CASology Week #347...Citrus

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is CITRUS.


I decided to make an encouraging card, featuring a big bowl of lemons.

Now it's your turn.  How does CITRUS inspire you?


As always, remember the following CAS guidelines when creating your design:

1. One main image
2. Lots of open space, uncluttered
3. Limited layers & embellishments
4. Quick & easy to recreate (Note: It may take a while to create a design you like, but once you have that design, making more should be a piece of cake!)

I hope you play along this week.

Please head on over to the CASology blog and gather some inspiration from the our Guest Designer Jill V. and the CASology design team.  Our sponsor this week is Uniko.

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PTI April 2018 Blog Hop

I'm a little late to the party, with my card for this month's PTI Blog Hop.  I actually made my card days ago, but forgot to write up and schedule my post.

I was inspired by the stack of cups and the colors.  I decided to stack bowls instead of cups, and used darker and brighter versions of the colors in the photos, as I am not much for pastels.

Well, I'm off to enjoy the hop.

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CASology Week #238: Crunch

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is Crunch.

I found this one challenging at first.  However, when I was snacking on an apple yesterday, something clicked and I just decided to go with it---a bowl of apples that are sweet and crunch when I bite into them.

Now it's your turn.  How does CRUNCH inspire you?  I hope you play along this week.  Please remember to keep it Clean and Simple.

Please head on over to the CASology blog and gather some inspiration from the design team.

Diedre

Hannelie

Hazel

Jacquie

Janet

Jen

Joyce (that's me)

Judy

Kymona 

Melissa

Rachel

Sherrie

We are sponsored this week by  Lawn Fawn.

Our Guest Designer is Amy.

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ColourQ #310...Sending Healing Wishes

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

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at ColourQ.   I loved these colors so much I dreamed about them after I saw them.  Perhaps it is that they reminded me of the colors in the kitchen in the house where I grew up.  Anyway, this photo said kitchen to me, so I pulled out PTI Bowl of Sunshine and got to work.

 The colors I used are SU Real Red, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizzazz.  You can use whatever colors you have that match these colors the best.

I decided to use the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #142 for my card.

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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Two Trees and a Bowl of Apples

I made two cards for this week's Time Out #36 CASE Alice, where the challenge is to CASE this card with a twist.  I thought this card was so adorable.  It reminded me that I haven't used kraft for a really long time.  I was also inspired by her colors and the placement of her image in a corner and sentiment more centered.

I knew I wanted to use my new SSS One With Nature stamps, but could not decide between two different ideas for the twist, so I tried them both.

For my first card, I heat embossed my images in white and then colored with Prismacolor pencils. I've been so smitten with all my new coloring toys that it has been a long time since I pulled out the Prismacolor pencils.  I love how vibrant they are, even on a kraft background.

For my second card, I stamped the same images in the same place (thank you MISTI), and then added color with ghost stamping--first in white and then using two different green inks.

Honestly, I do not know which card I like better.  Good think I don't have to choose.

My third card today uses the Texture Kissing technique from this week's Make it Monday #219.  My colors are from this week's ColourQ #301.  I used the solid bowl image from Bowl of Sunshine and kissed it with Background Basics Tin Type.  I made the plaid paper using Plaid Builders stamps.

I am also entering all of these cards at Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

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PTI March 2015 Blog Hop

We had this beautiful room as our inspiration photo for the March PTI Blog Hop.  I was inspired by the colors and the ceramic bowls in the cabinet.  I pulled out a NBUS set--Bowl of Sunshine--and made a very CAS card.  Inspired by the farm table, I used Background Basics Farm and Barn to ground my image.  I coated the bowl with a layer of Glossy Accents

I am also linking up at Darnell's NBUS #4 Challenge and AAA #35 Bare Naked CAS Challenge.

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