Ingenious Inkling

Stuck On You

This week at Jingle Belles we're Stuck on You.  Stickers were one of the very first things I started collecting when I began making cards … and I'm guessing you have some in your stash too. They might be fun little 3-D images or sentiment strips … whatever your sticker of choice, we're asking you to use them on your holiday cards.

I created with one of my absolute favorite stickers - Christmas Everywhere Stickeroos from Penny Black.  I attached this gorgeous poinsettia to an ivory card base.  

 

 

The sentiment is a sticker company from the past - SRM Stickers.  So quick and easy, I had to make another one.

 

 

Dig out those stickers and come join us.

Ring the Bells

The Jingle Belles are Ringing in the Christmas Bells with our prompt this week ... so we'd like to see cards with sleigh bells, church bells, jingle bells, silver bells or... well, whatever kind of bell you can think of. 

I went with a new-to-me Penny Black Ring the Bells stamp.  I thought I would stamp it on white cardstock & color ... but there was a scrap of light blue cardstock on my table, so I thought I would try that first ... and I ended-up loving it ... especially the contrast of the red bloom & berries.

 

I die cut it with a stitched rectangle and added a slight mat of green before attaching to my red card base.

 

With my new stamp, I'm linking-up at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge where the Optional Theme is Something New.

You Can Do Amazing Things

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Anything goes with an Optional theme of Something New.

I had these gorgeous Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple Bright Bouquets in my newly purchased products that were just screaming to be on a card.

I discovered that they fit perfectly in one of the Penny Black Stitches of Love Cutting Dies, which gave them a cool die cut frame.

For this first one I used a layout from Sketch~N~Scrap.  I found green scrap of alcohol ink roll-off paper in my scraps that coordinated perfectly.

 

 

Instead of the flower in the Sketch layout, I used a couple of Butterfly Stickers from Penny Black Dreamscape and Penny Black April in Paris Stickeroo Sheets.

 

 

I finished with some green gems and a sentiment from Penny Black Words of Encouragement.

Since I was on a roll, I went ahead and made a second card with another panel from the Bright Bouquets.  This time I found cardstock scraps in the three colors of the panel and used a Horizontal Sketch from Paper Craft Crew Challenge.

 

 

For this one I stamped a sentiment from Penny Black Words of Encouragement directly onto the card and finished with a few enamel dots.

 

Let It Snow

Day 6 of Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas is - Let It Snow with Angela Simpson.

 

 

As I looked through my stamps for ideas, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to combine this challenge with Amy Tsuruta's Woodblock Wednesday Challenge.  I pulled out my favorite and much-loved Frosty Stamp from Penny Black and paired it with Let It Snow from Impress. 

 

 

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Anything Goes with an optional theme of Christmas.

 

 

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch as the layout for my tag.

 

 

I added a silvery glittery snowflake and white snowball and finished with some plaid ribbon.

 

 

I'm also joining the Allsorts Challenge where the theme is Anything Goes with an option of Let It Snow.

Poinsettia Christmas

The current Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Anything Goes with an Option of Embellish It. 

 

 

I used a Penny Black Christmas Collage Stickeroo paired with a Penny Black Merry Christmas Die Cut that I die cut from Black (for the drop shadow) and Peach. 

I embellished with some yellow bling in the poinsettia centers.

I'm linking-up at the Clean-and-Simple Christmas Challenge at The Paper Players.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Anything Goes Christmas Challenge at The Holly and Ivy Challenge.

Musical Merry Christmas

The August Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Anything Goes with an Optional Twist of Music.

I started with one of the Penny Black Icy Winds Masterpieces Made Simple.

 

I framed it with Penny Black Music Lines Stickers on a kraft cardstock.

I finished with the Penny Black Merry Christmas Die Cut from brown cardstock.

 

 

My little backyard birdhouse is also linking-up at In the Backyard Challenge at Heart2Heart Challenges.

It's also Christmas in August at the Make Monday Challenge.

A Feeling of Christmas

We're still creating with BLING at Jingle Belles (in partnership with the Double Trouble Christmas in July Challenge).

 

 

Lauren gifted me some of the gorgeous new Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple (that she used in our prior Masculine Holiday Cards), so I had to immediately break one out and use it.  

 

 

I kept it super-simple by attaching it to a white card base, adding a big band of Eyelet Outlet Fancy Wide Bling, and a sentiment sticker ... almost makes me wish for a little snow.

I'm also linking-up at the July Penny Black Saturday Anything Goes Challenge.  The optional theme is spots or stripes ... I guess I could stretch and call that a *stripe* of bling or the individual circle bling spots ... either way, I am lovin' that Penny Black image.

Promise of Spring

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge is an Anything Goes with an Optional Challenge theme of Nature. 

 

That provided the perfect opportunity to pull out some of the gorgeous Penny Black Stickeroos.  This one is from the set called Promise of Spring (we actually saw the leaves finally starting to come out on the trees on our walk this morning).

 

I used this week's Make the Cards Challenge Sketch and paired it with some gorgeous patina paper from Craft Consortium Metal Textures Pad.    I attached the sticker to cardstock, so I could punch the corners and then I added some enamel dots.

 

 

I finished with a sentiment from Penny Black Words of Encouragement.

 

I'm also linking-up at the Just Us Girls Flowers Challenge.

Amazing not Perfect

I attended a Women's Leadership Conference this week where Elise Holtzman shared the dangers of Perfectionism in her talk titled Imperfect Impactful Leadership, and how we (particularly women) strive for perfectionism starting with behaviors encouraged by our parents and society at a very young age ... so those thoughts have been on my mind all week.  

I am grateful for art, where it seems easier for me to let my perfectionistic tendencies relax while I just lean into the creative experience.

Today's card is inspired by the delicious, juicy colors from the April Challenge at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie.

 

 

I found those delicious colors in this wonderful Penny Black Pen & Ink Sticker for the Penny Black Anything Goes Challenge.

 

 

I used the Penny Black Stitches of Love Die to cut a frame from one of my Gel Press Prints.  I layered that on top of an embossed lavender card base. 

 

 

I finished with a scattering of gems and a sentiment from Penny Black Words of Encouragement, which is perfect for the thoughts circling in my head.

Clothed in Strength and Dignity.

I picked-up a new Penny Black She Builder Stamp Set at Scrapmania over the holidays and decided to ink it up for a card to mail my Gran.  It's also perfect for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge where the theme is Something New.

 

I decided to pair the new with the old - a 2007 Penny Black Stickeroo called Pen & Ink, which I used as my main image.

I finished with a simple scattering of gems.