Ingenious Inkling

No Stamping Christmas

Instead of a Hard Candy Christmas, we're having a NO Stamping Christmas at jingle Belles this week.  Have fun pulling out your embossing folders, die cuts, Cricut cuts, stamps and stickers to create your holiday card design.

I started with one of my Gel Press prints in colors from the Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

 

 

I die cut the Penny Black Merry Christmas & the ornaments from Penny Black Ornament Kit from the Gel Press Print.  I die cut the ornament tops & ornament string from the inside of a Kleenex with cooling lotion box (such great silver cardstock inside, so make sure you save them).

 

I attached them all to a piece of Lawn Fawn Let it Shine Snowflake patterned paper.  I was a bit frustrated that I couldn't seem to capture the foil sparkle of the designer paper (my studio including my photo box is currently dismantled waiting on window installers to finally show-up to replace some windows ... why is it when you're not ready they want to come that day, and when you get ready the day they say you should, it is weeks before they arrive??).   I'm linking-up at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge to use patterned paper in your design.

 

I finished with a few enamel dots to decorate one of the ornaments.

Alcohol Ink & Blooms

Another fun thing my friend Cyndie and I did when we were together was play with Alcohol inks and metallic mixatives.

 

 

 

Tonight I turned several of those panels into Mother's Day Cards with Penny Black Bouquet Masterpieces and Penny Black Stitches of Love Dies.

 

 

 

I used a a variation of the Tuesday Morning Sketch.  I'm also linking-up at the Crafting Happiness Flower Challenge where my card was a Top Pick last month.

 

 

I made a second using Penny Black Vintage Masterpieces and a second alcohol ink panel ... the white flowers are so elegant.

 

 

 

The sentiment on both is from Simon Says Stamp Sassy Mama.

 

 

I'm linking this card up at the Cupcake Inspiration Mother's Day Challenge.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

Penny Black Masterpiece Mother's Day

One of the Penny Black Bright Bouquet Masterpieces is the perfect image for a Mother's Day Card and the Penny Black Saturday Challenge  

 

 

I embossed it and a green cardstock panel with Penny Black Stitches of Love dies.

 

 

I finished with a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Sassy Mama by Cathy Zielske.

In My Heart

The February Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to incorporate Hearts or Flowers.

 

I started with a Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple Adorable Amore.  I love how they fit exactly into the Penny Black Stitches of Love Dies to add a bit more texture.

 

 

I used the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch with a Penny Black Music Lines Sticker and another sticker sentiment.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at The Male Room Nature Challenge with my sweet winter scene.

 

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.