CASology #193 PINK

Happy Tuesday! Its time for a new CASology challenge.
This one is gonna have to tickled PINK! LOL.

Despite having three little girls, I rarely use pink in my crafting so I was very excited for this challenge. I wanted to use a few pinks - the more the better right? I cut the Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles die three times using PTI Raspberry Fizz, Lovely Lady, and Hibiscus Burst. I stamped the simple sentiment from Keep It Simple series before cutting each rectangle into three. 

I pieced them all together so all three colors were represented making three different cards. Pretty easy really and the monochromatic colors pack a pretty punch. 

Be sure to check out the other PINK creations from our Design Team:

Ardyth Percy-Robb

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

and our Guest Designer:Shanna and our fabulous sponsor Serendipity Stamps. 

Can't wait to check out your PINK creations this week. Thanks for stopping by. 

CASology #192 SPROUT

Happy Thursday friends! Time for a new CASology cue word. This week we are challenged with SPROUT. Perfect for this time of year here but also is a challenge.

For my SPROUT card, I used a branch stamp and sentiment from AMuse. I cut a rectangle stitched panel (Lil Inkers) and stamped the branch coming out from the one side. I added a few leaves in PTI New Leaf which is such a vibrant fresh green that reminds me of new growth. I blended in some Aqua Mist ink beneath the branch to mimic the sky and ground the brush on the panel. Card base is Aqua Mist as well. 

Can't wait to see how you interpret SPROUT this week! Be sure to check out where my fabulous teammates took SPROUT this week. And shout out to this week's sponsor So Suzy Stamps! 

Ardyth Percy-Robb

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

Thanks for stopping by!

CASology #187 : SPIN

It's Tuesday. Start of a brand new month and a new CASology challenge starts today. This week's challenge is SPIN. Such a fun word with SO MANY different possibilities. 

I kept my card CAS by keeping it one layer. I stamped a row of colorful pinwheels along the bottom of the card (stamp from AMuse) and added a matching enamel dot to the center of each. Sentiment is from Lil Inkers. 

Be sure to check out the fabulous cards made by my fellow design team members. Such varied, pretty, and clever takes on SPIN. I am still pinching myself at being included on this team with these fabulous ladies. 

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:  Michele

And don't forget to visit this week's Sponsor: Cindy B Designs. Can't wait to see what you come up with! Have a great week! 

ColourQ 315, CASology 171, & ColourMe 96

Sharing a few cards this rainy afternoon in NJ. My first card was inspired by THIS fabulous card created by Joyce for this week's ColourQ challenge. I absolutely love this mix of bold colors. It was genius the way Joyce created such a beautiful mosaic. The color is not overpowering with the white space and vellum muting it. I varied it a little by using the PTI waves cover plate. I originally heat embossed my sentiment in the center of the skewed vellum but I had trouble adhering the vellum to the card panel so decided to stick with the bold black sentiment banner to ground all the movement from the colorful waves. 

Send card is for this week's Colour Me....Monochromatic challenge which is to used a mix of neutrals. I've been itching to use the new PTI Cup of Cheer set along with the MFT Clearly Sentimental about Coffee sentiment set so these challenge colors came at the perfect time.  I was inspired by a card from Nichole Heady that was in the November PTI Newsletter. 

Last card uses a bicycle from an old Cat's Meow set in my stash for the CASology:Vehicle challenge. 

Also linking to the current Seize The Birthday:Anything Goes challenge

I stamped the girls' bicycle on a Lil Inkers Stitched Circle diecut. The grounded the bicycle on a strip of striped patented paper which I also cut with the Stitched Circle die so it would blend in with the rest of the circle. Parts of the bicycle are colored in with Copics. 

I'm working on a couple more cards and hope to post them tomorrow. Kids are off from school for a couple days so I'm hoping to find a smidge of free time. Thanks for stopping by!

Three on Thursday

Hello -

I've got three cards to share with you today...all created last night during three episodes of Gilmore Girls (LOVE that show!).

First card is inspired by the Create Along With Us challenge at PTI. I was completely inspired by THIS card by Ashley Cannon Newell. It was simple and pretty and gave me a chance to open up my new patterned vellum pack. For my birthday card, I used similar colors as Ashley's as well as the challenge colors at Colour Me....! this week. Sentiment is from Tucked In:Birthday and flowers from PTI Birds and Blooms. I used Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles for around the sentiment panel.

My second card is inspired by the CASology cue card:Aquatic. To me Aquatic is nautical....maybe being a Coast Guard wife all these years has really influenced how I see things! :) I used PTI Out to Sea since I don't have any fish or sea themed stamps. I stamped the Crackled background in Soft Stone using my MISTI to ground the compass stamped in Enchanted Evening. Kept a good amount of white space around the light background to keep it CAS. 

My last card is for this month's One-Layer Simplicity Challenge - Striped Down. I masked off a large strip along the bottom of the white cardstock base. I embossed the birthday from PTI Swoosh in white and blended a rainbow of inks over the embossed sentiment. Still getting the hang of the ink blending technique. Hard a hard time with the middle colors like the green looking smooth. But Iove the crisp clean edge masking gives on white cardstock.  

Off to MD for my annual visit to my sister's! Wishing you all a wonderful weekend! Thanks for stopping by! 

Colour Me......Playful! #48

Tis the Wednesday before Thanksgiving here in the US and many are busy cooking and cleaning getting ready for the big day which centers around food and family. Gotta love that! 

But its also time for a new Colour Me.....Playful! challenge  and this week we are using the fun combination of elegant eggplant, perfect plum, coastal cabana, and rose red.  Of course, you are welcome to create anything with these colors and add in neutrals such as black, gray, white, kraft, and vanilla.

In honor of our Thanksgiving holiday, I created a fun pocket thank you tag using the Lil Inkers Folding Tag die which I used with some pretty patterned pink paper. 

I tucked in a rounded tag in PTI Plum Pudding in an secured the edge of the pocket with scor-tape. A gift card could fit nicely in there too. Sorry for the bad shadows in the photo...not getting a lot of good sun today. 

I added a layered butterfly (Royal Velvet and Plum Pudding) embellished with three purple pearls along with a little tag tucked underneath. Sentiment is from Thank You Kindly. Finished the tag off with some Hawaiian Shores ribbon to match the tag.

Hope you are inspired to create something great with this pretty and unusual color combination. Check out what our design team has done with it -

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for November...Anita!

Hope to see you in the gallery and have a wonderful weekend!