CAS(E) This Sketch #161

What a great weekend! Weather has warmed up here so we went out for a family bike ride this afternoon. I even carved out a little time yesterday to make this card inspired by the challenge at CAS(E) This Sketch. I stamped the star trail in the new PTI Bright Buttercup ink and added a die cut star from Super Stars. Love the colors of Aqua Mist, Limeade Ice, Tropical Teal, and Bright Buttercup together.

Watching the Oscars....love watching the awards and seeing the fabulous gowns even though I've only watched one or two of the movies even nominated. Hope you had a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Two More for Thursday

Hi all -

Cold and rainy here in NJ so thought creating with some flowers might channel spring to come soon!

First card was inspired by the bright fun colors at ColourQ this week. I played with the cute PTI Petite Pots set to make a little thank you card.

Second card was inspired by the new CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. I was so excited to play with my new Tulip Time set that just arrived. The two step stamp was surprisingly easy and the results are so pretty.  I stamped main image in Raspberry Fizz with the second layer in Pure Poppy. Sentiment from Mama Elephant. 

Hope you've had a great week! Thanks for popping in!

February 2015 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

It's the 25th and that means it the Papertrey Blog Hop today! I'm sure there will be TONS of fabulous  creations out there. Here's the inspiration photo:

Such a pretty photo of a collection of items. However, I found it tough to create something inspired by it. Not sure why. Perhaps its because the colors of green and pink remind me of my bedroom when I was a teenager. Perhaps it is because all these objects clustered together told me to create something heavily layered which is completely out of my wheelhouse. Perhaps all the different shapes and textures really threw me and my clean and simple self for a loop. 

My first card was a HOT MESS. It was almost a literal interpretation of the photo and probably will go down in my personal history as the worst card I made ever. LOL. Seriously. 

A few days later, I came up with this second card - 

I stamped an image from Meadow Greens on Spring Moss card stock and cut it in half using stitched rectangles dies. I die cut a piece of Sweet Blush with a larger stitched rectangle die but kept it intact and layered the two. Sentiment from Keep It Simple series. 

Can't wait to see what everyone made! I know there will be a lot of "Wow, why didn't I think of that?" moments. Thanks for popping in! 

CASology #186 DISTRESS

It's Tuesday again and it's time for a new CASology challenge - DISTRESS. 

For my take on DISTRESS, I decided to use distress inks which is my favorite thing to play with these days. It can be hard to keep distress inks clean and simple so I confined my design to one side of the card to preserve white space. I blended Tim Holtz distress inks in Mustard Seed and Wild Honey on half of the Clear Scraps Spiral stencil to create a sun. Color is darker toward the middle of the sun. Sentiment is from Hero Arts. 

There are so many ways to take DISTRESS and I can't wait to see what you guys do with it! There's a prize from our sponsor Lawn Fawn this week.

And be sure to check out what the fabulous DT members have created this week:

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:  Annie

Have a great week!

CAS(E) This Sketch #160

Happy Monday! Popping in with a quick card inspired by the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge this week. For my card, I used some pretty patterned paper from the Pink Paislee Pen Pals collection. LOVE the rows of hand drawn envelopes. I stamped a sentiment from PTI Special Delivery Sentiments in a coordinating blue.

Be back tomorrow with a new card for CASology! Thanks for stopping by! 

Creating Like Crazy Instead Of....

Hello friends -

Good news is that I've been busy creating a lot lately. Bad news is that its keeping me from working on what I really need to be doing - TAXES! UGH. The evil procrastination monster strikes again!

But on to fun stuff! My first card was inspired by the Muse challenge this week where the fabulous Tracey is the inspiration. I wanted to make something light and airy so I went back to my tried and true PTI Circle Scribbles set. I stamped in the same colors and general placement of her flowers. In place of sequins, I stamped smaller scribbles in gold (like Tracey's embossing).

Tracey's gorgeous card - 

Next card is for the fun ColourQ challenge this week - 

I used the PTI diagonal stripes coverplate to create my black and white background. This is so easy to use when you adhere the card stock to a double sided adhesive sheet first. Easy peasy to place down on the card base using the coverplate as a guide. I die cut the Hip Hip Hooray from the Phrase Play line in Hawaiian Shores. The stripes look even better in real life. 

Next up is my card for the PTI Make It Monday this week which challenges us to customize our patterned paper. I definitely wanted to try this because I have SO MUCH patterned paper that I never use. I have a few of the PTI patterned paper packs but I NEVER use the big polka dot paper. Lizzie's idea to stamp randomly on the paper is brilliant.  It took me a while to find a good image that I liked and was the right size but I ended up loving this little flower from the Cup of Cheer set. 

Patterned paper is the from the soft stone collection. I stamped flowers in Enchanted Evening, Melon Berry, Aqua Mist, and Sweet Blush. Sentiment and die from Sentiment Splits. 

Last card for today is for the February One-Layer Simplicity challenge - FRIENDS. 

Sentiment is from PTI Choose Joy, flower from Flower Fusion, and "grounding" lines from Ombre Stripes. 

Whew, that's it for now. I'm really gonna stop crafting now and eat the frog. REALLY! :)

Have a great weekend! Thanks for popping in!

CASology #185: EGG

It's Tuesday so that means a new CASology cue card. This week its EGG.

Wish I could say that this card came easy. But that's why this is called a challenge right? 

I didn't have any stamps of eggs of any kind but so I went with chicks. Which came first - the chicken or the egg?  LOL. 

I used an old AMuse wooden stamp of three little dancing chicks. I had gotten rid of many of my wooden stamps but kept a few cute AMuse image like this one. I stamped the chickens on bottom corner of white yardstick which I cut into a partial egg shape with Pretty Pink Posh Stitched borders. I stamped an oval in Soft Stone underneath the chicks to ground them and colored them in with Copics. I cut a second panel out of a dark blue/turquoise Bazzill card stock with the same stitched border die and added them both to a light blue AMuse card base. Took some playing around before I got the angles right and I love how it turned out! 

 Check out the rest of the Design Team's "EGGcellent" creations....Can't wait to see how you guys interpret our cue word this week. Who knows you may win the prize from our sponsor STAMPlorations. 

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

Fortune Teller Card

So I let my girls loose in my craft area to make a card for the Color Fortune Teller challenge.  I armed them with a binder of PTI sketches and set them free. 

I shared Sierra's card in THIS previous post and wanted to share Sydney's:

Her color fortune teller colors were Spring Rain, Aqua Mist, and Blueberry Sky. Tough colors to create with but since they were monochromatic she wanted to do an overlapping stamp design. She used small medallions from the old PTI set Guide Lines. She picked out the sentiment and die cut the banner herself. They had a blast and since they cleaned up EVERYTHING they used, I might just let them play around with my stuff again! 

Here's Sydney and I on New Years - 

Thanks for looking!