Ingenious Inkling

Early Retirement Wishes

The newest challenge at Sketch~N~Scrap is to use one of four Throwback Sketches.

 

 

I chose May 20, 2019 for my card.  A co-worker is retiring early to go travel the US with us family (can you hear the tinge of envy in my voice).  I'm going to miss him a lot, so I wanted to make a special card to wish him well.

I started with a vintage page out of a throwback rate calculation handbook (we haven't used them in years, since all of those calculations are automated today), however I know he'll recognize what it is.

 

The focal sentiment is from Stampotique and the Whiskey bottle is a new stamp from Splash of Whiskey by Visible Image.  Then I used my GelliArts plate to create coordinating paper to back the sentiment.  I finished with a collection of stickers as the embellishments for the sketch.

Musical Washi Birthday

When I saw the newest Inspired By Challenge, I knew I had to visit my neglected drawer of washi tape.

 

 

 

I wanted to make a birthday card for a music lover, so I followed the colors of the inspiration photo with a few musical elements thrown into the mix.  I made a slimline card, so I could include more washi in my design including the Music Tape from Eyelet Outlet.

 

 

I added sentiments from Hero Arts Let's Celebrate staying relatively closed to the Inspired By Sketch.

 

 

Layered Birthday

The current Seize the Birthday Challenge is to create with layers.

 

 

I found these birthday tags, stickers, and ephemera in my stash, so I layered it on to create a masculine birthday card.

 

 

Happy to be restocking my stash.

Hippity Hop

Hippity Hop is the newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash - we're asking you to create an Easter Card or a card featuring a rabbit or a chick.

 

 

I decided to use my never before inked (linking-up at the NBUS Challenge) Trinty Stamps Bunnies.  I added color to the cheeks, ears, and several other elements in the image.  I finished by coloring the coolest bunny grey.

 

 

I matted the image with orange and purple and finished with one of the sentiments from the set.

And it's a 3-2-1 week at Passion for Markers.  I've got three paper layers on my card base, 2 paper layers on my sentiment and one colored bunny.

We hope you'll come join our Hippity Hop fun.

Free My Soul

I needed another masculine card for a teenage boy who loves guitars.

I chose this week's Sketch Saturday as my layout with the Free My Soul Stamp from Technique Junkies.  I used the colors from the Just Add Ink Colour Challenge, inking my stamps with a blend of Soft Sea Foam & Balmy Blue.

 

 

I pulled in the Petunia Pop with some Alcohol Ink designer paper and attached it to a Smoky Slate Card Base.   I used a grey/blue magazine page behind my stamped image & for the strip down the left.

 

 

I finished with a few Reminisce Rock Star Guitar Stickers.

 

Fun & Games

The newest challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz is Fun & Games.

I found some chipboard dominoes from Simple Stories Family Fun in my stash to build my card around.  My Papa taught us how to play dominoes ... he could always tell me what dominoes were still in play that would score points.

I built the card using two different GelliArts Prints.

 

 

 

I added a vintage woodblock sentiment stamp from Outlines Rubber Stamps stamped on an orange Gelliarts print.

Mailable Birthday

The newest Stay Crafty with a Blog Named Hero Challenge is to make a mailable card (and mail it).

 

 

Birthday cards are something I regularly mail, so I that's what I made.  I started with tone-on-tone stamping of the Hero Arts Abstract Frames Bold Print.

 

 

Next, I added the star balloon transfer from the Birthday Hero Transfers, but decided that it didn't have enough contrast (However I am still linking-up at the S is for ... Challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz with my Star), so I added the blue balloon dog transfer on top.  Then I added a blue sentiment transfer and blue stars to create a triangle of blue.

I finished with a few red gems to create another visual triangle with the large die cut sentiment from Hero Arts It's Our Anniversary (backed with coordinating yellow glitter).

Pinkfresh Happy Birthday

The March Pinkfresh Studio Challenge is Spell It Out - to get creative using Pinkfresh Alphabet Stamps and/or Dies.

 

 

I used three of the colors from the Challenge photo to die cut HAPPY using Pinkfresh Studio Adore Alphabet to make a masculine birthday card.  I used the two shades of blue ink with the Pinkfresh Studio Layered Sunburst Stencil Set.

 

I used foam tape to attach the letters and cut the "birthday" from a sentiment found in Pinkfresh Studio Happy Birthday Sentiments.  I finished with some Stargazer gems.

I'm also linking-up at the Seven Hills Craft Challenge to use a Stamp, a Die and a Stencil on a card.  I'm also joining the March Stencil Fun Challenge.

Plow Around the Stump

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge theme is Anything Goes on the Farm.

I made a single layer card combining stamps from Penny Black Shade Canopy with Penny Black Life is Simpler.

 

 

I clear embossed the tractor and colored with my alcohol Ink markers.  I took some of my inspiration from this photograph of my Dad on my brother-in-law's farm tractor.  He was having so much fun.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at G is for Green at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

 

Masculine Birthday

The AAA Birthday Challenge for March is to make a masculine card.

 

 

I started with an Ephemera Birthday Tag with an orange ribbon, which I then framed using the LDRS Creative Floating Circles Die cut from one of my GelliArts prints.

 

 

It's also Clean & Simple with Ephemera at the Inkspirational Challenge.

 

 

I used the rest of the same Gelliarts Print together with the layout from this week's Sketch Challenge at The Paper Players to make a second masculine birthday card.

 

 

I positioned another piece of birthday ephemera in the center of the Die Cut circle using foam tape.

 

 

I'm also joining the 613 Avenue Create Challenge, which is Anything Goes with an Option of an Occasion.