Time Out #197...Wish You the Most Beautiful Day

It's time for a new challenge at Time Out.  We challenge you to make a card inspired by this quote:

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." by Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

I was inspired by this quote to make a friendship card with one of my most favorite flower stamps--Beautiful Day from Altenew.

Please head over to Time Out to see more inspiration from the Time Out Design Team.  Altenew is our sponsor for this challenge.  Details for the prize are on the Time Out Challenge Blog.


This challenge will run for two weeks.  I hope you will take some Time Out of your busy schedule to play along with us.  

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Independence Day

Hello, happy July 4th and happy Sunday.  I've got several cards I've been working on the past few days, and thought I'd post them before baking the cookies I will bring to a party later today.

First up is a card that is so appropriate for today, and it will be going to a special friend who will be becoming an American citizen very soon.  I am so excited for her, and hope that it can happen before the next election.  I am entering this card at the following challenges:  Color Hues #21: Red & Blue, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Red, White and/or Blue, The Paper Players #548: Stars and/or Stripes, and Just Add Ink #541: Just Add a Shaker.

I was inspired by the challenge at Melissa's Fab Friday: Create an Intricate card, to pull out this intricate Winter Floral Cover Plate to make a Christmas card.  Because the die is so intricate, I kept the rest of the card very simple, to end up with a card that is intricate, yet CAS.  I am also entering this card at Addicted to CAS #201: Christmas and CAS Christmas July Challenge: Poinsettia (thanks, Elizabeth).

I used the sketch at Fusion-Summer Dreamin and the PTI Challenge to Create a Floral Happy Birthday Card to create my next card.  I pulled out The Sweet Life stamps, which haven't seen ink in so very long, and it was fun to use something I have had for so long.  I am also entering this card at AAA Birthday #26: Flowers, and Addicted to Stamps and More #408: Birthdays.

I loved the sketch at this week's Freshly Made Sketches #492, and was really stretched trying to make a square card.  I had an older Altenew stamp set out on my desk (Beautiful Day), and one of the images that I had never used really caught my eye, so that is what I started with.  After coloring and fussy cutting those flowers, I adhered them to some die cuts from an older PTI Notebook die, layering a piece of striped vellum over Melon Berry card stock.  I still felt the card needed something, so added some score marks.  I am also entering this card at The Flower Challenge #58: Spots or Stripes, and WWC319: Feminine.

Last up for today is this fun underwater scene, using Avery Elle Underwater Background Builder.  I was inspired by rotating the sketch from AAA Cards #193 and used the optional 'critter' as my fish and seahorse.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

 

I am also entering the first four cards in this post at Just Us Girls #591: Script.

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Happy Little Stampers Case The Designer November 2016

Wow, it is November already.  Hard to believe that the year is almost over.

We have a special challenge at Happy Little Stampers Case the Designer this month.  Half of the design team is putting their CASE cards up again for another opportunity for you to CASE.

Perhaps you missed a card the first time around....or you liked CASEing something so much, you want to try it again.

Whatever your approach, I hope you will play along with us this month.

I am reposting the card I provided when it was my turn to post the inspiration card in April.

Here is a link to the original post, with more information about how I made this card.

Please head over to the Happy Little Stampers CASE the Designer blog to see all the possible inspiration cards, and happy crafting.

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Beautiful Day and Happy Birthday

I made a card featuring purple, CASE-ing myself here, joining fellow paper crafters on the Hop to Stop to raise awareness of the issue of domestic violence.  I used stamps and inks from Altenew--I just love these peony stamps.

I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

My friends are hosting (Tracey) and guest designing (Kim) over at Inspired by...All the Little Things #29, so I had to squeak in at the last minute and play along.  We were given this inspirational photo, and I decided to ink up a brand new stamp set.

I loved all those pretty leaves in fall colors--they remind me of what it looked like last weekend in Maine when I went to visit my daughter at college.  In a nod to the view out of my window in San Diego, I created a scene with palm trees in fall colors--even some leaves falling off of those palm trees (which also never happens).

I am also linking this card up at AAA Cards #76, where the theme is masculine, and I also happen to be the Guest Designer this week, Seize the Birthday: Lots of Leaves and Simon Says Monday: Autumn.

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Happy Little Stampers Case The Designer April 2016...Sending Hugs and Happy Thoughts

Hello and happy April.  I'm here to post a card for Happy Little Stampers Case the Designer challenge.

This month, I am providing the inspiration card, and I used a partial coloring technique to add interest to my card while keeping it very Clean and Simple.

I started with Beautiful Day stamps from Altenew.  I just love these flowers, and how the multi-step layers let me I can get the look of coloring without actually coloring.

I started by stamping just the outline images onto a card front.  I then cut out the center of my card front using a stitched rectangle die.  I made sure that some of each image would extend beyond my center cut out.

Then I stamped the colored layers only on the middle section of my card.  You could also do this with any stamp, even if it were not a multi-step stamp, by simply only coloring the middle section.

Finally, I put the card front back together, and popped up the middle with fun foam.  

Our challenge will run for the entire month of April.  I hope you will play along.  Please head over to the Happy Little Stampers Case the Designers blog to see more inspiration from the rest of the design team.

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Time Out #48...Happy Mother's Day

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Time Out.  This week, our challenge is a CASE challenge, and we have this gorgeous card from Marika to inspire us.

I loved everything about this card--isn't it beautiful?

I was inspired by Marika's overall design, the ink sponging, the flower in the upper left corner and her horizontal and vertical purple sponged lines.  

I hope that you will take some Time Out to play along with us over the next two weeks.  Please see the Time Out challenge blog to see more inspiration from the Design Team.

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Three Cards and a Set of Tags

Hello friends.  I'm popping in with a few cards and tags.  I recently ordered Beautiful Day by Altenew and had to play with it the minute it arrived.

I made this card, inspired by the latest challenge at Fusion--the sketch as well as the flowers in the photo.  This stamp is a multi step stamp, and it is so easy to line up--much easier than some others I have.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday challenge Thinking of You.

While I had everything set in my Misti, I made another card.

I am entering this card at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge:  Thanks/Thanksgiving.

My next card is a cute little paper pieced number, and I will be sending it to Emily, a little girl battling cancer that Jennifer McGuire is sponsoring a card shower for.

Among other things, Emily likes dark pink and animals, so I created this card for her.  

I am also entering this card at Curtain Call Foxy, and Lawnscaping #110 In with the Old.

Last up are some tags using Avery Elle Let it Snow.  I was inspired by the Avery Elle tags I saw on Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags and am also entering these tags at I Heart Avery Elle Holiday Tags challenge.

I colored the birds witih Prisma Color pencils, and made a set of 8 tags with all different color birds.

That's it for me today.

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