Ingenious Inkling

You Are My Mid-Century Modern Person

I am so grateful to have so many people in my life who could be the recipient of this card. 

 

 

I made it with four different Uniko Stamps to celebrate Uniko's 10th Birthday with an Instagram Shared design.

 

 

I used the colors from The Paper Players Color Challenge to stamp Uniko Mid-Century Modern, Uniko Mid-Century Modern II and Uniko Background Blocks Wonky Stripes and then I die cut them with large & small Hexagon dies.   I positioned it all on a Bermuda Bay card base.

 

 

I stamped the sentiment from Uniko You Are ... Sentiments Outline in black and die cut with a rectangle Nested Notch Die.  I finished with some dots in coordinating colors.

Framed Flower Birthday

Today I'm joining Uniko's 10th Birthday Celebration by making Bev a Birthday Card.

 

 

The Uniko Framed Flower stamp I chose as my focal point has the same beautiful blooms as her birthday banner (as well as other classic Uniko floral designs).  I stamped it in a vibrant blue and cut it out using scissors.

 

 

 

Next I stamped the Butterfly from Uniko English Country Garden in bright pink and added some blue accents with my Spectrum Noir marker.  I used the same bright pink ink to add the sentiment from Uniko Happy Days.  I finished with some gold accents colored with the wonderful detail nib of my GraphIt Marker.

 

 

The color palette is from this week's Global Design Project.

 

 

The clean & simple layout is a rotated layout from Freshly Made Sketches.

 

 

I'm also celebrating the 11th Birthday at Less is More with my clean & simple design.

Striped Stars for Christmas

We're still creating with Stars and/or Stripes for the Holiday at Jingle Belles. 

When I searched through my collection for ideas, I realized that I had a wonderful assortment of stars in my Uniko, Ltd. collection including the perfect Striped Stars on the Stars Background Block.

 

 

I paired it with the Uniko Background Builders: Seeing Stars strip and a sentiment from Uniko Simply Said Blocks Christmas.

I'm also joining Christmas in July at Shopping our Stash.

 

 

It's also Christmas in July at The Male Room.

Let It Snow Again

Our Cable decided to die at our house yesterday, and we can't get a technician until Thursday afternoon, so for the first time since the Derecho I'll be venturing out in the snowy landscape to drive to work ... so why not celebrate with a CAS Snowy design.

I started with inspiration from The Paper Players.

 

I'm also joining the Uniko Studio Anything Goes Challenge by using their wonderful Big & Bold Snow Stamps Set & Coordinating Dies.  I die cut the Big Snow from White & Navy cardstock and stamped the other snowflake images from the set in light grey to coordinate with my strips of designer paper before finishing with the Navy Sentiment.

 

 

I'm also calling this a variation on the Fusion Card Challenge Sketch.

 

 

The Code Word at Addicted to CAS is also Snow.

 

 

 

Glittery Alcohol Ink Christmas

A new package of Memory Box Delicate Pastel Glitter Paper arrived this week from my Anniversary Sale Shopping at Paper Anthology, so I had to make some more Alcohol Ink Glitter Paper (following Jennifer Maguire's tutorial).  I just love the process and the end effect.

Here are the three color combinations I played with.  There are 7-8 inks on each page.

 

 

I used the top blue/green one for my holiday card for the Uniko Stamps Challenge which is 'Tis the Season with the optional theme of Sparkle ... I think I've got the sparkle covered.

 

I cut my inky glitter paper into a 3" strip and then stamped images from Uniko's Christmas Background Builders.

 

 

I added color to a single tree using a green Kirarina 2win marker and added shimmer with clear Wink of Stella on top ... and then I added a tiny gold gem at the top of the tree.  The finishing touch were a couple of Green Love from Lizi Peel Off strips to frame the stamping.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at the Allsorts Challenge where the theme is Christmas Flowers, Wreaths and Trees and the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge.

 

 

And I've got Tic-Tac-Toe with The Paper Players across the bottom with Green, my tree colored with a Kirarina Marker and Wink of Stella, and my tiny bling embellishment at the top of the tree.

Washi Christmas Wishes

When I saw this morning's Inspiration Challenge at SplitCoastStampers was an absolutely adorable Washi Tape Store - Cute Tape - I had to go shopping.  And after placing my order, I dug into my rather large Washi Tape Stash and made a card inspired by lots of the patterns in the store (including lovely hearts and clouds).

 

 

And they just happen to be one of my favorite color combinations (as evidenced by how many washi tapes I have in these hues), which is also the color combination at The Color Throwdown Challenge.

 

 

I started with metallic silver cardstock and attached my assortment of tapes at an angle letting the silver cardstock peek through too.  I used my At 2 Nested Rectangle Dies from The Ton to cut out my Washi and two more panels for my card.

 

I inked-up the perfect Christmas Sentiment from Uniko Studio Simply Said Blocks Christmas Clear Stamps with Cherry Kisses Ink from The Stamp Market.  I finished with two trios of wonderful Silver Drip Drops from Taylored Expressions.

 

 

I'm also joining the Tic Tac Toe Challenge at The Paper Anthology 9th Anniversary Celebration (down the left side with Christmas Card, Glitter and Bling & my Die Cut Card bases).

Yes You!

When I saw the new Uniko Challenge, I realized it had been much too long since that collection of stamps had seen ink.  Bright and Happy seemed like the perfect cardmaking theme for my morning.

 

 

I started by repeatedly stamping an image from the Uniko Originally Organic Stamp set in Hero Arts Lemon Drop Reactive Ink.  I used a second stamp from the set to fill in some spaces around the edges.

 

I added in a butterfly from Uniko English Country Gardens - Butterfly to fill in some space toward the top.

I finished with a sentiment from Uniko You Are, Yes You that I thought has the tiniest hint of snark with the *Yes You!", so I am also linking-up at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Y is for Yellow Challenge.

 

 

I finished with some Lime mats and Lime bling from Eyelet Outlet.

 

 

Glittery Christmas Wishes

I skipped ahead to Day 4 of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags, so I could start my day with some Uniko fun ... I just adore their stamps.  I chose this lovely card by Kim to inspire my design.

 

I used the Uniko Block Party Christmas Clear Stamp for my background.  Since it is larger than the one Kim used, I used my Oval Cutter to make a slightly larger tag and layered it with a second glittery layer like she did.  

 

I also finished with a sheer ribbon bow.  And to take further inspiration, I added a second layer of glittery paper for my card base.

 

Having lots of Christmas tag fun this weekend.

Text Me

We're still TEXTING at Jingle Belles ... creating cards that primarily features some texty elements.

This week I had to ink up this new Texty Block Party Christmas Stamp from Uniko ... so many fun Christmas Phrases in my new Catherine Pooler Rouge Ink on Kraft.   My MISTI makes it so easy to get perfect coverage on a large stamp like this one.

 

 

I added some texty designer paper to finish the design and a gem on the top of the Santa Gnome's Hat.

I'm also joining the Uniko Anything Goes Challenge with a Masculine Twist, since this will be a Holiday Card for one of my male co-workers.

Uniko Peony Inspired

I fell in love with the new Mid-Century Modern stamps released last week by Uniko ... so of course, since I was shopping across the pond, I had to add a few more pretties to my order.

 

For today's card, inspired by these gorgeous Peonies at the SplitcoastStampers Inspiration Challenge, I used that little floral beauty peeking out in the center - Large Background Sketched Foliage. 

I stamped it using my MISTI in pink ink on a lighter pink piece of cardstock.  Then I positioned it on a wood grain paper background inspired by the photo.

 

I added a die cut frame I had laying out on my studio table from a prior project, and then positioned some Prima flowers and leaves around the frame inspired by the Sketch at Feeling Sketchy.

 

I finished with a strip sentiment from Uniko's Organic Wishes.  I used my Cut-Align to get the perfect strip sentiment (I love that it makes it easy to get the exact same border on each side of the text.)

 

I attached the sentiment with foam tape across my frame.

 

 

My paper flowers were also inspired by this week's TGIF Challenge.