Freshly Made Sketches #623

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I got the Honey Bee Lovely Layer Lures quite some time ago because I thought they'd work well for cards for my husband's son, grandsons and great-grandsons.  A number of birthdays are coming up so I pulled them out for the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. 

I used wood paper for the corner to represent a dock and hung the lures cut from colored cardstock on  cork, cut with an MFT oval.  The stacked sentiment is from HB's Hook, Line and Sinker.  There are other die cuts in the set so I made another card with them.

While I had all the paper and dies out I actually made another set that will be ready to put on cards when I need them. 

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Just Us Girls #702 - Photo Week

It's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Ina has this lovely one for us.

I love the changing of the leaves in the Fall.  And I love putting colorful ones on my cards.

I started by coloring a panel with Mica Sprays.  When dry, I cut leaves from Lawn Fawn.  I have used them many times so I tried to find a new way to arrange them.  I found this card by Linda Walmsley on Pinterest and CASEd it.  The sentiment is from Altenew. 

We'd love to see your cards inspired by the photo, the design team and our guest designer Bonnie Klass. If you win the challenge you could be a future guest designer. 

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Tic Tac Toe #178

I'm in desparate need of masculine cards and when I saw the challenge at Tic Tac Toe it inspired me to create one.

I went with the first column down - masculine, wood, any shape die cut.  I found the wood-look DSP in a paper pack and once trimmed to A2 size I had enough left over to cut the triangle die from Eric Lee Creative. I cut it again in dark brown and cardboard to pop up the frame and then colored the pieces with Distress Inks to look like inlaid wood.  The sentiment from MFT was gold heat embossed on the same dark brown. 

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Christmas Kickstart #31 and Rudolf Days May

Christmas Kickstart is looking for a wreath and I have a number of them.  I decided to use a die cut one from Catherine Pooler that I haven't used much.

I did some smooshing on one panel and Brushos on another to cut the die from and layered them together.  The sentiment is cut from glitter paper to match the Stickles on the berries and it's all on wood look paper.

I'm also sending this to Rudolf Days where it's all Christmas from the 25th til the end of the month.

Addicted to CAS #154

Here's a fun Addicted to CAS challenge for you.  Ceal has selected this as her code word.

I had several things come to mind but I wanted to try something new and if it worked I'd use it.

I used my Quickie Glue Pen to color the fleece on the Gerda Steiner lambs and heat embossed them with High White ep.  The face and ears were colored with Altenew ink.  Here's a close-up of what it looks like.

Don't they look like fluffy wooly sheep?   I cut a piece of woodgrain paper for them to peek over, dotted their eyes with a black glaze pen and computer generated the sentiment.

What does the word 'fluffy' conjure up in your mind?  We'd like to see your idea made into a card and entered in our gallery.

CASology #293

My Easter cards have long been mailed but I'll get a start on next year with my card for CASology.

A new die from AliExpress cut the rays and since I smudged the first one I decided to double up.  Distress Inks were applied to the card base behind the die, the sentiment from JV was added and then I cut the PS cross from a little piece of wood cs that I got in a kit a long time ago.  That took some finagling because the die cuts a border and I wanted the entire piece so I had to glue another piece behind it to keep it all together and then another two pieces behind the bottom portion to make it level.

Thanks for dropping by and Happy Easter everyone.