Ingenious Inkling

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.

You Mean the World to Me

What do you get when you mix a Meg Venter Retro Rainbow Rug with a 1541 Mercator globe ... today's Pottery Barn Inspiration Challenge at SplitcoastStampers.

I added a strip of rainbow designer paper to accent my Wood mounted Magenta heart-shaped globe stamp that is at least 18 years old (I found it in the 1993-2000 Magenta Catalog online).

The sentiment is a vintage Kate & Co Stamp that I would guess is at least 10 years old too (didn't you love when those used to be in the $1 bin at Michael's)

I'm also joining the CASology Earth Challenge.

 

And the theme is Mad About Stripes at the Retro Rubber Challenge.

 

All You Need Is Love

With my latest order from Topflight Stamps they provided a recycled tag and request to create & post what I create with it.

I used my MISTI to stamp with Carabelle Stamps Mini textures & Doodl'Art and finished with a sentiment from Magenta #TopFlightTag ... my first valentine for 2019.

Christmas in July

Even though I make a Christmas card for Jingle Belles every week, that doesn't get me nearly enough completed by December ... so Christmas in July Challenges are the perfect time to make some ground on the final number of cards I need ... just like at AAA Cards.

I inked-up a never-before-used Magenta Floral Holiday Trio stamp from my stash (actually I liked it so much there were two never-before-used stamps in my stash, so one will be a future giveaway).  I used Catherine Pooler's Peppermint Scrub Ink and paired it with a scrap of Valentine's Day plaid.

The layout is from 52 Christmas Card Trowdown and the sentiment is a favorite from Catslife Press.

I'm also joining CAS Christmas where the theme is Poinsettia.

Game Day Birthdays

I picked up a pad of We R Memory Keepers Game Day papers on my recent travels because I knew they would be perfect for some quick masculine birthday cards.

The soccer themed design uses a vintage sentiment from Magenta together with this week's Match The Sketch Challenge.

I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Seize the Birthday.

 

The baseball card uses this week's Fab Friday Sketch together with some vintage Hero Arts sentiments.

Magenta Zentangle Leaf

Magenta was one of the first stamp companies I fell in love with back when Nathalie would show how to use her stamps on The Carol Duvall Show.  

I recently picked-up some new Magenta stamps for my collection including this gorgeous Zentangle Leaf, so I wanted to join the Magenta September Challenge which is Autumn. 

I stamped my leaf in Potting Soil Archival ink on watercolor paper and clear embossed.  Next, I colored with Spectrum Noir markers (GB6, CG2, GB3, and OR1).  

I detail-cut my leaf, so I could bend the paper to provide some movement (or perhaps I detail-cut my leaf because I had some stray embossing powder and colored outside the lines a bit ... whichever story works for you).  I attached the leaf to ivory cardstock and bent the edges for dimension using this week's Cas(E) this Sketch.

I die cut my Celebrate sentiment from a scrap of green designer paper, but it didn't give enough contrast with the leaf.  Next I tried dark brown cardstock, which still seemed to fade into the background.  I die cut the sentiment two more times from the brown cardstock and stacked them all together, which gave me the stronger sentiment I needed.

I'm also joining the September Elemental Inspiration Challenge at Daring Cardmakers.