Ingenious Inkling

Stamperia Calligraphy Collection

I love the gorgeous Stamperia Paper Pads at The Ink Pad.  Today's cards are made from the Calligraphy Collection by Stamperia.

One thing I love about the pads is that they are 8" x 8", so there's more landscape to make different cards sizes than just A2.  This square card allowed me to showcase the wonderful alphabet paper.

 

 

Another nice touch is that there are a few pages with elements that can be cut out for use on the card designs like the fountain pen and the tag sentiment.

The 8"x8" paper size is also perfect to make a slimline card layout.

 

I love the contrast of these different papers, especially with a wrap of ivory card and the sentiment cut from another piece of paper from the collection.

The quote on this card talks about how you can write letters to travel with your heart, so I'm linking-up at the Travel Challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz.

 

My final card features another detail cut fountain pen and ink well, together with another tag design and sentiment from the collection.  I just love the tones of sepia in the papers.

I'm linking this one up at the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

I hope I've given you some ideas about how fun it can be to just use some wonderful Stamperia Paper Collections for cardmaking.

 

It's 5 O'clock Somewhere

When I saw the theme at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge was Let's Be On Time, I started thinking about what sentiments in my stash talked about time.

I started with three clock stickers from three different sticker collections from {a vintage girl} & her daughter - Steampunk, Gold Steampunk and Wild West.  Remember using my discount code SMILYNSTEF gets you 15% off your sticker purchase.

 

 

The paper I used is from Stamperia Atelier Collection, because I thought the vintage feel of the paper design worked well with my clock collection.  The layout is from this week's Hand Stamped Sentiments. 

 

I finished with a pint glass of beer and sentiments from Cathy Zielske's Happy Hour Stamp Set for Simon Says Stamp.  It looks perfect paired with a local Italian-Style Pilsner.

 

I'm Dreaming of a PINK Christmas

It's our annual go-PINK-for-Christmas prompt at Jingle Belles, where Lauren & I both donate $2 per card to Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

 

 

I've been saving this gorgeous Stamperia Pink Christmas paper for this week's prompt ... with those beautiful designs, the card almost makes itself.

 

I used two of the paper for the base with this week's Sketch Saturday.  The wonderful Pink Santa image is also from the paper pad.  I finished with snowflake embellishments topped with glittery enamel dots.

 

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Time Out Challenge where theme is also Breast Cancer Awareness.

 

Got Snow?

We're still creating cards that feature SNOW this week at Jingle Belles.

This week I added some gorgeous new papers from The Funkie Junkie by a Hungarian company Stamperia ... this gorgeous collection is called Arctic Antarctic.  

 

I love the majesty of the white wolf in his snowy landscape home.  I paired one of the background papers from the collection with one of my tags from my Dina Wakley Focus on Gloss Class, that brought out the greens in the Northern Lights Sky. 

I finished with a vintage wood mounted sentiment from A Muse and some blue gems."