Two Cards to Share

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and Mother's Day. We went away for the weekend to visit my husband who is on military duty. It was nice to get away and not have to cook and clean up for a day or two. And we even got to go to a local flea market for a few hours since it was MY day and they all joined in without complaint even though I KNOW it was the last thing they wanted to do.

Before I left I had a chance to make two cards that I want to share with you today.

This first card features another metal embellishment I had in my stash for the METAL CASology challenge. I paired it with the Simple Stars cover plate which I cut out in dark blue shimmer card stock and backed it with silver shimmer card stock to keep the metal/silver theme going. The pictures don't do this shimmer card stock justice honestly. Its looks so pretty in real life. I also popped up a few stars with foam squares for interest.

Next card uses a Penny Black scene stamp that I won last year but never used. I wanted to echo the color scheme at the Fusion Card challenge this week so I lightly watercolored a yellow background and embossed the scene in black on top. The bottom sentiment is from PTI City Scene sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week.

Three More Cards

I have three more cards I want to share with you this evening from my marathon craft night yesterday.

First card is a thank you card inspired by the monochromatic color scheme at Colour Me this week.

I wanted to pair the cherry cobbler with grays as my neutral though my first instinct was to use kraft. I die cut two large banners out of patterned paper from X, offset and cut them to make room for my white embossed sentiment. I added a few cherry enamel dots because well, I love them!

For my next card I used the relatively new PTI Sketched Stars dies in Aqua Mist and Enchanted evening. I paired it with the dotted star trail in Harvest Gold from Super Stars and added the sentiment from Simple Stars. Card design inspired by this week's sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch.

My final card is from Watercolors for Cardmakers Day 1 using the Vibrant Watercolor Wash Background technique demonstrated by Laura Bassen. She uses an acrylic block to apply the watercolor to her paper. I loved the way she had a white border around so I used a smaller block and applied the color just to the center. Sentiment is from PTI Half and Half and card base is PTI Tropical Teal which I haven't used much yet.

That's it for me tonight. Thanks for stopping by!

Itching!

LOL!

No, not itching like I have a rash, or even worse lice. I was itching to get back to creating after a week break! This past weekend was great. We had family in town over the weekend to celebrate my twin daughters' First Holy Communion and it was crazy busy here getting ready for the big day and guests. When the last of my family finally left yesterday, I spent the day getting caught up on laundry and getting the house back in order. Whew! I don't know about you but I can't enjoy my craft time until most of my household chores and responsibilities are taken care of first.

So I was in heaven when I finally got into my craft space last night and spent a few hours playing along with challenges, catching up on my favorite tv shows, and getting back into the groove.

First card I want to share is for the CASology challenge METAL this week. For my card I wanted to use some metal scrapbook embellishments I've been holding onto for years. Really, its been MANY years since I got these!

I paired the metal footprints from Making Memories with PTI Winter Wisteria for a baby card I will need this summer. I used Circle Scribbles as my single focal point to highlight the footprints and stamped the simple sentiment in a metallic silver ink.

Next card was inspired by the ColourQ color scheme this week. I used an old Papertrey anniversary sketch for my design and stamped images from Ruby Rose along the sentiment banner.

This third card is inspired by the Papertrey Color Play palette for May.

These colors seemed perfect for the Meadow Greens set.

And my last card was inspired by the online class I am taking Watercolors for Cardmakers. I am a bit behind (its Day 3 currently) but I decided to take my time watching the videos and trying the techniques before I move onto the next day.

Day 1 was all about creating Watercolor Backgrounds. My card is based on the technique demonstrated by Kristina Warner - Stamped Embossed Resist with Watercolor Wash.

I heat embossed PTI Simple Stripes in white and then watercolored a diagonal rainbow background over it (similar to Kristina's). I used the Simon Says Stamp Absolutely die and stamps for a simple sentiment banner across and added a few Kelly Purkey sequins. I mounted the watercolored panel on a dark purple Memory Box card base for strong contrast.

I have a few more cards to post later but wanted to share a picture from this weekend of my two girls.... I am struggling with them being 8 already and reaching this milestone in their lives. Getting old so fast.....

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

CASology Electricity Take Two

So I felt like I couldn't leave it alone after my first attempt and had to make another card for CASology this week.

For this card I used chevron die cuts in a few colors. They remind me of what I would think an electrical current would look like if it took the form of pretty card stock. I kept them together in the middle preserving the white space of the card. Sentiment is from Hero Arts which I thought was funny since these were electrical currents and well, if you touched them, you'd get warm fuzzies. LOL.

Hope you are having a good day. Thanks for taking a peek!

ColourQ #239

I'm back sharing another card using my new PTI Simple Stars cover plate. This time instead of stamping through the cover plate, I backed the stars with card stock in this week's pretty ColourQ colors. I put one stamped star on each line for a little bit of variety. Sentiment is from PTI Bold Bouquet Anniversary set.

Love this sentiment because it can be used for so many different things. Plus the period at the end adds a nice touch of finality.

LOTS of rain here in NJ....hope its bright and sunny where you are! Thanks for stopping by!

CASology #93

I'm sharing a card I made for the CASology challenge this week as well as my approach for this challenge.

When the CASology challenge comes out on Tuesdays, I often only see the cue card word pop up on my blog reader app. I give myself time to think about the word before I look at the DT samples. The DT always makes such fabulous and varied takes on the cue card that I find myself wanting to create something like one of their creations instead of coming up with something on my own. So I make connections with the word and the stamps in my stash. Most of the time the inspiration comes quickly and I am excited to make my card. Sometimes I have ideas but don't have any stamps to make it happen. :(

So this week's cue word is ELECTRIC. So my first thoughts were light bulb (no stamps!), then appliances (no stamps!), and then Benjamin Franklin and kites (no stamps!). So I looked through my stash hoping to find something that worked.

So why the explanation of my thought process today? Well, when I finished my card, I realized that the connection to the cue word ELECTRIC was pretty far and doesn't make sense unless you understood how I got there. But I liked how the card turned out so wanted to share with you anyway!

I was looking for images of things that use electricity and found a never inked set from The Craft's Meow called Vintage Rides and wanted to use one of the vehicles in the set. So I stamped a moped driving off my card with a little banner above it. I added a little road from PTI City Scene.

Then I realized....mopeds don't run on electricity! DUH. Gas. What the heck was I thinking???
Guess I got caught up with this set that I overlooked that little detail. Oops. Maybe they'll run on electricity in the future?!

Thanks for stopping by to check out my card.

CMCC #17

I'm loving the fun colors at the Colour Me challenge this week that I had to make another card. This time I used the new Simple Stars cover plate to create a background of stars.

I think this cover plate has a lot of potential....can't wait to play around with it more.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Goodbye Dynamic Duos

I am so saddened to hear that one of my favorite challenge blogs is ending. Dynamic Duos has given me some AMAZING color combinations and fabulous DT inspiration over the past two years. I'm going to miss playing along with them every week.

For the final 'Triple Threat' challenge I created this card -

I combined the PTI Circle Scribbles set with the matching stars from the new Simple Stars set. Sentiment is from Wet Paint.

Hope you had a great weekend!