CAS(E) This Sketch #71

Busy weekend is over and I'm quickly posting this card I made yesterday before I turn in.

The card is for my niece's Christening in a few weeks. I wanted something soft and pastel for her card so I stamped a few of the images from PTI's Snowflake Flurries set which don't actually look like snowflakes to me. When stamped with colors outside the Christmas palette, these images could be graphic flowers, suns, or star bursts. I almost never use them as actually Snowflakes. Weird huh?

I heat embossed a cross in the middle and embossed the sentiment in white on vellum. Card design inspired by this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge.

That's all for me now. Will post a couple more cards tomorrow. Hope you had a great weekend too! Thanks for stopping by. 

Card Concept #7

I had a chance to get messy yesterday when I played around with Perfect Pearls. I love the soft shimmery look the powder gives and thought it would be great to add to a big butterfly in the Card Concept challenge this week. I used a few colors purple, green and gold to add more interest to the butterfly.

I kept the butterfly clean and simple adding no extra layers to the card and embellishing with a few sequins. I actually had intended on just the butterfly and sentiment but it was missing a little something when I was done so the matching sequins were added for extra sparkle.

Hope you can see the shimmer from the Perfect Pearls. It looks so much better in real life than in photos.

Thanks for taking a peek!

CCMC #14

Orange is my daughter's favorite color so when I saw the monochromatic challenge at ColourMe this week I knew I wanted to make a card for her.

I used three different oranges - Memento Tangelo, PTI Summer Sunrise, and PTI Orange Zest - for the stacked Building Blocks set. I LOVE the different sentiments included with that set and I knew this one would be perfect for her when she's having a tough time.

Hope you are having a great week. Thanks for stopping by!

ColourQ #235

April is here and its time to replenish the stock of birthday cards in my stash. May is a HUGE birthday month for me as there are 12 birthdays of family and close friends, including my own. I have a couple in my stash already but like to have many to choose from when I am sending a card.

Here's a birthday card I made using this week's ColourQ challenge colors.

Sorry for the lighting in the photo....had some shadows it seems in my kitchen today.

I stamped candles from PTI Make A Wish in the various colors and designs going up part of the card panel and added a simple sentiment along the bottom.

Thanks for stopping by!

OLS Challenge #4

It's the beginning of a new month so its time for a new challenge at One Layer Simplicity.

I'm loving this challenge because I love making clean and simple cards. The one layer part, well, that's a challenge. The rules of the challenge are very strict - no other layers of paper allowed. Which I am interpreting to mean that my new favorite technique of inlaid die cuts is not allowed. But I love having to come up with new ways to make a one layer card unique and with dimension.

This month's challenge is to make a travel themed card. Yay! I've been dying to ink up the new City Scene set I just got. I kept it simple with a dry embossed frame around the card. I added an oval shadow to the bottom of the Eiffel Tower which was heat embossed in black. Simple red sentiment to top it off.

I'm keeping City Scene out for a while to play around a bit I think. So many possibilities with this great set. Thanks for taking a peek. Have a good day.

CASology #89

Yesterday was April Fool's Day and for the first time ever, I didn't fall for anyone's practical joke or tricks. Hmmm....must be getting less gullible in my old age. LOL. And perfectly appropriate, the CASology cue card of JOKE was announced yesterday too. So cute and clever of them to inspire us that way!

For my card I built stamped HA! in various colors along the middle of the card and scoring both sides and masking the rest. But the scoring didn't seem enough of a nice border so I used black pen to mark the score lines. I added the sentiment from PTI Building Blocks on a couple of coordinating banners.

I'm loving this new Tropical Teal color and using it a lot lately as you can see. Thanks for stopping by!

CAS(E) This Sketch #70

Wanted to share another card I made inspired by the sketch challenge at CAS(E) This Sketch this week.

I've been wanting to use the new PTI Building Blocks set as books and I added a tilted book from the Back To School set. I added the ABC from that set on one of the spines so it would be clear that its a shelf of books. Just a simple teacher card for my stash. Sentiment is from Building Blocks too. Its got a bunch of great sentiments that I want to ink up.

Thanks for taking a peek.

Two for Tuesday

Hope you are having a great week so far. Sun is shining again here and I don't need a winter jacket so all is good in my little world.

Sharing two cards I made last night while watching Blacklist. Love the show because of James Spader!

Anyway, first card features a green and grey combo (Dynamic Duos challenge) with PTI's Round Repeats set. I love this set. I stamped a trio of medallions and adhered some Hero Arts jewels I bought at a clearance sale in the center of each one. Love the glassy look to them. Sentiment from Wet Paint is heat embossed in black and then two coats of clear to make it super shiny.

My second card is to get me in the mood for warmer weather. Its for the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge this week. For this card I made a little panel featuring a beach scene. The waves are the Fanfare Border Scallop die from Lil Inkers and the flip flops from PTI Flipping Out.

Thanks for taking time to stop by. Have a good one!