My Crafty Week

 

Hello and happy Thursday.  An empty house is a crafty house, so I have been crafty lately.

I finally pulled out 2 different stamp sets from Sugar Peas that I fell in love with, ordered and haven't used yet.  I mixed and matched between the two sets and made two cards that I will be entering at Sugar Peas June Mix It Up Challenge #80 and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Create a Scene.  

This card was inspired by the color scheme part of the challenge.  I am also entering this card at Less is More #444: Favorite Technique (fussy cutting).

This next card is mostly inspired by the photo in the challenge, although I did use the challenge colors.  I paper pieced all the elements of the bed--it's been a while since I have done that, and my scissors were already out...

My inspiration for this next card is the challenge at A Blog Named Hero June.  I used a tone on tone green color scheme.  I used a shade of ink a darker green than my paper.  And, to increase the contrast, I stamped over my image with Versamark and clear heat embossed my image.  I also clear embossed the darker green paper used for my sentiment die cut.

This next card has me playing along at Fusion, and my inspiration was the seashells in the picture, and the starfish in particular.  I am also playing along at Seize the Birthday #216: Nautical, and The Male Room #151: Dads & Grandads (this card would be perfect for any of those men in my life)

Last up is a card that combines the colors from Color Throwdown #646, the sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches #423, the PTI Video Challenge to use layered flowers, and AAA Birthday #26: Flowers.

That's it for me today.

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Sunday Roundup

Hello and happy Sunday.  I'm here to post a few cards I made this weekend.  Up first is my favorite of the bunch.  I used this adorable pup cooling off in his kiddie pool from Lounging Pups for my card.  I was inspired by the colors at CAS Colours & Sketches #394 and the Day #19 Creative bug Masking video at the Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge  #13.  I am also entering this card at A Blog Named Hero Cute challenge, Inspired by...#138: Punny Sentiments, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Oh So Cute.

Up next is another card for the Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge  #13, this one inspired by the Creative Bug video from Day 8 Peek-A-Boo, and I am also entering this card at A Blog Named Hero Cute challenge and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Oh So Cute.

The video from Day 8, gives some very helpful tips on how to use the Hero Arts Peek-A-Boo dies.  They recommend cutting a template from cardstock and then cutting off all the little doors.  You can then lay the template on the card front and then you know exactly where to stamp all the little messages that are behind all of the doors.

This card is stamped with white ink on black card stock.  I was originally planning to color some of the images in, but then I decided I liked how it looked with no color.  In person, it looks very much like a doodled blackboard.


This is what my template looked like after stamping all the messages.

And this is what the card front looks like before I glued my card front down.

Up next is another card for the Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge  #13, this one inspired by the Creative Bug video from Day 17 Cling Stamps.  I used the Hero Arts Leafy Vine cling stamp on Ocean Tides paper, and stamped tone on tone.  I had a request from my sister to restock her sympathy cards, so this one is for her.  I am entering this card at WWC285: Anything Goes Masculine.

This card pairs a mini bird I just bought from Ink to Paper with a bird and some flowers from Spring Woods from PTI.  I love how well they all play together.  I am entering this card at Festive Friday #66 (bright colors, flowers, bird, uplifting sentiment, sparkle).  I meant to add sparkle only on the birds' wings, but ended up with (lovely?) sparkle all over the card (and don't squeeze your Wink of Stella and shake it with the cap off near a card you just completed, unless you want a card with sparkle all over... just sayin').

 

My next card is another sympathy card for my sister's use, and it is inspired by the colors at Just Add Ink #519.

The next 2 cards are not inspired by any current challenges...they are all going to my sister to restock her sympathy card stash.  I really hope that she does not go through this batch as quickly as the last one.

That's it for me today.  Stay safe and craft on.

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CASology Week #235:Hero

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is HERO.  I really struggled with this word, especially since I did not have any superhero or even giant sandwich stamps.

I went in a different direction, and thought to use a stamp from Hero Arts, one of my favorite stamp companies.

I used the Hero Arts Leafy Vine stamp to stamp a subtle, tone-on-tone background on my card front. I added a die cut sentiment, and my CAS card was done.  Luckily, I do not currently have a use for this card, but I like to have a stash of sympathy cards on hand.

Now it's your turn.  How does HERO 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 Avery Elle.

Our Guest Designer is Dena.

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Happy Saturday

Happy Saturday.  Yay--a long weekend.  I am starting out by posting several cards I have been working on.

I was inspired by the inlaid die cut dogs at this week's MUSE #118 and the colors at Color Me...! #72 to make this birthday card for a friend who is a huge cat lover.  I used the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #187.

I used the inlaid die cut technique multiple times to make my row of colorful cats using Impression Obsession cat dies.

I am also entering this card at Addicted to CAS #64 where the challenge is animals and Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge to use Die Cuts or Punches.

I did a little bit on the inside of this card.

I am still loving my Retro Style stamps from PTI.  Here is a birthday card I made using those stamps and the Numbers Impression Plate.

I am entering this card at Seize the Birthday Anything Goes and Craft Stamper MITI Anything Goes Take a Stamp challenges.

I pulled out a new but never been used Hero Arts stamp for this next card which I am entering at A Blog Named Hero where the challenge is NEW.  I stamped once in white and then moved the stamp a little bit and stamped again in green.  The stamp I used was cling, so positioning was a bit difficult, but I think this technique is very forgiving.

I am entering this thank you card at The Challenge #35 as I was inspired by the jar of pretty yellow flowers in the inspiration photo.  I am also linking up at Simon Says Monday XYZ challenge (Y for yellow flowers).  Yes, that little shelf that my vase is sitting on is made of washi tape.

And a couple of teacher cards for the end of school.  I'm CASing various projects pinned by PTI from the release of Teach and Inspire.  I used ColourQ #292 colors for this CASE of Nicole Heady's card.

And another version, this one a CASE of Maille Belles.  Until I added the bling at the end, I was using the color scheme from Colour Me...!  I am entering this card at Simply Create #86 Keep it Simple.

That's it for me today.  We are supposed to get more rain this weekend--good news considering the terrible drought we are facing.

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