Inkadinkado - Filigree Holiday Patterns

I know, Christmas cards this time of the year, but I thought I would get an early start as the next 4 months or so are going to be quite busy and I did not want Christmas to creep up on me this year, again.  So, for the foreseeable future, it will be Christmas cards from me.

I stamped this Inkadinkado Filigree Holiday Patterns stocking in Archival Colbalt ink and mounted it on 3 Spellbinders Classic Circles from the large and small sets.

The sentiment was also stamped in Archival Cobalt and is from the Hobby Arts set Christmas Greetings.

Apologies for being MIA for 3 weeks but, together with DH, did a volunteer stint relocating wild captive animals and it took a little longer than anticipated.

Mini Thank You card

I first stamped this image from Inkadinkado Everyday Expressions in Archival ink Maroon then I sectioned off the card with post it note colouring the middle section in with Momento Desert Sand and Peanut Brittle inks and a sponge applicator.

Inkadinkado Little Kitten

I had quite a few narrow strips of card stock left over and decided to make a series of small cards.

This card is 70mm x 70 mm decorated with a Spellbinders Labels Four in blue paper, 2 Spellbinders Circles and an Inkadinkado Little Kitten stamp.

Tag - Art Impressions - Tree and Leaves

Yet another Go Kreate Concentric tag this time with the Art Impressions Tree and Leaves stamp in Archival Olive ink.  The sentiment is from an un-named Inkadinkado stamp set.  The flowers on the tree were hand done with a Stampin Up Dusty Durango marker.  The tag was finished off with Brushed Corduroy Distress ink.

Stationery Holder

The finished product - a notepad, post-it note and bookmark gift set

The size of the holder is 228mm x 150mm, scored at 60mm / 85mm / 145mm and 170mm.  The corner rounder used is from Creative Memories.  Yellow cardstock is Stampin Up Barely Banana, the patterned paper is Creative Memories Shades of Orange with the orange cardstock being Stampin Up Pumpkin Pie.  The tab on the right hand side is a Stampin Up Round Tab punch.

The post-it note pouches on the left hand side are 58mm x 66mm.  You would need to check the size of the post-it notes for the scoring.  The trim added was from scraps I had and the flourish stamp was off of an un named Inkadinkado set.  As the holders had no sides I made 4 holes (2 front, 2 back) with a paper piercer and threaded some embroidery cotton through the front hole, then the same side back hole, along the back to the next side and out the front, knotting both sides.

 

The notepad holder in the middle is a MFT Die-namics die Gift Card Pocket.  Instead of taping it flat I added a couple of pieces either side to make it into a box.  The owl on the front is from the Stampin Up set called First Friends stamped with Archival Coffee ink.  The small dots around the owl are from the Flourishes set Medallion Motif which was die cut with Spellbinders Circles small and large.

 

The bookmark pocket on the right hand side is a Memory Box die called Library Pocket.  Again I altered the die by trimming off one side so as to be able to slide the bookmark in.

Below is the outside of the holder.  The image is from Whimsy - Owl shaded with SU Close to Cocoa crayon and a blender pen.  The die it is framed in is MFT Peek-a-Boo Trio.  The 2 mesh like areas on either side of the holder were made using a Dreamweavers stencil brush, Distress Ink Spiced Marmalade with a Dreamweavers Fibreglass screen.  The is a quick and easy technique and I like the look it gives.  Think I will be using this a lot in future as I like to make my own backgrounds.

Bookmark - MFT Bookmark Duo and stamps on SU Pumpkin Pie. Background on the bookmark is a Hero Arts stamp - Old Letter Writing.  The edges of the cardstock are Distress inked with Rusty Hinge and the patterned Creative Memories paper, Shades of Orange, is done with Spiced Marmalade.

Punch art Mouse in Xmas hat

This is one of those cards which took on a life of its own !  I saw something similar on the internet but cannot for the life of me find it again.  Apologies for not giving that crafter the credit !

The background is a Dreamweaver Stencil LG611 - Stone done with Pumice Stone Distress ink and a stencil brush.  The window and shutters are Memory Box dies called Small Madison Window and Small Madison Window Shutter.  The shutters were sponged with Aged Mahogany Distress ink.  The curtains were made from Spellbinders Classic Squares cut and angled, the Xmas tree is a sticker and the mouse was made up as follows :

Face - the circle is an old Cuttlebug die with the face being from Peachy Keen PK757 - Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Face Assortment.
Ears and hands - Stampin Up Owl punch
Hat - Cottage Cutz Santa down the Chimney

The snowman is from an Inkadinkado set called Doodle Winter and was coloured in using a variety of markers and aqua pencil crayons.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts Holiday Sayings and it was stamped with Maroon Archival ink.  It was die cut on Sweet Stack Labels from MFT.

Cottage Cutz Lacey Envelope / Christmas card

The background ink used on this card is Distress Weathered Wood.  The stamp is Winter Borders from Inkadinkado stamped with Archival Cobalt ink.  The sentiment is Hero Arts Holiday Sayings.

Again, I lined the Cottage Cutz Lace Envelope with Spellbinders Circle, cutting them to size.  The card size is 58mm x 178mm scored in the middle.

Cottage Cutz Lace Envelope card series

I am particularly fond of the Cottage Cutz Lace envelope and thought I would do a series of small cards to fit into them.  The card is 58mm x 178mm in size and is scored down the middle.  I also realised it would be easier to fit it into the envelope if there were no layers on the card.

The stamps on this card are from the Inkadinkado set called Stitch in Time Inchie bundle and they were stamped with Archival black ink.  The band of sponged ink which is approximately 10mm from both the top and bottom of the card is Momento Lulu Lavender.

The envelope was die cut using 100g paper and lined with 80g copier paper cut using Spellbinders Circles.  I found it necessary to do this otherwise the card was catching on the envelope which probably would not have happened if I used thicker cardstock but then I would not be able to get it to fold as nicely.

Inkadinkado - Friendly Advice

I needed a plain card in a hurry the other day and remembered I had a stamp set with this cute saying on.

The sentiment is die cut using Spellbinders Labels 9 and the border punch is a Martha Stewart one called Garden Trellis.

Cottage Cutz - Baby Cradle

The baby release from Cottage Cutz is just darling and was exactly what I needed to create more baby cards.

Starting with the cradle I have a tip for lining the pieces up - even though the made up version is bigger than that shown on the Cottage Cutz packaging, you can get a better idea of how to line the legs up if you put your one on top of the picture.  This I will do next time as my cradle legs are just slightly skew !

The cradle was placed onto a Marianne D die Scalloped Circle and then matted onto a Go Kreate die called Wavy Frame #1.  The panda is from the Inkadinkado set Baby Animals and the sentiment is a SU stamp from Itty Bitty Banners die cut with SU Framelits - Bitty Banners.

Bookmarks 3

This is the last of the bookmarks I made.  Again they are stamped with various Inkadinkado stamps.  Really quick and easy to make and I am loving having extra bookmarks.

Dreamweaver Stencil - Baby Carriage

I started off with the Dreamweaver Stencil for the baby carriage and the card sort of went on from there.  The sentiment is from a Cuttlebug alphabet die, the card stock which the stencil is on was die cut using Spellbinders classic and scalloped rectangles.  I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder underneath and edged card stock with Distress Ink.

The little panda is from an Inkadinkado set called Baby Animals and the nest die it is seated on is from BossKut.

Bookmarks 2

A couple more bookmarks using Inkadinado images on the left hand side one and Flourishes stamps on the right hand side one.

I am loving searching through my stamps to put onto the bookmarks.  It is like discovering them all over again !

Sentiment Notepad

I have a pile of 79 x 110mm notepads in my cupboard and I thought I would give DH one using different sentiments on each page.

Note sure just how many pages there are but I went through all my stamps and still had some over by the time I had finished the notepad.  I thought it could be plain and simple, no covers (which I suspect would get discarded, anyway) and it is a great way to go through all the sentiments one seems to collect.



Inkadinkado stamp set

I have a number of different coloured cards which I bought a long time ago on eBay which I thought I should start using.  I think this one is from SU cardstock and it came with a spare piece of the same colour which was much appreciated.

The background paper is another leftover from a project and I cut it into 3 parts.  Truth be told, it was a bit too small for the card so I thought I would make it fit.  The bird and foliage stamp is from an Inkadinkado set I bought years ago and it has no name on it.  I used a SU white craft inkpad for the image which I matted onto a Tim Holtz Artist Trading card die.

Stella & Rose - Mabel "So Sweet" Stamp

I have never really looked at or followed card sketches but after seeing an idea for a card sketch book I thought I would look into it.  Becky Fleck's Page Maps are a wonderful source of inspiration and the card today is from one of her card sketches.

The background is a new Hero Arts Stamp called Newspaper Background which I stamped using Sepia Archival ink.  On the mustard colour piece of cardstock I pierced the stitch holes using a Stampin Up template and did faux stitching with a brown Momento marker.  A Stampin Up scallop border punch was used for the right hand side trim.

The birdcage stamp is from Stella & Rose - Mabel "So Sweet" and the bird is from an Inkadinkado set.  I used Staz On ink for both of these stamps.  After die cutting the image with Spellbinders Petite Scalloped Circles I extended the chain on top of the birdcage drawing ovals by hand.  The sentiment is from a Stampin Up set called On Your Birthday and I stamped only the bottom part of one of the stamps.  It was die cut using a Sizzix / Hero Arts die called Small Tag Frame which I bought earlier on this week from Simply Creative here in Cape Town.

Inkadinkado - For the Birds

Although I am not a bird person I seem to have a number of bird stamps.  My main problem is what colours to use for the birds. On this one I decided to colour them in my own choice instead of trying to research what type of birds they are, look them up on the internet and get what colour they are supposed to be.  From here on out I am taking artistic license with birds - they are going to be all different colours !

The background is a Stamposaurus stencil on which I used Antique Linen Distress ink and a stencil brush.  The sentiment is from a Clear Dollar set called Something to Crow About and it was punched out using the Stampin Up Word Window punch.  The image was coloured in using a blender pen and markers.

Tag - Inkadinkado Flower Sentiments "Thank You"

When I buy a new stamp set I like to try one of the images out but do not always have an immediate use for it.  Rummaging around in my box I found this one and thought it would make a quick and easy tag. 

The dies are all Nestabilities and the Pinking Circles are ones I seldom use but thought it would make for an interesting contrast this time round.  On the back of the blue circle I placed a white circle for the message to be written.

Tag - Birthday Boy Kaisercraft

Kaisercraft are one of the few readily available stamps in my part of the world.  I usually am not attracted to them but I thought this little Clear Stamp CS 910 had potential.

I stamped the airplane in Archival Cobalt Blue, cut it out and once it was fixed onto the cardstock I added the vapour trail stamp.  The Nestabilities used were Long Rectangles, Classic and Scalloped.  The sentiment is from an unnamed Inkadinkado set.

Tissue Paper technique with another Inkadinkado Down by the Seaside

Here is the last of the 3 cards I made using the tissue paper technique.  This Inkadinkado stamp was just perfect for the orange tissue paper and I think it makes a wonderful anniversary card for a male.

The card is pretty self explanatory, the only time consuming bit was me not wanting to get out the sewing machine and doing the stitching by hand. The sentiment is from a Flourishes set called Tag Lines.