CAS(E) This Sketch #262

This week's CAS(E) This Sketch was so easy it was hard.

It wasn't until I had a reason to make a card that it all came together.  My granddaughter is the driver for her robotics team and they won their competition last weekend.  Here's Kjerstin taking a bite out of her gold medal.

I made this card to congratulate her.

The background is a TH stencil and the sentiment is from  HA, selectively inked in the Stryke Force colors.

I'm so glad you dropped by.  Do come again.

Just Us Girls #393

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and Sue has picked one of the hottest things going: Distress Oxides.  If you don't have them don't worry.  You can use your regular Distress Inks to make a background.

I have the Oxides and they blend beautifully on Bristol Board so that's what I used.

I originally tried the technique where you mist your stamps before putting them to inked paper to remove some of that ink.  I don't know if my stamps were too small or too wet but I didn't like the results so I overstamped the images from TT with Distress Ink.  The sentiment is from PTI and to balance it's Onyx Black, I added a strip of black cs to the bottom.

Our guest designer Kathie Durgan and the rest of my fabulous team mates at Just Us Girls have cards waiting for you to peruse and be inspired by. We hope you will make a card for a chance to be our Chic of the Week and possible guest designer in the future.

Just Us Girls #391

It's Wild Card week at Just Us Girls and that means Judy got to choose anything for the challenge.

She chose paper piecing.  This is not something I usually do and I think it's evolved since we used to layer the Holly Hobby girls back in the 70's, but that's what my card reminded me of.

I stamped the flowers from PB in Forest Glades ink on my card front and then again on some hombre paper in Rouge.  I cut out various sections, leaving one whole for the back and popping up the smaller pieces.

The rest of the Design Team and guest designer Laurie Unger have cards for you to see over at Just Us Girls.  This is Laurie's last challenge with us and it's been a privilege to have her designing along with us.   If you enter a card in the challenge you may be chosen Chic of the Week and be eligible for a guest designer spot.

See you there.

Addicted to CAS #102 and AAA Cards #78

Addicted to CAS is celebrating their 4th birthday.  I made them a card of congratulations.  Actually they asked for it but it's definitely appropriate and heart felt.

I die cut the word from pp and then stamped the balloons in coordinating colors. The strings are hand drawn.

I used round balloons on purpose so I could also enter this card in the AAA Cards challenge - Circles.

That's all for me for now.  Have a great weekend.

Colour Q #351

I had an immediate idea for a card for Colour Q so even though I'm extremely busy I had to make a card.

I say that but you must know this is my third try.  I knew I wanted the gold feathers with the colors in the background but inking and watercoloring didn't work so I used this PTI Panel to highlight the different colors of cardstock with a CB feather in three, the sentiment and gold paper in the other two.

I'm so glad you dropped by.

Just Us Girls #300

As you can see from the title of my post, Just Us Girls is celebrating a milestone - 300 challenges. Appropriately enough, the Word Week cue is "Congratulations".  What do you do when you want to congratulate someone?  I think sending flowers might be in order.

Since I've been gone, I only looked at the challenge a short time ago and there was a little over an hour left before the linky closed.  Fortunately I had colored this Penny Black stamp while playing with my Ziggies (Zig Clear Brush Pens as dubbed by Laura Bassen).  I cut it with a SSS stitched square and mounted it with fun foam after stamping the PTI sentiment in HA Silver. Congratulations, Just Us Girls!  May you have many more challenges for us to have fun with.

Thanks for stopping by.

Casology #141

I was a crafting fool yesterday.  I made 5 cards but still wanted to do one for CASology.  I mean if you get an honorable mention one week, you can't skip the challenge the next.  That's not polite. ;)  I had a difficult time coming up with something for their cue word - NEWS.  You had the option of doing a baby card to congratulate Gillian on the arrival of a baby boy but I don't have any baby worthy stamps.  I hope this will cover it.

I purchased some cork sheets a while ago and used that to "pin" the sentiment from HA to.  The other paper is from an old, old, old pad from PTI called Library Ledger.

Thanks for stopping by.  You'll get a look at the other cards as the week progresses, so please come back.

CAS on Sunday #10

I made this card a while ago when I wanted to try a negative cut.  It will work great for the challenge at CAS on Sunday - black, white plus one.  Edit:  Oops, I'm too late for the challenge.  Enjoy anyway.

Unfortunately the light wasn't very good when I took the picture but it IS white, embossed with Swiss Dots.  The letters are cut with Kate's ABC on a 3 1/2" by 7" card which is a good fit for the sentiment and I have envelopes that size.  The red ribbon with white stitching is something I picked up at a Valentine clearance sale. Red and black are the local school colors so this will work great for a graduation card.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day, or night, or tomorrow, depending on when you come to visit.

You nailed it!

Why is it that cold weather is so much easier to take when the sun is shining?  Or why does it feel like it's so much colder than the thermometer says the older you get?  Maybe this explains the population growth in some of the southern states.

Today's card is for the Less is More challenge: use silver. 

What doess this say about me that the first thing I thought of was nails?  And after that came the punny sentiment.  Then there was the problem of deciding what paper to use.  I knew I needed something rather dark so the nails would show up.  I auditioned a lot of paper before I found this plaid from FancyPants' Little Sport collection and a blue that went with it.  I wanted to tie in the sentiment paper so I added a layer of kraft cardstock behind the plaid.  The sentiment was printed on the computer and attached with silver brads.  Inside it says "Congratulations."  For those of you who say it's difficult to do masculine cards, I hope this inspires you.

Soccer Star

It's been a while since I've posted.  First there was "Girls' Week" with my daughter, daughter-in-law, mother and three granddaughters.  This is a tradition that has been going on for 14 years although it's been whittled down from a week to a few days as times get busier.

That was followed by a week at the lake with my parents, sister, son and family.  We had a good time despite the often rainy and overcast weather.  Only two days out of the week were good enough to actually go into the water.  Now that we have all gone to our respective homes, it's time for me to get crafting again - before the next trip to the lake and more visitors.

While at the lake I got a call that my younger grandson, who enters high school this fall, tried out for the school soccer team and made it.  That's quite an accomplishment so I decided to send him a card.  Isn't it great that the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge this week is "2012 Olympics - make a card with a sport theme."

This was an easy one.  I did some scrapbook shopping during Girls' Week and bought a stack by Fancy Pants called Little Sport.  It came with this great soccer ball print.  I matted it with black on a cream card base.  I cut the star from George and Basic Shapes, matted it and popped it up on foam.  The stamp is from Tiny Tags 2 from My Craft Spot.

Oh, I should tell you that I made my own foam dimensionals for this.  Sometimes I think black dimensionals look better so I bought fun foam, cut it into a 5" strip and ran it through my Xyron on both sides.  It works great!  You can cut it in any shape or size you want which makes it nice for long, skinny images.

Cock a Doodle Doo!

I'm a big rooster fan and when the challenge at Creative Cutter Room was to use a chick or chicken, it had to be a rooster for me.  I used this picture that hangs on my wall for inspiration.

Here's my card with a rooster cut from Just Because Cards.

The sentiment was printed on the computer and the papers are from an assortment of DSPs.  I really would have liked to pop him up but was afraid of those skinny chicken legs.   The layers in the tail do give it the impression of dimension so that's good.