CASology #225 SOFT

Hello friends! Thanksgiving is upon us in the US and I've got my sister and her family coming in for the weekend. LOTS of cooking happening this week! But before all that, there's a new CASology challenge that I hope you'll find time to play along with......  

I was inspired by SOFT to use some various purple felt scraps in my stash (from my daughter's various school and art projects). I die cut felt flowers using MFT Stitched Flowers dies and layered them. I dry embossed a stitched rectangular frame on an angle and used it to anchor the felt flowers. My "soft" sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Please check out what the rest of the Design Team created for SOFT and leave them some love for them on their blogs...

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: Nonni

and be sure to keep your creation clean and simple in order to be eligible for a prize from our fabulous sponsor this week: 

Sponsor:  Poppystamps

  

Can't wait to see what your inspired to make! Thanks for popping in!

It's Been A While....

....since I played along with the CAS(E) This Sketch and ColourQ. I found myself with some free time this week so was excited to create again using their inspiration.

For my CAS(E) This Sketch card, I used the Hero Arts Large Lotus stencil with my favorite colors - Limeade Ice, Aqua Mist, and Hawaiian Shores - along the top part of the card panel. I stamped the large sentiment from MFT and added some matching enamel dots. I added a strip of black at the top to anchor the design at the top of the card. 

Second card is inspired by this week's ColourQ palette. These colors are perfect for Halloween but I rarely use Halloween cards so I wanted to make another type of card. 

Since these colors are so bright and cheerful, I thought they'd be perfect for a birthday card. I stamped my bold sentiment from Mama Elephant in the center in black using my MISTI to get a nice dark image. Then I stamped various sunbursts from MFT around the sentiment. I matted the stamped panel with black and then adhered to the Amethyst Allure card base. I never would have put these colors together myself but love how it turned out. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

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CASology #196 MOVE

Hello! Hope you are having a great week! Tuesday means we have a new CASology challenge. This week its MOVE.

I chose to make a Congratulations on your New Home card. I used a wooden stamp from Hero Arts that features a row of six houses. I inked each one separately and spritzed the stamp lightly with water before stamping it on watercolor paper. Sentiment is from PTI Keep It Simple Congratulations.

There are lots of fun ways to interpret this as you'll see with the design team creations....

Ardyth Percy-Robb

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

 Sponsor:  Cindy B Designs

Guest Designer:  Janet

Can't wait to see what you come up with. Thanks for stopping by! 

CASology #186 DISTRESS

It's Tuesday again and it's time for a new CASology challenge - DISTRESS. 

For my take on DISTRESS, I decided to use distress inks which is my favorite thing to play with these days. It can be hard to keep distress inks clean and simple so I confined my design to one side of the card to preserve white space. I blended Tim Holtz distress inks in Mustard Seed and Wild Honey on half of the Clear Scraps Spiral stencil to create a sun. Color is darker toward the middle of the sun. Sentiment is from Hero Arts. 

There are so many ways to take DISTRESS and I can't wait to see what you guys do with it! There's a prize from our sponsor Lawn Fawn this week.

And be sure to check out what the fabulous DT members have created this week:

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:  Annie

Have a great week!

CASology:Glitter

It's Tuesday which means we have a new CASology cue card - GLITTER. I have a love-hate relationship with glitter. Its so pretty but also so messy! 

I remember my daughters made a craft in preschool which was made of paper, covered in glitter, and supposed to be hung from the ceiling or fixture. When it was suspended,  it would spin in the air. Can you see where this is going?? Although beautiful, it spread glitter everywhere when it spun! Seriously everywhere. Never again were my girls allowed to use glitter in their craft projects. 

For my CAS take on glitter, I wanted to incorporate it in a muted way so I went for a tone on tone, look. I used a Hero Arts  Large Lotus stencil with Wendy Vecchi translucent embossing paste on Smokey Shadow card stock. After letting the embossing paste dry for 3 minutes, I added Sparkle and Sprinkle glittered embossing powder in Ebony Spark to the top and applied heat. Wow. The embossing powder just melts into the paste and leaves a glittery finish. These pictures don't truly capture how cool it looks in real life - textured and sparkly. I heat embossed the sentiment in the same glitter embossing powder and Versamark. 

This is my take on a technique I learned from THIS video of Jennifer McGuire featuring embossing paste and embossing powder. 

Check out the fabulous GLITTER creations by the DT to see how glitter can be used in a clean and simple way. 

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Sherrie Mannion (HERE!)

Tracey McNeely

Guest Designer:  Sarah

and this week's sponsor  DeNami Design is offering a prize for our gallery winner. 

Look forward to seeing what you create in the gallery! Have a great week! 

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day friends! Popping in to share a few cards with you before I head out tonight. DH and I are going out without the kids tonight - dinner and comedy show - for the first time alone in ages (except for work events). YAY! 

First card is for the Papertrey Anniversary Day 8: Blue Ombre Challenge. Love blues....

I heat embossed a background of medallions from Fancy That on white card stock. I applied Enchanted Evening with an ink blending tool, darker in the middle of each medallion and blending lighter outward. I think Laura Bassen created a gorgeous card with this technique but she used wonderful rainbow colors. I heat embossed the sentiment on vellum and wrapped it around the medallion patterned panel. I mounted it on white card stock for some contrast against the Enchanted Evening card panel. 

Next card is for the Day 7: Heavy Metal Challenge where we were challenged to use only metallic gold and silver with neutral colors. I masked off part of a black panel diagonally and heat embossed some images from Mehndi Medallion on the bottom portion. I stamped the sentiment from Thank You Kindly along the invisible diagonal line. The finished panel was adhered with foam tape on top of black card base. The black on black popped up looks really cool. 

 This next card is for the CASology cue card LOVE. I adhered a small envelope from my scrapbooking stash and stamped it with a sentiment from Clearly Besotted stamps. I die cut a bunch of small hearts in a rainbow of colors and added them floating out of the envelope.

This last card uses a new Hero Arts stencil I recently got. LOVE it! I blended Pure Poppy on one floral image in the corner and Sweet Blush in the bottom flower. Sentiment from Keep It Simple is heat embossed in black and whole panel is mounted on Pure Poppy card stock. Color inspiration is from Colour Me Striking challenge this week. 

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Thanks so much for taking a peek!

Hero Arts August Challenge

Supplies: Card Base: Memory Box, Stamps: Hero Arts, Patterned Papers: Imaginisce, Markers: Copics, Ribbon: Michaels Stores, Punches: Marvy Uchida, Adhesive: American Crafts

I made this card for the Hero Arts August challenge. My card met two of challenges - its a card for a kid and it uses a creature. I absolutely love this Hero Arts set and I use it often. While I am generally happy with this card, I feel like all my cards are starting to look the same because I am using the same techniques....stamped image which gets punched out using one of the Marvy Uchida shapes and patterned paper base. I am in such awe of all of the beautiful cards I see online and I always have the best intentions to try a different look or technique but I find myself always going back to the same thing. Maybe I just need to make more cards to be able to move past my tried and true 'look'. Any other ideas?

Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies: Card Base: Memory Box, Stamps: Hero Arts, Patterned Papers: Imaginisce, Markers: Copics, Ribbon: Michaels Stores, Punches: Marvy Uchida, Adhesive: American Crafts