AAA Cards CAS Game #107 - Guest Designer!

Good morning!

After a recent win (yay!) I'm delighted to have been invited to Guest Design over at AAA Cards!  It's all about CAS (clean and simple) cards so right up my street :)

Here are the details for the next challenge, starting right now, and you can find the main challenge post here.

I used the cue word in the relaxed sense and came up with this...

I started with a panel of white cardstock slightly smaller than the card base and die cut a circular aperture, this would then allow me to work out where I needed to stamp on the card base.  I stamped the sloth on the branch image and coloured him using coloured pencils.  I made a mask from a post-it and then gently stencilled the clouds behind him with Distress Ink.  With the mask still in place I stamped the leaves.  I finished by stamping the sentiment on the top panel and popped this up on fun foam.

Materials used:

• Die: Hero Arts - Circle Infinity Dies
• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Hung Up On You; Leafy Accents; Hunkydory (sentiment) - free set with a publication
• Ink: Versafine - Onyx Black; Versa Color - Olive, Green Tea; Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass
• Stencil: MFT - Mini Cloud Edges
• Coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos

Challenge entries:

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - For Men

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Add a Sentiment (Clearly Besotted)

Moving Along with the Times - Challenge #63 - CAS

Thanks so much for popping by, and a big thank you to AAA for having me.  I hope you'll join in this two week challenge.

Less is More Week #359

Good morning, crafters

Well, apart from a couple of family cards, I've finished, written and posted all my Christmas cards.  It seemed to take forever this year but I got there in the end!

I was a few cards short but the new challenge just starting at Less is More helped me to my target.  This week's Theme challenge is...

Happy Little Stampers continues to be our fab sponsor for this month so don't forget that by playing along you'll be in with a chance of winning our monthly prize.

Michelle Wallace, our winner for October is joining us at a Guest Designer today so please do pop over to her blog and show her some love.


As I mentioned, I have two cards for you this week, and here's the first thanks to a stamp set that came free with a recent publication...

This cute penguin and sentiment were from the free stamp set.  I stamped the jumper first then masked it and stamped the penguin.  They were stamped in black ink and I coloured the image with ProMarkers.  I die cut around these using a stitched die and popped it up onto the card base on fun foam.  Super easy.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Hunkydory - Winter Warmers (free with Creative Stamping magazine)
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Die: MFT Die-namics - Stitched Rectangle Stax
• Coloured with ProMarkers

Challenge entry:

Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #275 - Make Your Mark

And a completely different feel for my second card...

On a panel of white cardstock I stamped the Dove in VersaMark ink and heat embossed in pearlescent powder.  I then created some ombre blending with Distress Inks.  I spritzed water through a snowflake stencil and blotted some colour away before then stamping the sentiment.  The panel was then adhered flat to the card base.  The opal embossing can be seen more clearly in the next photo...

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Paired Up, Peace on Earth II
• Ink: VersaMark; Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass, Spun Sugar; Versa Color - Sky Blue
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - White Opal
• Stencil: Memory Box - Tiny Snowflakes

Challenge entry:

Happy Little Stampers - December Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes (Optional: Stencil)

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I still have lots more cards to share with you so now that I've finished writing and sending I should find more time to share these with you very soon.  Have a lovely weekend enjoying the Christmas countdown :)