CAS(E) This Sketch #191

There's another great sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch this week.  I knew right away I wanted to use the quadrangle dies from SSS but what color?  After a couple of false starts I ended up with this:

Thanks for taking time to drop by.

Addicted to Stamps and More #223

What do you do when you realize you forgot to make a card for the Design Team?  I grabbed my just-arrived-today Stamp of Approval box and some patterned paper and made this in half an hour.  It would have been less time but I was wounded while cutting the die apart.

A comment my Dad used to make after eating the evening meal was "Not bad for a quickly thrown together supper."  So I'm using his tag line to say "Not bad for a quickly thrown together card."  In fact I think I'll make a few more using other patterned paper.

How about checking out the rest of the Design Team at Addicted to Stamps and More and making a card for the challenge?  You may win 2 digital stamps from SLSLines.

Hope to see you there.

The Heart Desires #4 and Inspired by All the Little Things #25

I got the chance to make a couple of cards yesterday.  I don't know why these particular challenges caught my eye but I felt compelled to make cards for them.  The first one is for The Heart Desires.

I was inspired by the sunflowers in the photo and turned the daisy stamp by Altenew into one.  Distress Inks were my color of choice and I had to throw in a few splatters.  I wasn't sure I liked them at first but they're growing on me.

Florals seem to be one of my favorite cards to make and so to follow the sunflower we have a mum, inspired by this gorgeous photo of one at Inspired by All the Little Things.

The flower from Tim Holtz was embossed in gold and colored with DIs.

I'm so glad you dropped by.  I hope your week is going well.

Time Out #66

I loved the photo for the Time Out challenge and played around with some ideas until I came up with this.

Black ink on an embossing folder gives the brick some definition.  The leaves from SSS are cut from a smooshed panel that I used to make this card and the platinum embossed sentiment is from MFT.  Can you see where I got my inspiration?

I hope your week is off to a good start.  Thanks for dropping by and sharing it with me.

Just Us Girls #362

I'm the hostess for this week's Just Us Girls photo challenge and I thought something fall-ish would be appropriate.

There are a number of different images that might spark your imagination and I can't wait to see what you make for the challenge.  Here's my card.

The stamp from Penny Black is watercolored with Zigs.  Neenah Desert Storm was cut with SSS stitched rectangles and the inside frame is popped up.  The sentiment is from PTI.

Check out what the Design Team and this month's guest Kathy Schweinfurth have done. If you are chosen Chic of the Week you will be eligible for a guest design spot in November.