A Trio of Cards

Happy Monday.  I've got 3 cards to share today, so I will just get right to it.  First up is my favorite of the bunch.

I pulled out some flower stamps that have not seen ink in a while and did one of my favorite things--just stamped an entire card front in a sort of random pattern.  I used the colors from Color Throwdown #334, and the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch #261.  That pink ink--Little Piggy from WPlus9, is NBUS, so I am entering this card at Darnell's latest NBUS challenge.  By the way, this is now my new favorite pink ink color.  I ran the entire top panel of my card through with the Hexagon Cover plate used as an impression plate just for a little quilted texture.

My next card is my 2nd entry this week using the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #115.  I used SU Stippled Blossoms and watercolored the blooms a little bit.  That crooked border is hand drawn, and I meant it to be crooked (LOL).

I am also entering this card at AAA Cards #35:  Bare naked CAS.

Last for today is a card shaped like a giant cupcake--inspired by the photo at The Card Concept #31. I think this might go in the Clean and Layered category.  I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps, where the theme is Anything Goes and Seize the Birthday, without toppings.

That's it for me today.  Come back tomorrow for a new CASology challenge.

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Birthday Cards and More

I am playing along with CAS(E) this Sketch and Tag You're it, who have joined forces this week.  How fun is that? 

I made a card with a tag, and then a coordinating tag to wrap up a little parcel of cards as a birthday gift.

The challenge at this week's Make it Monday is all about creative card borders.  I used Topiary Trio stamps and dies for my card.

I loved the colors of this week's ColourQ cQc #253 and immediately rushed to make a card inspired by these cards by Lisa of Lisa's Life Lines.  She called them "split cards" and I just thought they were so cool.  Lisa used patterned paper, but I decided to stamp my own patterned paper using Circle Scribbles.

Part of the front is cut away, and the pattern is actually on the base.

4 layers of Wet Paint die cut word 'happy'.

Here is what it looks like opened up.

Fun, right?  I could see making a set of these with a bunch of the Wet Paint die cut words.

I am going to enter all three of these cards into this week's Seize the Birthday--anything goes without toppings.  I sure hope I have a chance to make a yellow birthday card before the linky ends on this challenge.

Last is a card I made using a Cottage stamp from Serendipity.  I thought that the theme was CAS, but when I looked again (after I already made the card), I realized that the theme is actually I Miss You.  I think this card could  probably work for that theme--I miss you and want you home sweet home.  I stamped the Cottage Image on water color paper cut with a stitched rectangle, and then water colored it.

That's it for me today.

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