CAS Colours and Sketches #364

As March would have it, there are five Tuesdays this month so guess what?  We're doing a double the fun challenge at the CAS Colours and Sketches blog.  Here's the current challenge...

So the idea is to create a card using both the sketch and the three colors illustrated above it.  As always, you may use whatever brand of ink, cardstock, markers, etc you have in your stash as long as they're similar to the Stampin' Up ones named above.  You are also free to add neutrals but this trio of colors should be the only other ones used on your card.  

Here's my card.

I chose to use large patterned circles as my focal design and stamped them out using three colors of Distress Oxide ink.  (Spiced Marmalade, Dried Marigold and Bundled Sage)  I heat embossed my sentiment in white onto a piece of white cardstock that I colored in with the Bundled Sage.  I thought my card front needed just a bit more so I took the liberty of cutting the panel down and adhered it centered vertically onto the card front. I added a line of Liquid Pearls along the edges for another little touch of interest.  

I hope to see your card in our gallery!

Supplies:

Lil Inkers - Spiffy Spots stamp set

Penny Black - Million Thanks stamp set

Distress Oxide

Liquid Pearls in Gold Pearl

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CAS(e) This Sketch #365

If you have little ones at home you're probably finding yourself stretched pretty thin right about now.  That's no longer the case for me so I've suddenly found myself with all of the time in the world but little mojo.   Is anyone else finding it hard to stay focused?  I turned to a sketch from the CAS(e) This Sketch challenge blog to get the creative juices flowing. 

I knew immediately that I wanted to flip the sketch upside down and use the V patterns to create a spotlight effect. 

I colored and cut out my little people and then placed them onto piece of Neenah Solar White measuring 4" x 5.25"  to determine the ideal width of my spotlight band.  To create the background I first masked off the outer edges of the panel using low tack painters tape.  I did some ink blending in the upside down V area with Distress Oxide ink in the color Bundled Sage.  I then masked the panel in reverse (protecting the green area) and blended that out in the color Faded Jeans.  I stamped the sentiment in the lower corner as per the sketch, adhered the happy little people and then glued the whole panel onto the front of a light grey card. 

I thought this would make a cute "just because" card to send to a friend during this crazy time of ours.  Stay safe and stay healthy my friends!

Supplies:

Waffle Flower - Hello stamp set

Distress Oxide inks

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Less Is More Challenge #415

My card today was created with the current theme over at the Less Is More challenge blog in mind.  Their prompt is to use the colors raspberry, red and grey which is one I can totally embrace.

In keeping with their Clean and Simple philosophy I kept my card elements very minimal.

I did some stamp masking to create depth and Copic markers for the coloring.  Hardly gets simpler.

Supplies:

Memory Box - Love Grows stamp set (mushroom)

Ellen Hutson - Snaile It stamp set (sentiment)

Stay healthy my friends!  

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CAS(e) This Sketch #364

Thank goodness for home based hobbies right now!  Today I'm playing along with the folks at the CAS(e) This Sketch challenge blog where the current sketch is actually a throw back to their very first one.   

I flipped the sketch upside down and created this using a very old (and unused) stamp set from Studio Calico.  I must have sweets on the brain.  (Or my dairy/gluten free diet is haunting me.)  My last card was an ice cream cone and today it's cupcakes.  If you can't eat it, create it.  :-) 

I used two colors of ink to create the frosting and colored the bottom cupcake with Copic markers.  I added a few tiny pink stars and mounted it onto a pink card base, leaving a small left border.  

Stay healthy my friends.

Supplies:

Studio Calico stamp set

Kat Scrappiness Tiny Pink Star Confetti

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CAS Colours and Sketches #363

It's Tuesday once again so the CAS Colours and Sketches team has another challenge for you to try.  Today's sketch is from team member Jeanne and I don't think it gets any more Clean and Simple than this....

Here's my take -

Because my sentiment is actually larger than my focal image

 I chose to stamp it on the inside of the card.  

Obviously this was pretty simple to create especially given the fact that the bordered card panel is a piece of designer paper.  I stamped out my image and colored it in with alcohol markers.  I then added some additional shadows with my colored pencils prior to fussy cutting.  I added a bit of Glossy Accents to the chocolate portion and let the image dry overnight before popping it up onto the designer paper using foam adhesive.  

This card went postal to my niece on the day I assembled it.  It was the perfect card for her 20th birthday. 


Supplies:
Avery Elle - Sweetest stamp set
PaperTrey Ink - designer paper
Copic markers
Polychromos colored pencils
Glossy Accents

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Seize the Birthday #185

Another drive-by post by yours truly.  My card today was created with the current Seize the Birthday challenge in mind. 

The prompt says " a touch of green" and by golly, that' all they got.  Just a touch.  :-)

All of my stamps and dies today are from Altenew.  I applied one of their layering backgrounds onto my card front to create some 'white on white' interest.   I then die cut the diamond frame twice, once with white cardstock and then again with green.  I stamped my sentiment in the middle of the white cardstock diamond and then adhered it to the center of the card front. My final touch was to add the fine green frame around the solid white diamond to give my card just that little touch of green.  I really like how this turned out.

Supplies:

Altenew - Fine Frames Diamond

Altenew - Fresh Freesia Sentiment

Altenew - Layered Medallion Cover Die B

Stay Safe Friends!

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K is for Kids SOSS #156

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers has a new theme up today and with the advent of Social Distancing, there is no better time than now to consider playing along with an online challenge group.

 Our new challenge: 

With the snarky theme in mind I created this birthday card. 

Apparently blues and peachy/pinks are my on my brain because I just realized when writing this post that these are the almost exact colors that I used in my last Sisterhood card.  Ooops!  I promise to mix it up next time.

Because I lean toward's CAS I started by first printing off my computer generated sentiment onto a sheet of 80 lb Neenah Solar White card stock.  I grabbed a stitched rectangle die and cut down the image prior to stamping.

My stamp is fairly old (and unlabeled) but I do know that it's from the now closed Lil Inkers Stamp Shop.  Laura's original image has two different faces looking in opposite directions.  I wanted it to look like girl on the right was trying to show the one on the left something off to the side so I did some creative masking and stamping to make them twins.  I provided them with a bit of grounding and colored everything in with Copic markers.

I think you'd have to be pretty darned old to actually scare children so this sentiment is a good thing, right?  :-)

Supplies:
Lil Inkers - Unknown
Ink Blot Shop - Get Grounded
Copics

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CAS Colours and Sketchs #362

It's Tuesday and time for another color challenge over at the CAS Colours & Sketches blog where our March hostess Jeanne has another fun set of spring colors for us to try.

As always, you may use whatever brand of inks, cardstock, markers, etc. you have 

in your stash as long as they are similar to the Stampin' Up ones named above.  You are free

to add neutrals but this trio of colors should be the only ones other ones used on your card.

Even after several photographic attempts my pinkish/fuchsia leaves are coming off as more red than they are in actuality, sorry.  

I used a layering leaf die set to create the cluster.  The bases were cut from solid colored cardstocks while the upper vein portions were cut from white cardstock.  I added a scalloped strip of yellow cardstock to the top of a small white panel and then clustered the leaves to the panel's left side.  I adhered that panel down onto a white card base and added the stamped sentiment strip, also from MFT.   No glimmer mist or Nuvo dots.  *Shock*  

I'm also entering this into the current Perfectly CAS challenge where the theme is die cuts, which just happens to be a lucky coincidence for me.    

As an aside...I was chosen as one of 

Top 3 in their last challenge which is 

always a great  boost to one's crafty soul.

With everything going on in the world right now, it's a great time to settle in and craft.  I hope to see your designs in our gallery!

Supplies:

MFT Layered Leaves dies

MFT Bitty Birthday sentiment _________________________________________________________________________

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Going for Two!

Today I'm tackling two challenges with one card 

AND 

it involves two of my (very scary) 2020 crafty resolutions....

Florals

The Flower Challenge

Watercoloring

Happy Little Stampers

My card 

I stamped my image in black pigment ink onto watercolor paper and began painting.  I'm a beginner so it's fairly simple but as I've said before, baby steps.  Once the watercoloring was complete I decided to fussy cut out the image so I could overlay it onto this pretty b/w diagonal striped patterned paper.  The sentiment is a two part die.  I chose black as the shadow and white for the lettering.  

I added a bit of sparkle to the flowers with an aqua brush as well as some shine to the berries with some Glossy Accents and called 'er done.  I'm hoping that practice builds confidence.

Supplies:

Lil Inkers - Love and Honey

Simon Says Stamp - Thanks die

MFT - b/w patterned paper

Gansai Tambi - watercolors

Tim Holtz - watercolor paper

Altenew - Obsidian Pigment Ink

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CAS Colours and Sketches #361

It's Tuesday once again which means it's time for a new challenge over at the CC&S challenge blog.  Our hostess Jeanne has a very fun sketch for us to all try. 

I decided to embrace my white space with something other than white for something a little bit different this time around.  As I was photographing my card earlier today my daughter walked in and very astutely commented that this shirt matched the one I was currently wearing.  Ha!  (Not planned.)

To create my card I stamped the shirt in Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink and then used a clear embossing powder over top for some shine.  The heart was done in the same manner.  The b/w paper is a scrap from a very coveted piece of patterned paper.  I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto another scrap of red cardstock.  I have a very short supply list for you this week.  

I do hope you'll come play along with us this week!

Supplies:

Hero Arts - Ooh la la stamp set (shirt, heart, sentiment)

The Stamp Market - patterned paper

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Seize the Birthday #184

An unusual evening post but I'm trying to get my Seize the Birthday card in before the challenge closes.  We're gonna do this quick and dirty style.

The Challenge

The Card

This card was made super easy with the help of a beautiful sheet of patterned paper.  I started by stamping the Happy onto the front.  I die cut out the Birthday sentiment and added some white embossing to the bottom third of the letters.  (In hindsight I probably should have embossed in black rather that white.  Next time.)  I then positioned the word onto my card front and using my MISTI I re-stamped the Happy sentiment to create the overlap onto the word birthday  After that it was just a matter of adhering everything down, including the clay hearts.  

Supplies:

The Stamp Market - It's Your Birthday (happy)

The Stamp Market - Time to Celebrate (birthday)

Alexandra Renke - Lena's Spring Collection designer paper

HoneyBee Stamps - clay hearts

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CAS(e) This Sketch #362

The current sketch over at the CAS(e) This Sketch challenge is an interesting one to me.  I am very intrigued with the longer focal point of the balloons in this sketch. 

I kept my card extremely simple as many of my sympathy cards tend to be.  Without further ado, here's my take on the sketch.

I added some texture to the finished card panel but it's a little easier to see in my closeup photograph.  

I started with the berry sprig which I stamped in a Copic friendly ink before doing some very simple coloring.  I double stamped the stitched line and added the sentiment in between to mimick the sketch.  I finished it off with a smattering of sequins. (Is there a name for sequins that don't have a hole???)

Supplies:

Penny Black - Berries Delight stamp set

MFT - Essential Sentiments stamp set

Simon Says Stamp - Crafty Friends stamp set

PaperTrey Ink - Linen Cover Plate

Pretty Pink Posh - sequins

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Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #155

I had a very pleasant surprise upon the return of my recent vacation.  I was asked to join the Design Team over at the Sisterhood, which, as you all know, is a favorite stop of mine on the web for online challenges.  My acceptance was a total no brainer.  :-)  I'm so excited to be part of the team!

Today marks my first post as an official member of their blog and the theme could not be more appropriate.   B is for Booze.  Ummm....hellllllllo.

Edna's getting her tropic on!

The two categories of stamps that I have in abundance are 1) sharks and 2) alcohol.  One of these days I'm going to combine the two into a single card but for today I wanted to use what I refer to as a virgin stamp i.e., one that has not seen ink.  ;-)  

I stamped the background with a paint swatch stamp to ground my sassy little gal who I colored with Copic markers.  I love this sentiment.  Nothing says champagne party like being under the age of 30.  (Word has it that I've been 29 for just over three decades now.  ha!)  I added a final bit of detail with the black mat and called it good.  Sweet, Simple, Sassy and for those of us well over the age of 29, just a tad bit Snarky.  

Many thanks to the Sisterhood for thinking of me.  It was such a wonderful surprise!  I do hope you will come and play along with us.  I'd love to see some of you in the gallery!

Supplies:

MFT a la mode Cheers stamp

Hero Arts Brushstrokes stamp

Art Impressions sentiment stamp

Avery Elle Postage Stamp die

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SOSS #154

I'm playing "life catch up" after a week long trip to North Carolina where this Florida girl actually got to play in snow for the first time in fifteen years.  :-) 

I've got a jam packed week but I had to sneak in to play along with the gals at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers where the current challenge is E is for Evil. 

I dug through my snarky sentiment stash to find one that I thought was particularly evil and then paired it with one of my favorite old bitty images.  

You definitely have to be very good friends with someone to send them this beauty.  Just who should I pick on????  (evil, right?)

Supplies:

Art Impressions bitty and fence images

Hero Arts sentiment - Irreverent Birthday

MFT stitched rectangle and oval dies

Honey Bee brick pattern paper - Home Essentials pad

Copic markers

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CAS Colours and Sketches #360

It's time for a another challenge over at the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge blog.  We have a new hostess for the new month of March.  Jeanne has chosen trio of spring colors to start off the her duties.

As always, you may use whatever brand of inks, cardstock, markers, etc. you have 

in your stash as long as they are similar to the Stampin' Up ones named above.  You are free

to add neutrals but this trio of colors should be the only ones other ones used on your card.

I had a heck of a time trying to match up the Blushing Bride color from my Copic collection.  I started with corals, then pinks and by the end I was adding in some light reds.  It doesn't match 100% but the inspiration is evident.

I began by die cutting the sentiment from the lower portion of a piece of white cardstock.  I offset the stamping of the amaryllis and colored it in with the myriad of Copics I mentioned earlier.  I cut the panel down just a bit and adhered it onto a green card base, leaving just a hint of the green to show on the left side.  (Make sure you save the bits and pieces like the inner portion of the A.)  I finished off my card with a spattering of jewels.  

I hope to see some of your cards in the gallery this week!

Supplies:

MFT Big Thanks Dienamics

WPlus9 Amaryllis

Pretty Pink Posh Pearl White Jewels

The Stamp Market green cardstock

Copic Markers.

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