Inkspirational: Something in Your Home

Happy Boxing Day and happy Saturday! If you celebrated Christmas yesterday, I hope it was as good a Christmas as possible for this strange year. Inkspirational is back with a new challenge: Something in Your Home! 

Three things I immediately thought of that we have a lot of in our home are houseplants, books and tea. I decided to combine two of them: 

I found stamps of a tea cup and a pile of books that were of appropriate sizes to mask and combine as one image. They and the sentiment are stamped and embossed on watercolour paper. Some simple colouring and some sparkle on the heart was really all that was left to do for this CAS card. 

My teammates were inspired by all kinds of different things in their homes! I hope you will check out their great cards and then look to your home for the inspiration to join us!

Supplies: Hero Arts blue layering cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, PinkFresh Late Nights & WPlus9 Smart Kitty stamps, Versamark, Versafine onyx black & Stampin' Up real red ink, Wow clear gloss embossing powder, Zig markers, MFT stitched rounded rectangle die, Spectrum Noir clear sparkle marker

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Ellen Hutson Tags: Days 4, 5 and 6

The most amazing thing happened last night when I checked in on Instagram: Ellen Hutson had reposted one of my tags! Obviously this was a sign that I needed to make more for the 12 Tags of Christmas 2020! I didn't want to pick favourites, so I just continued along with the days. Here's Day 4, with the song inspiration Sleigh Ride: 

I thought I would give the Claus couple a date night sleigh ride. :D The tag base is blended with distress oxides, and all the images are from Lawn Fawn. 

Day 5's song is White Christmas, and I took it rather literally: 

I adhered some die cut snowflakes to a white tag base, then spritzed it liberally with sparkle mist. My original plan was to trim the snowflakes to the edges of the tag, but decided I liked the way they looked overhanging the edges. No sentiment, just sheer white ribbon so as not to spoil the aesthetic. ;) 

The last song I had time for today is Home for the Holidays, for Day 6: 

So many of us will be home for the holidays, rather than gathering in larger groups. I used a couple of homes from a Studio Katia stamp set along with an appropriate sentiment. I think I'll use this to deliver some Christmas baking to friends. 

I think this really should be it for me for Christmas tags this season! :D 

Supplies: (Day 4 tag) Neenah white cardstock, Lawn Fawn Ho-Ho-Holidays stamps & dies, Tiny Tag Sayings stamp, Versamark, Versafine onyx black & mermaid lagoon, faded jeans & wilted violet distress oxide inks, Wow clear gloss & white embossing powder, Copic markers, Neat & Tangled tag die, frosted lace Stickles, Glossy Accents, Offray ribbon, foam tape; (Day 5) Neenah white & Stampin' Up basic black cardstock, Tim Holtz/Sizzix Mini Paper Snowflake & CAS-ual Fridays Tag Buddies tag dies, Tsukineko sclear sparkle shimmer spray, Studio Katia icy sparkle crystals, May Arts ribbon; (Day 6) Neenah white cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, Studio Katia Holiday Village stamps & dies, Versafine, Versamark onyx black & mermaid lagoon distress oxide ink, Wow clear sparkle & white embossing powder, Distress inks for watercolouring, Paper Smooches stitched tag die, scrap red ribbon

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Color Hues: Green and Blue

Time for a new Color Hues challenge! Our latest colours to inspire you are GREEN and BLUE. I seem to have put myself into a bit of a Color Hues rut, as this is my third bear card in a row... 

I really was going to use a snowman this time, until I realized... I didn't really want a green or blue carrot for a nose. :D So another polar bear it is. But I like polar bears, so there's that. ;) One of my favourite ways to make a frosty winter sky is using the plastic wrap technique, and I used it here with three hues of blue reinkers and some smooshing. The snowy foreground is made with a border punch, and I used my smallest ink blender brush to add some green to the trees off on the horizon. My bear's scarf and some simple shading is done with Copic markers. 

I'm adding this to the current Simon Says Monday challenge, Ice Cold. 

Beautiful green and blue inspiration from the rest of the Color Hues design team as well as our current guest designer, Stef! It is a busy time of year for many, but I hope you will have time to join us! 

Supplies: Neenah white cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, MFT Polar Bear Pals stamp & die, STAMPlorations Christmas Reindeer stamp, Versafine onyx black, Memento tuxedo black & garden green distress ink, Wow clear gloss embossing powder,  Stampin' Up bashful blue, ballet blue & tempting turquoise reinkers, Copic markers, EK Success alpine trail edge punch, Sugar Pea Designs card builder elements die

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The Snarky Sisters Do Christmas

It is time for the last Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge for 2020! And that MUST mean we're close to the end of this whacko year. Our final challenge is  festive one of course: L is for LEWD CHRISTMAS! Here's mine: 

Gingerbread and holly, that's certainly festive! :D I usually die cut this cute gingerbread man out of kraft cardstock, but to change things up a bit, I ink-blended his baked goodness instead. The blended panel behind him happened to be already coloured and hanging out in my work space - perfect size, too. A few, um, decorations and a computer-generated sentiment finished the card. All the main layers are adhered with glue dots to add a hint of dimension. So to speak. 

Queen Cornelia is our guest designer, and you can see her creation, as well as those of my snarky sisters, by visiting the blog! To give the sisters a little time to rest up and recover after this crazy year, the challenge will run for four weeks instead of the usual two. So you have lots of time to release some of that pent up snarkiness on a card and join us!  

Supplies: Neenah white & Stampin' Up real red & garden green cardstock, Craft Smith textured red card base, Adirondack ginger & bundled sage, mowed lawn, antique linen & vintage photo distress ink, A Jillian Vance Design Sweet Gingerbread Add On & Studio Katia elegant scallop oval dies

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Inkspirational: Snow

Happy Saturday! Here we are, getting closer and closer to Christmas (and the end of 2020, woo hoo!) and the new Inkspirational challenge is perfect for those last few Christmas cards - or for other winter themes. Our word prompt is SNOW. I decided on a snowy night scene: 

The background panel is blended with blue and purple distress inks, and when dry, I added the snowflakes with a stencil and white paper glaze. While that dried, I cut two hillsides (for just that tiny bit of extra dimension), coloured the window with a pale yellow Copic, and inset it back into the house. A simple sentiment and a die cut snowflake were the only other additions.

I'm adding this card to two December STAMPlorations challenges: Clean and Simple Cards (without the optional colours, obviously) and the Stencil challenge. I'm also linking up to my friend Jo's Christmas Kickstart challenge: Peace on Earth. 

Beautiful snowy inspiration from the Inkspirational team as always! I hope you will be inspired to join us. 

Supplies: Neenah white cardstock, Technique Tuesday Jingle All the Way stamp, Simon Says Stamp intense black, Catherine Pooler juniper mist & shaded lilac, faded jeans & chipped sapphire distress ink, Simon Says Stamp falling snow stencil, Picket Fence snowdrop white paper glaze, CUTplorations winter stitched landscape & Sunny Studio Stamps snowflake die, Copic marker

 

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12 Tags of Christmas: Here Comes Santa Claus

Christmas tags. Obviously, I'm obsessed. :D Anyway, here I am with a tag for Day 3 of Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas 2020, Day 3's song is Here Comes Santa Claus. Since I have a stamp set called Santa Claus Lane, it seemed an obvious choice:

I decided to make an interactive tag. To start, I ink-blended my tag base with distress inks, and after it was dry, added some white-embossed snowflakes. Santa and his sleigh are stamped, embossed, coloured with Copic markers, and die cut. I thought it would be fun to make Santa a separate tag that could come out of his sleigh. 

For even more fun, I stamped a sentiment on the reverse: 

That's it for this tag! There may still be more... 

Supplies: Neenah white cardstock, Sunny Studio Stamps Santa Claus Lane stamps & dies, Stampin' Up Visions of Santa & Concord & 9th Stocking Stuffers stamps, Versafine onyx black, Memento tuxedo black, & broken china, blueprint sketch & chipped sapphire distress inks, Wow clear gloss & white embossing powder, Copic markers, silver metallic Sharpie, Sugar Pea Designs beautiful Bauble die, Michaels ribbon, Twinery maraschino twine

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