Hope and Arctic Themed Wrapping Paper

Hello and happy Monday.  I'm popping in for a quick post before getting my dog dressed up as Batman (Batdog?) for Halloween.  (see end of post)

I thought of 2 card ideas in spin class this morning--both of them for the CAS-ual Fridays #159: Fight Like a Girl Challenge.

On this card, I die cut the Linked Fri Dies from white and three shades of pink to create my left border.  My sentiment combines a die cut from PTI and a sentiment from CASual Fridays Hope Ribbon stamps.

I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday Thinking of You.

My second card idea uses the other pieces of the pink Fri-Dies links.  I overlapped them to form a grounding base for my card, and then put a die cut ribbon and sentiment from Hope Ribbon on my popped up front panel.

I cannot decide which card I like best.  What I really hope, is that both of these cards sit in my stash for a really long time....meaning that I have no one to send them to for a really long time...

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

Last up is a little piece of stamped wrapping paper that I created based on the video at this week's Make it Monday #266:  That's a Wrap.  Lexi has some great tips on creating custom wrapping paper for small gifts--she even has some downloadable templates with guide lines for stamping.

Rather than show this paper in use, cutely wrapping up a fake gift, I am showing it flat, because I will keep it this way until I actually have a gift to use it for.  I created this wrapping paper using stamps from PTI Warmest Wishes.  It's too cute to sacrifice for a photo shoot.  I'll probably make a matching tag when I actually use it.

That's it for me.  Batdog and I are taking Sarah trick or treating downtown.

Apparently, Sherlock is very into Halloween.  He dressed up as Superdog at Kamp Kanine last week. Here is a picture of the photos the staff took of him that day.  Sherlock will pretty much let anyone do pretty much anything to him.

Happy Halloween

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CASology Week #221: Cure

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

I still had my dress die out from this card, so decided to stick with that same theme for this card.  I did my stamping on a panel of white card stock, then die cut the dress directly out of the portion where I stamped the ribbon.

When I put the dress back in, I layered it up with a couple of pink dresses.

Now it's your turn.  How does CURE 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.

Ardyth

Diedre

Hannelie

Hazel

Jacquie

Jen

Joyce (that's me)

Judy

Kymona 

Melissa

Sherrie

Tracey

We are sponsored this week by Birch Press Design.

Our Guest Designer is Petra.

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CASology Week 218...hope

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

Seeing how October is breast cancer awareness month, I decided to make a card that would show my support to someone facing that dreaded diagnosis.

I covered my card front with die cut words of hope (literally) and kept only one of them colored.

Now it's your turn.  How does HOPE  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.

Ardyth

Diedre

Hannelie

Hazel

Jacquie

Jen

Joyce (that's me)

Judy

Kymona 

Melissa

Sherrie

Tracey

We are sponsored this week by A Jillian Vance.

Our Guest Designer is Anna.

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ColourQ #362...hope

It's time for another challenge at ColourQ.

I took my inspiration from a video I recently saw on Jennifer Mcguire's blog all about creating cards with a Striped Inlay.  I created a panel using random strips of card stock in this week's colors, and then die cut the word 'hope' out of the panel.

I inlaid another die cut word cut out of plain white card stock.  I also added a bit of faux stitching to the bottom of the card using a die from MFT.

Please head over to the ColourQ blog to see more inspiration from the Design Team.  I hope you will play along this week.

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ColourQ #313...Hope

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

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at ColourQ.   It is wonderfully fitting to have this pink color palette to work with, as October is breast cancer awareness month, and I have been seeing pink everywhere I go.

I used the smallest paint image in Brushed Off to create a backdrop for my die cut hope sentiment and ribbon.  To add interest to this card, I cut my front panel, and adhered my die cuts over the opening.  After adding a bit of texture and some sequins, my card was done.

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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Card Drives (Part 1)

Hello.  It is almost the weekend here.  Yay.  I must warn you that I am posting a lot of cards today.  I've been on a tear, making cards for various card drives.  Are you ready?

I will start with 4 cards that I am linking up to the Pink Christmas challenge at Jingle Belles.   They are donating $4 to the Susan G. Koman Foundation for every card linked up.  And, then I am sending these cards along to the Caring Hearts card drive.

I followed the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and was inspired by Kristi's card for my first two cards.

I made a bunch of cards using this sketch from Clean and Simple Stamping #311.

All the rest of my cards are for various challenges at Splitcoast Stampers Hope You Can Cling To, and I will be sending them to MD Anderson Cancer Center.

This card plays along with the current challenge at Tag You're It #8 and the Something's Missing challenge at HYCCT.  On this card, the stamped background sentiment letters are missing color inside.  I wanted to show that something could be very pretty and still be missing something.  The background stamping Kim did on this card was my inspiration.

These next two cards may look the same, but can you spot the difference?  I switched around the order of the ice cream colors, since I had to run the die through 5 times, once for each color.  Yes, if you are a regular reader, you will eventually see these ice creams on 5 different cards.  One is for the Spoonful of Sugar challenge and the other is for the Two by Two challenge to use pink and purple together.

The next 10 cards are for the Stripping Down challenge to use strips of paper.  I used the sketch above from Clean and Simple Stamping and really had a good time digging through my pattern papers to make these cards.  And, while they all follow the same basic sketch, they are all different in some way.  Here goes:

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Well, that's it for me today.  I have a bunch more half finished that I will work on and post over the weekend.

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Get Well and Hope

I have a couple of quick cards for this week's Paper Smooches Sparks Anything Goes challenge.  I had quite a few paper strips left over from this card, and when I saw what Lindsey did here, I was inspired to make my Get Well card.

As I was looking through my Paper Smooches dies, trying to find 'get well', I came across 'hope' and decided to make one more card along the same lines.

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

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