Card Trio

Thanks for all your kind words about my Blog Hop card yesterday. I had fun playing with glossy accents since its a departure from my usual style. I had a blast looking at everyone's shiny creations - TONS of inspiring stuff out there!

Sharing three cards with you today. First card is for the CASology challenge. As soon as I saw the cue card LUCKY, I knew I wanted to use patterned paper from the Echo Park Well Played collection. I used my Tipped Topped dies to highlight the card themed paper. Sentiment is from AMuse. Tried to keep the design and colors simple.

I did struggle with this card a bit because I wasn't sure when I could really use a card like this. I try to make cards that I can really use or send to Operation Write Home. However, my eldest daughter thinks this card will be perfect to use when we have a friend who wins the lottery. LOL. As if this happens frequently! Anyone want to win the lotto and get this card in the mail?

Next card is a thank you card which uses the Triple Threat colors at Dynamic Duos this week.

I kept this card simple by building the elements around a Half & Half die cut in Autumn Rose. I dry embossed horizontal stripes on it and cut it in two so I could heat emboss the sentiment in the middle. I layered some Ruby Reprise flowers around the sentiment and added Aqua Mist patterned paper leaves.

Last card uses a masking technique I picked up in the Clean and Simple 3 class. I used my new Wet Paint set and Mini Blooms in the pretty colors at ColourQ this week.

Thanks for coming by to visit. Hope you are having a great week!

More Thanks

I have a couple more Thank You cards to share with you.

First card uses a Hero Arts cling flower stamp. I stamped it twice while masking the center of the card for the sentiment. I used a variety of inks on the stamp because I love that look. Hard to keep the inks from mixing on the pads though.
Color inspiration is from Colour Me this week. I added some clear stickler to some of the inner petals. Design inspired by CAS(E) This Sketch this week.

Next Thank You card is inspired by Laura Bassen's tutorial in Clean and Simple 3 class. I kept to her design except I changed the orientation. I'm not in love with the colors I used but I don't have a ton of Copic markers.

TGIF! Have a good one and thanks for stopping by!

Thank You Kindly

I'm sharing three Thank You cards I made today. I am dedicating these cards to YOU my online friends for all the lovely comments you leave on my blog. Being able to share my creations with you and reading your sweet and encouraging words makes me smile each and every day. You all are wonderful and inspire me with your amazing cards.

This first card uses the new PTI anniversary set, Bold Bouquet. Color scheme is inspired by the pretty colors at ColourQ.

I was also inspired to add a bit of dry embossing from the textural effects lesson in the Clean & Simple 3 class today. Just the two lines seems to add so much to the card.

My second thank you card is supposed to make you BLUSH! That's the cue word at CASology this week and as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to use an old wooden AMuse bra stamp I had. I rarely use it because honestly, it does make me blush a little and doesn't seem appropriate for just anyone. KWIM?

And my final card uses the soft color palette at Colour Me this week which seemed perfect for the PTI Fine Feathery set. Again I added a few embossed lines for a touch of texture.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by! Hope you are having a great week.

Birthday Wishes

I've got two birthday cards to share with you today.

First one uses inlaid die cut technique I learned from the Clean and Simple 3 class this week. Card design inspired by this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. This one was much easier to do than my last card with inlaid die cuts because the die cuts were larger so no little tiny pieces for me to search for! :)

Next card uses my favorite tipped top dies. Color scheme is inspired by Dynamic Duos challenge.

I embossed the sentiment from Ruby Rose in black.

Also linking both these cards to theSeize The Birthday challenge

Got Dots?

I'm sharing two cards today for Clean & Simple 2 that use dots.

First technique is stamp layering for Day 3 (optical illusions). I think I already do this pretty often so I decided to use Laura Bassen's second technique of masking a block for a little twist on my usual card. I loved how she stamped a basic background in soft stone first so I stamped a light background as well (stamp from Penny Black). Then I layered my favorite PTI colors and added a sentiment from the Half & Half set.

Second card uses the faux letterpress/ghost stamping technique demonstrated on Suzanne Dahlberg on Day 2. I am loving the look of the ghost technique. Though maybe I'm don't know what letterpress is exactly because none of the examples look like what I thought was letterpress.

For this card I used PTI Bits and Buttons mini set and a flower from one of the Flower Fusion sets.

I'm loving this class so far and hope to be back with more cards tomorrow! Thanks for taking a peek!

Clean & Simple 3 - Inlaid Die Cuts

I'm really excited about all the cool stuff going on in the Clean & Simple 3 - One Layer Cards classroom this week. There are so many inspiring videos and great techniques to try that I am determined to make at least one card during class for each technique. And I'm stating that right here hoping it will make me accountable.

First up is the inlaid die cut technique. Debby Hughes' video was really great, especially the part where she tells me to keep a container handy to catch all the little pieces that fall out with the nested die cuts. I heard it but really didn't think it was THAT important. Well, turns out that a container would have been SO helpful because I spent a good forty minutes looking for the little pieces to puzzle back together. Yikes! Didn't help that my craft space was already a mess and I think my design involved one too many inlaid pieces. I almost gave up when I couldn't find two tiny little pieces. But I was liking my card so much that I kept on looking until I found them.

My color inspiration is from PTI's March Color Play palette.

How are you enjoying Clean & Simple 3? Fun stuff right?

Thanks for popping by!