CASology #206 - ART

Happy Tuesday! Hoping your week is off to a start and you are ready for a new CASology challenge. 

Going through my children's artwork from this past school school year has inspired to take art back to the basics with this sentiment from Reverse Confetti. I used a paintbrush stroke stamp from PTI Brushed Off and stamped a rainbow down one side of the card. Love how the array of colors! 

So many possibilities with this cue word! Hope you are inspired to create something and join us for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor this week: Rubber Dance Stamps

and of course, check out what the rest of the DT has come up with for ART. 

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:  Lindsey

Looking forward to seeing your creations in the gallery. Thanks for stopping by! 

Geometric Confetti Cuts

Hi! I got to playing around with a very cool die in my stash - Reverse Confetti's Geometric Confetti Cuts. Two fun color challenges this week drew me to its modern mosaic look.

For the ColourQ challenge, I die cut it in 4 different colors - PTI Vintage Jadeite, New Leaf, Limeade Ice, and Silver. Then I pieced together the mosaic using Press N Seal which was VERY helpful in keeping the finished mosaic together and adding adhesive. All the cool shades of green with the silver are a surprisingly fabulous combination! Sentiment is from Altenew Label Love which I heat embossed in silver, cut out, and adhered with foam tape. I absolutely LOVE how it turned out. 

So I used the die again but this time for the fun bright color combination at The Paper Players challenge this week. 

Same process with this card except I used Press and Seal underneath the die and paper when I cut it so all the pieces would stay together in place. This made creating the mosaic much easier since I didn't have to look through piles for the right piece. Sentiment for this card is again Label Love but embossed in gold. I tried black at first but it didn't look right. This I found after 8 unsuccessful embossing attempts to get a good, clean sentiment strip. For this card I used PTI Pure Poppy and Raspberry Fizz and the turquoise color is Bazzill card stock. 

Thinking I'll make a few more of these with the leftover pieces while I have them out. Otherwise I don't think I'll end up ever using them again if I "save" them in an envelope for later. 

Thanks for popping in and hope you have a wonderful and crafty weekend! 

CASology #179 and some EXCITING news

Happy New Year friends! I had a great week off with the family - holidays with the extended family, spent time with old friends, playing lots of games, and saw Star Wars Force Awakens twice! So nice to have a break from work and shuttling between school and extra-curricular activities.  

I am happy to start off 2016 by sharing the exciting news that I am joining the CASology design team. Can you say......AHHHH! I've always loved this challenge and am amazed by what the design team comes up with each week. I'm humbled to be amongst this group of creative gals!

So for the first challenge of the year, the cue card is SIMPLE. Simple is the core of CAS. 

I made this card as soon as I had heard the news about joining the CASology team. I wanted to make a card that showed how excited I am to be a part of this team. 

My card is a simple one-layer card using white card stock. I stamped my champagne glass (from PTI Propose a Toast) in the bottom corner to preserve white space and used a simple but striking sentiment from Reverse Confetti. Champagne and bubbles stamped in Brilliance Galaxy Gold for a hint of shimmer. 

For more inspiration on this week's Cue word SIMPLE, please visit the other DT 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:  Rachel

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week! 

Two for Thursday

Hi friends. Quick share of two cards today.

First card is inspired by this week's Runway Inspired challenge. I love the colors and how she's photographed but of course I could never pull off wearing anything like that!

My card features a panel of flowers from Oopsie Daisy along with a Wet Paint sentiment. The polka dotted card base is from AMuse. 

Black enamel dots top off the centers. 

Second card is for the CASology inkers cue card SPLATTER. 

 I stamped the sentiment from Reverse Confetti in the bottom corner in black and stamped random colored paint splatters around the word color.

Gotta run. Worked all day at my kids' school today and am exhausted! Hope you are having a good week. Thanks for taking a peek!

Cards for a Rainy Day

We're on Day 2 of rainy and clouds here in NJ which bad for outdoor activities but good for getting some crafty time in!  I have a few cards to share with you today. Cloudy outside so that doesn't make for getting good photos of them though.

First card is an anniversary card for my parents. Its a sweet and simple card using the champagne glass & sentiment from Propose A Toast.  Champagne is stamped with Brilliance Gold. The gold mat is cut from gorgeous gold textured paper I found at Michaels. Entering this into CASology:ANNIVERSARY challenge. 

Next card uses this week's colors at ColourMe....Striking. I was inspired by THIS  gorgeous card by Nichole Heady. Sentiment is from Birds & Blooms.  Flowers from Ruby Reprise and Ruby Rose. I added a black enamel dots and used foam squares to lift the panel off the card base. 

For this third card I stamped a circular frame from Happy Hydrangea in a rainbow of colors to go along with this sentiment from Reverse Confetti Dream in Color.  Inspired by the One Layer Simplicity - I've Been Framed Challenge. 

This last card is for a little girl's birthday this weekend. Turns out the gift bag I have for her gift has the same colors in it as this week's ColourQ challenge! So of course I had to make a little card to go along with it. 

I clear embossed balloons from Balloon Bash onto white card base. I added layered 3 die cuts for impact and added the sentiment from Big Birthday Wishes on a banner.  I photographed the card on black background for contrast so you can hopefully see the shimmer of the embossed balloon background. 

Wishing you a wonderful sunny weekend! Thanks for stopping by!