CAS Christmas Challenge - August 2026

I thought I was going to be too late for the CAS Christmas Challenge but it ends today so I'm just in time.  I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting a card I made last year but never posted.  I have a big file of them on my laptop and since I didn't bring a sleigh die with me I went searching and found this card. 

All the dies are from Spellbinders Delivering Joy.  The body of the sleigh is glimmer paper I've had for a while and all the gold is from a Recollections pack.  The rest is all cut from scraps. 

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CAS Christmas - July 2026

The second challenge for CAS Christmas is live and the theme is 

I brought my Tim Holtz Snowmen with me and used two on my card.

Their scarves and hats are navy blue and dark green with white although they both look black in the photo.  The banner they are holding is from Simon Hurley's Mantle Decorations, a left over from a previous play time.  This looks a little too clean and simple to me but that's the challenge and I'm sticking to it.  

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CAS Christmas June 2026

Today I'm guest designing for CAS Christmas.  That's right.  Loll has resurrected her CAS challenges and the Christmas one starts today. I happened to be the last winner before she closed down in 2022 so she invited me to be her guest on the restart.  I hope you are as excited about this news as I am.  This month's challenge is

That's an easy one since I love my birds.

The cardinal is from Honey Bee's Winter Birds, the greens from their Winter Greenery and sentiment from Let Nature Sing. The panel was lightly inked with Speckled Egg DI and a little Frantage was added for snow.  I love seeing these beautiful birds perched in the trees and also at my feeder. 

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CAS Christmas Card Challenge - September 2022

I'm slowly but surely getting my Christmas cards done.  Here's the one I made for CAS Christmas - featuring Sparkle/Shine.

The stitched snowflake circle is from Memory Box cut from glitter cardstock and stacked three times over a circle that was inked with Stormy Sky and Prize Ribbon Distress Inks.  A few splatters and a silver heat embossed sentiment from Reverse Confetti finish it off. 

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CAS Christmas August 2022 #2 and NBUS #41

I said yesterday that I found another way to make a pine card for CAS Christmas.  I saw this card on Bonnie's blog and fell in love with that tree.  She sent me a link of where to buy it and I couldn't order quick enough.  Time passed and I hadn't used it yet so here it is on its way to NBUS too.  Actually the sentiment is new also.

Because this is a CAS challenge, I only used four portions of the tree, cutting it from a plaid paper pack by PhotoPlay and popping up the edges.  After heat embossing the sentiment from Concord and 9th, I added the panel to some dark green cardstock. 

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CAS Christmas August 2022

The challenge at CAS Christmas is 'pine'.  I wasn't sure I had anything pine with me so went searching and found this one from Newton's Nook.  

I already had the image colored with artist markers so this was easy to put together.  I just cut a panel with a Hero Arts postage die, stamped a sentiment from the set and popped it up.   Since then I've found a few other things so look for another pine project tomorrow.  

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CAS Christmas July 2022

I am way behind on my Christmas cards so I'm glad CAS Christmas is back in full force.  Today's challenge is Santa.  Who doesn't love to see that jolly old elf on their cards? 

The Santa is from Rabbit Hole Designs - a prize I won from Less Is More's birthday celebration a while ago.  This is actually the third attempt to color him.  I started with alcohol markers but kept getting outside the lines. 😠 Then I tried Zigs but you know what happens when you add water to red.  So I finally pulled out my PolyChromos pencils.  I'm hoping the texture makes it look like a velvet suit. 😉  I layered up the panel cut with The Greetery's Crimped Frames, put those failed attempts under Santa to pop him up and added the sentiment from the set.

Did you see yesterday's post?  The floor is in and both of us are living to tell about it. 😁

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CAS Christmas - June 2022

I'm so glad I brought my PinkFresh Studio wreath with me so I could make a card for CAS Christmas. 

I stamped the wreath in Gina K black and colored it with Altenew artist markers.  The bow was die cut and popped up and the sentiment is from Concord and 9th. 

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CAS Christmas - January 2022

Silver and gold.  Classic Christmas accent colors and the choice of Julia at CAS Christmas.  

I cut an ornament from Elizabeth Crafts from gold and silver and inlaid the gold into the silver outline.  I don't know what I was thinking because this is so fiddly, especially those tiny dots, but I love how it turned out.  For this card I embossed the PTI sentiment in silver and cut the panel with an Altenew die.   

Of course this allows for a second card in reverse.  

Here I edged the panel in the same gold as the PTI sentiment.

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CAS Christmas November 2021

I don't do a lot of critter cards but I do have a few favorites so I knew I could make a card for the CAS Christmas challenge.  Then instead of using one of my own stamp sets, I used some images I found in my Bits & Pieces box that I got from Michele a long time ago.

The darling bears are from Sweet Pea Designs and are colored with Zigs.  I softly inked the background and hills with Distress Ink.  For the sentiment I used one of the Bearware add-ons from Essentials by Ellen, stamping and heat embossing the words on black and cutting them apart.   I see Papa's nose looks a little funny.  It must be a glare from the black glaze pen.

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CAS Christmas - October 2021

Marcia is hosting the CAS Christmas challenge and I knew right away what I wanted to use for her gray and red color scheme.  

The Vintage Lantern is from PTI, stamped with gray Altenew inks.  I cut three more lanterns from white, stacked them together and sandwiched vellum between those and the stamped one.  Using an embossing pen, I colored the corner of the 'glass' and the roof and embossed with Puff embossing powder adding a touch of glitter. The sentiment was stamped directly to the card base and the lantern secured over it.  The bow is from PinkFresh colored with alcohol markers.   

If you have a lot of Christmas cards to make why not check out this challenge to get you motivated.  The Design Team is sure to inspire you.  You have until the 24th to enter a card.

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CAS Christmas September 2021

I love a plaid and that's what CAS Christmas wants to see on our cards.  I hope I get extra points for making my own plaid.

I used a background stamp from Concord and 9th, stamping it in CP Rouge ink.  I added Altenew Mountain Pine in the centers of the white spaces.  It didn't look plaid enough or Christmasy enough so I heat embossed gold through the red portions.  Luckily I had received the sentiment die free with an order from Scrapbook.com.  I heat embossed it with the same gold and stacked it up.  I'm way behind in my Christmas card making but at least I have one more card for my stash 

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CAS Christmas - Decorations

Here's my card for the CAS Christmas Challenge.

I thought these ornaments from SSS would make a great mini slimline card.  I heat embossed them in gold along with the sentiment from Waffle Flower.  Then the dilemma.  How do I make the strings?  I didn't bring a gold pen with me and I didn't have any long thing stamp so I tried an experiment.  I drew the line with my ink pen and adding the embossing powder.  It worked!  What a relief.

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CAS Christmas Card Challenge - 10/20

You know if the prompt is birds, I'm going to use owls if I can.  CAS Christmas Card Challenge wants Christmas birds on our cards so I pulled out my Winnie and Walter set to make this.

I colored them with PolyChromos pencils and added a PTI sentiment.

I took a look at my box of holiday cards and found I have a good number of Christmas ones left over from last year.  Not nearly enough so I need to get busy with more.  Between Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas cards I'll be busy for quite a while.  I'm glad my craft area is finally finished.  That will make it easier. Now I just need some mojo.

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CAS Christmas, Watercolor and Mix-Up Challenges

For some reason I seem to get my cards for the CAS challenges all ready at the same time and so I post them together.  It saves on writing and the Design Team members can comment once if they are on multiple teams.  A win-win for us all.

First up is my card for the CAS Christmas challenge - Joy.

The Casual Friday stamp is heat embossed with Silver Sparkle on metallic cardstock from Neenah.  It needed something more so I used my Scoreboard to add double score lines for a border.

For CAS Watercolor - Red and Black, I painted a flower from Penny Black using Zigs.

A PTI frame, some black spatters and a sentiment from SSS finishes it off.

The CAS Mix-Up challenge wanted us to make our own stencil from a die cut.  As I was looking through some dies I found a stencil I had made earlier and forgot about.  Why reinvent the wheel?

 

I recently purchased some Distress Spray Stains and thought it was time to try them out on the leaf stencil cut from a SSS die.  I started with Evergreen Bough and then add some Tarnished Brass. I had a little trouble with blobbing but it still turned out okay.  I cut the panel with the Nordic Frame from The Greetery and added a gold heat embossed sentiment from Paper Smooches.  

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