Ingenious Inkling

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.

 

 

 

Let It Snow

The current Challenge at Honey Bee Stamps is all about Winter Wonderland.

 

 

Since we had some snow falling today in Iowa, I broke out the adorable Snowman Stamp from Honey Bee Stamps Let it Snow and used the three shades of blue cardstock from the Just Us Girls Challenge (I thought my ink was a bit closer to my dark blue cardstock, but I'm going with it).

 

I used every snowflake in the Honey Bee Let It Snow Set and finished with the die cut sentiment.

 

 

With my four layers of cardstock, I'm also Layering It Up with Simon Says Stamp.

 

I also took inspiration from the colors and that adorable snowman at Hand Stamped Sentiments Inspiration Challenge.

Let it Snow

This week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch is another layout that just cried out to use more Washi Tape. 

This time I combined DoodleBug White Christmas Snowflake Washi with this gorgeous Glitter Star Washi from Eyelet Outlet.

 

 

I die cut Honey Bee Layering Snowflakes from Glitter Paper (combined with a larger punched snowflake) and added some Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Bling.

 

 

I'm also joining the Let It Snow Challenge at the TGIF Challenges.

 

 

The sentiment is from Honey Bee Let it Snow.  I'm also linking-up at the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge which is Anything Goes.

Imagine all the people ...

I did some Black Friday Shopping at Dies R Us and picked-up a few new dies from Birch Press including this Mini Snowflake Frame Layer Set. 

I die cut the top and bottom layers from white cardstock and the middle layer from my favorite silver mirror chipboard (the inside of a Puffs with Vicks and Lotion Tissue Box).  I added a piece of Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Bling to the center.

 

 

I attached the snowflake to a BoBunny Winter Wonderland paper covered card base.  

The inspiration for all of that snow comes from this week's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge (where I am thrilled to be one of last week's winners).

 

 

I paired my snowflake with a vintage wood mount stamp from 2005 by Peddler's Pack and a scattering of silver sequins.

 

 

I'm linking this card at the Dies R Us Winter Wonderland Challenge and the Heart 2 Heart Challenge Peace on Earth.

 

Five Favorite Holiday Cards - 2020

Since Lauren & I started Jingle Belles in 2010, I've been recapping my five favorite Christmas cards of the year (you can find 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 here) ... I always enjoy revisiting my creations for the year.

Here are my favorites in no particular order:

 

1.  This card I made for the Jingle Belles Earth Day prompt pretty much sums-up 2020.  The background was stamped with an empty toilet paper roll (and brought back the panic of seriously not finding any toilet paper in our town except for a 120 roll commercial package that we're still working our way through)  ... and Taylored Expressions Big Grumpy who sums-up how many have felt for most of 2020.

 

 

2.  I had so much fun creating this vintage collage for our Vintage prompt at Jingle Belles ... I love when all of those tucked away bits and bobs finally find their way onto a card ... especially trading stamps that remind me of my Grandma and the photo slide that reminds me of watching vacation slides in my Gran & Papa's basement.

 

 

 

3.  I love how striking this Gina K. Designs white snowflake turned out against the tone-on-tone Holiday Tapestry stamped background.

 

 

4. The We Three Kings Prompt at Jingle Belles inspired We Three Reinbeer ... for me, the googly eyes make this card.

 

 

5. 2020 was the year I had more fun playing with Alcohol Inks ... I love the wonderful inky background of this card combined with the contrast of the white stamped images.

 

As always, hard to pick favorites, but also fun re-visiting all the holiday cards I made (and gave) this year.  Remember, if you'd like to have lots of holiday cards ready when December rolls around, you can join us for our 11th year of Jingle Belles Mayhem beginning January 1st

Hangin' with My Winter Gnomies

Have you checked out all of the fun new Gnome Stickers at {a vintage girl} & her daughter?  Today's card features the adorable Winter Gnomes (and remember if you use my Discount Code SMILYNSTEF at checkout you get 10% off your entire order).

 

 

I started my card by spraying white cardstock with Avery Elle Clear Shimmer Spray and then embossing with the Sizzix 3D Impressions Winter Snowflakes Embossing folder (having your paper slightly damp can give you a more detailed embossed texture. 

Next I die cut my rectangle using the fabulous Crimped Frame Die from The Greetery, which is perfect for the current Let's Squash It! Challenge Theme.

 

 

 

Next I positioned the embossed panel on a kraft card base using the current Freshly Made Sketches Layout ... it's hard to capture how gorgeous that clear shimmer is.

 

 

 

I lined up three of the cute little Winter Gnomies and finished with the perfect sentiment from the new Typewriter Phrases Stickers in Kraft (they also come in white).

 

Love how those cute gnomes looks on that shimmery snowflake embossed texture.

 

Love You Snow Much

This week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch is perfect for using coordinating paper scraps.

 

 

I used scraps from the BoBunny Woodland Winter Collection together with an adorable Doodle-Pop Patrick the Polar Bear (and his fish friends).

 

The oh-so-perfect sentiment is from the Concord & 9th Snowflakes Turnabout Set.

 

I'm also joining the Winter/Holiday Challenge at Global Design Project.  And it's an Ice Cold Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

 

 

And I took Inspiration from the Shades of Blue Challenge at Cupcake Inspiration.

Would You Like to Build a Snowman?

The current challenge at Impression Obsession is Snowmen.

 

 

Strangely enough I only have one Impression Obsession Snowman in my collection - the Chin Up Snowman - ... but he is a cutie.

 

 

 

I stamped him in blue on a white card base and then used a blue marker to extend the landscape line across the card.  I used a marker for a pink flush on his cheeks. I added lots of iridescent sequin snow and a sentiment from Impression Obsession Words for Art.

 

 

I also took inspiration from The Anthology Challenge at The Library Challenge from the December 2018 book - The Snowman.

 

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.

 

12 Tags of Christmas - Deck the Halls

We're already on Day 11 of the 12 Tags of Christmas and we're singing Deck the Halls.

 

I die cut the Essentials by Ellen Shipping Tag in Green cardstock.  Next I traced the tag on the back of some lovely Holly Paper from the Home for Christmas Collection by Pebbles and cut it slightly smaller than the background tag.  

 

I used some Doodlebug Letter Stickers for my Fa-la-la-la-la and finished with some punched holly leaves at the top of the tag topped with Holly Bling.

On a personal note, I'm actually not a fan of Holly ... we had a large Holly Bush by our front porch growing-up, and those leaves are super-spikey.