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! 

January 2016 PTI Blog Hop

Its the 25th so its time for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. This month's inspiration photo was graphic and bold and I admit threw me for a bit of a loop. 

I made two cards this month. For my first card, I was inspired by the graphic nature of the photo so I pulled out Sketched Shapes and stamped a row of triangles on a diagonal in Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, and Orange Zest on two pieces and heat embossed the sentiment in the middle. 

The white panels are adhered with foam tape so it floats above the sentiment. 

 Second card was inspired by the oblong shapes in the photo. I found a medallion from Fancy That that had a similar shape within it. I heat embossed the medallion in white and blended Tropical Teal, Hawaiian Shores, and Orange Zest on the medallions. Sentiment from Swoosh was diecut and adhered across the card.

Can't wait to see what everyone else came up with! Thanks for taking the time to stop by! 

Papertrey Anniversary Part 2

I'm sharing a few projects today for the PTI Anniversary festivities. First up is the Day 3 Bagged and Tagged Challenge.   For my tag, I die cut part of one of the tag dies (can't tell which is which anymore since I just have them all in one basket) and used a couple of the sketched shapes circles to match the gift bag. The tag is for one of my daughter's friends next week and I wanted to glitter it up with a number 9 glittered American Crafts Thicker.  The Happy and the 'TH' are from Big Birthday Wishes. 

This next project is a card for the Day 4: Build a Bouquet Challenge. I used flowers & leaves from a variety of sets - Ruby Rose, Ruby Rose Reprise, Mini Blooms, Oopsie Daisy, and Friendly Flowers. Wow, who knew I had that many floral sets. Sentiment is from Keep It Simple - Thank You. I added a bit of Smokey Shadow striped paper on one side and finished with a couple of enamel dots. 

And finally this last project is for the Day 5: Spring Into Action Challenge where we are challenged to use a stamp set that we haven't used before. I chose to use Wet Paint II which I think is primarily for scrapbooking and since I haven't scrapbooked in ages this set has just been collecting dust. From this set I used "This Moment Documented" to introduce my journaling block for this great photo I have of my daughter. The page design is inspired by one of the May 2014 monthly sketches with my Simple Scrapper membership. Been a long time since I've made a page and I'm loving this one. 

Have a good week. Thanks for stopping by! 

Papertrey Ink January 2015 Blog Hop

Hello friends! It's PTI Blog Hop day.....I'm so excited to play along this month. Haven't been able to participate in a while.  This month's theme is hearts and to create a card beautiful both inside and out. 

After seeing THIS card by gorgeous Laura Bassen in a video, I was inspired to use embossing paste and reindeers in my stash that have never been used (also known as NBUS in the crafty world). Before watching this video, I'd been scared to death to use embossing paste. 

I colored embossing paste with the Pure Poppy and Raspberry Fizz reinkers and used a Heidi Swapp stencil to make a scattering of hearts falling to the bottom of the card. Since the stencil had a different scattering of shapes in each corner, I masked off the other shapes so that only the hearts were exposed. Then after I added the colored embossing paste to the stencil on top of my card panel, I realized I didn't have any of those cool palette knives Laura used in her video. Yikes! Talk about a chef not having their mise en place ready before starting to cook! I'm improvised with popsicle sticks.   Not the perfect tool but a good stand-in. As you can see below, the hearts aren't perfectly smooth which I'm completely blaming on the popsicle sticks. :)

The sentiment from Everyday Photo Finishers and stamped on a Hibiscus Burst diecut from that set. The white panel was matted with black for some contrast before adhering to the red card base.

I added some embossing paste hearts inside too with a sentiment from Words of Comfort. 

Sharing a card I made for my Uncle's 80th birthday today. I used the the three panel technique that Ashley used in this week's Make It Monday. Can't enter it as the new rules only allow one entry per person but thought I'd share it anyway. 

I cut an 8.5 x 11 piece of dark blue paper so I had a 5.5 inch panel and scored it so it fit into a larger envelope I had. For the front panel, I used Big Birthday Wishes for the celebrating and amazing years (heat embossed in silver) and die cut the 80 our of silver shimmer paper and used foam squares to give the numbers some dimension.  I used a border punch for the edge and created silver wine glass from Propose A Toast die cut which was heat embossed in Brown Sugar for the 'champagne and bubbles' and adhered it to the edge. 

For the other side I stamped circles from Sketched Shapes in a random way in a glimmery silver/black ink for some interest when the card is closed. Forgot to take a photo of the finished card closed before I gave it. 

On the inside, I included two pictures of us - one when I was one year old and the other at his daughter's wedding. The left side has a panel of white glimmer paper with lots of space for my personal note and stamped with another sentiment from Big Birthday Wishes. Love how it turned out! 

On the "stovefront", I made Italian Sausage Lasagna Soup the other day. Very delicious and easy to make. This one is a keeper and definitely one of those recipes that I can make and freeze. Next time I'll add a small dollop of ricotta cheese on top when serving for added lasagna flavor. 

Looking forward to seeing all the pretty cards everyone made for the Hop today! Thanks for stopping by! 

Happy Summer!

I was up late last night making some cards for end of year camp counselor gifts. I should have made them all the same but was inspired by some of the challenges going on.

First card is inspired by the colors at ColourQ this week. 

I stamped the wavy lines from Ombre Builders in the two different shades of blue to mimic the ocean. I die cut brown flip flops (Flippin Out) and stamped them in brown and added the green decorative flower with foam dots for some dimension. Sentiment from Flipping Out as well.

Next card is inspired by the One Layer Simplicity challenge - Shades of Summer.  The challenge offers several color palettes to choose from, all of them just gorgeous. If you've never checked out Design Seeds, its a must....you'll be so taken by the fabulous color combinations and amazing photographs. 

I chose to use Shades of Summer #3: 

I used created the same waves using three different shades of blue and added the same sentiment in the darkest blue. The sun is a pretty flower image from Friendly Flowers. 

Next card is inspired by the Moxie Fab World challenge which features this pretty clock with a triangle design on it. 

I started to create a background using several triangle shapes in my stamp stash but none of them quite captured the coolness of the clock. Then I found this wonderful hexagon shape made of triangles (from Sketched Shapes). I loved the range of colors in the inspiration photo so decided to create a border across the bottom in a range of colors. 

Sentiment from Keep It Simple:Thank You stamped in black so as not to compete with the rainbow. 

My final card for today features the creative card border using non-border dies technique for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday challenge. 

I used the popsicle dies from Summer Sweetness to create my border and stamped a simple thank you at the bottom. The rest of the card panel seemed a little plain so I scored it to create a striped background. Entering this into the CASology:Stripe challenge this week. 

After I stamped the popsicles in red and orange, I embossed them in clear to give them a wet glossy look just like popsicles. Love how they turned out. This detail pic not so great but hope you can see a bit of the shimmer. 

That's it for me for now! I actually have a few more cards to make but that might have to wait for another day! 

Hope you are having a great weekend! Thanks for taking a peek. 

Another Rainbow

Quick share of another card I made for the CASology challenge. I'm LOVING the cue card RAINBOW, especially when it means rows of pretty colors of ink lined up on my desk.

I stamped a rainbow of circles from Sketched Shapes and used a sentiment from Reverse Confetti. 

Hoping this rainbow made you happy and maybe inspired you to make a card of your own. Thanks for stopping by!

CMCC #26

Hello,

First wanted to say WELCOME to the new friends who have started to follow my blog as well as THANKS the old ones who have been supportive.  I appreciate your visits and comments and will try hard to post things both interesting and inspiring.

I've been dying to play around a bit more with the Friendly Flowers set. I took one element out of that set - this pretty interlocking circles image - and used them as an image alone, not as part of a flower. I paired it with striped circles in two sizes from Sketched Shapes. Card design inspired by an old Studio Calico blog sketch and the gorgeous color combination inspired by this week's Colour Me Playful challenge.

I love this interlocking circle stamp....I'm pretty sure I'll be using this one over and over. 

Almost TGIF! Hope you are having a good one! Thanks for visiting.