two more cards...

Hey friends!!  Happy weekend!!  Popping in with a couple of cards to share for several challenges:  Sweet Sunday Sketches, CASology (pie), Freshly Made Sketches and Merry Monday.  The first card is for CASology and Sweet Sunday Sketches.  When I saw the cue word pie it made me think of my Simon Says Stamp November card kit and the fun stamp set that it came with that revolves around pie and so I just had to play along.   And since the Sweet Sunday Sketches layout was super simple the two were the perfect fit!  The SSS card kit came with a pack of die cuts and I actually used a couple of those for my card along with a sentiment from the stamp set and some patterned paper from the kit.   I die cut my panel from kraft cardstock and a second from patterned paper.  The patterned paper piece was cut on the diagonal and adhered to the kraft panel.  The little berry sprig and pie were then layered on.  I stamped the banner in kraft ink and added the sentiment in red, trimmed out the banner and adhered it to the card... super simple.

The second card is for the current Merry Monday challenge to use a bird on your Christmas card and uses the current FMS layout.  Don't have a lot of bird images, but I do have this cute little Memory Box bird die so I used that.  The papers and cardstock I used for this card are from the Simon Says Stamp December card kit.  Since I wanted the bird to be perched on the banner I decided to use that strip that runs across the sketch as the place to put my sentiment.   After die cutting everything and layering it on the card base.  I thought the bird looked a little plain just sitting there on the banner so I added some loops of silver metallic thread to give him a place to perch.   The sentiment is from the very old PTI set Merry Little Christmas.  I added a couple of sequins that came with the kit to either side of the sentiment for a bit more finished look.    Another super simple... but at this time of the year simple works really well for me, lol!!  This card fits the current Memory Box challenge so I will be posting this card there, as well.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, Audrey Blue, Lipstick Red; PTI kraft and cream; Stamps:  PTI and Simon Says Stamp; Patterned Paper:  Pink Fresh Studio (card #2) and Pebbles, Inc. (card #1); Dies:  Memory Box, My Favorite Things and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Stampin Up!; Sequins:  Jillibean Soup; DMC silver metallic thread; Die cuts:  Pebbles, Inc.
 

so incredibly grateful...

Hey friends!!  Popping in with a card that I made using the Simon Says Stamp November card kit.   I used the layout from Sweet Sunday Sketch so I will be posting it there as well as at the Paper Players whose challenge this week is fall thank card or project.  I'm also posting this to the Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge (#31) of anything goes. The SSS card kit came with a sweet stamp set and lots of fun fall inspired items from Pebbles, Inc.  One of those items was a package of paper ephemera pieces.  I used two of the pieces on my card as well as some of the patterned paper that came in the kit.  I die cut the paper with (what else???) my A Jillian Vance Design Polka Dot Backdrop dies and then stamped it with the main sentiment from the stamp set included in the kit called 'Apple of My Pie'.    The pear and apple were adhered and then a little banner I die cut from white cardstock using an MFT banner die and stamped with the second sentiment was adhered along with a little twine bow.    Can't wait to make a few more cards using some of the other products from the SSS card kit! 

 

 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Simon Says Stamp white; Patterned papers and ephemera:  Pebbles, Inc.; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp:  Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design and MFT; Twine; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
 

spooky...

Hey friends!  Popping in with a Halloween card that I started last night (Sunday) and finished this morning.  Haven't made any Halloween cards this year and since it will be here on Saturday thought I should at least try to make one, lol!  Recently got the Stampin Up! set Among the Branches.  I purchased it as a bundle with an embossing folder called Woodland, but unfortunately that embossing folder has been very popular and so I only got the stamp set.  Hoping I will get the folder within the next week or two.  When I saw the code word at Addicted to CAS was spooky I immediately thought of the image from Among the Branches that says 'spooky' and created this card using that image, the layout from Sweet Sunday Sketch and some papers from the October Afternoon Witch Hazel line.  Not a lot of white space on this card, but it is very clean and simple.  So I will be posting my card to those two challenges.  After stamping the image using black ink I covered it with Glossy Accents.   Since the I covered the whole thing I had to let it dry over night before adhering it to my card base.   My week long odyssey with migraines seems to be over, thankfully.  I get migraines but usually only for a day or two not seven days!!  Hopefully that won't happen again anytime soon!  Thank you to those of you who let me kind words of encouragement... they were very much appreciated!!

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI rustic white, SU! grey; PP:  October Afternoon Witch Hazel; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design and Spellbinders; Glossy Accents

two cards... several challenges!

Hey friends!!  Hope you are having a great weekend.  Looks like we will get some rain again here in the Pacific Northwest... we definitely need it and some snow in the mountains!  Popping in with two cards for several different challenges.  First up is a card that I made for the current Merry Monday challenge to make a card with a moose on it.  I have had the card done for several days, but I'm just finally getting around to posting it and the challenge closes in mere hours...YIKES!!  I only have one stamp set with a moose in it and that is my very cute A Jillian Vance Design Simply Said:  ChristMOOSE stamp set.   All the stamps and dies used on this card are from A Jillian Vance Design.  The panel was die cut with the AJVD Rectangle Backdrop dies and the circles with the Polka Dot Circle Backdrop dies.  I created the little wreath around my moose using the mistletoe image from the set and two different shades of green ink.  I really like how it turned out.  The patterned papers are from My Mind's Eye.  The layout is based on the current Sweet Sunday Sketch layout.

The second card is for the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (a color combo) and uses the current CAS(E) this Sketch layout.  It is a rather cool layout so I thought I would give it a whirl.  The current SSS flickr challenge is to create a fall card so I will be posting this in the SSS flickr group, as well.  The stamps and dies are from Simon Says Stamp (Autumn Blessings and the matching dies).  I die cut the panel with my A Jillian Vance Design Polka Dot Rectangle Backdrop dies and then stamped the Thanksgiving using grey ink.   I don't own a MISTI (and don't plan to buy one), but I think I managed to line up everything fairly well!   The wreath and flowers were die cut and then stamped with brown, purple and orange inks and then adhered per the sketch.  Mounted the finished panel on my favorite neutral cardstock... Simon Says Stamp fog.   Easy peasy lemon squeezy!!


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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; Simon Says Stamp Fog, Stampin Up! kraft; Patterned Paper:  My Mind's Eye; Stamps: Simon Says Stamp, A Jillian Vance Design; Dies:  Simon Says Stamp and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Stampin Up!, Close to My Heart and Memento

 

 

shine...

Hey friends!!  Popping in with a card that I made for several challenges:  Sweet Sunday Sketch, ColourQ and Word Art Wednesday.  When I saw the Sweet Sunday Sketch for this week I immediately knew I wanted to use the Reverse Confetti set "God is Good".   I teamed it up with another Reverse Confetti set, Petals 'n Posies to create my card.  I die cut my panel using the Polka Dot Backdrop die set from A Jillian Vance Design and stamped it with the largest sentiment in the set.  The flowers and leaves were die cut and then stamped using Stampin Up! Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder and Rich Razzleberry.  I cut leave leaf image in half and then arranged the pieces on my panel, adhered them in place and then added the flowers.  Clear Wink of Stella was added to the "shine" and "Him", but you can't really see it.  Some clear Pretty Pink Posh sequins finished things off.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white, Simon Says Stamp Fog, Stamps:  Reverse Confetti, Dies:  Reverse Confetti and A Jillian Vance Design, Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Pretty Pink Posh sequins, Clear Wink of Stella

live in the sunshine...

Hey friends!!  Hope your week is going well.  Can't believe that summer is coming to a close.  We are still have great weather (after some thunder storms over the weekend), but the temperature has come down into the mind 80s...YAY!  I have a card to share that I made for several challenges:  CAS on Sunday - vellum, Sweet Sunday Sketch (layout) and Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge:  Citron.   The color combo is based on this week's Splitcoaststampers color challenge.  The colors are yellow, coral and lavender.   I had a hard time putting the colors together until I decided to use some patterned paper in the lavender color.  The stamps I used are from Stampin Up! (Butterfly Basics and Pursuit of Happiness).  The cardstock and patterned paper panels were die cut using my A Jillian Vance Design Polka Dot Backdrop dies.  Love the clean, crisp look that die cut panels provide!  The butterfly was die cut from PTI patterned vellum using a Stampin Up! butterfly die.  After stamping the fern image I adhered the panels per the sketch adding in a thin strip of grey cardstock.  Some lengths of baker's twine in the three main colors were cut, added to the mini clothes pin, the pin adhered to the butterfly and the butterfly adhered to the panel.   Adding this to the current Dies R Us challenge:  the great outdoors.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; Simon Says Stamp Fog; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Dies:  Stampin Up! and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Baker's Twine:  My Mind's Eye and Stampin Up!; Vellum:  PTI; Mini clothes pin:  Impress

i will never forget...

Hey friend!!  Hope your week is off to a good start.  Have a card to share for a few challenges:  Sweet Sunday Sketch, MFT Color challenge and Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge:  anything goes.  Last night I was hunting around for a few challenges to play and decided to check to see if MFT had their color challenge posted and they did... YAY!  I haven't played along in an MFT challenge in... well... I can't remember, lol!   I really liked the color combo so I combined it with the new layout from Sweet Sunday Sketches.  I used an older MFT set designed by Lisa Johnson called Forget Me Not.  I think I have only used this lovely little set once!  Played around with the colors a bit and settled on using the peachy color for my flowers and the yellow and lavender colors as accents.  The lavender cardstock I used is from Stampin Up!, but I'm not entirely sure if it is Wisteria Wonder or an older SU! color called Lavender Lace.  Whatever the case it worked, lol!  The peachy ink color I used is Simon Says Stamp's Pale Blush.  The yellow is Memento Dandelion and the green is Memento Pear Tart.   Die cut the flowers and stem with the matching Forget Me Not dies and then stamped them.   After I finished stamped the border image in yellow I decided to do some partial embossing on the panel and then added the strip of black cardstock.  Layered up the die cut circles, added the sentiment and the flowers and I was done. 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; Simon Says Stamp fog, SU! lavender; Inks:  Simon Says Stamp and Memento; Stamps:  MFT Forget Me Not; Dies:  Spellbinders circles and MFT Forget Me Not; dotted embossing folder

fun happy cards...

Hey friends!!  Popping in with a couple of fun, bright cards that I made using the Simon Says Stamp June card kit.  This kit comes with some fun Doodlebug papers and stickers, as well as a super cute SSS stamp set called Happy & Smile.  I used sketches from Freshly Made Sketches and Sweet Sunday Sketch for the cards so I will be posting them to those challenges.   The first card is for Freshly Made Sketches. 

 

One of the Doodlebug papers has a grouping of little notebook pages (the other side is a cute polka dot pattern).  I trimmed out one to use for the oval element in the sketch.  Rainbow washi tape was included in the kit and that was used for the side element.  I stamped the sun from the Happy & Smile set and then added the little face (how cute is that sun??).   The large scripty word "smile" was stamped in black.  For some reason the word didn't stamp very well on the patterned paper so I filled in with black Wink of Stella.  A yellow banner stamped with the sentiment was added.   Everything was mounted on a bright yellow cardstock base (SSS cardstock from the kit).

The second card is for Sweet Sunday Sketch.  This one uses the large scripty word "happy" and another sentiment that I curved to fit along the little hill I created with the MFT snow drift dies.  The little stickers are from the SSS June kit, as are the patterned paper.  Again, the "happy" didn't stamp really well so I added some black Wink of Stella. 

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Supplies:  Cardstock and patterned paper:  Simon Says Stamp June card kit; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp Happy & Smile; Stickers:  Doodlebug Designs; Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black; Black glitter Wink of Stella

watercolor thanks...

Hey friends!!  Popping in with a card that I made for several challenges, Essentials by Ellen Pin-sights, Sweet Sunday Sketch and Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge (thank you). The inspiration board for the current Essentials by Ellen pin-sights challenge is full of beautiful floral images.  Good thing I do own one Essentials by Ellen floral set!   I tried my hand at some more water coloring and I have to say that I'm really happy with how things turned out.  I stamped the smaller scribble flower and leaf on some Ranger water color paper using VersaMark watermark ink, applied white embossing powder and heat set.  I then colored the flowers with two shades of light pink and the leaves with a light green ink.   The panel was then die cut using my Lawn Fawn speech bubble border die.    The larger scribble flower and leaves received the same treatment and once finished were die cut with the corresponding dies.   A plain white panel was trimmed down and the word "thanks" (from the Essentials by Ellen Fancy Thanks set) stamped in black ink.  I attached the water colored piece and then adhered it to a neutral card base. 

 

 

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happy birthday...

Hey friends!!  Popping in to share a card that I made a few days ago for a couple of challenges:  Color Throwdown and Sweet Sunday Sketch.   The stamps used are from Reverse Confetti, Color Me Happy and Beautiful Banners.  When I got Color Me Happy I thought one of the brush stroke images looked like a candle so I used that along with a splatter image to create the candles.  I did some partial embossing of the cardstock I used and then added some clear Wink of Stella to the "flames", but you can't see it in the photo... should have used Stickles. Since there wasn't a good spot to stamp a sentiment I added that to the middle candle.  I think my idea to use the brushstroke as a candle turned out pretty good, but I must admit that I'm not really happy with the card.  There is just something off about it, but I can't quite put my finger on what the problem is.   Anyway, I made it (good or bad) so I'm posting it! 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; Hero Art blue; BasicGrey orange and red woodgrain patterned papers; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti; Inks:  Memento Tangelo, Cantaloupe, Danube Blue and Lady Bug; Star embossing folder

i'm stuck on you...

Hello friends!!  Hope your week is off to a good start!  Popping in today with a card for a few challenges.   The new challenge at AAA Cards is "there's a hole in my card" which worked perfectly with the new sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch.  So glad that I discovered that Sweet Sunday Sketch now has it's own blog.  I'm also going to post this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - CAS, as well as the new Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - anything goes.  I bought this fun Lawn Fawn set "Stuck on You" about a month ago and finally got the chance to ink it up.  This is a set that I wouldn't have normally purchased, but it was just too cute to resist!   I cut my kraft cardstock to size, embossed it with a woodgrain embossing folder and then die cut the circle using a Spellbinders plain circle die.  The cactus and pot were die cut, stamped and then arranged inside the circle after I stamped the sun (from a Hero Arts set) and the "grass" (from the Stampin Up! set Sheltering Tree.  A little strip of cardstock was cut, stamped with the sentiment and then adhered using foam dimensionals.   Finished things off with the three little hearts.   I really like how the pot didn't stamp fully... gives it a bit of a weathered look. 

 

 

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