Ingenious Inkling

Most Wonderful Time of the Year

This week we're celebrating the creative art of Embossing ... dry embossing, heat embossing, or even textured or embossed papers ... whatever you can do to add a little texture to your holiday project. 

I tried embossing one of my Gelli Prints with a Darice Fancy Snowflakes embossing folder, and the results were pretty much lost in the pattern of the background.  Next I tried applying Lawn Fawn Blue Jay ink direct-to-paper and the embossed texture came to life.  

I love the results.  Sentiment is from The Ton Holiday Lyrics and Flower Bling that is new from Eyelet Outlet (I thought the shape of the flower echoed the snowflakes in the background).

 

I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Craftaholics R Us.

We hope you'll come join our embossing fun.

Blue Winter Wonderland

We're still making cards inspired by our gorgeous fireplace photo at Jingle Belles.

This week I started my inspiration with the Snowman Silhouette on the Mantel and then continued with inset squares inspired by the shape of the fireplace and lots of fun snowflakes.  I couldn't resist topping that big snowman head with a Paper Smooches die cut plaid hat.

The purple flower bling from Eyelet Outlet was the perfect finishing touch for the tops of my snowflakes.

I'm also joining The Holly and Ivy Challenge where the them is Anything Goes.

MISTI & Joy Clair Blog Hop

I'm thrilled to be Guest Designing with the Design Team from My Sweet Petunia for a Blog Hop & Giveaway with Joy Clair Stamps.  This was a new-to-me stamp company, so I was thrilled to get to try three new stamp sets for my designs.

 

I started with the brand new Hello Sentiments Stamp Set ... I knew the big bold sentiments would be fun for shadow stamping.

 

 

I used the happy spring colors of orange & golden yellow for my design ... and then found some coordinating flowers in my stash to accent my text.

 

 

I love that I get things right on the first try with my MISTI instead of stamping several different pieces until I finally obtain full coverage.

The next set from Joy Clair is called Dad's Day.  I always love having more masculine stamps in my stash.  I couldn't wait to create the perfect father's day card for one of the men in my family.  

 

 

The stamp sets included coordinating cut files, but since I didn't have a cutting machine, I had a friend cut them for me.  I was able to use temporary adhesive to adhere my die cut to a piece of scrap cardstock and then perfectly stamp my ribbon in Bronze Metallic ink ... love that.

 

 

And yes, that is denim material on my card.  I used fabric stiffener and then was able to cut and adhere it to my card front with strong double-sided tape.  I used a bronze metallic sharpie to color my ribbon and added a bit of grey Spectrum Noir to the fart cloud.

 

 

For my final card, I did fun single-layer-all-over-stamping design using Joy Clair Snow Fall (isn't that a magnificent collection of snowflakes) ... it's so fun to create my own designer paper.  I started with a piece of DCWV ombre paper and then used lots of purple inks from my collection to create my snowy storm.

 

 

I accented the flake centers with three shades of purple glitter epoxy dots.

 

 

There are prizes with this hop ... for a chance to win, you must leave a comment on every blog post to win the Joy Clair or MISTI giveaways.  MISTI Winners will be announced on this page of the My Sweet Petunia blog on April 14th. 

Ilina Crouse

Martha Lucia Gomez

Jeanne Streiff

LeeAnn McKinney

Maureen Wong

Kerry Urbatch

Lydia Fiedler

Lori Kobular

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Donna Idlet

Ceal Pritchett

Lindsay Adreon

Dina Kowal

Helen Gullett

Giovana Smith

Jessica Pascarella

Stephanie Severin

Steph Ackerman

Amanda Woodruff

My Sweet Petunia

Winter Wonderland

It's prize week at Mojo Monday, so I wanted to make sure I threw my hat in the ring for a chance at some of Julee's awesome stamps.

There were lots of pieces in this week's sketch, so I started with a scrap of leftover Color Burst resist watercolor paper from this week's Jingle Belles Card and build on top of that.

I added a doily and fun 3-D Doodle Bug sticker and put the rest of the card together with scraps of paper on my craft table.  I finished with coordinating sticker sentiments & some paper & sequin snow.

I'm also linking-up this cute little snowman at the CUTE Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Snowflake Wonderland

This week's Jingle Belles theme (suggested by our Lovely Guest Star Leslie) is Let the Flakes Fall Where They May ... yep, it's all about snow in its various wonderful forms.

I started with 3-D Embossed Acetate that reminded me how the ice breaks when you step on a frozen puddle.

Next I added lots of clear snowflake stickers and finished with fabulous felt layered snowflakes topped with beautiful blue Eyelet Outlet round jewels.

We hope you'll come visit Leslie & have some snowy fun with us.

Sticker Snowfall

This week at Jingle Belles we're getting all STICK-y & Sweet, which means we're creating cards that feature at least one sticker.

Stickers were the first crafting supply I fell in love with almost twenty years ago ... there were tons of them back then and they seemed much *safer* to me than all of the potential mistakes I could make with ink and stamps (oh how far I've come).  However, there are still a few stickers you can always find in my stash today ... including Penny Black Stickeroos.  

I pulled out my pile and organized them a bit (most are Christmas, but there are lots of others in the pile).  I decided to go with the oldest ones ... Snowflakes Falling from 2007.

This week's Sketch Saturday was perfect for a rectangle sticker, so the card came together quickly with cardstock scraps and a silver glitter punched snowflake added as an accent.

And since the stickers were 10 years old, and because this card came together quickly, I decided to make three more and use-up this part of my sticker stash.

I used the paper stripes to pull out the bit of light blue in the watercolory background (and the same silver punched snowflake).

For this card they pull out the green in Santa's pack.  I added an extra layer and mounted the sticker on cardstock before trimming and attaching with foam tape for dimension.  I finished with a bit of leftover gem flourish.

I took a bit more liberty with the sketch on my final card to use up the additional two stickers that were on the sheet ... all four, easy peasy.

I'm also joining the Penny Black Saturday Challenge for January, where the theme is Anything Goes.

Peace

Work has seriously interfered with my cardmaking this week, so it looks like I will really be pushing to get all 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist created.  Since that is the case, I skipped ahead to the beautiful inspiration colors of Tag #12.

The colors came from this Inspiration Photo.

I started with a tan/kraft doily and then layered on the other colors using the Laurel Wreath Die Cut from Essentials by Ellen as my base.

I finished with the EBE Brushstroke Christmas sentiment, a satin ribbon, and a few more layers for my tag.

I'm also joining the Tag You're It! Challenge at Shopping Our Stash.

Color Burst Floral Christmas Tag

On Day 8 of the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist, the them is Watercolor ... so on a snowy Saturday, nothing better to do then get all messy with some Color Burst.

Since the theme is feminine, I used a flower stencil with four colors of Color Burst (Ultramarine Blue, Violet, Indigo & Merlot).

I used a Spellbinders Label 22 Die to cut out my tag and then die cut a poinsettia from coordinating blue & green with an Eyelet Outlet Flower Gem center.  

I finished with 2 colors of ribbon and the Brushstroke Joy Die Cut from Essentials by Ellen.

Yeti Wonderland

The theme for Day 5 of the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist is Frozen ... and who is more frozen than a Yeti.

I colored my Yeti with Spectrum Noir markers and created a little winter scene with a Lawn Fawn stitched hillside horizon.

I used this week's Mojo Monday Sketch for my Tag Layout with layered Stitched Snowflakes from Lawn Fawn (with a little Eyelet Outlet bling) to go with my Lawn Fawn Yeti Set Go stamps.

I'm also joining the Lawnscaping Challenge where the theme is Let It Snow.

Snowman Joy

Today's them at the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist is Felt, featuring lovely designs by Jennifer McGuire.

I picked-up the Snowman Joy die from Penny Black on my recent travels.  The stamp of this same design was one of my favorites, so I went on a search for the die.  I die cut the snowman from white felt and attached him to a We R Memory Keepers 3-D Embossed tag (inspired by Jennifer).

I added lots of sequin snow and a sticker sentiment together with cotton ribbon.

I attached my tag to a card, so he can make his way through the mail.

I'm also joining The Paper Players with their Snowflake Challenge.