Ingenious Inkling

Love You Bunches

When I saw Linda's gorgeous card this morning featuring Penny Black Stickeroos for the Penny Black and More Challenge, I was inspired to pull out my Stickeroos and create.

I can never pass by a sheet of these stickers and not bring them home.  This collection is called Timeless.  

I love that it includes some butterfly stickers in addition to the large gorgeous images.  I used DCWV Arctic Wishes papers (you'd never guess they were holiday papers would you?).

The theme for this month's challenge is Add a Sentiment ... so I even found a vintage Penny Black wood block stamp in my collection to use with this week's Match the Sketch.

Always & Forever

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch for a quick & classy Wedding card.

I know I've mentioned it before, but I am in love with Eyelet Outlet's Glitter Washi Tape ... it adds all of the glitz with none of the mess.

Image is Penny Black Bride & Groom paired with a sentiment from Gina K.

Wedding Congratulations

This month's Mix-It-Up Challenge at Essentials by Ellen is a bit extra-challenging for me because I don't have a lot of Penny Black stamps in my stash.  However, the one I do have is a well-loved and often used stamp called Bridal March.  It is perfect for quick wedding cards.

I stamped the bride in black ink, clear embossed and then painted with pink shimmer paint from Zig Pearlescent Watercolor Jewel Box.

I used a Spectrum Noir DR3 Marker to add red highlights to the image featuring colors from Retro Rubber Feel the Love Challenge.

I finished with a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen 12 Days Companion Greetings using a layout from Freshly Made Sketches.

 

Christmas Muse

Today I'm channeling the talented Christmas Muse Betty Wright and her gorgeous design.

I loved the silver with green, the tag, and the pop of dark red, so those are the elements I incorporated into my card.

I combined a silver doily, green holiday papers, a Penny Black Joy holiday sticker, sequins and an SRM Sticker Sentiment together with the sketch from Tis' The Season.  I was just thinking this week how seldom I use ribbon on my cards any more, but I thought this dark maroon ribbon pulled out those colors from the sticker.

Watercolor Mr. & Mrs.

I love joining the fun of the Monthly Challenge Remix at the TGIF Challenge.

This week I combined all three challenges ... sketch, watercolor and together forever.

 

I pulled out some vintage woodblock stamps (Penny Black Bridal March and a tiny Stampin' Up Sentiment).  I stamped my image in black, clear embossed, and then brushed over several shades of watercolor paint and blended with more water to soften the colors.

I took my colors from the hues at showCASe your style.

I'm also joining the Weddings Challenge at CCCE Stampers Challenge.

 

O Holy Night

For some reason I was stuck for this week's Christmas Carol-themed Jingle Belles card ... I had an idea in my head and couldn't find the elements that I know I have somewhere in my stash (they'll likely turn-up tomorrow, which is how it usually works).  

So as I often do when I'm stuck, I just started pulling out anything I could possibly find that might work with the theme ... and when I saw this Penny Black Christmas at Dusk sticker, I knew I would build a card around it inspired by this week's Muse Challenge Card by Kristie Goulet.

I started by framing my silhouette sticker with a golden oval to pull out that color in the design.  I initially started with a white card base like Kristie, but ultimately decided that red pulled the design together.

I couldn't find the sentiment I wanted, so I printed it on the card base ... I used to love belting out that song for the holidays.  It still seemed a bit *naked* for me, so I added a wrap of coordinating gold twine along the horizon.

We hope you'd come join us and create a card inspired by your favorite Christmas Carol.

Fusion Challenge ~ Ombre Bride

I love the gorgeous color and ombre tones of this week's Fusion Card Challenge.

I wanted to go with a wedding theme, so I painted watercolor paper with an ombre wash of Heidi Swapp's Mint Green Color Shine and then stamped Penny Black's Bridal March in Charcoal Ink.

I added some vintage Basic Grey Paper and stamped the sentiment on a scrap of the colorwashed paper.  I finished with White Wink of Stella on the bouquet, shoe and hair.

I'm also joining Lia Stampz where the theme is Black & White & One other color.

May Peace Be Your Gift

The wintry hues in the current Always Playing with Paper Challenge seemed perfect to me for a holiday card.

I started with a Penny Black Starry Night sticker and built my card around it ... adding some white SRM Sticker stitches.

Sentiment is May Peace Be Your Gift from Stampotique stamped on a scrap of paper colored with shimmer spray.  The final accent was a few sequins.

I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Christmas Stamping All Year Long as well as Anything Goes for Christmas at the Winter Wonderland blog.

Winter Peace

At Jingle Belles, we're still making cards to send out to those who don't necessarily celebrate Christmas.  My go-to theme for those cards is Peace.

I started with a gorgeous Starry Night sticker from Penny Black and used this week's Retro Sketch to assemble my design.  I really loved this sketch, and I used several of the elements included like the binder punch border and double twine bow.

I finished with a bold Peace sentiment sticker from SRM Stickers.

Personalized Wedding Cards

I love to make wedding cards that incorporate the colors of the wedding invitation.  I also had a request to make some cards that incorporated the new couple's name and some fancy initial stickers ... and this is what I came-up with.

I started by sizing and coloring the name in my word processing program to coordinate with the letter sticker.  I tried several fonts and decided that I liked the clean look of Cambria for my names.  I sized the Mr. and Mrs. slightly smaller than the last name to get a balanced look with my sticker.

I printed the name on textured ivory card stock and then over-stamped the Penny Black Bride and Groom.  I used colored pencils to add a small bit of color to the bouquet and boutineer.

I'm joining the Clean and Simple and Classy and Elegant Challenge at the Love to Create Challenge Blog ... so nice to be able to create a card that is BOTH.

This will be a design that is easy to reproduce by changing the colors and the name ... love that.