Color Hues #77

When you give me a longer time to make a card I'll probably wait until the end which I almost did for Color Hues.  They have a month long challenge in December and I'm just getting a card posted.

They want pink and silver and this is what I came up with.  The pinks of the mittens from EbyE and the snowflakes from Lawn Fawn are actually a closer match than it shows in the photo.  I added silver snowflakes and a cuff to the mittens before running them through a burlap embossing folder from Honey Bee.  The snowflake stencil also has a layer of Nuvo glimmer paste on it.  The silver embossed sentiment is from Penny Black. 

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Just Us Girls #664 - CAS Week

One of the changes that Just Us Girls has made this year is to institute CAS Week in place of Trend Week.  We hope this will inspire those of you who like to make clean and simple cards to join the challenge.  This week the prompt chosen by our host Carol M is

The cake is from Celebrate in Style by Pinkfresh Studio.  It was a gift from a friend who was purging her stash.  While the cake stand looks brown in the photo it's actually silver.  Everything else was colored with Distress Inks.  

I want to thank Jules Peddicord for being our guest designer this month.  Your cards were all spectacular, Jules.  If you'd like to be a guest, make a card for the challenge and if you're the Chic of the Week you have a chance to be chosen. 

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Color Hues #30 - SIlver and Gold

Color Hues has a great combination for this holiday season - silver and gold.  I made this card a week ago but got busy and didn't post it.  I'm doing it now before the deadline creeps any closer. 

I used a variety of paper with the Reverse Confeti Triangle Trees die.  With all the shine it was difficult to photograph so I added more from different angles.

The center tree is gold printed acetate, the silver on the left is white flocked, and the plain gold is glitter.  The sentiment from the same set is embossed in silver.  

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CAS Mix-Up June 2020

I had a difficult time photographing my card for CAS Mix-Up.  In the end I used my iPhone on my kitchen table with natural light and it's not bad.

The vellum is embossed with a paisley folder and placed behind a frame from PTI.  I noticed the little hearts in the design so I cut the RC heart border in silver and embossed the HA sentiment in silver for an anniversary card.  My card has embossed vellum, stamping, heat embossing, and die cutting.

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12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist

I needed a tag for my great-granddaughter's gift and what better inspiration than Julie Ebersole on Day 10  of the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist - Non-traditional colors.  Julie used the EbyE Pop-Up Mittens for hers and so did I.

I stamped my cs with the plaid from Concord and 9th in pink and gray, cut one mitten and then a second out of white for the secondary tag to write my message.  A little silver snowflake from the set matches the silver cord to tie on the package.

Have you made your own tags this year?

Addicted to CAS #137

Stephanie is our host for this challenge at Addicted to CAS and this is her code word.

I must admit that I bought a new stamp set to use for my card.  Not that anyone had to twist my arm or anything. ;)

This is a layered seahorse stamp from HA that I picked up at JoAnn's - a little Mother's Day gift to myself.  I clear heat embossed them so I could ink up the background with Distress Ink.  I spritzed it for some bubble/water action and then made a porthole by silver embossing a circle and popping up the panel.

Our guest designer for this challenge is Claire and she and the Design Team have some fabulous cards to inspire you.  The winner of the challenge will receive a $20 gc from Happy Little Stampers.

CASology #297

The first thing that came to mind when I saw the code word at CASology was my bicycle stamp.

That is an activity that my husband does every day that the weather here permits.  And by that I mean 50 degrees or above, no rain in sight.

I silver embossed the bike from SSS and colored it to look like one of Ken's with PolyChromos pencils which wasn't easy to do in those tiny spaces.  I had to add the bottles on the back because he generally comes home with a sack of recyclable bottles and cans each time he rides, if his route is in the country.  Oh the stories he can tell about people offering him money thinking he needs the deposit refund to make ends meet. 😁

I forgot I also wanted to send my card to Inkspirational where the word of the day is "Play".

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CAS Mix-Up, CAS Watercolor, HLS Watercolor and Little Red Wagon #433

I have a second card for the CAS Mix-Up Challenge. 

I think this fun little owl looks great in cork. I colored the white of his eyes with a gel pen and his beak and talons with Distress Marker.  He's sitting on a branch die cut from real wood paper (my choice).  The sentiment was masked from a stamp that originally said "Howl are you?"

This next card is for CAS Watercolor Challenge,  HLS Watercolor Challenge and Little Red Wagon..

The heart of roses from SSS was heat embossed in silver and watercolored with Distress Ink. The silver embossed sentiment is from PB.

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Twofer Challenge #2

It's time for the second Twofer Challenge.  I love this challenge - and it can be a challenge - but it stretches your stamps/dies and your creativity.  For this challenge we are asked to use

Appropriate for February don't you think?  I ended up using a die for my cards.

This RC heart border was cut from a piece of paper that I made with the tissue paper technique and was filed in my WTDWT (what to do with this) drawer.  I paired it with some DSP I fell in love with but haven't used and a sentiment from PB for a valentine. 

I took that same die and embossed it down my white cs and then glued in the leftover hearts from the first card.  A silver embossed sentiment from PTI finished my anniversary card.

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Addicted to CAS #129

Susan is our host at Addicted to CAS and she's picked a color for our challenge.

I wanted to play with my alcohol inks and used them to make this card.

The bottle calls it 'Patina' but I'm calling it teal.  I mixed in some silver and pounced with a blender pad which gave my panel a marble-y look.  The leaf is from PB and the silver embossed sentiment is from HA.

I wanted the teal border to be just a tiny peek and cut my first panel too small so I used it to make a second card.

This time I backed it with a panel using the tissue paper technique that I had in my drawer.  Although I hate to think about it, I am always needing sympathy cards.

Happy Little Stampers is our sponsor at ATCAS and the winner of the challenge will receive a $20 voucher to their store.  The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you over on the blog.  Why not take time to make a "teal" card and enter it in the gallery.  Just be sure to keep it CAS (clean and simple).

Merry Monday #275

I'm still getting a handle on my Christmas cards with another one for Merry Monday.  This week it's pastels.

Altenew Ink was used to stamp the poinsettia from Sunny Studio.  The third layer is silver heat embossed as is the sentiment.  Too bad it doesn't show up in my photo. 

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Merry Monday #269

I'm running late with my card for Merry Monday.  I quickly made it last night and am posting before church this morning.  It's a color challenge.

Stamps from Neat and Tangled, inks from Altenew, aperture from Pretty Pink Posh.  The tree is silver embossed and the ornaments clear embossed for shine you can't see here.  Maybe this photo is better.

I did this in remembrance of the aluminum trees back in the day.

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CASology #279

Gray is a popular color in home decorating and is also the cue word for this week's CASology.

I thought the color would be appropriate for a sympathy card and used all three SSS gray cardstocks and the ferns from PTI's Meadow Greens.

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Merry Monday #267

Colleen has a color challenge at Merry Monday this week  - blue, green with silver/white/vellum.  There are so many blues and greens that you can get a variety of looks with these colors.  I went with whimsical using chartreuse and aqua.

The trees are from W&W and the silver embossed sentiment from PTI.  I wanted a colored border and didn't have the right color of glitter paper so I took some Aqua Mist and embossed the edges with Sparkling Snow Glitter.

I mentioned the other day that I was making Christmas ornaments for my grandchildren, something I do every year.  A few of you wanted to see what I was doing so I thought I'd share.

Here's a close-up.

I cut up crayons into small shavings and melted them in glass ornaments using my heat gun.  It took a little maneuvering to move the wax around and keep from burning myself.  I used two colors and they wanted to melt together so I had to keep adding and heating and moving.

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