Addicted to CAS #160

Angie is our host for this challenge at Addicted to CAS and she has chosen an appropriate word for this time of year.

Had I thought ahead I would have done my card in different colors but since I don't have any family graduates this year I ended up using the local high school colors. (my alma mater).

The images from Sunny Studios were randomly stamped and the panel cut with an MFT die.  A larger die was used to cut a second panel from vellum.  The sentiment from PTI was stamped on ribbon (one of the ones you get from ordering from Ellen Hutson) and wrapped around the die cut.  I'm pretty sure I will use this design again as I will have three college graduates in the family next year.  Hmm do I have any maroon ink?

The Design Team would love to show you their graduation cards and also to see yours. 

Happy Little Stampers Christmas - October

The optional twist for this month's HLS Christmas Challenge is ribbon.  I don't usually use ribbon on my cards but I also usually choose to do the option, especially if I'm on the Design Team.  So after some thought and the gift of a darling little stamp from my friend Nancy, I had an idea for a card.

I colored the little mouse from Stampendous with PolyChromos pencils, making his bow as near to the ribbon color as I could, and fussy cut him out.  The sentiment from HLS seemed appropriate.  After all a mouse decorating a package is rather magical. ;)

You'll want to check out the Design Team's ribbon decorated cards to inspire you.  If you are the  winner you will receive a $20 coupon to the HLS store, doubled if you use HLS stamps on your card.

Merry Monday #285

I'm not one who usually uses ribbons on my cards but I'll do it just for you Merry Monday.

I haven't used these bells from CASual Fridays in along time.  I stamped them in VersaFine Gray on Bristol and colored them with Zigs.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set. 

That's all for today.  The weather has turned nasty so I'll be staying in and glued to the live stream of the robotics competition.

Thanks for dropping by.  If you're in the bad weather zone please stay safe.

Merry Monday #262

Another Merry Monday will be  rolling around shortly so I need to post my card for challenge #262.  They're looking for gifts on our cards.

I finally used some of my patterned paper to create a stack of gifts all wrapped up in real ribbon.  The tag and sentiment are from My Craft Spot (closed).  This is quite the departure for me but is great for mass producing and using up some of that paper that's overtaking my craft room.

Thanks for dropping by.  Have a great weekend.

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Addicted to Stamps and More #223

It's time for the Holiday Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.  Hmmm I wonder what Holiday you'll choose. ;)  If you're like me, you probably need a number of Christmas cards.

I found the black sparkle embossed ribbon card front in my UFO box and cut it down to gift size.  It needed a background and I thought this stamp from PB made it look like the present was under the tree.  The tag was white embossed, inked with Festive Berries and tied on with twine.

There is a lot of inspiration for you over on the blog and if that's not enough we have two sponsors, both offering digital images to the winner of the challenge:  QKR Designs and Stamplorations.

I hope to see you there.

Tag You're It! #60

Diane Jaquay has a wonderful tag to inspire us at Tag You're It! 

I usually follow pretty closely with whatever the inspiration is but I went outside the box this time.

From Diane's tag I got: layered tag, all over leaf design, sentiment image layered over greens, bow.

I made a striped backgroud from my CP stamp, and using my NBUS infinity tags from HA I cut out a striped and white tag.  The holly leaves are from a TH set that I cut in scrap paper and used as a stencil.  I used that same set to make the greens.  A tiny tag and sentiment from MCS are tied on with an organza bow.  So you see, all of Diane's elements are there, just in a Christmas tag.

What kind of tag would you make?  There are plenty more on the TYI blog to spark your imagination.

ETA:  Loll has a wonderful Twelve Tags of Christmas event going on and I'm going to send my tag over there.  It's a mixed media challenge and I've stenciled, stamped and die cut.

Merry Monday #187 and HLS Christmas

You thought we were through with Christmas cards didn't you?  Well, we're not.  There are several challenges that will help you be ahead of the game when it's time to send out those cards again.  One of them is Merry Monday.  This week their challenge is to use plaid.  Yay!  One of my favorite fabrics.  I mean papers. ;)

Recipe: Old plaid paper,  LF stitched rectangles, a holly die from Poppystamps, Pine Feather cs, a sentiment from PTI, and a little bling for berries.  I don't usually use bling but I though this card called for it.

This next card is for the January Happy Little Stampers challenge - Jingle. This one took a while to conjure up because I didn't think I had any bell stamps or dies.  I ran across a tiny one from E by E but wondered what else I could put with it to fill out a card.  Then I spied a stamped ribbon from Avery Elle that I did when Michele visited and it all fell into place.

You can call this an embossed card.  Red for the ribbon and silver for the bells and HLS sentiment.

I'm so glad you stopped by.  Have a great weekend.

CASology #147

The wedding card for the CASology challenge had to be extra special since it's for my grandson who is getting married on June 6.

When I visited Michele of I Card Everyone, she gave me this piece of embossed pink paper.  It's the perfect background for my card.  I used the roses from W & W, embossing them on vellum in white.  I thought they were a little too transparent so I rubbed my PTI Fresh Snow on the back of the vellum and let it dry before die cutting.  I inked up a piece of watercolor paper with some Shabby Shutters Distress Ink for a pale green for the stems, which were just sliced off with my paper trimmer.  The banner and sentiment words are also from W & W and are embossed in silver.  You can see the difference between the vellum, one painted and one not.  I tucked in a couple of leaves but thought it still didn't look quite finished so I added the bow,.  I don't usually do bows on cards but in this case it was the finishing touch.

Thanks for stopping by.  Your visits and comments are truly appreciated.

MM #92

Whew!  I just looked at my challenge list and realized that I'd better post my card for Merry Monday  NOW.  I've been busy with the online card class and would have missed the deadline.  The card has been done but I usually only post once a day.  Not today.

It took me a while to figure out how to incorporate the colors into a card and have ribbon on it.  I'm not a big ribbon user but this one is soft enough to be able to mail it.  I think this is one I'll make again.

Paper: kraft, chocolate, white from a variety of companies
Stamps: PTI Wreath for All Seasons, PTI Rustic Wreath
Ink: Jenni Bowlin Brown Sugar, HA Red Royal

Thanks for stopping by.

MUSE #40

Life has been busy and I haven't posted in a while but I just HAD to enter the MUSE challenge since lovely Darnell is the guest muse this week.  Here is her wonderful card which is an homage to breast cancer awareness.

I was inspired by the colors and the floral design.

I used PTI's Meadow Greens for the flower, stamped in Spun Sugar Distress Ink and Hero Arts Soft Leaf.  The sentiment is from PTI's Healing Touch.  I used an EKSuccess border punch on a scrap of green and threaded pink ribbon through it.  This card base was in my stash with a funky border on it, so I cut if off and voila' it was perfect for this card.  The top of the card is actually narrower than the bottom by the width of the white edge you see.  In other words, the green border is the edge of the top of the card.  It looks a lot darker in the photo but is exactly the same color as the stamping IRL.

I hope I can get back to some regular crafting and posting.  We'll see but until then, Happy Crafting to you all.

Feeling Loopy

This card is for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge using ribbon loops or tabs.  It took me a while to figure out what to do with that one.  What hangs from loops?  Well, tags.  Ah ha.  So how will I do those tags?  And what will I use for a background.  Going through my papers, I found one that then inspired the tags I made.  Here it is.

As you can see, the paper had round shapes with letters on them.  I duplicated the look by printing out the different colored letters on my computer and punching them out with a 1" punch.  I put a hole in the top with a small paper punch, looped the black ribbon through and secured each one on the back with tape.  I also secured the ribbon on the front with glue dots to keep them down at the top. I didn't want to glue down the circles because I liked the swinginess (is that a word?) of them.  Otherwise, they were sticking straight up.  That actually was a cool design but I couldn't figure out how to finish it off that way.  I thought this was a neat way to add a little pizzaz to some cute paper.