CASology #124

Checking in here with a quick card I made for this week's CASology challenge. The cue word is OLD and it immediately reminded me of something that my daughter has been griping about lately with her 9th birthday coming in two weeks - "I'm SO old!" Can you imagine?! Which is almost always followed by me saying "Well, if you think you are old, then what does that make me???"

Since my twins and their friends are turning 9-10 soon, I made a funny colorful card for them to give to one of their friends....

I stamped the numbers from Countdown to Christmas in five different colors and used the "WHO is counting" from Birthday Bash Sentiments.  Here's a peek at the inside too....

Hope you all had a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week 

Colour Me.....Monochromatic! #49

Hello friends. Its time for a new Colour Me.....Monochromatic! challenge  and this week we are using the smokey slate which is like a pale grey,  You can of course,  create anything with these colors and add in neutrals such as black, gray, white, kraft, and vanilla.

I made another wine bottle tag to beef up my gift tag stash. I was excited to use the new PTI Uncorked set. 

I die cut a wine bottle tag out of grey Echo Park Style Essentials patterned paper. I cut a second bottle tag out of white and cut it down so it would fit nicely on top of the patterned one and so you could still see the cool pattern. I love the sentiments most in this set - all so different and unusual. I stamped the sentiment on the bottom to act as the ground for my various stamped glasses (using the generation inking technique in Smokey Shadow and Soft Stone). 

I layered two double ended banners together (white just seemed boring by itself) and put it on top of the white panel slightly askew. 

I hope you are inspired to create something great with this monochromatic scheme. Be sure to check out what our design team has done with it -

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving for those who celebrated last week. Mine was great though exhausting. We hosted this year and I did most of the cooking for 10 people. One of the highlights of our meal was the Carmelized Bacon appetizer. I'm linking the recipe from Ina Garten aka the Barefoot Contessa.  It was relatively easy to make, can do ahead, and gobbled up in mere minutes. I mean, seriously, crispy bacon with a crushed pecan, brown sugar, and maple syrup crumb topping. Delish! 

Have a great week! 

Colour Me......Playful! #48

Tis the Wednesday before Thanksgiving here in the US and many are busy cooking and cleaning getting ready for the big day which centers around food and family. Gotta love that! 

But its also time for a new Colour Me.....Playful! challenge  and this week we are using the fun combination of elegant eggplant, perfect plum, coastal cabana, and rose red.  Of course, you are welcome to create anything with these colors and add in neutrals such as black, gray, white, kraft, and vanilla.

In honor of our Thanksgiving holiday, I created a fun pocket thank you tag using the Lil Inkers Folding Tag die which I used with some pretty patterned pink paper. 

I tucked in a rounded tag in PTI Plum Pudding in an secured the edge of the pocket with scor-tape. A gift card could fit nicely in there too. Sorry for the bad shadows in the photo...not getting a lot of good sun today. 

I added a layered butterfly (Royal Velvet and Plum Pudding) embellished with three purple pearls along with a little tag tucked underneath. Sentiment is from Thank You Kindly. Finished the tag off with some Hawaiian Shores ribbon to match the tag.

Hope you are inspired to create something great with this pretty and unusual color combination. Check out what our design team has done with it -

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for November...Anita!

Hope to see you in the gallery and have a wonderful weekend! 

Colour Me.....Subtle! #47

Happy Wednesday which means its time for a new Colour Me.....Subtle! challenge  and this week we are using the fun combination of Early Espresso, Soft Suede and Cajun Craze. Of course, you are welcome to create anything with these colors and add in neutrals such as black, gray, white, kraft, and vanilla.

These colors are perfect for this time of the year that I was inspired to make two projects using PTI Leaf Prints. 

First is a card where I stamped some falling leaves from Leaf Prints on Rustic Cream card stock which was first embossed with Lil' Inkers stitched border. I used Distress Inks in Rusty Hinge and Gathered Twigs as well as VersaMagic Gingerbread ink. 

Sentiment is from Keep It Simple series. 

Second project are the place settings I made for Thanksgiving dinner next week. 

I used the same ink colors as in my card and stamped random leaves on a die cut shaped card (can't remember the name of this classic shape!). I inked around the edges in Memento Rich Cocoa. 

I die cut a leaf in vellum,  wrote my sister in law's name in brown pen and attached it loosely over the top of the scattered leaves. I pushed back the edges of the leaf a bit so it wouldn't lay completely flat against the placecard. 

One placecard down, 10 more to go! :)

I hope you will play along at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me...! team has made some fabulous cards for your inspiration this week so head on over their blogs and check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for November...! 

Anita

Looking forward to what you come up with in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to visit. Have a great week! 

Feels Like A Long Time....

.....since I just played around in my craft room for fun. The past month or so has been crazy busy (in a good way!) in my life and I've spent very little time creating. I've kept up with my DT responsibilities at Colour Me...! but that's about it. No other challenges or anything else.

In mid-October, my brother got married and my niece got baptized and we spent a few days down in NC - 

My friend and I went to a taping of The Chew. Its not a show I normally watch but still fun to go see how it all gets done behind the scenes. Kris Jenner was one of the guests promoting her new cookbook. 

All the craziness of Halloween followed.... 

Then the following morning we surprised the girls with their first visit to all the wonders of Florida - Universal Studios and Disney World. They had NO IDEA it was coming! 

We are BIG Harry Potter fans in my house so the Wizarding World of Harry Potter was our favorite. The details they incorporated into creating this world were AMAZING! I could just sit in the Leaky Cauldron all day drinking butterbeer. 

Whew, exhausting right! Thank goodness my card stash is fully stocked that I was still able to send out some birthday and thank you cards! I've been keeping up with everyone's blog and creations but haven't had time to comment but hope to get back to that soon. I do appreciate the comments you have left here....makes my heart sing!

So we are back for a week now and I had a chance to play along with the fun at CASology. Cue card is FESTIVE and the DT also played along with Tracey's 25 Days of Tags this week so I made a holiday tag as well.

I used PTI Holiday Cheer trees in some non-traditional holiday colors. Well red and green are traditional but Hibiscus Burst (pink) and Hawaiian Shores are not typical. I offset two die cut tags so the Hawaiian Shores is showing and highlighting the ornaments in the tree. 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you have a fabulous weekend! 

Colour Me....Striking! #46

Happy Wednesday!  Its time for a new Colour Me.....Striking! challenge  and this week we are using the fun combination of navy and orange. You are welcome to create anything with these colors and add in neutrals such as black, gray, white, kraft, and vanilla.

I created a fun wine bottle tag using these colors paired up with kraft. I cut the Notched Star banner in Enchanted Evening and have Orange Zest peeking through the stars and placed that piece on a Wine Bottle Tag cut out of Kraft. 

Before I adhered the top piece I stamped random dotted stars on the Kraft for added interest. Its topped off with a double ended banner in Orange Zest.

I hope you will play along at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me...! team has made some fabulous cards for your inspiration this week so head on over their blogs and check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for November...! 
Anita

Looking forward to what you come up with in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to visit. Have a great week! 

Colour Me....Monochromatic! #45

Happy Wednesday friends!  Today is the today for a new Colour Me.....Monochromatic! challenge  and this week we are highlighting RED!  You are welcome to create anything with these colors and add in neutrals such as black, gray, white, kraft, and vanilla.

I kept this week's card clean and simple by die cutting a heart out of a white panel and put a monochromatic red patterned paper (Pink Paislee) behind the heart. Sentiment from Clearly Besotted. 

I used the Lil Inkers stitched border around the card front so that it frames the smaller white piece with the heart.

I hope you will play along at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me...! team has made some fabulous cards for your inspiration this week so head on over their blogs and check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And well as our new featured designer for November!
Anita

Looking forward to what you come up with in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to visit. 

Have a fabulous week! 

Colour Me....Creative! #44

Happy Wednesday everyone! Its time for a new Colour Me.....Creative! challenge and this week the design team members get to work with one of two color schemes. I'm using the first color scheme which uses grey, green, and deep purple.  As always, you are welcome to create anything with these colors and add in neutrals such as black, gray, white, kraft, and vanilla. 

I decided to highlight the deep purple so I used it for my card base. I die cut a frame (no idea what the name of this shape is!) in white card stock and stamped the blooms from PTI Reason to Smile in Royal Velvet and added the leaves in New Leaf. I dry embossed a frame around the die cut one and added a banner sentiment across with grey card stock scrap. 

I added a few of those rainstone embellishments I just got. So pretty in real life - glass like but also looks like a drop of water. 

I hope you will play along at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me...! team has made some fabulous cards for your inspiration this week so head on over their blogs and check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for October...!
Jen Mitchell

Looking forward to what you come up with in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to visit. Have a great week!