CCC#7.... Goin' Green!!

{For my Shining the Light post, please click here or scroll down}

Hello... I'm back with my card for this week's CASology challenge.  This week the cue word is "green" and boy am I happy!!  I'm happy because green is my favorite color.  I like green so much that as a kid I would pull all the shades of green out of my Crayola box and color pictures using just those colors!!  Our guest designer this week is Aileen!  Anywhoo... on to my card!

Even though I was excited to use the color green on my card I did have a bit of s struggle figuring out what I wanted to do, so I searched around the blog-o-sphere and found this wonderfully CAS sketch over at CPS.  If you look closely at my card (and the sketch) you will notice that placement of some of the rhinestones creates that visual triangle that is so pleasing to the eye.  I used a favorite PTI set, Dot Spot, as well as the PTI set, Signature Greetings.  The image and sentiment were stamped using Stampin Up! Pear Pizzazz one of my favorite shades of green.  I custom colored the Want2Scrap rhinestones using a Copic marker.  I love that you can use your Copics to create your own custom embellishements.  

Thanks for stopping by....make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team:
Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, Aileen! Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

Gettin' My Cowgirl On....

Now, I don't own alot of cowgirl/cowboy stamps... In fact I own exactly one.  This lovely Singing Cowgirl stamp from Stamp Francisco.   When I saw her I immediately knew that I had to have her as she reminded me of someone who has become very dear to me... my blogging friend Elise of Mamacow Creations fame.  If you have not yet been to Elise's blog you need to get yourself there right away.  As well as being a fantastically talented crafter, Elise has an amazing story telling ability, ie... her blog posts are hilarious!  So, Elise... this card is for you.

I got out some old My Minds Eye papers that I have, as well as a brand spankin' new T!m Holtz Fades embossing folder called Regal Flourish.  The paper was embossed and distressed with ink and a distressing too, then wrapped with the twine.   I stamped the image with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and then colored my Singing Cowgirl with my Prisma pencils and the blending pencil.  Some distressing was done with Ranger's Brushed Corduroy Distress ink.  The card layout is based on the current CPS layout and I made it for the current JUGs challenge.

Thanks for taking a peek... hope your day is wonderful... YEE HAW!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI's Dark Choc.; PP:  My Mind's Eye (don't recall the collection); Stamp:  Singing Cowgirl - Stamp Francisco; Ink:  Rich Cocoa; Brush Corduroy;  Twine; Cuttlebug; T!m Holtz Fades EF