The Flower Challenge #54

Yes it's Shades of Purple for this month's challenge at The Flower Challenge.  I can't wait to see all the pretty purple flowers in our gallery.   For my card I chose to use Anemone from Altenew.

These are an easy layered stamp that I augmented with PolyChromos pencils. For the background I used a 3D embossing folder and then blended on Wilted Violet Distress Ink.  For the sentiment I made my own colored strip using the Plum color from the center of the flowers and heat embossed the sentiment from Sunny Studio.

I hope you'll check out what the Design Team has done and let them inspire you to make a card for our challenge.

The Flower Challenge #43 - Reminder

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

Our sponsor is Bugaboo and I'm using the same digital image they gave me for this reminder, sizing it differently.

The panel was cut with a scalloped oval from MFT and colored the teapot with Inktense pencils.   It's placed on some Summer Sunrise cardstock (appropriate for the theme don't you think?) that was embossed with Seeing Spots.  I decided to forego a sentiment.

Why not check out the our guest designer Trina Pham and the rest of the Design Team's cards for inspiration and make a card for this challenge.  You could win a $12 gift card to the Bugaboo digital store.

Addicted to CAS #114

It's time for another challenge at Addicted to CAS and Carolyn has chosen this code word:

There are so many ways you can go with this so I hope you will give it a try and enter a card in the gallery.  There's a prize from Happy Little Stampers of a $15 gift certificate for the winner.

You will find great inspiration from the Design Team over on the blog but first, here's a look at mine.

I cut this die from Memory Box over a year ago when I was visiting Michele and it's been sitting in a file folder since then. I ran across it looking for something else and thought it would be perfect for the challenge.  I embossed the top of the card with Clouds and the bottom with Forest Branches to give it a background and then layered the word die from SSS three times.  Yes, I see that some of the details didn't cut but rather than take a chance of ruining it, I left the pieces intact.  

Now it's your turn to make a white on white card.  I hope I see one in the gallery.

Curtain Call - Falalalala

I'm guest designing over at Curtain Call this week.  Sheri contacted me after I won the At Home challenge with this card and of course I said "Yes!"  She sent me this lovely photo to work from.

I looked at all the little details but it was the light bulbs that inspired me.

I got a chance to use my new Clarity brushes to color the bulbs from SSS.  I gold embossed the tops and the sentiment from HLS.  I thought the embossing folder gave a hint of the boxes in the photo.

Now it's your turn. What inspires you in the photo?  We'd love to see your card in the gallery.

Freshly Made Sketches #258

I needed a baby card for my cousin's daughter who just had a little boy.  I used Freshly Made Sketches as my starting point.

A little quilted blanket holds the Uniko bunny, colored with DI and fussy cut. The sentiment from SSS is the only baby one I have but it worked great.

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope your week gets off to a great start.

Just Us Girls #365

It's time for Color Week at Just Us Girls and the colors Judy has chosen are those of Autumn.

I could have done some leaves - again - but went a different way instead, inspired by this card from Yana Smakula.

The rust colored wreath is from SSS with smooshed leaves from MFT and a sentiment on gold from PTI.  The background is embossed with a fabric folder matted on some more rust cs.

There are so many ways you can use these colors this time of year.  Check out our guest designer Jaydee and the rest of the team for inspiration. Entering a card makes you eligible for Chic of the Week and the possibility of being a guest designer in December.

Time Out #66

I loved the photo for the Time Out challenge and played around with some ideas until I came up with this.

Black ink on an embossing folder gives the brick some definition.  The leaves from SSS are cut from a smooshed panel that I used to make this card and the platinum embossed sentiment is from MFT.  Can you see where I got my inspiration?

I hope your week is off to a good start.  Thanks for dropping by and sharing it with me.

Addicted to Stamps and More #211

This is our popular Anything Goes week at Addicted to Stamps and More.

We're being sponsored by Stamplorations who will award two digital images to our winning card. For my card I used the 'hugs' die from Concord and 9th

If you haven't see this interactive die, you need to check it out here.  I embossed the ends with a paisley folder and added some polka dot paper to the word.  The rest of the sentiment is heat embossed with Liquid Platinum and hand cut.  I can see making a number of these in lots of different color combinations.

I can't wait to see what you enter in the gallery.

Fusion (Pretty In Pink) and HLS CAS(E) the Designer

Oh, no.  These are the last two cards I have ready to go.  I'd better get busy before some of the challenges I have ideas for close.

Ideas for the Fusion challenge came to me immediately, resulting in this card.

The back layer is embossing folder stamping with HA Navy ink.  The next layer is a new HA stencil with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink.  The flower is from W & W, white embossed and watercolored with Spun Sugar.  I think you can tell what inspired me.  Now that I'm looking at this on screen, I could have adjusted the design a bit and did an actual fusion.

The designer to CAS(E) at Happy Little Stampers is the talented Shona Chambers who made this delightful card.

I pretty much copied her design using a different elephant and background color and stamp.

My elephant from WPlus9 is colored with Distress Ink.  The background image is from Casual Fridays exclusively for Stamp of Approval and the sentiment is from HLS Butterfly Birthday.

Well it looks like the storm is coming in.  It's 11 am EST and in the last 15 minutes the ground is lightly covered.  I hope the 8-12 inches they are predicting doesn't happen but if so, I guess I'll get more crafting done.

Stay safe out there and thanks for dropping by.

CAS(E) This Sketch #159

What do you do with a sketch like this?

You could stamp a plaid, use a designer paper or in my case, emboss.

After using my burlap ef, I rummaged through my UFO drawer and found a piece of inked photo paper.  I used that to cut the MFT word die and layered it on four more.  A scrap of black embossed with W & W finishes the sentiment for my CAS(E) This Sketch card.

HLS February CAS Challenge

I made this card and sent it out, forgetting that I made it for the challenge at Happy Little Stampers.  I'm glad it's not too late for the CAS challenge - stamp with embossing folders.

I hope I wasn't supposed to spritz my ink when I did this but I love how this came out just rubbing HA Ultra Pink on the Hearts embossing folder.  A heart from matching cs was all I needed to stamp and emboss a PB sentiment.  CAS enough for you?

The Challenge #58

I'm not sure what you'd call this card besides and entry into The Challenge. It started out as a woodgrain experiment from Karen's tutorial at Snippets on how to make your own, with the colors of the challenge photo in mind.  I like how it turned out for the card but it doesn't look much like woodgrain.

I added some platinum paper embossed with the Diamond Plate as a frame and also embossed the PB sentiment in platinum and colored the dots in it to match.  This card is going to my husband's grandson Ryan and coincidentally it's the same colors as the quilt I made him for graduation 3 years ago.

He told me he wanted blue, orange and black and fortunately I found some fabric that spoke to his love of golf, dirt biking and tennis shoes.  I forgot to take a picture of the quilt before I gave it to him so this is the only one I have.

These are also the colors in the photo inspiration.

I hope you've had a productive week.  I have so many things to do I actually had to make a list so I don't forget anything.  Thanks for taking the time to drop in for a visit.

Throwback Thursday #10, Just Us Girls #324 and Freshly Made #217

Stamp Away With Me is having their Throwback Thursday #10 featuring Quilt Cuts 2.  I haven't used mine for a while so I pulled it out and made this:

Now you know I can't let the extra cuts go to waste so I made another quilt and went looking for a challenge.  Freshly Made had just what I was looking for.

This card will go to Just Us Girls and their "Thank You" challenge.

Now that I have made paper quilts I need to get busy on a couple of fabric ones. I have the fabric and need to have the tops ready for the long-arm quilter as soon as possible so they can be bound and ready to give the granddaughters for graduation in June.  Fortunately their brother's quilt is done except for the binding.

I'm glad to get back to cardmaking.  I haven't made anything in 10 days which means my mojo is on a little vacation.  I'll be checking out what you've been doing to inspire me.