CAS(E)This Sketch #405 - The Final Edition

 

I'm here to play along with the final challenge over at the CAS(E) This Sketch blog. I'm sad to see it go but they've had a great run and it's been a lot of fun participating.  Their final sketch is actually a throwback to sketch #25.  

I am in need of some no frill cards I can use for guys so with that in mind, here's what I created.

I substituted the words Happy in place of the three tags in the sketch.  I used three different shades of pool/teal cardstock on which I heat embossed the words and then cut them out with coordinating dies.  I used a cover plate to add a bit of texture to a black card panel.  I added a strip of black/white checked patterened paper the the left edge, adhered the die cut words, heat embossed the birthday sentiment in white and finished it off with some black and white clay stars.  The card was complete after adhering the panel to a card base made with white 110 lb cardstock.  

I wish Chrissy all of the best.  Thanks to you and your team for all of the inspiration!

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn - Happy, Happy, Happy stamps and dies

PaperTrey Ink- background cover plate

Kat Scrappiness - clay stars

Pink and Main - b/w gingham paper

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Jules 

CAS(e) This Sketch #403

I'm here today to play along with one of the final challenges over at the CASE This Sketch challenge blog.  It's been a favorite of mine so I'm sad to hear it's coming to an end.  Here's this week's sketch...

I treated myself to some post holiday crafty sales and today's card uses several of those goodies.

Lest you think the lighting is poor, that's a soft grey cardstock for my background.  

I built the sketch around this sweet fox and rabbit image. I colored (Copics) and die cut the image.  I used a cover plate to pierce the soft grey background panel and then cut strips of cardstock to create the horizontal banner.  A stamped sentiment strip serves as the center.  I adhered the panel to a honey colored card base and added in three enamel hearts.  Until hugs are are a reality once again, this one will do.  

Supplies:

Erin Lee Creative - Crafty Friends stamp and die set

Simon Says Stamp - Detail Swirls Cover Plate

The Gray Muse - Social Distance stamp set

Studio Katia - Halftone Lines die

It's a New Year!  Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends. 

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CAS(e) This Sketch #306

 

Today's card was created with the current CASe This Sketch challenge in mind.   I like the horizontal lines however I was initially put off by the design of the sentiment.

I'm not big on vertical sentiments and rarely, if ever, incorporate them into a card design.  After seeing Michele's card however I thought maybe I could pull off something that I would be happy with.  

I chose my color palette before I decided on a card design which is highly unusual for me.  I dug through my older stamp sets and found this set of brush strokes which worked perfectly.  I don't have a big selection of alpha dies but what I do have is an obnoxious collection of Thickers that I still hoard from my scrapbooking days. *blush*  I found this set with an antique gold finish in a font that I felt matched the feel of the card.  Staggering the letters slightly gives just even horizontal balance to the vertical placement of the sentiment. I can live with this.  *wink*  I mounted the white panel on a piece of coordinating antique gold cardstoc cut down from a very old piece of 12x12 paper.    

Supplies:

PaperTrey Ink - Brushed Off stamp set

American Craft - Thickers

Paper Pizazz - metallic gold cardstock

I'm very happy with the outcome and even more pleased that I dusted off some very old supplies.  I need to do that more often!

Stay safe and healthy my friends!  

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CAS(e) This Sketch #388

There are so many wonderful challenge blogs and even with all of my free time nowadays, there just isn't time enough to join in them all.  I really love the new sketch up over at the CAS(e) This Sketch blog this week so I bumped it up the challenge list.  

I knew just what stamp set I wanted to use which made it very easy.

I started by stamping the large floral image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored in my image with Altenew alcohol markers.  I added a splattering of black ink for some added detail.  I die cut the banner and label, adding the sentiment with a combination of Versamark ink and white embossing powder.  Very simple but very pretty, in my opinion at least.  *wink*

Supplies:

Altenew - Delicate Bouquet stamp set

Altenew - Fresh Freesia stamp set (sentiment)

Spellbinders - label die

Stay safe and healthy my friends!  

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Jules 

CAS(e) This Sketch #380

Today I'm playing along with the folks at the CAS(e) This Sketch challenge blog.  The sketch this week is very different and I've had a lot of fun watching to see everyone's take on it.

Any guesses as to what I saw in the design?

Ha!  Yep, Shark Time!  

I began the card with an ink blended stencil technique I first saw on Instagram by MFT designers Laura Devalo and Jodi Collins.  The stencil they used is a part of  MFT's latest release.  I ordered it immediately *blush* but because I don't yet have it, I did some improvising with a different stencil as inspired by my dear friend Michele.  I ink blended onto the stencil, turning it several times to get the water effect.  Very cool.  

In order to get the shark in the right position for the sketch I had to do some mirror stamping.  I find that I get the best results with this technique if I use a crisp black pigment ink so I heat set it with clear embossing powder prior to some careful Copic coloring.  I curved the sentiment along the line of the shark, matted the panel on a piece of black card stock and finished it off with some clear droplets.  

Here's a peek at the inside of the card....

  

This one was really fun to make and I love getting new inspiration for my favorite well loved stamps.

Supplies:

Avery Elle - Shark Hugs stamp set (shark)

Avery Elle - Hello Chum stamp set (greeting)

Avery Elle - Celebraytion stamp set (cupcake)

Vicky Boutin - stencil

Distress Oxide - Tumbled Glass

I'm off to see just which card challenge inspires me next!

Stay safe and healthy my friends!  

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Jules

CAS(e) This Sketch #373

(Due to a scheduling faux pas, this is my second post of the day.  Please scroll back if you missed my previous one.  Thanks!)



I'm killing two birds with one stone today by using the current sketch challenge over at the CAS(e) This Sketch blog to create a Miss You card for my grandson.

My son's family recently rescued a tiny kitten.   After a wellness check from the vet it was determined that the roadside stray is only 4 weeks old and weighs in at just over a pound. Whatever his story, he's safe and being very happily mothered by their thirteen year old Border Collie mix.

Isn't this just the sweetest photo ever?

I used Stimpy (you can tell my son named him...Ren and Stimpy anyone?) as the inspiration for my card.

I colored in the image with some cool gray Copics.  I used an embossing folder on the card panel to create the raised quilted heart images and then added a bit of hand drawn stitching around the border.  I added in two strips - one based on the sketch and the other for the heat embossed sentiment.  A few quick clay hearts finished off the design.

Supplies:

Impression Obsession - Mini Peekers stamp set

Clearly Besotted - Tiny Type stamp set

Sunny Studio - Quilted Hearts embossing folder

Lawn Fawn - pattern paper

I'm anxious to see my grandson again and meet Mr. Stimpy.  In the meantime it will be FaceTime calls and Happy Mail from Meemaw.  

Stay safe and healthy my friends!  

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Jules

CAS(e) This Sketch #372

I have had very little crafting mojo lately and I'm conveniently blaming it all on Corona Brain Fog.  (CBF is a real thing, my friends.)  My brain may not have been feeling creative but apparently there was nothing wrong with my typing fingers as I did manage to place several online crafty orders this week.  *blush*  Just doing my part boost the economy!

Seriously though, I forced myself in the craft room yesterday, gave myself a pep talk and then pulled up the latest sketch over at the CAS(e) This Sketch challenge blog.  I've found that often times sketches are the best way to pull myself out of a crafty funk. 

In all honesty, I wasn't feeling it with this sketch but as luck would have it, I came across the perfect stamp from an order I received this week.  It made the sketch super easy.  In fact, perhaps too easy.  It's a stretch but you keep an open mind, the sketch is totally there.  

As per the sketch I have a horizontally centered banner sentiment with images flowing above and below it.  Can you see it?  :-)  The part that makes it really "too easy" is that this lovely background is all one stamp.  All I did was color it in and add in the sentiment.  

If interested, I visited The Ton's website in search of this stamp, which I purchased along

with several items from her awesome sale catagory, the stamp above being one of them.

Her shipping was lightning fast and I received my products within just a few days of ordering.  

It felt soooo good to get back into the swing of things again that I actually made two identical cards.  (Yay me!)  Hopefully you see more of me this week, especially since I have lots of new things headed my way.  

Stay safe and healthy my friends!  

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Jules

CAS(e) This Sketch #367

I'm hopping on tonight for another of what I refer to as "drive by" posts.  Today I played along with the folks at the Case This Sketch challenge blog.  Here's the current sketch:

And here's my take:

I began by adhering a gradient of pink cardstock strips to a piece of black cardstock.  Using my MISTI, I stamped the leaf onto the gradient strips and then again on a piece of white cardstock which I used as my front panel.  I then adhered the horizontal striped portion over the top of the white panel using the stem and the tip of the bottom leaf as my positioners.  I glued this down onto a black card base, stamped the sentiment below the stripes and added some pink jewel dots.

Supplies:

Altenew - pink cardstocks, leaf stamp, sentiment

Kat Scrappiness - pink jewels

Stay healthy my friends!  

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Jules

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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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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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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CAS(e) This Sketch #359

True confession time once again.  (Dang, I am letting you guys know all my secrets!)

I stamped and colored an image last week for the previous CAS(e) This Sketch challenge but as I started to put my card together I noticed I'd missed last week's deadline. Oops!  Fortunately for me the size of my image was perfect for the current challenge so I switched gears and created a card with this (current) sketch in mind....

Here's my card....

My original card design didn't include die cutting out the coffee girl but it was an easy switch.  

I used a gingham stamp to create the background and matted it onto a scalloped tag cut from white card stock and colored in with the same green Copic I used for the cups.  (One for me, one for a friend.)  I heat embossed the two sentiments in white onto black card stock and called it good.  

I think I love this card more than the other one that now shall remain in my head.  LOL!

Supplies:

MFT Miss You Latte

MFT Scalloped Bookmark

MFT Bitty Thanks

Waffle Flower Simply Plaids

Taylored Expressions Banner Stacklet 3 

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CASe This Sketch #357

This is my second post of the day  so scroll down if you missed my earlier card.  (I know, right?  It's either feast or famine with me. LOL!)

I'm bringing it down to the wire with my entry in the current CASe This Sketch Challenge.  Without further ado, here's the sketch. 

I played around with several ideas before coming up with the one I chose for my card.  I used the trio of horizontal lines as my guide to create some gradient ink blending over a white embossed background.

You may notice that I am using my new favorite ink color combo from Altenew.  (Misty Morning, Nimbus and Dark Night.)  The background diamond stamp, the sentiment and the small heart are all from The Stamp Market.  

I promise that's it for me...for today.  :-)

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CAS(E) This Sketch #356

It's been a while since I've participated in the CAS(E) This Sketch challenges.  The current sketch is a very interesting one and there's lots of fun cards in their gallery.

I took such a simple approach to the sketch that I actually feel like I cheated.  *blush*

You might be thinking..."Oh, but look at how complicated those stitched lines are!"  And......you would most definitely be mistaken.  LOL!  Big impact with a single pass through the die cutting machine.  (Cheated, remember?)  

I used the die set shown below.  I've had for a long time and absolutely adore it but I'm not sure who made it.  (I want to say it's from MFT but it's not on their current website.)  If you happen to know, please leave me a comment below so I can get it labeled.  (Thanks!)

In a nutshell, I positioned the die at a diagonal on my card front and ran it through my die cutting machine to produce the stitched lines.  For my sentiment, I used a Thanks die and it's accompanying outline shadow (Simon Says Stamp/CZ Designs) and finished it off with a trio of three matte dots from Gina Marie Designs.  

I slapped that puppy to a coral card base and called 'er done.  I'd say it doesn't get much simpler but wait until you see Wednesday's card.  *wink*

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Jules