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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Jules

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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Jules

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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Jules

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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Jules

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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Jules

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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Jules

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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Happy Crafting!

Jules