Inkspirational Challenges - Seasonal

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is: 

I've chosen winter but you can choose any season you like. 

I must admit, this is a very typical Christmas card for me - I've made many cards with deer silhouettes and still the enjoyment hasn't faded! This time, the twist is that the background is a gold-embossed Hero Arts stamp.

I hope you'll pop over to Inkspirational, see what the rest of the DT have made and add your own seasonal creation. 

I'd like to enter:

Shopping Our Stash  emboss

Moving Along with the Times Christmas animals 

Sparkles Forum  winter animals

Merry Yeti

Hi there! Here's a MFT's abominable snowman with a vertical MERRY cut on a Silhouette digital cutter. 

I'd like to enter:

Krafty Chicks  Christmas 

Die Cut Divas holiday 

 

Inkspirational Challenges - Moodboard

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational  is to be inspired by this moodboard:

I took inspiration from the chalkboard and the foliage. The seniment is Concord and 9th and the foliage is stamps that came 'free' with a magazine recently - I white embossed them and coloured them with colouring pencils. 

Please go and take a look at the great variety of ways the rest of the DT were inspired, and join in with your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

Krafty Chicks  stamp act 

Christmas Cards All Year Round  11 of something - there are 11 individual foliage stamped images. 

red, black, clean and simple 

As you like it  - Traditional colours - red and green, give a cozy glow but I like to add something a bit more unexpected too, like the black and white. 

Iced Coffee

This little snowman is holding a coffee cup- but, don't worry, it only hold iced coffee, so he won't melt. 

The circle is a snow/stars coverplate, cut into a circle and I used Promarkers to colour the snowman. 

I'd like to enter:

As You Like It  I like both Santa and snowmen - but snowmen are the easiest to colour. 

Fab n Funky  female 
 

Hoot Hoot

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the other side of the circle 

Here's a card for my great-nephew's first birthday. 

The card shape, trees and circles are all die-cuts. The owl and branch are Heffy Doodle stamps, as is the sentiment, The lovely gold marbling was already part of the paper and I used gold number stickers to match, 

I'd like to enter:

Make My Monday  fun sentiment 

Cardz4guys  birds 

Alphabet Challenge  o is for owl 

 

Inkspirational Challenges - Cold

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational  is :

Fo rmy DT card I made a bridge card of skating polar bears. The bears are a digi stamp by Jellypark. The trees in the background are stencilled with metallic gilding paste, I stamped the sentiment and side panels and the bridge area is covered with snowfall acetate (which is one of my favourite ever craft products!) 

'Cold' is such a versatile prompt - do visit the challenge and see what the rest of the DT have made, and join in. 

I'd like to enter:

Jingle Bells creature

Dream Valley   more than one fold

Peace on Earth Christmas 

Autumnal Colours .....

 

Autumn colours...but not an autumn-themed card. 

Here I stamped the rabbit (Colorado Craft) , masked it and stamed the ground (MFT) and sun (old Craft Stamper freebie). Then I coloured it in with Promarkers. 

I'd like to enter: 

Make My Monday 

Critter Crazy

Swingin' Santa

 

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Here's a swing card I made using metal dies. The postbox stamp is Molly Blooms (long gone I think) and the Santa, MFT. I coloured everything with Promarkers. 

I'd like to enter:

Dream Valley Challenges - more than one fold 

Krafty Chicks  Christmas 

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge 

Inkspirational Challenges - Card Plus Envelope

 

This time , at Inkspirational, Carol has chosen the challenge to make a card with a matching envelope - something I don't think I've ever done before! 

For my DT card, I found an autumnal patterned paper in my stash and repeatedly heat embossed a Stampin Up leaf stamp and cut them out. I used the same paper for a strip on the card and for the envelope. 

We'd love to see what you come up with and don't forget to see the brilliant takes on this of the other DT. 

I'd like to enter:

Sweet Stampin  autumn

Try it on Tuesday  autumn 

Little Red Wagon  fall colours

Diving In

 

My daughter asked me to make a 40th birthday card for her to give to a colleague. She sent me a photo of this poster for inspiration:

It took me a while to come up with an idea, but when I saw this card by Carol Mcfarlane, I was inspired to make a card with a diving swimmer. (Carol's card was inspired by an art print too!) 

My card is a bridge card with acetate to support the diver. The diver is a Glitz SVG from the Silhouette store , cut on a digital cutter.  I dry embossed the base and sides and stamped Happy Birthday. 

I'd like to enter:

The Sisterhood of Crafters  - shapes - diamonds on the embossing and the 'pool' is a trimmed off triangle.

Krafty Chicks - all occasions