Just Us Girls #744 - Word Week

Sue is the host for Word Week at Just Us Girls and she has chosen

Nance Salked is back with us as a guest designer and she and the team have a wide variety of cards to inspire you.  Here is mine.

The light bulb and sentiment are from Concord and 9th, stamped, colored with Zigs and die cut.  It's layered up on a gel panel from my Bits Box cut with a Honey Bee postage die.

What kind of card does the word 'Hope' inspire you to make?  I'd love to see yours in our gallery.

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Time Out #119

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and  Time Out is calling our attention to it with their challenge.  They are also being sponsored by CASual Fridays who do a 'monthly check' post and have some wonderful BCA stamps.  That's what I used to make my card.

I cut the PTI frame from Bristol, heat embossed the CASual Fridays hope ribbon in white and inked it with Warm Lipstick Distress Oxide, going for an ombre' look.  I placed the panel on some GinaK ivory cardstock and cut the die from the same paper.

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CAS(E) This Sketch #279 and AAA Cards #118

While thinking of a way to make a card for AAA Cards using a frame, inspiration struck on how I could also include the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch.

It's not an easy one and I looked back to see that I didn't do it when it was sketch #166.  165 and 167 were there so I must have been stumped.  Turning the sketch 90 degrees to the left was what it took to make my design come to life.

Definitely CAS and almost one layer, the images are from PTI's Garden Gate. 

I'm home after a fun week at the lake, including a family/extended family 4th of July parade.  Mother Nature added fireworks of her own as lightening flashed high above while we watched fireworks going off around the lake.  What a spectacle!

Thanks for dropping by.  Have a wonderful weekend and keep cool if you're in one of the many areas suffering from extremely high temperatures.

CASology #286

I've heard a number of people say it.  We have so many butterfly stamps it's difficult to decide which one to use for the challenge at CASology.  I chose this one designed by GinaK for Stamp of Approval. The flourish is part of the same stamp set.

It's clear heat embossed on Dove Gray and colored with my new PolyChromos.  Yes, I finally took the plunge and bought some colored pencils other than my Inktense.  I think I'm really going to like them although the shading I did on the wings doesn't show up as well as I'd like in the photo.  It will take practice but I'm looking forward to playing with them.

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CASology 37

It took me a while to come up with something for the challenge at CASology this week.  Then I remembered that I got a stamp set from A-muse Studio when they were doing a breast cancer awareness campaign.

I used the quatrefoil embossing folder on either end of white card stock cut 4 x 5 1/4.  After stamping the sentiment and ribbon I popped the layer up on a white card base.  Simple but effective.

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