joining the Country View Challenge to use Autumnal Colors.

Lawnfawnatics Inspired Finger-Painted Gel Press Ocean

Today's ABC's of Printing Challenge theme at GelliArts is F is for Finger-painting.  I always loved the tactile joy of finger-painting and still use my fingers as a tool in my art, so I thought it would be fun, but wasn't quite sure where to start. 

Then I saw the Inspiration Photo at the Lawnfawnatics Challenge and inspiration struck ... how gorgeous are those swirls and colors.

 

 

I started by laying down a thin layer of Cobalt Teal with my brayer (my gel press is stained yellow of alcohol inks, so the colors aren't true) and then put my fingers to work with Manganese Blue.

 

 

Next came Permanent Green Light and Iridescent Bright Gold.

 

 

Then I finished with more Manganese Blue and Liquitex Bright Aqua Green.  I didn't clean my finger between painting, so there are bits of each color all around.

 

 

I pulled my prints with copy paper and ended-up with three.  I pulled the first and then applied a thin later of the Bright Gold Paint to pull a second.  The third is a clean-up print.  I ended-up using bits of all three in my card.

 

 

For my card, I trimmed down the gold print for the base on a black card base.  Next I used the Largest Lawn Fawn Stitched Stackables Circle to cut out my ocean.  I used the third clean-up print to stamp my sentiment from Lawn Fawn Simply Sentiments and put the rest of the print on the inside of the card.  

 

I finished with a row of golden gems and the whale option from the Lawn Fawn Narwhal & Friends die cut from Periwinkle glitter paper with a gold glitter spout and googly eyes.  I die cut the solid whale in black for a bit of shadow for contrast.

 

 

I'm also joining the Birthdays Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

Have a Narly Birthday

I love a good sketch, so when I saw today's Lawn Fawnatics Challenge, I immediately wanted to create.

 

I wanted to incorporate Lawn Fawn designer papers into the stripes.  I used Lawn Fawn Knit Picky Fall and Really Rainbow Scallops.  I used the Lawn Fawn Spiffy Speckles for the background.  To get the angles with the 6" papers, I had to shrink the size a bit, so I framed it on a kraft card base.

 

I stamped my Lawn Fawn Winter Narwhal (with Coordinating Die) on the scrap of the Spiffy Speckles and paper pieced the horn and scarf using the Knit Picky paper from the background.  I'm linking-up at Dies R Us Challenge where you can find the fun Lawn Fawn Narwhal and Coordinating Die.

I pieced together my sentiment from Lawn Fawn Winter Narwhal and Oh Gnome! to get the birthday sentiment I wanted for the card.

I'm also linking-up at Simon Says Stamp Birthday Celebration.

Treat Yourself

The current Lawn Fawn Challenge is all about Fun with Food ... and what better summer food than ice cream.

 

I started by ink-blending my base panel with Prize Ribbon, Dusty Concord and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide Inks.  Then I gave it a few spritzes of shimmer spray for overall glimmer.

 

 

I blended more Distress Oxide inks onto a scrap of white cardstock, so I could  stamp the Ice Cream Container, Ice Cream Lid and Spoon from Lawn Fawn's Treat Yourself.  I die cute white cardstock with the Lawn Fawn Cross-Stitched Circle Stackables and positioned them inside.

I'm also linking-up at the Little Red Wagon Stay Cool Challenge.  The Simon Says Stamp Challenge is also about Food & Drink (don't you love that you can both eat & drink ice cream).