Hey friends!! Popping with a quick post before I head off to bed. My little guy is totally into Star Wars right now and while he was watching the Empire Strikes Back I whipped up this little card using the current layout from CAS(E) this Sketch. This is my second entry using the sketch. This time I kept pretty closely to the sketch. I'm also adding this to the current CASology challenge "aquatic". I decided to do some inking with my distress inks and the ink distressing tool to create a little ocean for my whale. As much as I like this technique I don't often use it because the motion required to ink up the cardstock aggravates my shoulder, but I decided that I would put up with the discomfort I will probably experience tomorrow to create my card. I die cut a circle from Eclipse tape and then placed the negative on my cardstock. I inked up the bottom portion of my circle with Mermaid Lagoon and Salty Ocean distress inks. I inked up the top portion using Stampin Up! Soft Sky and then removed my mask. The whale (from the PTI mini set "Whale Wishes") was die cut and then stamped using grey ink. I created the waves by inking up additional cardstock with the Salty Ocean and Mermaid Lagoon inks and then die cutting using a Top Dog scalloped edge die. I adhered one small piece to the card panel, added the whale using foam dimensionals and then the final "waves" strip (stamped with the sentiment) using a double label of fun foam. Simple, but a bit complex at the same time, lol!
Hey friends!!! Popping in with a card to share for a few challenges: Freshly Made Sketches, My Favorite Things color challenge and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. Love the colors in the current MFT color challenge so I really wanted to make something for the challenge. I found some patterned papers that matched two of the colors (the steel grey and lime) and die cut them using my PTI notebook die. The stamps and dies used are MFT's Peaceful Wildflowers. I die cut three of the long stemmed image and then stamped it with a green that corresponded with the MFT green. Brought in the raspberry color with a strip of patterned paper. After layering everything up and adding the small bow I realized that you could barely see the lime green color so I added the lime green sequins to the card. The "hello" (also an MFT die) was die cut from white cardstock and from fun foam to give the die cut more depth and then adhered to the card front. I think it is a bit crooked, but you know what... I think it is okay, lol!
Hey friends!! Still trying to find my mojo... it came back for a while yesterday and I got a couple of design team projects done... YAY! Hoping that it sticks around as I have more projects to work on in the next few days. While I was making design team projects I found time to make a card for a few challenges: Color Throwdown, CAS(E) this Sketch and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. When I saw the new CTS layout I didn't think of having a circular element with something inside of it, I immediately thought of a tree and a couple of stamp sets came to mind. The one I used is h my Stampin Up! Sheltering Tree set and created this 100% stamped card. The only little bit of extra that I added to the card was some baker's twine in two of the Color Thowdown colors. Sometimes it is just nice to do keep things simple, don't you think? That and the fact that I didn't really want to drag out my Big Shot so I could do some die cutting.... pure laziness, lol!! Thankful that the Throwdown colors worked for creating a tree!
Hey friends!! I haven't made a thing in almost two weeks due to my trip to California so I thought I would try to get back into the swing of things by participating in several challenges: CASology, ColourQ and the Paper Players. Definitely feeling a bit rusty after all that time off. Took me a couple of hours to just get one little card made! Since CASology is being sponsored by Precious Remembrance Shop this week I decided to pull out some of my favorite PRS sets and create a little collage. I used the following PRS sets: This Moment, Positive Thoughts and New Day. Played around with the ColourQ colors before settling on the layering of the colors and images. The stamped panel was die cut using a Spellbinders plain square die. My take on the cue word "precious" is depicted by the wood veneer couple and word "love". To emphasize how precious love is I added the heart. A few clear sequins finished off the card. 
