AAA Cards #286

The prompt at AAA Cards is "Follow My Lead" which basically means CASE the card that Kristin made.  (see below).  Here is my take on hers.

It all started with some watercolor paper and Distress Sprays.  Once the panel was dry, it was cut with Altenew's Hanging Garden, cut again in white and the colored pieces inlaid.  The sentiment is a BetterPress from SB.  

When you do a card like this you have leftovers so I made a second card.

This time the colored outline was attached to a trimmed panel of Gina K Moonlight Fog and inlaid with the white pieces. I thought it would make a great sympathy card so another BP sentiment was added. 

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Perfectly CAS #19

I like making clean and simple cards and the Perfectly CAS challenge gives me a place to show them off.  Last month I won their stripes or dots challenge with this card.  This month it's geometric.  

At the time I made this I didn't have access to my regular craft items so I had use the newly purchased Waffle Flower Outlined Circles and I love how it turned out.  The die was cut three times, once in silver and the others in white.  The circles were pressed into a variety of CP ink and inlaid.   I also colored the sentiment strip and heat embossed the greeting from Sunny Studio.  I hope it only covers 1/3 of my card.

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Inspired By #149

I was honored to be the winner of the Thankful challenge at Inspired By. I have made it my practice to always make a card for the next challenge following a win and here it is.

I don't know whatever possessed me to want to inlay the sentiment from EbyE.  Glue and foil don't mix well.  I ended up covering the entire Gina Marie ornament with Glossy Accents to cover the smudge spots.  I think it worked quite well. 

Here's the inspiration photo.

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Just Us Girls #525 - Wild Card Week

It's Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls which happens when there are 5 Saturdays in a month.  For that challenge the host gets to pick whatever they want for inspiration.  Nancy has picked this:

I went back and forth about how to go about doing this but ended up with a basic inlay on a CAS card.

The flower is from MFT and the sentiment die from SSS, both colored with Zigs.  I inlaid them in linen cardstock and added the secondary sentiment.

What will your inlaid die cuts look like?  For inspiration check out what the Design Team and our guest designer Betty have done and enter a card in our gallery.  You may be a future guest designer.

Happy Little Stampers Christmas - Reindeer

Christmas is over and it's time to start those cards for next year.  Happy Little Stampers Christmas is here to inspire and encourage you.  As usual it's an 'Anything Goes' challenge with an optional twist and here it is.

I always challenge myself to do the twist so this is what I made.

I saw Dawn from WPlus9 make faux shiplap backgrounds and I had to try it. Since you can watch the video, I won't bore you with the details. The deer from EbyE is inlaid and surrounded by branches from Catherine Pooler and a sentiment from Concord and 9th.

We hope you'll get inspired by what you see on our blog and make a card for the gallery.

CASology #289

When you don't have stamps that 'fit' the word (no pun intended) then you have to get creative.  This is CASology's word of the week.

This is what came to mind.

Oh yes you can!  Fit a square peg into a round hole that is. 

Thanks for challenging my creativity, CASology.

Merry Monday #277

Finally a card for Merry Monday.  I played around with a number of ideas and none of them was worth the effort of finishing.  In desperation I leafed through my UFO drawer and found a "Brusho through a stencil" panel that I did a long time ago.  The colors worked well for a Christmas card.

The PTI sentiment was cut from glitter paper and inlaid into the panel. I'm not crazy about what looks like a tomato in the center of the O but trying a piece of plain white looked even worse, so it is what it is.

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CAS Mix-Up - April

NBUS to the rescue.  I needed something for the inlaid die cutting requirement for the CAS Mix-Up challenge and the leaves from PTI did the trick.

I smooshed a background (my choice) with Distress Inks and cut the leaf from it and from some Core'dinations green and inlaid it into my card front. The sentiment from MFT was stamped and heat embossed in Liquid Platinum.  Unfortunately I'm finding quite a need for prayer cards lately so you will be seeing a lot more of them.

Thanks for dropping by.  I'm off to see Michele (Friday morning) for a fun day of whatever we decide to do but I'm sure card making will be part of it.

MUSE #61

The MUSE this week is this colorful card by Jacquie Southas. Isn't it fun?

I took my inspiration from the colors, the inlaid die cut, the line happy, and the embossed background.  I guess you could said I was inspired by it all.  The only thing I didn't do was the twizzles.  I need a birthday card for an older gentleman friend so I substituted his age for them.

ETA:  I'm also linking this up to Seize the Birthday without bling toppings.

I had a fun day yesterday.  I took an online card class called TrueStamp 2014.  While the classes are actually on video, there is a live feed with Lain Ehmann, the hostess with the mostest, and the educators. That way you can ask questions after you've seen the video and get answers directly from them immediately. Some of the techniques shown I had seen before but it's always good to have a refresher and it's so nice to actually put a face (and voice) to some of the names you've heard through the stamp companies that were represented.  Now to put some of what I learned to work.

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