CASology #179 and some EXCITING news

Happy New Year friends! I had a great week off with the family - holidays with the extended family, spent time with old friends, playing lots of games, and saw Star Wars Force Awakens twice! So nice to have a break from work and shuttling between school and extra-curricular activities.  

I am happy to start off 2016 by sharing the exciting news that I am joining the CASology design team. Can you say......AHHHH! I've always loved this challenge and am amazed by what the design team comes up with each week. I'm humbled to be amongst this group of creative gals!

So for the first challenge of the year, the cue card is SIMPLE. Simple is the core of CAS. 

I made this card as soon as I had heard the news about joining the CASology team. I wanted to make a card that showed how excited I am to be a part of this team. 

My card is a simple one-layer card using white card stock. I stamped my champagne glass (from PTI Propose a Toast) in the bottom corner to preserve white space and used a simple but striking sentiment from Reverse Confetti. Champagne and bubbles stamped in Brilliance Galaxy Gold for a hint of shimmer. 

For more inspiration on this week's Cue word SIMPLE, please visit the other DT blogs:

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely

Guest Designer:  Rachel

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week! 

Colour Me.... #100 Challenge

Hi -

Been a busy week so haven't had a chance to make any fun, everything has been for a practical "need right now to give to XX" kind of emergency!

But didn't want to let it the last Colour Me.....Monochromatic challenge go by without playing. This card is for Hayley and Tara for taking a chance on me and inviting me to join the Colour Me...! design team last year. It was a great experience for me on a DT and they definitely challenged me with some of their color combinations. This card is to thank them for running 100 inspiring challenges and to wish them all the best in the future! xoxo

Have a great week!

Make It Monday #232

Checking in one last time today before I start cooking for Thanksgiving.

Here's a quick card I made inspired by PTI Make It Monday challenge this week - layered stamping on kraft. Wanted to try this with something other than flowers or snowflakes which I've done before.

I stamped a few wine glasses in bold colors slightly offset from the white glass. Looks pretty cool in real life. Love this sentiment from this Uncorked set which I heat embossed on a stitched tag (with the tag part cut off). I put the panel on a kraft card base using foam tape which I think gives the card another special effect. Inside is stamped with sentiment and glass as well. 

Thanks for taking a peek. Have a great weekend! 

PTI November 2015 Blog Hop

Its the 25th so its PTI Blog Hop day...but also means its exactly one month before Christmas! Yikes! 

The challenge photo for this month's Blog Hop is one of my favorites ever...it has my FAVORITE color combo (Simply Chartreuse, Hawaiian Shores, and Tropical Teal) and combines it with silver and white, and grey it seems which I am JUST seeing now for the first time. 

I was so inspired by this photo that I made four cards! First card uses Snowflake Flurries in the pretty color combo. I split the panel with the Sentiment Splits die and added in a sentiment from that set. 

Next two cards use the bold graphic stamp from Enclosed:Star. Same design, just different sentiment placement. I stamped it in the three colors and added a strip of silver card stock along the bottom to anchor the pyramids. I heat embossed the sentiment along the top of the pyramids. 

Hard to see the strip of silver along the bottom - better in this photo. Looks way cooler in person. 

This second one has the sentiment on the black banner. Lighting is a little dark...

 Think I like the one with the sentiment directly on the panel better.

Last one has a lot more color! I heat embossed butterflies from Life Is Beautiful in white along a panel and then sponged on Simple Chartreuse, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, and Tropical Teal to cover it giving it sort of an ombre look. I was trying to channel Laura Bassen's love of bold color with this one. 

Sentiment is heat embossed on white banner and I placed a white thread nest underneath. First time making a thread nest. 

Well that's it for me today. Thanks for visiting. Can't wait to see what everyone has made. 

And if you are celebrating tomorrow...Happy Thanksgiving!

ColourQ #317

Good morning! Quick card to share before I head off to the supermarket. (AHH! I know, week of Thanksgiving. Scary!)

This birthday card is inspired by the ColourQ challenge this week which featured a bright collection of colors. I stamped the candles along the bottom and cut the panel to allow a strip of Aqua Mist card stock to peek through. Big bold sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving my friends! I am thankful for your friendship and for this hobby we all share and love so much. xo

CASology Pretty

While I love this week's CASology cue card PRETTY, I think it was a big challenge to create something that actually was the cue word itself. I used the PTI Fashion Sense set because what can make me feel pretty is a fabulous dress. And this dress stamp is completely gorgeous!

Colors were inspired by an article I saw in the latest HGTV Magazine which featured 5 new Holiday Color Combos. I plan on making a card for each combo at some point. This card uses the hot pink, gold, and black combo. I stamped the dress form around the white card panel but only colored in the middle one in Raspberry Fizz. Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Absolutely die that I die cut out of gold adhesive paper. 

I scatted a few of the star clusters in gold around the panel to compliment the main sentiment. 

That's it for me now. Thanks for stopping in! Have a good weekend.

MIM #231

This week's PTI Make It Monday challenge is Motif Building. I didn't have one of the folksy or Nordic style stamp sets that would have been better for this challenge but thought I could make due with some of the other sets I have. 

For these two cards I used Round Repeats as my base and built the motif around the center using little stamps from Simply Stationery. Colors inspired by some of the PTI monthly inspiration color schemes. 

The cards turned out OK even though I'm not completely thrilled with the results. Maybe need to play around more with other sets. This challenge completely put me out of my comfort zone. Guess that's the whole point of these challenge....stretch yourself and do something different. 

Thanks for popping by! 

Two More to Share

Hello - Two more cards to share this weekend. First is a simple one layer card (for One Layer Simplicity Challenge - Multitude of Gratitude) using the Brushed Off set which I stamped in the various ColourQ challenge colors along the bottom. Simple sentiment from Thank You Kindly and scattered a few enamel dots along the bottom. 

My next creation is a wine bottle tag I am looking forward to using during the upcoming holiday season. Always nice to have these on hand to add to a last minute gift of wine. I was inspired to make to play along with Tracy McNeeley's 25 Days of Christmas Tags festivities. So much fun stuff going on there! I was inspired again by Laura Bassen's wreath tag HERE.  For my tag, I created an outline using an image from Spruce & Sprigs and added a few berries. It ended up being similar to THIS card I created the same night. I die cut the top portion of the wine bottle tag in red and attached it to give more color and reinforce it. I plan on writing the to/from info in the center of the tag when I decide to give it. Colors inspired by the Colour Me....Striking challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by!