Balloons!

I have two birthday cards to post today, both featuring party balloons.

I used the inlaid die technique on these balloons, and I was inspired by the colors at CAS Colours and Sketches #172.  

I am entering this card at AAA Cards #64 and Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge as both challenges ask for inlaid die cuts.

Lizzie has a great video over at PTI Make it Monday #248 where the challenge is blending through die cut masks.

I am also entering this card at Less is More #275: Pastel Colors, Simon Says Stamp Monday: Embossing and Seize the Birthday without toppings.

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CASology Week #197: Tear

This is my second post today.  If you are looking for my ColourQ post, please click here.

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is
Tear.  Lots of different ways to pronounce and interpret this word.  I am expecting a very interesting gallery.  I thought of the verb tear as in 'to rip' paper.  So, I tore some card stock and then stamped on it.  I also added some texture to my card front and embellished with some tiny stars coated with Glossy Accents.

I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday challenge:  Embossing.

Now, it's your turn.  How does TEAR 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

Guest Designer:  Marilyn

We are sponsored this week by Right at Home

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ColourQ #341....Happy Anniversary

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

Happy Tuesday and welcome to a new challenge at ColourQ.

Check out these new colors this week.  I love them.  I decided to use some of my WPlus9 inks--Flamingo, Miami Spice and Sweet Gelato.  I also used PTI Kraft.

I stamped butterflies from PTI Beautiful Butterflies and Beautiful Butterflies Layers.  I did tone on tone stamping, and the layers are a little hard to see, but trust me, they are there.

I am also entering this card at Just Us Girls #342 where the challenge word is 'BUTTERFLY' and Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Embossing.

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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Thinking of You and Get Well

Hello and happy Mother's Day to everyone who either is a mother, has a mother, or both.  (I think I've covered just about everyone there.)

I finally have a few minutes to post some cards I made this week.  First up is a card inspired by the gorgeous Muse card my friend Michele created to inspire us.  Here is Michele's amazing card.

I was inspired by the flowers, purple (!!) and that embossed circle grounding Michel's focal point.

I white embossed my sentiment on a banner cut from Royal Velvet card stock.  My vase is vellum, and the flowers are from Winnie & Walter and I stamped on water color paper, fussy cut and then painted with Plum Pudding ink.

It is difficult to see in this photo, but I used a stitched oval to impress a shape surrounding my vase and flowers.

I am also linking this card up at Card Concept #54: Spring Flowers and Addicted to Stamps and More #192: Make Your Mark.

My next card was inspired by the sketch at Retro Rubber #37, but unfortunately, I missed the posting deadline.  No matter, because the sketch was still very useful as inspiration.  I realized that I am lacking in masculine get well cards, so I stamped a plaid pattern to play along at Addicted to CAS #87: Plaid and made 2 cards with that plaid.  They are almost the same, but I will show them both here anyway.

I used the Plaid Builder set from PTI in Green Parakeet, Hawaiian Shores and Pure Poppy.  I still have one more piece of this plaid pattern, so stay tuned to see it in a future card.

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Time Out #56...Happy Birthday

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Time Out.  Our challenge this time is a CASE challenge, and we have this wonderful card by Kay Miller to inspire us.

I was inspired by Kay's color scheme of pink and grey, her flowers, and the frame that anchored her focal point.

I wish I could have improved the lighting in my photo, but when I tried to adjust it, the other colors went crazy.  I used sequins as substitutes for Kay's splatters--I do not get along too well with real splatters, and I could not remember which of my stamp sets had splatter stamps.

Please head over to Time Out to see more inspiration from our Design Team and Guest Designer. Our Guest Designer this week is Marlena.

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CASology Week #196: Move

This is my second post today.  If you are looking for my ColourQ post, please click here.

Hello and happy Tuesday. It's time for another challenge at CASology.   This week, our cue word is
Move.  I thought of all the stamps I have for things that move--like cars, buses, trucks, airplanes, butterflies--the list goes on.  But, I have a lot of friends who seem to be moving house lately, so I went with that interpretation.  This card already has an intended destination to a friend in the midst of a move.

I used images from PTI Topiary Trio and a sentiment from Putting Down Roots.

Now, it's your turn.  How does Move 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

Guest Designer: Janet

We are sponsored this week by Cindy B. Designs

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ColourQ #340....Happy Mother's Day

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

Happy Tuesday and welcome to a new challenge at ColourQ.

We have a new set of colors this week.  I immediately thought of florals with these colors.  Perhaps it was the inspiration photo.

I stamped and heat embossed a floral image from Serendipity, then colored with Copics.

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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Welcome Baby and Happy Mother's Day

Hi there.  I am stopping by quickly with a card that popped into my head as I was browsing through some of my favorite challenges this morning.

I just bought this Poppystamps Small Elephant die, and could not wait to use it.

I am entering this card at Poppystamps Challenge #20 Pretty in Pink, Less is More #74: Use designer paper in a CAS way and Addicted to CAS #87: Plaid.  I dug through my patterned paper pads until I found this itty bitty scaled pink plaid in an old Valentines pad.

One more quick card from me today--and it is another Mother's Day card, as I am finding I am still a few cards short.   MFT Etched Flower, another recent purchase, was begging to be inked up, and so I did.

I covered an entire card front with this background stamp, inked in Raspberry Fizz, and then softened it with a piece of vellum, before attaching both a die cut and fussy cut sentiment.

I will enter this card at Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

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