CASology Week #355...Appreciate

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is APPRECIATE.  I am a big fan of subway stamps and have quite a collection.  Sometimes I just like to look at them because I can't quite figure out what to do with them.  But for this challenge, I kept it CAS by merely stamping the subway sentiment right in the middle of my card and then added a bit of color by stamping on scratch paper in red, cutting a few bits out and adhering them over the black version.

Now it's your turn.  How does APPRECIATE 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  and the CASology design team.  Our sponsor this week is .

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Happy Birthday and Happy Halloween, Too

I decided to use my Fresh Squeezed Subway Series Basics to make a birthday card and help FSS celebrate their first birthday.  I based my card on one of my previous cards here, and used this week's colors at ColourQ cQc #209 for my card.  I am also entering this card in the Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Say it With Stamps.  I stamped the Birthday Style Balloons over the FSS Subway stamp, and then stamped just the little balloon from FSS in Orange Zest, cut it out, adhered with dimensional adhesive and then covered it with Glossy Accents.

I have not played at Make it Mondays in a while, but today's lesson is a fun one--Repeat + Lift.  I stuck very close to the example Nicole showed--the technique requires a word die cut with matching stamp, and my choices are limited.

I thought the stamping looked pretty cool even without the die cut, and I may try this again sometime without it.  Here is the front panel before I adhered the die cut:

My last card is for this week's Spooky Scene challenge at Curtain Call.  My friend Cathy was nice enough to send me a bunch of Halloween die cuts, and I used some of them for this card.  I think they are from Lil Inkers.  You cannot tell from this photo, but the Hocus Pocus sentiment is embossed with glow in the dark embossing powder.  I am also entering this card in the Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Say it With Stamps. 

Supplies Used (PTI):
Birthday Subway
Stamps:  FSS Subway Series Basic, Birthday Style, Background Basics Super Stripes
Paper:  White, Pure Poppy
Ink:  Orange Zest, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold, SU Real Red, Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Grey Flannel
Dies:  Loopy Border
Other:  Glossy Accents, Rhinestone

MIM Birthday
Stamps:  Wonderful Words Birthday, Wishes Come True
Paper:  White, SU Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay
Ink:   SU Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay, Versafine Onyx Black
Dies:  Wonderful Words Birthday, Sketched Shapes

Hocus Pocus
Stamps:  Kelly Purkey Halloween
Paper:  White, True Black, Soft Stone, Spring Moss, Martha Stewart Halloween pad from a few years ago
Ink:  Brilliance Lightning Black
Dies:  Lil Inkers Stitched Circles, die cuts from Cathy
Other:  Glow in the Dark Embossing Powder

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Challenge Cards

I have been out of my craft room for 2 days, and it felt like forever.  It was so nice to get back to 'work' (or play) and whip up a few cards for some of my favorite challenges.

It's Laura Bassen day on the blog today--my first two cards are inspired by this super talented gal.

My first card uses this week's color scheme at the Color Throwdown CTD235, and I followed Lauren's video tutorial on the Hero Arts site here on partial die cutting. 

Next up is a case of this super sweet card of Lauren's. I used the colors from this week's ColourQ cQc#182. 

My next card is for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch CTS #21.  I am trying to use what I learned in last week's Pattern Play class--I broke into another patterned paper pad for this card.

My last card is for this week's Seize the Birthday STB#11.  I used the scraps left over from the card above to make this card.  It is almost impossible to see that I embossed the card base with the Numbers Impression plate--but you can see it in person.  My husband's birthday is Monday (no foolin') so I need to decide which of these cards will be for him. 

The challenge this week at Simon Says Stamps is Anything Goes, so I will enter all of these cards over at SSS, too.


Supplies Used (PTI):
Birthday Wishes
Stamps:  Hero Arts Envelope, PTI Wonderful Words Birthday
Paper:  White, Autumn Rose
Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa, Scarlet Jewel
Other:  Wonderful Words Birthday die, Ellen Hutson Sequins

Hello
Stamps:  Sew Simple Borders
Paper:  White, Ripe Avocado, Aqua Mist
Ink:  Ripe Avocado, Winter Wisteria, Limeade Ice, Aqua Mist
Other:  Wonderful Words Hello die

CAS(E) This Sketch
Stamps:  Fresh Squeezed Subway Series Basics, Market Street A Bit of Burlap
Paper: Kraft, MME Come Away with Me
Ink:  Kraft, Versafine Onyx Black
Other:  MFT Fishtail Flags

Seize the Birthday
Stamps:  Hero Arts Birthday Messages, Birthday Style
Paper:  Kraft, MME Come Away with Me
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Vintage Tea
Other:  Lil Inkers Balloon Dies, Numbers Impression Plate, Twinery Twine, Birthday Style die

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Ombre Color Blocking with Fresh Squeezed

I ordered my first set of Fresh Squeezed stamps on Sunday, and they were in my hot little hands by yesterday (Tuesday).  Now, that is blazing fast shipping.  I couldn't wait to ink them up, and made this thank you card.  I am submitting it for this week's CAS-ual Fridays CFC93:  Color Blocks as well as the Ombre Challenge in the Moxie Fab world.  Here is a little secret--the stamp is actually too tall to fit in the Lil Inkers Stitched rectangle that had the width I liked, so I snuck an extra colored section in the middle.  Since they are all pieced together, it looks like it belongs there.  I stamped the house with the heart in it again on the darkest green (Ripe Avocado) and popped it up with foam tape and coated it with Glossy Accents.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Fresh Squeezed Subway Basics
Paper:  Ripe Avocado, Simply Chartreuse, Limeade Ice, Spring Moss, Spring Moss Patterned, Rustic Cream
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black
Other:  Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles

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