TIme Out # 244 -

This week we challenge you to be monochromatic at Time Out.  

I saw a video from Jennifer McGuire on using up your glitter and decided that technique would work for my monochromatic card. 

I don't often use glitter so don't have much that is colorful but I happend to have these two greens that came from the grocery store I think.  I used an Altenew double sided adhesive sheet on my card panel before adhering the die cut from their Curtain Leaves.  Then I proceeded to add the glitter, pressing it into the adhesive.  For a sentiment I used Altenew's Sweet Sentiments dies, cutting the word from the same paper as the leaves and the shadow from some that matched the darker green. 

The sponsor of this challenge is Varada Sharma and she is offering two $15 credits to her digital store. 

The Design Team has some wonderful monochrome cards for  your inspiration.  Please check them out. 

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CAS(E) This Sketch #298

Hey all.  It's good to be back.  This is my first post in almost three weeks.  Except for scheduled Design Team posts.  It took a while after our 'work project' in North Carolina to get other responsibilities out of the way and find my mojo.  It's amazing what you forget after a short time away.  Or is it just me? 

I colored a few images at the beginning of the month for part of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge and turned one into a card for CAS(E) This Sketch.

The snowman was colored with Polychromos pencils with a little 'unnoticeable' glitter embossing thrown onto the snowballs and ground.  That same glitter embossed the snowflakes from CAS-ual Fridays and a sentiment border from SSS runs along side.

I worked on another card most of the afternoon and half of it ended in the recycle bin.  That kind of discouraged me but I'm hoping to salvage the other half and get started on a few more cards for challenges.

Thanks for dropping by.  Being gone put me way behind on commenting but I hope to do some catch up soon. 

CAS Christmas, Watercolor and Mix-Up

I thought I'd make it easy for the gals who run the CAS challenges and show all three of my cards on one post.  No going from post to post to comment. 

First up is CAS Christmas where the prompt is tree.

I started with three layers of UTEE embossing powder on a scrap of cs and added glitter.  The paper was too thick to cut with the SSS tree so I trimmed the edges and just cut the outline from green and glued it on.  I found the star brad among my embellishments and have no idea where it came from. The SSS sentiment is cut from red foil, layered on white for stability.  Here's a close up.

The prompt at CAS Watercolor is sunflower and I used the PTI botanical block.

The image and sentiment from Verve are embossed with copper and the flower is colored with Zigs.

My favorite is for CAS Mix-Up.  We were to do stencil monoprints, and they have several videos listed on the blog to give you ideas on how to proceed.  I played around with a couple ideas before I ended up with something I liked.

I made my own tattersall plaid by inking up the SSS grid stencil with Distress Inks in Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo.  When it was dry I reinked with Blueprint Sketch and aligned the stencil between the first stamping.  The little dog from Gerda Steiner was laying on my desk and the colors worked beautifully with the plaid so I popped him up and added the sentiments from the same set. My choice is watercoloring and die cut.

It's been fun and I hope you like them.

Merry Monday #267

Colleen has a color challenge at Merry Monday this week  - blue, green with silver/white/vellum.  There are so many blues and greens that you can get a variety of looks with these colors.  I went with whimsical using chartreuse and aqua.

The trees are from W&W and the silver embossed sentiment from PTI.  I wanted a colored border and didn't have the right color of glitter paper so I took some Aqua Mist and embossed the edges with Sparkling Snow Glitter.

I mentioned the other day that I was making Christmas ornaments for my grandchildren, something I do every year.  A few of you wanted to see what I was doing so I thought I'd share.

Here's a close-up.

I cut up crayons into small shavings and melted them in glass ornaments using my heat gun.  It took a little maneuvering to move the wax around and keep from burning myself.  I used two colors and they wanted to melt together so I had to keep adding and heating and moving.

Thanks for dropping by today.  TGIF!

CAS(E) This Sketch #243

Sometimes sketches are easier when they're more detailed.  The simpler they are the more choices there are for images to use.  This week's CAS(E) This Sketch was a simple one but I narrowed down my image to this:

You need to see the glitter to get the full effect of this snowy tree from TH.

Sentiment: Penny Black. Die cut hill: SSS Ink: Tumbled Glass , Onyx Black

A glue pen and glitter added a touch of snow to the hill too. 

Today's the day for lunch with some classmates and then it's back to cleaning out closets and drawers.  I'm in the purging mode so I need to keep it going.  I think I need to purge my stamps too but that will have to wait until later when I can decide what to do with them.

Thanks for dropping by.  Have a wonderful day!

Merry Monday #259

I depend on Merry Monday to help me get my Christmas cards done.  This week they want to see a Christmas tree on a card.  The difficulty is choosing which tree to use. 

I decided to go non-traditional and use the bottle trees from EE.  I cut a square frame, stamped a sentiment from the set and stenciled snow with glitter paste.  While it was drying I stamped the trees, masking off the bottoms to stamp later in black.  I added some gray to the bases and when that wasn't enough I added more stenciled snow to the top and glued glitter to and around the trees.  The top panel is popped up on fun foam. 

I'm so excited!  Michele is coming today!!! We'll be doing some sharing of crafty supplies so stay tuned to what we make with each others stash.

I'm so glad you dropped by.  It would be nice if you could drop in in person too.

CAS(E) This Sketch #241

CAS(E) This Sketch is into recycling.  They're bringing back some old sketches once a month and this time it's #23.  I didn't start playing along until about #85 so I've never used this one.

I went back and forth for several days trying to think of something new, especially for the angled stripes.  Then I remembered an old die that hadn't been used in years and used it to emboss.

That garland die is from PTI.  I cut one CF snowflake from silver mirror and one from glitter paper.  I used the same silver paper to border the sentiment from CF that is embossed in Silver Glitter.  It looks more like gold in this photo.  Here's another one but it's not much better.

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

Merry Monday #221

I have another card for Merry Monday today.  It has to have a winter activity on it

I used to go cross country skiing before these old bones started disliking winter and we started going south for the winter so I included skis from PTI.  Snowflakes and hills stenciled with embossing paste are covered with glitter.  Someone is going to be unhappy when they open this card. ;)   but it looks so good.

Thanks for dropping by.

Tag You're It! #36

Christmas tags abound over at Tag You're It!.  Joyce has this delightful little scene to inspire us.

I focused on the houses, the blue sky and the black frame.

Sadly I don't have a Santa to fly through my sky but it is snowing and the ground is all glittery.  A MFT tag die backed by a Stax circle die form the base of the tag. The row of houses from Your Next Stamp are colored with Inktense Pencils.

Challenges are winding down for the holidays but I still have a few more ideas.  Thanks for visiting today and come back for more tomorrow.

CASology # 176 and Virginia's View #21

Today it's all about the glitter.

I bought the SSS Lined Trees die when it was first released because I was afraid it would be out of stock when I wanted it.  I'm finally putting it to use with some lovely DCWV glitter paper and a silver embossed sentiment from PB for the challenge at CAS(E)ology.  With all the glitter it's also going to Virginia's View's 21st and last challenge.  I know it was a popular challenge and that Virginia thought long and hard about discontinuing it - for the time being, we hope.

I still have Christmas preparations to do but card challenges keep getting in the way. ;)  Tomorrow is my husband's family Christmas but he takes care of that so I only have to take a dish to pass.  My family's won't be until the 30th so I have plenty of time - but I know how time can creep up on a person.

Addicted to CAS #77

I'm not always a CAS card maker but I do love the challenge at Addicted to CAS and they're celebrating their 3rd birthday. That means sponsors, a CAS new look to their blog and another great code word.

It looked just like this out our window last Saturday.  I tried to replicate it with a stamp by Penny Black, stamping first in Wet Cement, then offset stamping with VersaMark and white embossing. The background is lightly inked with Tumbled Glass and the sentiment embossed with silver glitter. It always thrills me to see a red cardinal amongst the snowy branches so I had to add one.  It's the one bright spot in winter weather for me.

Thanks for dropping by.

The Challenge #50, Twelve Tags and HLS Christmas

I knew immediately what I wanted to do for this week's The Challenge and their color inspiration.

I love this color combination.

The wreath and everything on it are from my NBUS Chilsom Wreath die from SSS.  The sentiment and brick embossing folder are from TH.

I also have another tag for Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas and Happy Little Stampers Christmas.

The snow border from CASual Fridays was white stamped and Sparkle embossed, then the tag inked with Weathered Wood.  The snowflakes from SSS are triple layered, embossed with Sticky powder and covered in glitter.  The sentiment is from PTI.

Have a great weekend.

Addicted to CAS #73

It took me a while to come up with an idea for Addicted to CAS this time until I remembered a stamp I got quite a while ago when Serendipity had a sale.  It's perfect for the challenge.

The Memory Box flower was cut from Slate cs as a silhouette so as to not take away from the beautiful dragonfly from Elizabeth Crafts.  It was cut from silver for the top layer and aqua and purple glitter for the under layers.  The sentiment with that dreamy font was stamped and embossed in silver.

I have an array of card pieces to put together so I'm signing off now.  Thanks for dropping by.

Merry Monday #142

No time to talk.  I've been watching the clock so I could get this card into the Merry Monday challenge on time.

I only have one house image/die and that's what I had to go with.  I had the idea for a couple of days but no time to work on it.  I hurried, which is not a good idea, and got this baby made in a little over an hour.

It's only my second shaker card, made with SSS Village and Stitched Slopes, a little Stormy Sky Distress Ink, a sentiment by Penny Black and some sequins and glitter.

15 minutes til deadline.  I'm off to post.  Thanks for stopping by.