CAS(E) This Sketch #342

Today was World Cardmaking Day and I spent the day making Christmas cards.  Nine of them in fact.  This one for CAS(E) This Sketch wasn't one of them.  I made it a couple of days ago and I had to turn the sketch upside for it to work for me.

Oh no.  Now that I see it on the big screen I didn't do it correctly.  But I hope it's close enough.

My PTI snowshoes should have been on the left side of my card.  I made a snowy background and a torn paper snowbank to stand them in. 

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you took advantage of WCMD to get some crafting done.

CAS Christmas - June

I am honored to be the guest designer for the CAS Christmas challenge for June.   I won in April with this card and was invited to be part of this month's challenge.  It's a masculine theme and I had an idea right away for my cards. 

I've used this PTI set before but never the die with the holes.  I used buttonhole thread to string them just like real snowshoes.  I wanted to add a little color so I heat embossed the PB sentiment on navy cs and added a strip of navy down both sides.

The Design Team has some wonderful masculine Christmas cards for your inspiration over on the blog.  We hope you'll join us for this challenge.  Just remember to make it CAS.

I'll see you back on the 17th with another card.

Inspired By All the Little Things #75

I am overjoyed to tell you that I am the featured designer on Inspired By All the Little Things this week.  As you may know, Darnell has taken over some of the administrative duties of the challenge and is responsible for recruiting designers.  When she asked me to be her guest it was an offer I couldn't refuse.  Here is our inspiration photo.

I don't have any skate stamps but as you'll see in my interview, I'm trying to break the habit of taking photo challenges too literally.  Here's what I came up with.

I knew I'd use the PTI snowshoes in place of skates since they both are winter sports equipment but it was the blue and the background that had me stumped until I received my Concord and 9th plaid stamp.  Bingo!  The perfect solution. A snippet of blue cardstock with a heat embossed sentiment from PB finish off the card nicely.

How will you be inspired by the photo?  I sure hope you'll join us for this week's challenge.

The Heart Desires #6 , Virginia's View #25 and IBATLT #32

If I go on a card making spree, I usually line up my finished cards in chronological order by due date and sometimes I have to put sticky notes on them with the challenge they're for and what that due date is.  If I'm not careful, I miss a deadline and I'm coming close to the wire now so I'm posting two cards.

This first one is for The Heart Desires.

The plaid is something that has been in my stash forever.  I just happened upon the cut frame in a pile of leftovers and thought it worked well to show off my PTI snowshoes.  How to add a sentiment was tricky but my NBUS Holiday Snippets from PB was the perfect answer.  Here is the inspiration photo.

The plaid makes this eligible for Virginia's View so I'm sending it there also.

My second card is for Inspired By All the Little Things and their inspiration photo.

Wouldn't you know I made a card with skis just last week that you can see here.  I decided to give an entirely different feel to this one.

It's a little more rustic with the inked edges, darker greens and twine bow.  The ski panel is embossed with houndstooth and popped up beside the sentiment stamp from SSS.

It promises to be a beautiful day here in mid-Michigan so I may have to forego any crafting and enjoy the out-of-doors.  I hope it's a lovely day where you are.