Ingenious Inkling

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.

Rudolph & his Cocoa

The November Waffle Flower Challenge is to create a Masculine Holiday card. 

 

 

I die cut the Waffle Flower Be a Reindeer from two shades of brown cardstock & red glitter cardstock for the nose.  Next I die cut the Waffle Flower largest Nesting Stitched Squares Die from Waffle Flower Half and Half Dots Christmas Paper.

 

 

I assembled my Reindeer with some googly eyes and looked for something for him to hold in his paws ... I decided on this Santa Hot Chocolate Sticker I had in my stash (which pulls in a third red element to balance out the design).  

Next I die cut the Waffle Flower Holiday Lights from a scrap of silver mirror cardstock in my stash.  I die cut the bulbs from the same red glitter cardstock as Rudolph's nose and then wove the lights through his antlers.

I looked for a Christmas Sentiment that would work with my layout and ultimately decided to just leave it sentiment-free ... I'm pretty sure it is clear it is a Christmas card without one.

Ombre Food Adventure

This week's Waffle Flower Challenge is Travel Around the World.

 

 

For me travel is almost always (at least in part) about the food, so I chose three images from the Waffle Flower Food Adventure Set that are foods my Sister and I love to share when we travel (because even though I recently spent a week with her, I miss her already).

 

 

I added a sentiment from Waffle Flower Sisterhood and stamped them both in ombre shades of yellow/gold for the Addicted to CAS Ombre Challenge.

 

 

Sisters ... nothing better than food-loving sisters.

 

 

hey sistah!

The Waffle Flower Weekly Challenge theme is Color Crush - create a card with your favorite color.

 

 

I have several favorites, but somehow Orange is the color that usually rises to the top, so that's what I went with using this week's hues from the Color Throwdown Challenge (I would totally  have those pillows in my house).

 

 

I chose inks in all four hues and applied them direct-to-paper in Diagonal Stripes on a piece of white cardstock.

 

 

I stamped one of the blooms from the Waffle Flower Bouquet Builder and die cut with the coordinating die cut.

The sentiments are from Waffle Flower Sisterhood.

 

 

Pastel Thank You

I just discovered that Waffle Flower has a weekly Challenge on Instagram, so I decided to join in.  This week's theme is Pastel.

 

 

Amy T is the Queen of Pastels, but it is so hard for me.  I recently ordered a few more pastel inks, but my selection is limited.  I decided to use the pastel color palette from the Global Design Project.

 

 

I started with cloud paper from the Waffle Flower Special Deliver Collection for the background & the two circles cut with Waffle Flower Classic Frames Die.  I used the layout from The Sketchy Challenge.

 

 

The sentiments are from Coffee Cup Sentiments and Essential Sentiments.  The finishing touch are some Waffleflower Clearly Enough Enamel Dots.

 

Holiday-Palooza Mittens

The current Waffle Flower Challenge is a Holiday-Palooza.

 

I inked-up the new-to-me Waffle Flower Warm Hands layering stamps that I got in my recent grab bag purchase in the hues from the Color Throwdown Challenge.  I added some nubby twine to keep the mittens from getting lost and white epoxy dots in the center of the Mitten design.

 

 

I used this week's Global Design Project Layout flipped on its side place punched snowflakes behind the oval and using a sentiment from Waffle Flower Classic Holiday Sentiments.

 

The marbled background designer paper is from Waffle Flower Modern Neutrals Paper Pad.

 

What The Phở (Faux)?

This is the kind of card you end-up making when you spend your afternoon on a video-call with some of your favorite crafty, snarky, punny cardmaking friends.

It all began with a small strip of Faux Leather made from Masking Tape and Ink that was leftover from this card I made in February 2012 (yes, I saved it for 8+ years for the perfect opportunity to use it) and the X is for fauX Challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

 

 

When I asked my friends what I should pair with said piece of Faux Leather, that led to punny discussions of Phở (aka Faux), which reminded me that I actually had a Waffle Flower Food Adventures Pho Stamp that had never seen ink.

 

Then of course my girlfriends helped me with two stickers for the perfect Snarky Sentiment to finish the card.

Thanking My Lucky Stars Now

When I saw the How to Catch a Star book cover at The Library Challenge, I immediately knew what I wanted to make.

 

 

I die cut the Waffle Flower Stars Pattern Background from Navy Cardstock and cut it into three pieces.  Then I spent a while hunting for some 3-D stickers that I knew I had in my stash (from The Dollar Tree I believe).  While I was hunting I found some red Doodlebug stars that were also perfect to add a bit more red from the book cover.

 

I finished with a simple sticker sentiment attached with foam tape.

 

 

The layout is the Sketch Challenge from The Paper Players.

I had also intended for my card to be for the AAA Cards CAS Challenge, but decided it didn't meet the Maxi White Space requirement, so I used the punched stars to make a second super-CAS design.

 

Die Cuts, sticker sentiment, strip of cardstock and foam tape.  Oh to be able to sleep under the stars instead of shivering under my flannel sheets.

 

 

 

Be an Orange Cat

The current Facebook Challenge for Waffle Flower is to Everything Orange.  Since Orange is my favorite color, I had fun combining a number of Waffle Flower Products and Orange Designer Papers from my stash.

 

 

I started by die-cutting the Waffle Flower Be a Cat Die from three different colors of orange cardstock.  Then I paper pieced the whiskers, head, nose & ears.  I decided to use some orange eyeball stickers from my stash because I loved the eye-lashes.  I added a bow tie from the Waffle Flower Be Accessories Dies.

 

My layout is this week's Mojo Monday Sketch.  Rather than the horizontal piece across the bottom, I had my Kitty hold a sentiment from the Waffle Flower Lacy Flower Stamp Set.

 

I had a few painted Waffle Flower Greenery die cut leaves left-over from a prior project, so I added them together with a fussy cut bloom from Waffle Flower Lacy Flower set.

I'm also joining the Simon Says Stamp Inspired by a Movie Challenge ... because you know my favorite Orange Cat?

 

He sure looks like he will make someone smile when he arrives through the mail. 

Happy Beerthday to You

I found a new Waffle Flower Challenge in their Waffle Flower Garden Facebook Group ... the September theme is all about Falling for Fall.

 

 

One of the things that changes at our house as fall begins is the kinds of beers you will find in the Beer Refrigerator ... deeper, richer and darker.  I couldn't resist breaking out my Waffle Flower Prost Germany Stamps together with a sentiment from the Waffle Flower Home Brew Combo.

 

I used a favorite \fall color combo (Rust, Saffron & Fern Green) and did some rainbow stamping with my MISTI.  I added enamel dots in the same three colors.

I kept this one clean & simple because it needs to travel through the mail.

I'm also joining the Fun Card Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.