Just Us Girls #758 - Mood Board Week

I'm hosting Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls and picked the photo because I knew I had the perfect image for a card. 

See those berries in the bottom center?  That was my inspiration but it took a number of tries that ended in the recycle bin before I ended up with a card I could post. 

I used the Cotoneaster embossing folder and stencil from Altenew.  I won't bore you with my trials and tribulations but this one is embossed on light blue paper, colored with Altenew inks and snowed upon with chunky Frantage from my friend Bonnie.  

Which of these pictures will inspire you?  The Design Team and our guest Annette have some wonderful cards for you to see on the blog and there is also a larger photo.  Take a peek and then make a card for the challenge.  We'd love you to join us.

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Time Out #192

Summertime means berries to me.  All kinds of berries.  For my card for Time Out I used PTI's Summer Berries which can be colored as raspberries, blackberries and black raspberries.  I think mine are the latter.

I played around and stamped in a bunch of different colors to see which worked best.  The ones on the side are Altenew Deep Iris and Midnight Violet and the middles ones are Catherine Pooler Pixie Dust and Flirty Fuchsia.  I cut down a panel to fit the center of the embossed frame with a Waffle Flower die, placed on the berries trimming off the excess and popping the right one on another cut whose color just didn't work.  Why throw it away when it adds dimension I always say.  The sentiment is from Sunny Studio.

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Addicted to CAS #186

This week's code word at Addicted to CAS was chosen by Stephanie.  Appropriate for this time of year I do think.

I used my PTI Summer Berry set and ended up with blackberries?

I don't know why I used these colors but they looked good together and so I have blackberries that almost look like grapes.  I put them on a LF stitched rectangle with a sentiment from SSS. 

We can't wait to see what berries you use for your ATCAS card.  You are going to make one, right?

Addicted to CAS #143

I'm hosting at Addicted to CAS for this challenge and my code word is

One of the things I like about summer is the abundance of berries - strawberries, blueberries, raspberries (black and red), just to name a few.  I've included them all on my card.

The fruit is a layering set from Sunny Studio and I placed them on a MFT scalloped oval that was mounted on a panel embossed with a basket weave folder.  I generated the sentiment on my computer.

Check out the cards made by our Design Team and guest designer AsaJ.  I hope they inspire you to make one of your own.

Just Us Girls #428 - Color Week

Here are the colors for this week's challenge at Just Us Girls as chosen by Angie.

I often have difficulty with color challenges but the first thing that popped into my mind was 'berry'.  If the color is berry why not make berries.  And so I did.

These are the summer berries from PTI stamped with Altenew Ink and shaded a little with colored pencils.  The sentiment is from PB.

Our guest designer this month is Tenia Nelson and she and the Design Team have some colorful cards for your inspiration over on the blog.  Please go take a look and then link your card up in the gallery.  You may be chosen Chic of the Week and be eligible to be our guest in April.

Addicted to Stamps and More #271

It's time again for one of your favorite challenges at Addicted to Stamps and More.  Anything Goes.  I have a card I made a while ago but haven't posted.

The greens and berries are from CPD and the sentiment from CF.

Even though it's a busy time of year, I know we'll have a lot of entries in the gallery.  Will you be one of them?

Fusion -Red Christmas

I love the photo inspiration at Fusion.  Plaid is my favorite Christmas color. ;)

I made my own with my C9 plaid background.  It took a while to get a good impression and when I was happy with it guess what happened.

Yup.  I was inking up the line stamp and dropped the cube.  What to do?  What to do?  I kept on going and then like a makeup artist I covered the offending blemish.

I like it better this way than my original plan.  The greens and berries are Altenew and the sentiment HLS.

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Addicted to CAS #118

A new code word is up on the Addicted to CAS challenge blog chosen by Susan.  It took me a while to decide what to do but since I wanted to use my NBUS stamps from PTI, I came up with this.

I stamped and die cut the berries, mounting them on a SSS stitched circle that hangs over the top of the card.  The PB sentiment was curved to follow the edge or the circle.

Our sponsor this week is Happy Little Stampers who is awarding a $15 gift certificate to the winner of the challenge.  We'd love to see you make a card - remember to keep it CAS - and enter it in the gallery.

Addicted to Stamps and More #237

It's 'Make Your Mark' week at Addicted to Stamps and More.  I just reread the rules for this challenge and it says you can use just about anything to make your card.  If you have questions, check the tab at the top of the blog for the rules of each of the challenges.

I was inspired to buy this stamp and make this card by Jill Foster from Penny Black.  You can see her YouTube video here.  I placed the stamp in my MISTI and colored the individual sections  of the stamp with Distress Markers.  After each color I misted the stamp and then moved some of the color around with a brush.  I kept coloring and stamping until I liked the result.  I should have stopped there but went on to paint the background and that didn't quite go as I would have liked but I pressed on and splattered with Black Soot and white acrylic paint.

The Linky is now open so can we count on you to enter a card?  You can find inspiration from the Design Team on the Addicted to Stamps and More blog.

CAS(E) This Sketch #216

It took me several days to get an idea for the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. I knew I wanted to make a prayer card but didn't know what to put with the word die until I came across the perfect die while looking for another card.

The leaves and berries are from PB watercolored with Zigs. The word die from SSS is cut from a bronze-y metallic paper and they're on a panel embossed with Forest Branches.  Does it look like the sketch to you?

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