CASology #241 MELT

Hello friends! Spring has officially sprung and even though there is still a bit of snow on the ground, I'm so ready for the warm weather. This week's CASology challenge MELT has inspired me to channel a bit of a summer favorite around my house - popsicles.

For my card I used MFT Wonky Stitches on a white panel and stamped three popsicles from PTI Summer Sweetness in a two tone color combinations to make them extra yummy looking - Hibiscus Burst/Pure Poppy, Limeade Ice/Hawaiian Shores, and Summer Sunrise/Orange Zest. I stamped the sentiment from the Keep It Simple series across the popsicle sticks. 

For a little extra special touch and to show the popsicles 'melt' a little, I added a coat of clear embossing over each popsicle to give them a shiny, wet look. Looks so fabulous and pretty in real life. 

Be sure to check out what the rest of the DT has created....I'm sure they will inspire you too! 

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

Sponsor:  STAMPlorations

Can't wait to see how you interpret MELT in our gallery.....thanks for stopping by! 

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Cheers to the Friday Inspiration File!

Happy New Year friends!

Today I'm posting two cards I made in celebration of my fellow Jersey girl Kara's Friday Inspiration File's 200th week. Each week Kara picks the best of the best from what she sees out there in the crafty blog world - always such amazing picks and a Pinterest Board I turn to often when I'm in a creative rut.

It was hard to narrow this challenge down to one card as there were so many to choose from.....

My first card is a CASE of Miriam Prantner's amazing ombre balloon card....

I didn't have any plain balloons so I used the balloons from PTI Balloon Bash. Gives it a bit of a different look than Miriam's card but I think still looks cool. 

My second card is a CASE of Erin's fab and fun card using Summer Sweetness. 

I don't have the diagonals Erin used so I substituted with the whimsical Circle Scribbles instead. 

Thanks Miriam and Erin for such inspiring cards and BIG thanks to Kara for the Inspiration File...here's to 200 more! 

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. 

Color Play August 2014

As soon as I saw this month's Color Play challenge (PTI Inspiration Archives), I knew I wanted to pair it with the Summer Sweetness set. The color combo is gorgeous, screams summer, and boy does that picture make me hungry for those sugar coated sweets! 

Instead of using the stamps I wanted to play around with the dies because I also was inspired by this week's Cutting Edge challenge.  Its my first time playing with this challenge but I've been intrigued by it ever since it started.

I cut a banner from the wine bottle tag but cut off the top part. I die cut various popsicles in hibiscus burst, limeade ice, and berry sorbet and paper pieced the popsicle sticks in kraft.

I adhered the popsicles with foam tape so they jump off the banner and heat embossed the sentiment in white. I dry embossed the white card base with a tiny triangles embossing folder for a little more interest.

I'm excited to use this card for our end of year camp counselor gifts. Maybe I'll just copy this design for everyone....just have to cut and emboss in batches.

Thanks for stopping by!