Ingenious Inkling

Heart-Felt

The February Poppy Stamps Challenge is to use Hearts or Felt (or in my case, both).

 

 

The main layered die is the Adora Layering Dies from sister company Birch Press cut in three shades of purple.  The center heart is from Poppy Stamps Heart Confetti Collage.

 

 

I used a sentiment from sister company Memory Box Big and Little Valentines.  I die cut a felt circle on which to place the design.

I finished with a strip of watercolor paper painted with Dylusions Shimmer Paints.

I'm also joining the Dies R Us Valentine's/Love Challenge with my Adora dies & the Love Cards for Guyz challenge at Cards 4 Guys.

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.

Vroom Valentine

There's a Valentine Challenge in the Honey Bee Stamps Facebook group.  As I looked through my stamps, I thought it would be fun to feature the fabulous (and un-inked) Honey Bee Car Show Stamps.

I started by created a plaid background with the Honey Bee Watercolor Lines Stencils (affiliate link on sale for $5.00).  I did Purple with the small lines a light blue with the wide lines going the other direction.  It didn't feel quite Plaid enough, so I flipped the small lines and shifted them slightly to ink them in red.

 

 

I stamped the Honey Bee Car Show car in the same purple, stamping multiple times with my MISTI to get a slightly darker hue.  

Next I used Honey Bee Bee Bold Alphabet to die cut my sentiment from black cardstock.

I finished by adding some red Honey Bee Gems to the tail lights on the car and adding some glitter heart sticker I found in the children's craft section at the craft store.

 

I'm also joining the Plaid Challenge at Just Us Girls.

 

 

And at the Make the Cards Challenge they are creating Valentines.

Love Your Guts

When I was cleaning-up the bits and pieces from my Snarky Card this week, I decided to use them to make another Valentine.  The scrap of Gel Press Print had a perfect contrast with the wine-colored card base.

 

I added more Love from Lizi Peel Offs to frame it and a few coordinating gems.  

Then the focal point CZ Design Love Your Guts Sentiment was die cut from Vellum and a scrap of the same wine-colored card stock.

The finishing touch was a scattering of Doodlebug Heart Stickers.

 

 

I'm linking-up at the Global Design Project Valentine Challenge.

Snoopy - A Man's Best Friend

The current theme at The Retro Rubber Challenge is Dig it... it's the 50s! - to create using the lovely pastel colors from the 1950's.

 

 

I decided to use an image that was also from the 1950's (1950 & 1958 according to the dates on the size of the wood stamp base).  I'm guessing the stamp itself called Man's Best Friend made by Rubber Stampede for Michael's is likely at least 20 years old.  They have become collector's items and are quite expensive if you can find them.

 

 

When we had our Crafty House getaway last year, Chris Dayton shared her collection of vintage Snoopy stamps with me, so I was able to feature one of those images today.  We had a black & white beagle named Snoopy when we were growing-up, so the cartoon was always near and dear.

Since there wasn't an orange in the challenge colors, I colored Charlie Brown's shirt & shoes with the pale yellow.  I used Tim Holtz Hexagon dies for my stamped image and for the other retro colors (from scraps of designer paper) for the Hexagon Challenge at the CAS on Friday Challenge.

 

And Global Design Project is all about Love/Valentine.

I finished with a couple of stickers (a puffy heart & sentiment) that pulled in a fourth color in the palette.

Since this card is for my brother, with my Peanuts image & the color Pink, I'm going Something that Begins with P at Cardz 4 Guyz.

Love is Sweet

I picked up a few sheets of tiny Valentine's Day Puffy Stickers from American Greetings at Target last week.  When I saw the small squares on this week's Sketch Saturday, I knew they would be perfect to feature a few.

 

I started with a piece of red & pink polka dot paper that picked-up two of the colors in the stickers, then I added light teal for the other sketch elements.

 

 

I originally put the yellow squares directly on top of the polka dots, but it felt too noisy, so I cut a square of kraft cardstock to ground them before adding my stickers.

The sentiment is a chipboard Lucky Charm Lucky Us Thicker.

 

 

I'm also joining the In Love Challenge at Time Out Challenges.

 

 

And with that cute little cup of coffee, I'm joining the Coffee/Tea Time Challenge at Cupcake Inspiration.

Happy Heart Day

The January Stock Your Stash theme at Reverse Confetti is Love is in the Air.

 

 

It is the perfect opportunity to use my new Big Love Confetti Cut.  I die cut the base in black and then die cut the letters and heart in Red Glitter Paper.  I attached the glitter paper with foam tape for dimension.  I added a little pink glitter heart from my stash on top.

 

 

 

I found this red and pink Gel Press Print (pulled with sheer silver metallic paint) that I used for my card base.

 

 

I finished with a red ink stamped sentiment from Reverse Confetti Words of Love.

Love and Heartfelt Hugs

Today I wanted to join the Poppy Stamps I Love You Challenge (and once again remind myself that I need more Poppy Stamps Stamp Sets other than Tidings of Joy that I've been performing Stamp Surgery on for all of the other holidays since at least 2018). 

Given the age of my stamp set (and the serious need to buy another) I'm also joining the Retro Rubber Challenge, which is It's Not All Black & White ... so Add Some Red.

 

 

I started by die cutting the Poppy Stamps Confetti Hearts from Memory Box Holiday Red Glitter Paper and backing it with White Glitter Paper from the same paper pad.  I used a Memory Box Grey Plaid paper as my card base.

 

 

I added the rest of the elements using the Sketch from Mojo Monday (including the Red Glitter Heart from the focal point die cut stamping my sentiment in black & red.

 

 

I'm also joining the Inkspirational Hearts Challenge.

 

 

 

 

I Need Your Hugs ... Stat!

I loved the pretty little krafty muslin hearts at the Inspired By Challenge.

 

 

I started by crimping some kraft paper and die cutting my heart.  Next I die cut the top of the heart from a scrap of floral paper that looked somewhat like the fabric in the picture.

 

Of course I didn't realize until I started matching scraps of cardstock to the floral paper that my card would end-up being a palette of Halloween colors ... oh well, valentine diversity.  The layout is the Sketch from Try Stampin' or Not on Thursday.  I put my three dots up on the heart rather than down on the rectangle.

 

 

Since the My Favorite Things More Essential Sentiments was still on my studio table, I used one of those sentiments ... I thought the "stat" part was a bit funny paired with a heart (too many hours watching medical TV shows).

I'm also linking-up at the Simon Says Stamp Love is in the Air Challenge.

Heartfelt Galentine's Day

I was thrilled to win the new Heartfelt Love Stamp Set from Newton's Nook in their recent blog hop, so I wanted to ink it up for a Galentine's Day Card to get in the mail.

I stamped the image and sentiment in Black StazOn ink on one of my paper bag salted background papers from my Wanderlust class a few weeks ago, and then clear embossed to set the ink.

 

I tried my new ohto Fude Ball Pens to see if they would color on the watercolor painted surface ... and YAY they did ... so I added some brighter pink highlights to some of the hearts (love these pens).

I finished with a sentiment from the set stamped on the same painted paper.  I resisted the urge to add gems, since I want to keep these cards mailable for standard postage.

I'm also linking-up at Shopping our Stash where the theme is Love is in the Air.

The Simon Says Stamp Challenge is Love and/or Hearts.