CASology #280 KINDNESS

Hello CASology friends. Hard to believe we've come to the last CASology challenge for the year. Its a two-week challenge to give you more time since this time of year is very hectic. 

We have a good one this week...let's end this year focusing on KINDNESS. 

And for me, this is the last CASology challenge as a Design Team member.  :( 

I need to step away from my DT duties to focus on work since my girls are now in their tweens/teens.  

For this KINDNESS challenge, I wanted to make a thank you card for Melissa and the rest of the CASology DT who have shown me great kindness and friendship over the past year and a half I've been on the CASology team. They are truly a wonderful group - supportive, encouraging, and as you know, so very inspiring. I'm forever grateful to Melissa for giving me this opportunity to join them. 

My card is quick and simple. I framed the PTI sentiment with a embossed border and centered it on the card maintaining a nice thick border of color. I created a layered flower from MFT Stitched Flowers dies and nestled it i the corner of the sentiment block. 

Be sure to check out the fabulous creations the DT has come up with: 

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Bharati

Sponsor:  STAMPlorations

And THANK YOU to all of you for visiting and supporting me as well with your kind words and comments. Happy holidays to you and all the best in the New Year! Wishing you a very happy and crafty 2018!

CASology #275 Gray

🎶.....when skies are GRAY. You'll never know dear, how much I love you....please don't take my sunshine away.  🎶

That song came to mind when I saw this week's CASology challenge: GRAY.  Its a song I used to sing to my daughter (now 12) a lot.

I wanted to use a monochromatic gray color scheme so I paired PTI Soft Stone with Simon Says Stamp Smoke Gray. I die cut the PTI butterflies out of the Soft Stone. Sentiment is from PTI Pen & Ink (one of my new favorites!) which I still had handy from last week's card. 

Be sure to check out the GRAY cards made by my awesome DT friends: 

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Mary B.

Hope to see you in our gallery! Have a great week! 

CASology #278 STORMY

Hi crafty friends! Hope you are having a good week! We have a new CASology challenge this week: STORMY. 

This one is a little tough but I know (wink, wink!) you love a challenge! 

For my card I was inspired to use one of Papertrey Ink's newest colors STORMY Sea. I used that color for my card base and the matching ink for the sentiment to help someone navigate some STORMY times. I love this sentiment from PTI Pen & Ink...looks like handwriting. I added some wonky stitches around the border to add some interest to the white space and finished the card off with some scattered hearts stamped in Terracotta Tile. 

Check out how the rest of the DT took STORMY and be sure to join our challenge this week. 

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino - On break this week
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld - On break this week

Guest Designer:  Anita B.

Look forward to seeing what you create in the gallery! Thanks for stopping by! 

CASology# 277 ROUND

Happy last week in November! It's a final CASology challenge for November and we hope that you will be inspired to play along.

I took ROUND literally and created a little round gift card to accompany a birthday gift. The recipient is an adult male so I kept the color scheme in the monochromatic blue/grey family. Using a monochromatic color scheme keeps a design CAS.

The card design in 3 layered circles. The bottom, card base was made by die-cutting a stitched circle on folded cardstock and leaving the edge hanging off so that it doesn't cut the complete circle. The result is a partially rounded cut card. I die cut smaller sizes of the stitched circle and cut off the edge to layer. The sentiment from PTI In The Bag was stamped on the smallest circle. Easy peasy and it ROUNDness makes it special. 

See how ROUND inspired the rest of the DT:

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Darnell

Sponsor:  Kitty Bee Designs

Have a great week and see you in the CASology gallery! 

CASology #276 CHEER

Happy Tuesday again! Kinda feels like Groundhog Day around here because I've been so busy that I've only been creating and posting for the CASology challenges lately. Hope that will change soon!

We are entering the holiday season so we've got an appropriately fun word for you....CHEER! So many ways to take this card so I'm sure the gallery will be brimming with a variety of CHEERful cards.  

For my take, I wanted to use a CHEERS sentiment from PTI along with some cool triangles from the PTI Sketched Shapes set (one of my favorites!) to border the sentiment on both sides. I added some enamel dots along the side to continue the line from top to bottom. The left side remains open to maintain white space and keep it CAS. 

Check out the CHEERful designs the rest of the DT came up with! 

Anna Uhras 

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield (on a break this week!

Rachel Bergfeld

Sponsor:  STAMPlorations

Guest Designer:  Nicole

Looking forward to seeing what you create in the gallery! 

And one last note, just wanted to let you know how THANKFUL I am for you. Happy Thanksgiving! 

CASology #275 SHARP

Hi friend! Let's see how creative and SHARP you are with this week's CASology challenge.

Plenty of possibilities with SHARP. I took SHARP two different ways - 1) a sentiment about having SHARP eyesight and 2) I used double ended banners which have sharp points. The funny sentiment I chose as my card's focal point is from PTI Offbeat Birthday. I stamped it in black and matted the panel in black to help it stand out against the rainbow of banners I used as my background. 

Check out the other ways the DT went with SHARP...

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld

Can't wait to see all your sharp CREATIONS in the gallery. Have a great week! Thanks for stopping by! 

CASology #274 TINY

Hello friends. We've got a new CASology challenge for you and its time for you to think TINY.

For my card, I looked for my tiniest of stamps. I stamped a small flower image (from PTI Choose Joy) at the bottom corner of my card and embossed a partial stitched zig zag line from a border die to ground the floral image. The lower case, small font sentiment from PTI Comfort Food additions was stamped underneath the zigzag. Simple and sweet and PLENTY of white space. 

Close up:

Check out the TINY creations by the Design Team - 

Anna Uhras 

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

and hope to see your entry in the gallery! Have a great week!

CASology #273 LIST

Hello friends! This week's CASology challenge features one of my FAVORITE words.....LIST! I love me a good list and you'll often find me organizing my life and making lists in my bullet journal. 

I wanted to make a card to remind a friend of how great she is so I created a simple list using the MFT All about YOU set. I stamped the bold YOU and the phrases in a deep purple and used red for the check boxes. 

For a text-only card, I like to use different color combos to make it interesting. One of my favorite (& unusual color combinations is purple and red...I was inspired by this dress. 

Check out the amazing cards created by the Design Team:

Anna Uhras 

Deidre Payne - On break this week

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet 

Jen Wills - On break this week

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield - On break this week

Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Darnell

Can't wait to see how you interpret LIST....see you in the gallery! 

CASology #272 CHERISH

Happy Tuesday! This week's CASology cue word CHERISH is great because focuses our attention on something we love.

My card is super simple this week...the hallmark of CAS. I used PTI Tipped Tops dies with patterned paper filled with little hearts and adhered it to a piece of coordinating card stock. I stamped the sentiment from MFT along the bottom and kept the space around the it empty - preserving the "white" space. 

Check out the creations of our CHERISHED Design Team! 

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Hannelie Bester
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld

Sponsor:  So Suzy Stamps

Thanks for stopping by! 

CASology #271 SORRY

Hello friends - It's Tuesday and time for a new CASology challenge!

SORRY will likely inspire some melancholy and sad cards but if you play along you definitely won't be SORRY you did. Its always good to have these types of cards on hand before you actually need them.

I kept my card one layer this week by embossing this gorgeous butterfly (from PTI freebie Ever So Much) in gold on PTI Dark Indigo cardstock. Love gold and dark blue together. Its elegant and simple, perfect for expressing this sentiment. 

Be sure to check out what the DT has created to inspire you....you won't be SORRY you did! 

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Hannelie Bester
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Coni L.

Sponsor:  STAMPlorations

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week. 

CASology #270 ODD

Hello friends....We have a great, fun challenge this week at CASology. Hopefully you won't find it ODD and that you'll be inspired like I was for this challenge.

One of the classic design principles is to use ODD numbers of your elements. For some reason, things in odd numbers are more pleasing to the eye. In my card, I used 3 leaves (from MFT Geometric Greenery) and 3 enamel dots. I kept it modern by using only 3 colors - white, Lemon Tart, and Tropical Teal. I was so excited to use the new PTI To The Edgers die to create my pointed border. 

Check out what ODD creations our Design Team came up with.... and hopefully you'll be inspired to create something ODD as well! Can't wait to see what you come up with! 

Anna Uhras 

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Natasha

Sponsor:  Uniko Studio

CASology #269 GRID

Hello friends -

This week's CASology challenge is GRID. There are TONS of ways to take this cue so maybe this will be an easy week for you guys. FORTUNE last week was a challenge!

For my card I used GRID patterned paper from Authentique for my die cut flowers (MFT Stitched Flowers). I anchored them with a thin strip of Ocean Tides cardstock to match the sentiment.

The grid patterned paper is low-key and doesn't overpower the card. Just a simple pattern. 

Check out how the rest of the DT was inspired by GRID: 

Anna Uhras 

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Bobby

Its a crazy world out there and I think if we as card makers can bring a smile to someone's face even for a minute, we've done a good thing.  Have a great week! Thanks for stopping by.

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CASology #268 FORTUNE

Happy Tuesday! We have a fun challenge at CASology this week....let's hear it for FORTUNE! 

FORTUNE made me think of fortune cookies and the little rectangle messages hidden inside. 

So for my card, I used PTI Building Blocks dies on a white panel and inlaid a colorful and powerful messages(from PTI Building Blocks and PTI Infinity Sentiments) on the panel before adhering to the lavender background. I added Wonky Stitches and enamel dots for a playful touch. 

To be honest, the DT had a tough time with FORTUNE at first but they all rocked it...Be sure to check them out for more inspiration! 

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Hannelie Bester
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Jen M.

Sponsor: Jaded Blossom Stamps

Can't wait to see what you do with FORTUNE! Keep it CAS and you could be eligible for a fabulous prize from our sponsor Jaded Blossom Stamps. Thanks for visiting!

CASology #267 BIG

Hello friends! Get ready for a BIG week at CASology!

I went BIG two ways with my card while trying to keep it clean and simple. I stamped the large flower from Winnie & Walter in PTI Scarlet Jewel in the center of the white card base. I stamped the polka dot center in a lighter pink. I didn't color in the flower to keep it light and airy. 

After stamping I used the large PTI Big Basics: THANKS die in the middle of the flower. I adhered the die cut word with foam tape cut from the same die and placed it back in the flower. A little dimension and subtle interest. 

Come see all the BIG things the DT created this week - 

Anna Uhras 
Deidre Payne
Hannelie Bester
Jacquie Southas
Janet Ribet 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  SundayStamper

Sponsor:  STAMPlorations

Can't wait to see what you come up with....remember go BIG or go home! Have a great week. Thanks for popping in! 

CASology #266 CAKE

Happy Tuesday friends! We're having a party here at CASology this week and celebrating with some CAKE! 

For my card, I wanted to keep the color scheme clean and simple so I kept to black, white, and red. I created my own patterned paper by stamping the cupcakes (from PTI Tiny Treats:Valentine) randomly across a white card panel. Now 'random' wasn't so random because I initially tried random and it was a mess - cupcakes too close to each other and then big gaps left elsewhere. Took me a few tries before I found a pattern I liked. I colored in the little hearts on each cupcake with a red Copic marker.

I cut the panel using a stitched angled die (from MFT I think) and adhered to Pure Poppy cardstock. Sentiment. The off-kitler angle adds interest and the large red area on the right was perfect for the large birthday sentiment from MFT Big Birthday Sentiments.

Now its time for you to join the celebration and create something with CAKE! Be sure to check out what my DT friends came up with to be further inspired and I'll see YOU in the gallery. 

Anna Uhras 

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

Guest Designer:  Claire

Thanks for stopping by!