AAA Cards #146

Yes, you see that right.  I'm a guest at AAA Cards for their newest challenge.

You know I went with the twist, right?  

This one layer card took less than 10 minutes to make with my Summer Fenceline Stamps from PTI and a NBUS sentiment from STAMPlorations.  I love all the wonderful sentiments in Shery's Beach Vibes.  You'll be seeing a lot more of them.

Whether you use the twist or not, we'd love to see your clean and simple 'made in minutes' cards in the gallery. For inspiration be sure to check out the wonderful cards the Design Team has made.

CAS(E) This Sketch #289

Sometimes it take a while to figure out how to honor a sketch and such was this new one from CAS(E) This Sketch. 

It's a retro sketch from back in 2013 and I did make one then.  You can see it here.  Not much to it and I hope I've come a long way in the past 5 years.  I think I found the perfect stamp set for this new card. 

Stamps:  PTI Summer Fenceline, Altenew Cattleya for sentiment
Inks: Altenew, Distress and Oxides
Other: Clarity brushes

Thanks for dropping by. 

12 Kits of Occasions - It's a Guy Thing

Michele asked me to be her guest for the July edition of 12 Kits of Occasions and of course I said "Yes".  She had talked about it and I had followed what they were doing so I was curious about how it worked and whether I could work within the confines of the kit.  I think I managed fine with the items in the "It's a Guy Thing" kit.

This first card came to mind immediately.

Any seagull likes his fish and so I used the little 'shaker envelope' in the kit to display his catch -  fish from EE.

This gull is thankful that there are plenty of fish in the ocean that was made with a die from MFT.

This one is going courting with some flowers from CP.  I added my own background paper and cut the gray panel with a die from N&T.

I'm sorry but I just HAD to do this next one.

I cut around the sentiment to match the clouds in the kit.  I had a white flower cut laying on my desk left from another card and it looked like a splat to me so "Watch out below!"

For this one I deviated from the seagulls and added my own EE bear with his party hat and cupcake to go with the included sentiment and background paper.  

Thanks, Michele, for inviting me to the party.  To see the rest of the party goers, go over to the 12 Kits blog where you will find links to everyone's cards.