CAS(E) This Sketch #365

CAS(E) This Sketch has quite the sketch this week.  Because I need more Easter cards I turned it upside down to make this card.

I started by stamping the eggs and animals from Gerda Steiner and coloring them with Zigs.  I needed something for the third panel and decided to make my version of an Easter basket by inking up a basket weave embossing folder with HA Soft Brown and running it through my die cutting machine.

Now that we're social distancing until the end of April, it's more important than ever to send out those cards we've been making to residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, friends who are having difficulty dealing with all that is going on in their lives, and those working on the front lines.

You are all in my prayers.

CAS Christmas Challenge and Christmas Kickstart #6

CAS Christmas is celebrating their first birthday and they are the ones giving the gifts.  You have to make a clean and simple card using the prompt to be eligible.

I happened to have a couple of deer that I cut out last year with my Cricut and used one of them on my card.

The deer looks black but is really gold as is the heat embossed sentiment from HLS that I stamped on some torn cardstock.  The background was made by inking up the Wood folder before embossing it. 

The theme at Christmas Kickstart is "Moves on Hooves" so I'm sending my deer over to them too.  One more Christmas card under my belt. 

Thanks for dropping by.  I love it when you do.

12 Tags of Christmas with Loll and Friends

I finally had the time to make a tag for Loll's 12 Tags of Christmas.  I was going through my UFO box and found a panel that would make a great tag.

I had embossed the snowflake folder after coating it with VersaMark ink, then rubbed it down with Perfect Pearls. I don't know why I didn't make it into a card but it fit the PTI die perfectly.  I did heat emboss resist on a smaller tag with a sentiment from PB, watercoloring with Distress Ink.  The added little snowflake is cut from metallic paper,  At least that's what the label calls it.  It's a product from Neenah that I found at WalMart and it really has a nice sheen to it and comes in four colors. 

I have another tag made and was ready to post but after reading the rules again I realized I didn't stamp on it. I'll have to figure out a way to add stamping without ruining the design. 

Thanks for dropping by.

Addicted to CAS #104

Ceal is our host at Addicted to CAS and she has chosen this as your cue word:

Where does the word take you?  I need some masculine cards so I made this:

First I spread ink on my woodgrain embossing folder and ran it through my Big Shot on Neenah Desert Storm several times until I was satisfied with the look, then ran a dark brown pad lightly across it.  I cut a circle from the center with the die that comes with the SSS birthday sentiment. Hint: Be sure to cut the circle AFTER the embossing.  Ask me how I know. ;)  The sentiment is cut from chocolate and layered over another circle of Desert Storm.  Some may think this is not CAS but clean and simple does not mean it has to be white.

Now it's your turn to make a card incorporating wood somehow.  There's a $10 gift to Stamplorations for the winner of this challenge.  For more inspiration, check out what the rest of the Design Team has done at Addicted to CAS.

Just Us Girls #358

It's photo challenge week at Just Us Girls and the photo Judy picked has a lot to inspire you.

I wanted to try and make a background with wavy lines and different colors. After much thinking and some practicing I made one with the embossing folder print technique.

I wiped 4 different Distress Inks on the Forest Branches folder and pressed my cardstock into it.  After adding the sentiment from PB, I stamped some little butterflies in colors similar to the background and made a larger die cut one for the top.

There's plenty of inspiration for you at the challenge blog so go take a look and then look hard at the photo and see it there isn't something that catches your eye that you would like to make a card with.  If you are chosen Chic of the Week you could be our next Guest Designer like Colleen Foelker.

Just Us Girls #345

It's always fun to pick a photograph to use as inspiration for a card and this week at Just Us Girls, Lisa chose a colorful photo with lots of elements for you to choose from.

I think I went with the obvious on my card.

I did some embossing folder printing for my background, cutting the panel with LF stitched rectangles and popping it up.  The flowers are from Altenew, the vase is a tag from MFT embossed with a geometric folder and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

What do you see when you look at the photo?  My Design Team members have some wonderful cards to inspire you.  Head on over to Just Us Girls and take a look.  We'd love to see your card entered in the gallery.