Ingenious Inkling

Stellar Human

This week's Challenge theme at Shopping Our Stash is What a Difference You've Made in my Life - we're making cards for Moms, Grandmas, or any other special person in your life who has made a difference.

 

 

I am very blessed to have a number of amazing mothers in my life, so I always send a lots of Mother's Day (or not the Mother's Day) cards out to let them all know how much they mean to me.

I started my card with some yellow woodgrain cardstock and added some floral ephemera and a butterfly.

 

 

I finished with some enamel dots and a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp CZ Design Simple Sentiments No. 01.

We can't wait to see your cards for those special people in your life.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Time Out Challenges with my card inspired by Spring.

You Are Amazing Bouquet

This week at Shopping Our Stash we're getting Sketchy.  

 

 

I started by looking for a theme for my sketch and settled on the Just Us Girls Trend Week to use Foil on your Alcohol Ink. 

 

I remembered I had the scraps left from these fun Rainbow Alcohol Ink cards, so I pieced the scraps together & die cut them for my background.  Here's a view of what the full original pieces looked like.

 

 

I decided to pair the rainbow background with lots of white and a fun Just Because Doodle-Pop Bouquet that also has some foil in the flowers.

 

 

I used the Waffle Flower A2 Layers Die Cut for my Alcohol Ink Strip background (and then rounded the corners) and the Taylored Expressions Stitched Stacklet Circle Die, so I'm joining the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Simply Thank You ... I love that bold font.   This is going into the stash of Mother's Day cards that I mail to the other women who have had an influence in my life.

Spring is in the AIR

The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Spring is in the AIR.

 

 

I chose to build my card around the Cardinal Washi Tape from Eyelet Outlet.  I combined it with other red & black washi tapes from my stash.

 

 

And since Cardinals are thought to show up to give you comfort after the loss of a loved one, I added a Taylored Expressions Sympathy Sentiment from Simple Strips Background to complete my slimline card design.

Full METAL Jacket

The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Full METAL Jacket - create a card featuring a metallic element.

 

 

I went with Foil as my element and pulled out a piece I had made during Foil-a-palooza years ago with Lauren using Decofoil Transfer Gel,  and the AlteNew Layered Kaleidoscope Stencil A and Gina K. Designs Sparkling Silver Fancy Foil.  The foil looks silver straight-on but has a wonderful rainbow effect when it gets hit by the light.

 

 

I positioned the lens of the AlteNew Say Cheese Camera over one of the circles in the Kaleidoscope design and added a sentiment from the same set.

I finished with a silver metallic pen over the grey stamped elements of the camera and added a tiny heart epoxy sticker to the flash.  I sure miss traveling and taking photographs.

I hope you'll shop your stash for those neglected metal elements and bring them out to shine.

 

You Deserve a HAND

This week's theme at Shopping our Stash is You Deserve a HAND - to feature a hand (or in my case Hands) and/or a Congratulations Card.

I stamped three hands from the Essentials by Ellen Handful framed by the Essentials by Ellen Instant Photo Frames.

I colored the nails, bracelet and cup of coffee and embossed the decoration on the top of the cup. 

I used the Sketch from the Make the Card Challenge for my layout with a sentiment from the same stamp set.

 

 

I finished with the make-a-wish Dandelion in the third hand.

With my Latte, I'm also joining the Simon Says Food and Drink Challenge.

My Heart BEETS for You

The theme at Shopping our Stash is My Heart BEETS for you - to make a card featuring Hearts or Vegetables (or both).

We're big Schrute Farms fans at our house (it's the name of my husband's fantasy baseball team), so there we have several pieces of beet-themed art.  And of course, I couldn't resist this fun BEETS for You stamp set from Unity Stamp Company. 

I inked it using Chianti & Shady Lane Versafine Clair ink (a shout out to DelBellos Designs for having the remainder of the refills I needed) and stamped on watercolor paper.  I also stamped the sentiment from the set and die cut with a Spellbinders Heart Die Cut.

 

Next I cut more hearts from a piece of brayered paint paper in my stash and then assembled my card, finishing with tiny epoxy hearts.

Across the Border

The current challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use Border Punches or Border Die Cuts.  

 

 

I pulled out my collection of neglected border punches and used them to make a paper wedding cake with some lovely opalescent shimmer paper.  I combined lots of different border punches to decorate.

 

 

 

I finished my decorating with some Love from Lizi Peel-off Stickers, Daisy Flower Stickers and a wedding sentiment.

Do you have some neglected Border Punches you'd like to show some love?

Shopping Our Stash - the Letter S

I am thrilled to be joining the Design Team at Shopping our Stash for 2022.  

 

 

The first Challenge of 2022 is to create a card using things that Start with the Letter S (which reminded me of the Letter of the Day at Sesame Street).  I literally Shopped my Stash for as many things that begin with the Letter S as possible to see if I could see a theme.

 

 

I started with a Gel Press Print that reminded me of the Sky.  Next I stamped Grungy Stars from Dina Wakley that had Stripes & Speckles using Midnight Blue STAZ-on Ink and cut the card base into a Mini-Slimline shape.

Then I built my card using Stickers of a Spaceship, a Satellite, Saturn, and a Spaceman and some Smiling Stars.  I also add some Sequins and Sticker Sentiments that say to Shine brightly.

 

I love how many S Things I was able to incorporate into my fun card design.

Please Shop Your Stash for all things S and come join me.