Crafting Again, Finally

 

Happy Easter for those who celebrate!!

I took a break from crafting because I was finally able to travel!!  I saw my parents for the first time in over a year, and I am so grateful that I was able to see them because we all were vaccinated.  Now I am back, and had some fun in my craft room this weekend.

First up is this birthday card, which I made by blending a background with a variety of blue Distress inks, then adding this squares cover plate from PTI.  I stamped my focal point with Twisted Citron Distress ink and then rolled the edges with Mowed Lawn.

I am entering this card at Ink to Paper: The Great Cover Up: Ink Blended Background, Seize the Birthday #211: Squares, The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #183: Distress, Addicted to CAS #194: Birthday, WWC312: Occasions, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

It's graduation season, and I have quite a few graduates in my life, so I had to get to work.  Up next are two graduation cards.  For my first card, I used the Lil Inkers Stitches & Stripes Cover Up die to create a striped backdrop for my subway-style focal point by Taylored Expressions.  I stamped an extra graduation cap in the school colors and popped it up with foam tape.  

I am entering this card at Just Us Girls #578: Stripes, WWC312: Occasions, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

I took a shortcut with this card, as I started with a pre-printed card front--I am trying to use some of the many pre printed card fronts I bought during my PTI days.  This one was perfect for this graduation cards, as the school colors of the recipient are Gold & Green.  I added 2 embossed sentiments--'Congrats' in Pinefeather and 'on your graduation' in gold, using PTI Layered Banner Banter stamps and dies as well as Keep it Simple: Graduation.

I am entering this card at Ink to Paper What Do I Do With This: Embossing, WWC312: Occasions, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Since it is Easter, I had to have a bunny somewhere, right?  Isn't this bunny cute, with his little birdie friend?  I was inspired by the sketch at MFT Sketch Challenge #535, where I flipped the sketch, and the colors at MFT Color Challenge #163.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Easter/Spring, Shopping Our Stash #442: Peter Cottontail, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Last up for today is this CAS Thank You card, inspired by the challenge at Ink to Paper Video Series: Gratitude, Less is More #440: Pink, Grey, Gold, both the sketch and the photo at Fusion: Bee Kind (hexagons for the bee honeycomb), and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

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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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