Ingenious Inkling

Makeover Monday - Painted Papers

Today's Makeover Monday was inspired by this colorful Washi Tape card from May 2012.

 

I saw the theme at CAS Mix Up Card Challenge was acrylic paints. 

I have a drawer of acrylic painted and acrylic paint gel pressed papers from the various Art Camp fun that Lauren and I have had the last few years.  I thought it would be fun to recreate the design above by replacing the Washi Tape with 3/4" strips of painted papers.  My third elements is paper tearing, as I tore the ends of each of the paper strips like I tore the washi tape (Acrylic Paint, Stamping, Paper Tearing).

 

I started with the third paper that is acrylic paint gel press in teal and purple and found three more papers that coordinated.  I punched the butterfly from the dark purple paper at the bottom and added two tiny teal gems.

 

Rather than thanks, I used a typed Thinking of You sentiment from Essentials by Ellen Totally Random Sayings Vol. 1.  I could easily make a set of these (and alter the sentiments) for a gift.

Makeover Monday - Hawkeye Baby Card

For today's Makeover Monday I'm doing a Congratulations Card for the Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti.  

 

I went all the way back to October 2016 for this cutie as my inspiration.

 

I decided to keep the layout and change-up the colors to use the hues from the Just Us Girls Color Week Challenge ... they might seem like odd colors for a baby card, but if you live near the University of Iowa, you know those are Hawkeye Colors, so they are just perfect.

 

I combined both metallic gold and the color gold for my design starting with a piece of Black and Metallic gold designer paper from a Christmas Collection with two other golden scraps of paper in my scrap box.

 

The adorable Reverse Confetti Onesie from Cute as a Button in Wendy Vecchi Ranger Archival Buttercup Ink.  I added some enamel hearts and dots for accents and finished with the typewriter congratulations sentiment from Reverse Confetti Fancy Words Coordinates.

The perfect baby card for a future Iowa Hawkeye.

Makeover Monday - Layering Die Cut Stencil Valentine

I'm back for another Makeover Monday.

This week I chose this Valentine from February 2017, which was the first (and I believe only) time I have used these rather expense Birch Press Designs Caprice Heart Layers Die Cuts.  When I saw Jennifer Mcguire's video this week on how to turn these layering die cuts into stencils, I figured it was the perfect time to give it a try.

 

I die cut the three hearts from a scrap of kraft cardstock on my desk, and then die cut one more time to create my mask.  Since I intended to cut out the heart, I used the mask for all the layers.  I used Jennifer's technique of then cutting out the center of the 4th die to create a white heart frame.

I used three of the inks from the Pink Fresh Heart Beat Quartet - Coral Reef, Passion Fruit and Berrylicious.  I couldn't find enamel hearts in my stash to match these colors, so I used a little foam heart sticker in the center and two Eyelet Outlet Pink Hearts at the top.  

The sentiment is a die cut from Simon Says Stamp Everyday Words on a Line for another Galentine.  And I'm still joining Sam's Use My Stuff Challenge - Love (those sentiment dies were unopened ... and yay for using my heart dies a second time).

Washi Birthday Make-Over

I had so much fun doing the Gina K. Designs Make-Over Challenge the last two weeks, I thought I would expand and look for other cards in my history that deserved a make-over too.  I chose this Avery Elle Washi Tape Birthday card from August 2015 because it has been way to long since I played with my Washi Tape (and as we know, some of that tape just doesn't age well).

 

I started my card with the heart and flower washi tape, and built my color palette around that using red and that shade of blue.  I used the same Cake & Candles Sentiment from Avery Elle.

 

 

I also decided to try to make a larger card (mine ended-up around 5" x 6 1/4"), which gave me room for two pieces of flair instead of a flower (one is the fabulous Keith Haring and the other is from A Flair for Buttons.

Makeover Monday

After last week's Makeover Card for the Gina K. Designs January Monthly Mix Challenge, I decided to do a makeover on an older Gina K. Designs card from April 2016.  This was a Wedding Card for the Splitcoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge.

I stuck with Authentique Papers, the same Gina K. Designs Always & Forever Image (and sentiment ... now discontinued) and the Gem Flourish for my Makeover design.

 

This time I used Authentique's Everlasting Collection and cut several 1" or so strips to create the patterned background.  Another thing that has changed since 2016 is the Gina K. Designs Amalgam Ink ... it made stamping that solid couple so much easier.   Since by background was monochromatic, I added a contrasting red bling flourish and finished with some gem hearts instead of a flower.

 

 

I really like both versions of this design, but I think the contrast of the red and black make that one a bit more elegant.