Guest Designer...CAS Colours & Sketches #198...Happy Birthday

I am so pleased to be playing along with the team at CAS Colours & Sketches as their Guest Designer for the month of November.

This week, we have a color challenge for you.

I used PTI colors that were the closest to the challenge colors....Ripe Avocado, Canyon Clay, and Cocoa Bean.  These colors had a masculine fall feel to me, so I stamped an argyle pattern on a piece of card stock, but then cut it down and only used half.  I'll use the other piece on something else.

I am also entering this card at AAA Cards Challenge #76, where the challenge is Masculine (and where I am also this week's Guest Designer), and at Less is More #300 where they are celebrating 300 challenges---Congrats!!

Please had on over to CAS Colours & Sketches to see more inspiration from the Design Team.  I hope you will play along with us this week.

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ColourQ #308...Wishing You Both the Best

If you are looking for my CASology post, please click here.

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at ColourQ.  I absolutely love this week's colors, and took some inspiration from the pretty tote bag for my card.  The colors I used are Wplus9 Nautical Navy, Last Leaf and Lake House, and I also used Sahara Sand.  You can use whatever colors you have that match these colors the best.

I pulled out PTI Autumn Pattern Pieces, intending to use one of the chevron shapes, and instead my eye was caught by a tiny little stamp I never noticed before.  I think that my Misti is making me look at my stamps in a whole different way, and I am encouraged to try things I would have never attempted before.

There is no way I would have attempted to line up a stamp that many times.  This is how it came out my first time stamping--honestly...nothing in the bin from this card.

After stamping my border, I die cut the word wishing from Enchanted Evening card stock, and completed the sentiment with Last Leaf ink.  I wanted a thin strip of green up the side of my card and did not have any paper the right color.  I just took a strip of white and used my ink blender to color it with Last Leaf.  I also added a bit of texture with the Mehndi Impression plate.

I am also linking up at Simon Says Monday:  Love this Technique (adding texture).

Please head on over to the ColourQ challenge blog to see more inspiration from the design team.  I hope you will join in the fun and play along this week.

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Make it Monday and ColourQ

A super quick post today of two cards.  The first uses the ColourQ colors for cQc #252 and the technique in Make it Monday #174.  I am also linking to Simon Says Wednesday challenge of Anything Goes.

My next card is already mailed out and received, and it is also for Make it Monday #174 and Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

I am terribly behind on my blog visits and comments, and promise I'll be by this weekend.

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A Kitty Card and an Owl Thank You Card Set

I've got a card today for this week's Make it Monday #174:  Diamond Wallpaper Stamping.  I used a stamp from Autumn Pattern Pieces to stamp my background, and filled in some of the diamonds with itty bitty paw prints.

The background stamping was not difficult, but it did take a long time to do and lots of worries about messing up and starting again.   I was sad to think that so much of it would be covered up by my Spiral Notebook die cut, which is where I put all the bits of my focal point.  So....I actually cut the Spiral Notebook piece out of that stamped piece, filled it in with a True Black die cut, and now I have a wallpaper stamped Spiral Notebook piece to use later in the week.

I made a set of thank you cards for my daughter to use for her birthday thank you's.  Of course, there had to be owls on them--I used a strip of owl washi tape to decorate the top panel and a sentiment from Reverse Confetti Lots to Say.  They are all a little bit different because I varied the colors as well as which corners I rounded on the top panel.  They are A1 size which is about 3X5.  That seems to be an easier space for Sarah to fill when writing her thank yous.

I well be entering the card and the thank you set at Simply Create Too #66:  For a Child, and Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

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A Sweater for ColourQ #207

Isn't this just the cutest sweater?  I would love a sweater just like this one.  Seeing it made me decide to make a sweater card using these same ColourQ colors, but I had argyle on the brain.  I think I'd like a sweater like this just as well.  And, while I'm wishing for things, how about a bit of fall weather requiring a sweater.

Supplies Used (PTI):
Stamps:  Autumn Pattern Pieces, WPlus9 Strictly Sentiments
Paper:  Rustic Cream,  Kraft, SU Night of Navy
Ink:  SU Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Strawberry Slush
Dies:  Sweater Die, Aida Impression Plate

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Colorthrowdown #259 and Make it Monday #131

Hi there.  I am popping in really quickly with two cards I made last night.  I really like this first card that I made using the colors of this week's Color Throwdown 259.  I used the Argyle stamp from Autumn Pattern Pieces and a sentiment from WMS Man of the Hour to make a birthday card for my dad.

In all honesty, I have to say that I don't much like this next card.  I used the striped embossing technique from this week's Make it Monday 131.  I almost didn't post it, but my daughter thought it looked cool, and I got to thinking that this could be the card that randomly wins, so.....here it is.  I used stripes of Zing embossing powder on the balloons from Balloon Bash.  I am also entering this card in this week's Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Emboss it.

Well, no time to chat today.  I've got to run.

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