CASology #221 CURE

Hi friends! Its Tuesday and time for a new CASology challenge.

Cards are our way of spreading happiness, cheer, encouragement, and strength. Its like our own way of providing a CURE for whatever our loved one is going through.

For my card, I used the Wonky Stitches die to cut a panel and stamped the word Hugs repeatedly down the middle in PTI Lovely Lady. I added the additional sentiment in black and adhered it to a Lovely Lady card base. Keeping everything in the same color keeps it CAS. 

Check out what the rest of the DT has created to inspire you....Can't wait to see what you come up with! 

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne
Hannelie Bester
Hazel Hodgkins
Jacquie Southas
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Tracey McNeely

Guest Designer:  Petra

Sponsor:  Birch Press Design

Thanks for stopping by! 

CASology #209 - Watercolor

Happy Tuesday! We have a fun new challenge for you at CASology this week - WATERCOLOR. 

This one promises to be a lot of fun.

For my card, I heat embossed the word HUGS in white on white watercolor paper. I smeared a few ink colors (PTI's Amethyst Allure, Lovely Lady, Enchanted Evening, and Blueberry Sky) on a craft mat and added water to each to use them as my palette for the simple diagonal swooshes I painted over the embossed HUGS.  After it was dry, I added the rest of the sentiment above and below the HUGS. 

I layered the watercolored panel with black mat before adhering to the Amethyst Allure card base. 

Check out the ways WATERCOLOR influenced the rest of the DT: 

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne
Hannelie Bester
Hazel Hodgkins
Jacquie Southas
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Tracey McNeely

Guest Designer:  Anita

Remember to keep it clean and simple and you can win a prize from our 

Sponsor:  Craft Classes Online

Can't wait to see what you come up with! 

What A Little Coffee Can Do

Don't know about you but I'm absolutely addicted to coffee and not ashamed to admit it. Not the fancy lattes or espresso drinks with syrup (though those are yummy on occasion) you can get at Starbucks. Just a plain old cup of coffee with sugar and a few of drops of milk for me. So two cups of coffee this morning are what inspired and energized me to makes these cards in less than two hours this morning.  So any fellow coffee fans out there??

First card uses the often forgotten Latte Love set which I was inspired to take out for this week's CASology cue word HOT.  I used the technique Tasnim Ahmed shared in the Clean & Simple class day 6 - masked stripe background. I stamped the image of the stacked cups and colored them in with Copics. I love this technique because even with the striped background there feels like there's still a lot of white space left.

For my second card I used a discarded chevron coverlet piece from my experimenting the other day with various cover plates for the Make It Monday challenge. I layered the Limeade Ice chevron over a white card base. For the center panel, I used a card from one of the Monthly Moments sets, stamped a candle in Limeade Ice, sentiment from Wet Paint, and added a touch of Stickles on the candle flame. Design inspired by CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. 

Last card today was inspired by the pretty colors at ColourQ which I wanted to pair with the Big Hugs set I haven't used very much. 

I stamped the scripted HUGS in Hibiscus Burst, Orange Zest, and Sweet Blush and the sentiment in Pure Poppy. I wanted the red card base to be showing at the top and bottom of the card so to emphasize I scored a line on the white panel for added interest and added a few enamel dots to finish. 

Thanks for stopping today. Hope your having a great week! 

Colour Me....Anniversary!

Hello friends!

It's a big day of celebration today....not only is it New Year's Eve but also the 1 year anniversary of the Colour Me....! challenge blog which I've had the honor to be a part of these last 6 months.

This anniversary challenge this week is to pick any of the fabulous color combinations from 2014 and create something new with it. Here's what I made using some new goodies that came in from Santa this month....

I used this fun colorful palette with the new Sending Hugs set. Wanted something bright and happy for this 'just because' card. 

I added the rest of the sentiment on the inside. 

And surprise surprise, I created a wine bottle tag with this beautiful color combination and the PTI December freebie, Pretty Petals. 

Hope you will check out the Colour Me...! blog to see all the anniversary fun going on.  

And an another note, if you are looking for some inspiration and planning help with all of your crafty & scrapbooking resolutions and goals for 2015, check out the Start Fresh workshop at Simple Scrapper this week. I've got lots I want to accomplish this coming year and am excited to get it all organized. 

Happy New Year....may 2015 bring you peace, happiness, and lots of time to create!