Ingenious Inkling

Clink Clink

The November Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti is Winter or Holiday ... since my Christmas Card stash is decently stocked, I decided to go with the New Year's Holiday.

 

I chose Reverse Confetti CLINK - one of my favorite sets - and the coordinating Confetti Cuts.

I also took my inspiration from the current challenge at The Library Challenge - Bridget Jones Diary ... because you know she'd be clinking a glass of wine (or champagne).  The book color inspired my use of a color (vs. white) for the background & the incorporation of Gold into the design.

 

I used some really cool Love from Lizi Gold Peel-Off Stickers that I got at Junkie Fest earlier this year to accent my sentiments.  The tiny metallic strips are the perfect accent for lots of designs.

More WCMD Stencil Fun

I am having such a relaxing birthday morning ... rain outside, but it is light enough to have the windows open and let in the cool autumn air ... Premier League Soccer on the television ... and lots of ink in my studio ... nothing better.

I'm still joining the Winnie & Walter World Card Making Day Challenges.  For my next card, I made a Clean & Simple Card Design.  I used my MISTI to do more ink blending with the Morse Code Stencil from A Colorful Life ... I used Dusty Concord, Broken China & Seedless Preserves Distress Inks and my Make-Up Brush on Water Color Paper.

 

I used the same three colors of Distress Ink with my MISTI to ink the sentiment from Winnie & Walter The Big, The Bold and You.

For my next card, I used the Winnie & Walter Coordinating Die Cut Coloring Challenge with Kelly, since it was a technique I had never seen before.   It was a very fun & easy technique and produced a great background for my card.

As I mentioned, my Winnie & Walter Stash is limited to sentiment sets, so I had to pull out a Stamp set with Coordinating die from Reverse Confetti Hey Sugar for my card (because it's my birthday, I have cake-on-the-brain).

 

I used Wilted Violet Distress Ink for Stamping and Shaded Lilac Distress Ink for the stenciling.  I added a Hugs Sentiment from Winnie & Walter's The Big, the Bold and Comfort.  I'm also joining the Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti with my Friendship Card (because true friends are the ones who take you for some cake).

 

Remember ... it's my Birthday & I'm giving away goodies.

Colors of Autumn

I've been wanting to join the Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge for September ... only one problem ... no Halloween or Fall Reverse Confetti Stamps in my stash.

Tonight as I was watching the University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin Football Game, I starting thinking how I could stretch my definition of Fall Fun ... football certainly qualifies as Fall Fun for many people in Iowa.  However, no football stamps in the Reverse Confetti stash either.

But I did have one of the other mainstays of a cold night football game ... a stocking hat from Reverse Confetti Happy Winter (in Iowa, Fall starts feeling a lot like Winter, especially at night).

I stamped my hat in University of Iowa Colors (Black & Gold) ... and then found the perfect sentiment sticker in my stash ... because for many people in Iowa, the Colors of Autumn are Black & Gold.

The layout is this week's CAS(E) this Sketch! using some vintage Basic Grey paper for my stripes.

Reverse Confetti Wedding

The August Stock Your Stash theme at Reverse Confetti is Weddings.

I always want to make sure I have several wedding cards in my stash.

I inked-up the new-to-me Something Beautiful Roses in Flirty Flamingo as well as the sentiment from the set.

I added the congratulations sentiment from Celebrations using this week's CAS(E) this Sketch.

 

I didn't have a hexagon in the size I wanted, so I made my own octagon by cutting the corners off a 2 1/2" square.  I finished with some shimmery sequins.

The Snuggle is Real

The Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti is Baby Cards ... since Jen has made my absolutely favorite and most used baby set of stamps (Cute as a Button), I knew I had to ink them up.

I decided to use the colors from the CAS Colours & Sketch Challenge since they were pretty gender neutral (which is good to have when you're making stash cards).

I stamped my Cute as a Button Onesie in Grapefruit and added Scalloped Square Confetti Cuts in the other two hues.  I finished with a sticker sentiment (if I win, I'll be adding her Congratulations set to my stash).

I'm also joining the BABY Challenge at Addicted to CAS Challenge.

ORANGE You Glad It's Christmas

This week at Jingle Belles we're bringing you a wonderful Inspiration Photo.

My eyes narrowed in on those plaid wrapped presents under the tree.  I went searching through my paper stash and found some orange and green plaid ... the hues were a bit more muted in tone, but I still felt like they captured the feel I was going for.

I added some orange patterned paper inspired by the pillows ... and some Stampin' Up Wood Paper inspired by the Coffee Tables. 

Sentiment is Reverse Confetti Sentimental Christmas & I decorated my white Christmas Tree with some Eyelet Outlet Long Fancy Bling.

The layout is the final Sketch for You to Try ... I'm excited to see what Reverse Confetti will be doing next, but I will miss her sketches.   I've been creating with her sketches since October 2007 (which I think may have been her very first sketch).

My Sweet Petunia (MISTI) and Reverse Confetti

Today the Design Team at My Sweet Petunia is hopping with the Team from Reverse Confetti ... so much fun.

I started with the the adorable Happy Winter set, which has been on my wish list for a long time.  Before the MISTI, I might not have even ordered it because getting it lined-up correctly would have been quite a challenge.  

Now with my MISTI, it's a piece of cake ... I absolutely love that big pom pom.

 

I love those colors too ... which I had a hat like this for myself.

I finished with a sentiment from Sentimental Christmas (love that font).

Next I used the cool new Rounded Strip Panel Confetti Cut with some marbled kraft cardstock.

I left a few of the pieces in the die and decided to pair it with Circle Wishes stamped on a pale green paper.

 

I stamped a few stars in black ink on the remaining marbled paper, but decided they were too dark.  Then I decided I wanted six stars on the light green paper ... before my MISTI, I would have abandoned that idea because I likely would have had to stamp 10 or 15 stars to end-up with six that looked identical.  Not so with my MISTI ... six stars ... all six perfect.

For my final card, I wanted to join in the monthly Sketch For You to Try Challenge at Reverse Confetti.

With that big circle for the focal point, I knew I wanted to curve a sentiment to fit inside the circle.  I used sentiment stamps from the new Kindness Cards.

The MISTI makes it easy to adjust the curve until I get it just right.

I also like using the grid of the MISTI to help lay out my card design to see if I like everything before I attach it to my card base.

I curved a second sentiment from Reverse Confetti Clink along the bottom and added the Clink Confetti Cuts for the three smaller elements in the sketch.

I just love that color combination ... and it came together by accident by using scraps and inks I had on my craft table ... that's why I keep most of my art supplies within my line of sight ... because you never know when inspiration will strike.

 

So now it's time to keep on hopping ... we will choose two lucky commenters from the hop to win one of two prizes: a $60 shopping spree at My Sweet Petunia or a $60 shopping spree at Reverse Confetti.  Comments must be made no later than Sunday, March 25th, at 11:59 PM CST and winners will be announced on Tuesday March 27th, on the Reverse Confetti and My Sweet Petunia blogs.

 

Amy Tsuruta

Ilina Crouse

Lisa Henke

Jeanne Streiff

Susan Liles

My Sweet Petunia

Tricia Barber

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Deanne Kuntz

Ceal Pritchett

Melissa Phillips

Giovana Smith

Audrey Tokach

Chris Dayton

Kathy Schweinfurth

Stephanie Severin <<<----- YOU ARE HERE

Laurie Schmidlin

Janine Tinklenberg

Amy Rohl

Dina Kowal

Heather Hoffman

Jana Millen

Reverse Confetti

Jennifer Timko

Kelly Lunceford

Joan Bardee

Olga Moss

Judy Rozema

Jeanne Jachna

Susan Wymer

 Lydia Fiedler

Sweet Little One

The February Reverse Confetti Sketch For You To Try comes to the rescue for a needed baby card.

I am also lovin' my new VersaFine Clair Inks (onesies are stamped in VersaFine Clair Cheerful with a single impression ... look at that coverage) and sentiment is stamped in Catherine Pooler Garden Party.  All Stamps are from Reverse Confetti Cute as a Button with coordinating Onesie Confetti Cut Die.

With my dotty background, I'm also joining the Retro Rubber Challenge.  My Reverse Confetti stamps are at least one year and 4 months old (I made my first card with them in October 2016).

 

Gel Press Thank You

This morning, I was going through all of the Gel Press Prints that I made during the Advanced Gel Press class I took with Sally Lynn McDonald at Creativation ... I had the extra treat of taking the class with Iliana Myska, so we could share paints & stencils and create together.

I decided to incorporate one of my prints into my Sketch for You to Try from Reverse Confetti ... because one of the other highlights of my trip was getting to meet & talk with Jen del Muro.

I stamped the Reverse Confetti Elemental Stripes Circles on my Gel Press Print for my border (I love how the bubble wrap circles in my Print echo that design element).

I used another piece of the same print to back my Thanks Square Confetti Cuts.  Since there was blue paint residue in my print, I used some blue cardstock for the other sketch design elements.

I'm also joining Tic-Tac-Tuesday at the Try Stampin' (or Not) on Tuesday Blog ... I went horizontal across the top with Black, Die Cut & Pink.

Celebrate Your Unique Self Blog Hop

Did you know that November 24th is officially Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day?  And the My Sweet Petunia MISTI Design Team is celebrating a lady with lots of Unique Talents ... including the skills, tanacity and ability to invent and patent a tool that completely changed the stamping industry ... Iliana Myska, the inventor of the MISTI.  She is positive ... an encourager ... and truly a bright light in the industry.

We each made a card to celebrate Iliana's creativity and ingenuity ... click through and visit them all and leave her some creative love.

Also, My Sweet Petunia is having a sale - 20% off the whole store - no coupon needed through the 26th. The bar magnets are a must-have and of course you need a studio bag if you don't have one (it holds so much stuff).

For my card, I used the November Sketch for You To Try together with Reverse Confetti One Day at a Time Stamps.

To get the gradient effect on the sentiment I used my MISTI and new Catherine Pooler Inks.  Is started by stamping the entire sentiment with Mint to Be.

Then I inked the bottom word of the sentiment (and a bit of the middle word) with Aquatini.  I used my finger to smudge the ink a bit before stamping, so there wasn't a hard line between the two colors.

I finished by only using Aquatini on the bottom sentiment.  The final touch was some layered sequin and pearl flowers.

Make sure you hop through and see all of the other cards by the Design Team ... and then go celebrate your own Unique Talent today (and every day).

And to make it even more of a celebration, we will be drawing the name of one lucky participant who comments on every blog (before noon CST on Monday) to win an original or mini MISTI of their very own.

• Ilina
• Ceal
• Kia
• Chris
• Jeanne
• Steph <<------- You Are Here
• Giovana 
• Lydia
• Marci