Freshly Made Sketches #731

Even though Donna's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches had color, I went with a black and white theme.

The little white panels are from a SU set that was gifted to me.  I brought out some older silhouettes to stamp on them - three from Technique Tuesday, two from Catherine Pooler and one from My Favorite Things.  The heat embossed sentiment is from The Ton. 

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The Male Room #155

How great is it when you need a masculine card and the challenge at The Male Room is perfect for it.  My brother's birthday is coming up and this is what I made for him.

The paper is from PTI and the sentiment from MFT.  I layered the die cuts 4 deep and added Glossy Accents to make them stand out.  The little stars are from the center of the A. 

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Just Us Girls #597 - Trend Week

It's time for Trend Week at Just Us Girls and Vicki has selected this:

I love a good black and white card.  They can be clean and simple or very dramatic.  Mine is more on the simple side thanks to a background stamp from Erin Lee Creatives.

All it needed was a heat embossed sentiment from Waffle Flower and it was done.

Sadly our teammate Maria Levine had to step down so we are welcoming a new member to our Design Team - Elizabeth Stewart.   You will love seeing her wonderful creations.

Elizabeth, the rest of the team and our guest designer Claire have some outstanding black and white cards to inspire you.  Please go take a look and make a card for our gallery.  You may have a chance to be a future guest.

The Flower Challenge #44 - Reminder

There still time to make a card for The Flower Challenge.

Monochrome is either black and white or tones of the same color.  I used all one color last time so for my reminder card I went with black and white.

The flower and leaves from Altenew's Wallpaper Art were stamped in black and clear heat embossed.  They were placed on some patterned paper also from Altenew.  I couldn't decide on a sentiment so I left it off.

If you need inspiration for a card for our challenge, please check out the Design Team and our guest designer Nonni.  They have some fabulous cards waiting for you on the blog.

AAA Cards #142

One layer cards.  Not my favorite.  But black and white?  I love it so I had to put them together for  AAA Cards.

The image is from Altenew and the sentiment is from PTI.  QACAS

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Fusion - Butterfly Wreath

I love the wreath on the door in the photo inspiration at Fusion.

I don't have any little butterfly stamps or dies so I worked more with the sketch but still included a butterfly.

I used more of my black and white paper from Altenew and made a sympathy card, adding the butterfly from Memorybox made with purple vellum.

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Addicted to CAS #158

They say opposites attract and this time for Addicted to CAS, Raga's choice for a code word is - no not opposite but

Similar if that helps you define the word. There are so many ways to interpret this and it will be fun to see what you create with contrast.  For me it meant 'black and white'.

I recently got a black and white paper pack from Altenew and used one of the sheets to cut a tipped top from PTI.  I also got contrast with the PTI sentiment since it has both thin and thick lines.

What will you create on your CAS card using contrast?  We can't wait to see.

Seize the Birthday #161 and Day of the Month Card Club

The dots and stripes of the Seize the Birthday topping option had me intrigued and so I had to make a card.

I love black and white with pops of color so I pulled out some old, old black and white papers for the main part of the card.  To separate the stripes and dots I used a PTI die in layers of white.  For the color I used my Zigs on WPlus9 Doodlebuds.

There's a new challenge in town called Day of the Month Card Club that was started by Cornelia and a couple of her friends.  The theme is "I want you to be happy".  This card makes me happy and wishes the recipient a happy birthday.

ETA: I had also planned to send this card to Time Out who is celebrating their 5th birthday and have an "Inspired By Words" theme.  I forgot until I was half way to my daughter's.  Fortunately I have my Chromebook with me and can edit my post.  Happy Birthday, Time Out!  Thanks for providing us with such a fun challenge and wonderful Design Team inspiration all these years.

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The Card Concept #107

The Card Concept has a scrumptious looking photo for our inspiration and I dug out a stamp I haven't used in a while to make my card.

The wonky cake and sentiment are from Sugar Pea Designs that I got in a Stamp of Approval box from Catherine Pooler three years ago.  I mounted the panel on black and white paper that is even older than that for my clean and layered card.

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Just Us Girls # 436

It's Trend Week on Just Us Girls and our host Lisa has chosen this:

Black and white stripes can add a dramatic effect to any card and I hope you will find a way to incorporate them into a card for this week's challenge.

I die cut the diagonal stripes from white and placed it over black after stamping the sentiment from PTI.  The flowers are from SSS, heat embossed in white and colored with Zigs.  This set doesn't have any leaves so I used some from W&W.

The Design Team and our guest Designer Karren Johnson have some wonderful cards for your inspiration.  Check them out and then make a card for the challenge.  If you are chosen Chic of the Week you will have a chance to be a guest designer in June.

TIME OUT #102

I was waiting for an order before I could finish my card for Time Out.  It arrived yesterday and here's my card.

It was the N&T 'love' die I was waiting for and it's cut from gold textured paper.  The striped paper is old, old but the heart is from shimmer paper I found at Walmart last Fall.  You can't see it in the photo but it does give a little extra something to the card.  I fiddled with several options for the 'you' but decided on this label from N&T and offset it.    Do you want to see the inspiration? 

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Addicted to Stamps and More #275

Challenge #275 at Addicted to Stamps and More is a photo challenge.  We're asking you to make a card inspired by this photo.  

There are a variety of elements in the photo that would make a wonderful card.  Here's what inspired me.

I loved the pictures on the wall with the black and white stripe but I wanted to do something a little different.  I had this black striped acetate that I cut to A2 card size.  Then I had to figure out how to put the card together so I could adhere the acetate and also have some hanging off the edge.  My solution was to fold a portion of my card panel over the acetate, glue it down with Scor-tape and use it for my sentiment from CF.  I cut off the other edge of the panel the same width.  The measurement in between is what I used for the actual card portion and adhered the panel to it.  The MFT tree was cut from gold foil polka dot paper. 

This is something different than I've ever done before and I enjoyed the creativity of it.  We'd love to see you get creative and make a card for the challenge.  How about it?

CASology #227

It's all about space, something I have little of in my craft room, but something I had to convey in a card for CASology.  I went with this definition: An element of art, space refers to distance or areas around, between or within components of a piece.  Space can be positive (white) or negative (black), open or closed, shallow or deep, and two or three dimensional

It's sort of three dimensional since I did pop up the white (positive) die cut over the black (negative) to make it appear deep with some open and closed spaces and plenty of area around the image (cross quilt coverplate by PTI).  I thought it looked a little like a maze so I went with this sentiment also by PTI.  All that for one little card for one of my favorite challenges. *_*

It's been snowing since early morning and we've shoveled the driveway twice already.  Time to hunker down and do some serious crafting.  See you in the next post.  Stay safe.

Inkspirational #120

I made this card for Inkspirational earlier and decided I had another stamp set that would make a similarly lovely card.

The images are from SSS Summer Garden and I think I've only used this set once before.  I added a little touch of Mustard Seed for the centers.

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Inkspirational #120

I borrowed a stamp from Michele when she was here Tuesday and when I was done I thought I could turn it into a card for the Inkspirational challenge.

The flowers from Concord and 9th were stamped all over the card front.  To add color I split the panel, popped them up and inserted a sentiment from CB on Aqua Mist.  This will be a great way to use some of my other stamps that haven't seen ink in a while.

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Time Out #50

I finally did it!  I've been looking at the fabulous bedding that's the inspiration for the Time Out challenge for over a week now and wondering what I could do.  I am lacking in building and skyline stamps so I had to resort to DP.

The only thing stamped is the script from HLS to which I added the die cut from SSS.

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