My Crafty Week

 

Hello and happy Thursday.  I am popping in quickly to share some cards I made.  First up is this little cutie, featuring some of the stamps and dies in the MFT Cats and Plants card kit.  I was inspired by the colors in the MFT Color Challenge #170.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Next up is a water color panel I made following the tutorial at PTI Live at Five.  I used Royal Velvet, Dark Indigo, and Hawaiian Shores inks and swiped directly onto my water color paper.  After that I used my steamer and then a mister to get the paper really really wet, then moved and dried the color with my heat tool.

I was able to make 2 cards out of this panel.  I went in the direction of the tropical seas, since that is what these colors suggested to me.  First I used the Shape Shifters Oval die to cut through my panel and added some tropical fish and coral silhouette die cuts.  I fussy cut a sentiment from Salt Air Sentiments.  I am entering this card at the PTI Video Challenge to make a tropical card.

I took all the negative pieces from the die cut above and added them back into a white Shape Shifters die cut, then added some more tropical silhouette die cuts.  I am entering this card at the PTI Live Around 5 Challenge.

I am also entering both of these cards at Addicted to Stamps and More #410: Die Cuts and Stencils, Use Your Stuff #427: Summer Fun, and at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Next up are two wedding cards featuring one of my old PTI favorite stamps, Propose a Toast.  I think these champagne flutes are so cute, and this set has some of my favorite sentiments for wedding cards.  I will be entering both of these cards at PTI The Great Cover Up challenge to create a card with a touch of gold and also at Inkspirational #244: Spots/Dots (champagne bubbles), and at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Last up today is another wedding card using a sentiment from Propose a Toast and the Cover Plate Gem Stone.  I didn't have any silver paper handy, so I swiped my white die cut with Silver Delicata Ink.  You can't even tell that the paper didn't start out as silver.  I am entering this card at PTI What Do I Do With This challenge to create a card using rainstones, Addicted to CAS #202: Geometric, and at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Thanks for Visiting

CASology Week #229: Toast

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is toast.  This one had me wishing for one of those cute kitchen stamp sets with a smiling toaster.  But, that was not to be.  I thought of a champagne toast in honor of a happy occasion.

I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday Challenge: Party Time.

Now it's your turn.  How does TOAST 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 (taking a break)

Jen

Joyce (that's me)

Judy

Kymona 

Melissa

Sherrie

Tracey

We are sponsored this week by STAMPlorations.

Our Guest Designer is Susan.


Thanks for Visiting

PTI December 2014 Blog Hop

The challenge at PTI blog hop this month is to use silver and gold together in a project.  I created a festive anniversary or wedding card, using a mixture of chunky silver and gold glitter.  I mixed the two together, and then stuck them on to a piece of score tape running up the side of my card base.

I'll be brief, as I'm sure there will be a lot of other cards to see on the hop.

Thanks for Visiting

Happy Birthday Owl, Mahalo and Bubbly Inspiration

Lawnscaping is turning 4 and they are having a birthday party.  Happy Birthday Lawnscaping.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday:  Ice Inspiration, Simon Says Monday:  The Blues, and Addicted to CAS:  Die Cuts.

My next card is for Make it Monday #147:  Multi-Layer Images from a Single Stamp.  I pulled out an old favorite, Aloha and stamped the surfboard several times, once on white, then Simply Chartreuse, then Hibiscus Burst--cut them all out and put it back together on a Spiral Notebook die cut.  I used this weeks sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #118.

Have you heard that I am now on the DT at CASology?  You have probably heard, because I have been shouting it from the rooftops.  This is my first week on the DT, and I went a little overboard getting ready for my big debut.  I made a bunch of cards for 'BUBBLY' (yes, I really am that much of a dork) and then posted my favorite one.  Have you played yet?  Want some more inspiration?  Here are the cards that did not get picked for my DT post--perhaps one of them will inspire you. 

First Runner Up

Inspired by Nicole Heady's Card

Inspired by Maile Belle's Card

It's not too late for you to play at CASology.  How are you inspired by BUBBLY?

That's it for me today.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Thanks for Visiting

Make it Monday #145: A la Carte

I love the year end Make it Monday A la Carte, which provide a chance to catch up on any missed weeks.  Today, I have a quick card using the Inlaid Die Cuts technique from Make it Monday #138.  I used the long bubbles image from Propose a Toast, stamped in a rainbow of colors, cut with the Wonderful Words Congrats die.

I cut a second 'congrats' out of True Black, coated the entire die cut with Wink of Stella, and then inlaid the black into the stamped panel.


You can see the glitter better in this close up.

Thanks for Visiting