Less is More Challenge #435

Good morning

It's Saturday and time for another new challenge over at Less is More.  This time we have a Recipe challenge for you.  So as always, just follow the CAS guidelines and follow the theme which is...

We have a wonderful Guest Designer joining us for this challenge, Caroline Paton of KISS - Keep It Sweet and Simple, who was our November challenge winner.  She has made a really cute 'In a Row' card so please do take a look and say hi.

Ok, on to my card and I've used a die to create my row, one that's been in my stash for some time but so far unused...

Although this looks super simple it did take a bit of time to create as it was quite fiddly.  I die cut the row of flowers, keeping the flower centres off to one side, and left a wide section below to stamp the sentiment.  I then coloured all the flowers with Copics, together with those little yellow centres.  Once trimmed to the exact width of my card base I added a wide strip of 3D foam behind the sentiment section and then individual tiny pieces of 3D foam behind each flower head.  I adhered the strip to my card base and the sticky sections which showed through the blue flowers then allowed me to adhere the yellow centres back in place.

Materials used:

• Die: Lawn Fawn -Straight Flower Border
• Stamp: Altenew - Happy Mail
• Ink: Versafine - Onyx Black
• Coloured with Copic markers

Challenge entries:

AAA Cards - CAS Game #181 - Up to One Third

Happy Little Stampers - January Anything Goes with Dies challenge

NBUS - Challenge #22 - first use of this die

As always, the challenge will be running for the next fortnight, so there's plenty of time to get your entries in.

From Leftover to Quick CAS Card

Hi guys

Just popping by to share a really quick card I made yesterday.  Whilst having a tidy up of my crafty mess I found a leftover piece of cardstock which had been sprinkled with Brushos and spritzed when I made a previous card, the dragonfly card in this post.

So I cut out another piece with a leaf die and made this simple CAS card...

The Brusho colours used here were Purple and Emerald Green, but just look at all the colour variations they create, just beautiful.

I die cut two pierced squares from white and purple cardstock, popped one up on 3D foam and simply adhered the brusho leaf die cut on the top.  The sentiment was stamped below and that was the card finished.

Materials used:

• Ink: Brushos - Purple and Emerald Green; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Dies: Clearly Besotted - Leafy Accents; MFT Die-namics - Pierced Squares
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted - Flight of Fancy
• Cardstock from stash

Challenge entries:

Crafty Catz - Challenge #312 - CAS...no designer papers and no fuss

Ooh La La Creations - Challenge #198 - Clean and Simple

Penny Black and More - February Challenge - Anything Goes with a Stamp and a Dies(s)

I did make a second card using another leftover which I'll be back to share with you hopefully tomorrow evening.  Right now I'm off to bed...ZZZzzzzzz

Addicted to Stamps and More #154

It's time for my fortnightly midnight post which means there's a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.  We follow a regular rota for our challenge themes so this week brings us to my favourite of our challenges which is...

Addicted to CAS

(clean and simple)

We have two sponsors this week:

Deedee's Digis - a $15 coupon is up for grabs

Rosey Hearts - the prize is for 5 free digis

Here's my DT card...

On some white cardstock I blended Distress Ink in Abandoned Coral to create an ombre panel fading from dark to light, and then used this to die cut my poppies.  On my card base I applied some white embossing paste through a dotty stencil and was very patient and left it to dry!  I then simply stamped the sentiment in the same ink, adhered the die cut over the paste and added some glossy gems to finish.

Materials used:

• Ink: Distress Ink - Abandoned Coral
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted - Miniature Floral Collection
• Die: Poppy Stamps - Arched Poppy
• Stencil: Tim Holtz - Dot Fade
• Embossing Paste: Dreamweaver - white

Challenge entries:

Dream Valley - Challenge #111 - Embossing Wet or Dry

CAS-ual Fridays - Challenge #141 - Embossing

Crazy for Challenges - Challenge #293 - Monochromatic

Happy Little Stampers - July Sketch Challenge

There are some stunning projects in our DT gallery this week, my teamies have done some wonderful work with their CAS creations. I'd love for you to pop by and leave them some love.

Thanks for visiting as always.

Happy Little Stampers - July 2015 CAS Challenge

Hi there

I'm delighted to be sharing a card today to mark my first post as a Design Team Member of the CAS Team at Happy Little Stampers. CAS (clean and simple) cards are my absolute favourite so to be chosen by Kylie and Loll as a member of this wonderful team is amazing!

So, for this month's challenge we would like you to show us some stamping.  Please also remember to keep your creations clean and simple.

Here's my DT card...

This card is made up purely of stamps and ink and a few little gems.  I started by masking off a vertical section to the right of the card while I stamped the large leaves, just as a guide to ensure they followed a straight line, then I removed the masks and continued stamping different elements following a repeated pattern.  I then stamped the simple sentiment in black and added some gems to the centres of the flowers.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Paper Smooches - Reflections, Chit Chat
• Ink: Versa Color - Turquoise, Magenta, Hyacinth, Seafoam, Atlantic; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Accents: Doodlebug Sprinkles - Silver

I'm going to link this card up at the following challenge

Virginia's View - Challenge #16 - 100% Stamped

I love using just stamps and ink and also creating one layer cards.  I used to dread one layer challenges but they are now one of my favourites.  There are lots of different techniques you can use with stamping and there are some great tutorials over on the challenge link up, here.  You will also find lots of great examples of stamped cards there created by my fellow teamies.

So, what are you waiting for?  The challenge will run until the end of the month and we'd love to see your stamped creations in the gallery.

Happy Stamping!

Spare Hugs!

Hi guys

This afternoon I found a lonely little 'hugs' die cut on my craft table which was leftover from when I made this card, the original die cut taken from the ombre panel, so I decided to use it up on a new card.

Here it is, with no stamping this time!

I dry embossed a white panel with a striped embossing folder and adhered this to the card base.  I then cut small panels from two patterned papers and used a corner punch to round the bottom corners and then adhered these together in line with the top of the card.  I then swirled around some white thread, laid this over the papers and used the die cut word to adhere the thread in place.  A little Doodlebug Sprinkle was added to finish.

Materials used:

• Embossing Folder: Darice - Stripe
• Patterned Papers: My Minds Eye - Quite Contrary Summer Papers; Avery Elle - The Brights Collection
• Die: Lawn Fawn - Scripty Hugs
• Inks: Distress Inks - Spun Sugar, Seedless Preserves
• Accents: Doodlebug Sprinkles - Cupcake; Thread from stash
• Tools: Tonic Corner Rounder Punch

Challenge entries:

Happy Little Stampers - May CAS Challenge - Die Cuts/Punches

613 Avenue Create - Challenge #122 - Anything Goes (Feminine)

CAS(E) this Sketch - Challenge #121

Time Out - Challenge #30 - Home Sweet Home - inspired by pink/teal/flowers/stripes

Card Concept - Challenge #34 - inspired by pink/aqua/flowers/stripes - I think my card would fall in the Clean and Layered category

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 175 and 176 - hugs die cut and patterned paper offcuts


I think that's it for today now, I need to tidy my craft table before I can even contemplate making anything else! haha

Hope to see you again soon :)

Ombre Hugs

Hi there

I've got a really quick post for you this evening.  I made this card this afternoon to combine a few challenges.

This is only the second time I've used my Distress Inks and I think I'm getting the hang of this blending business as I'm really happy with how this one turned out.  I'm desperately waiting for pay day as I NEED to add some more colours to my collection of ink pads!

On a panel of white cardstock I masked off a horizontal panel and used my mini blending tool to blend two pink inks to create an ombre effect.  I then used a word die to cut out the word hugs from the panel.  Originally I was going to just inlay a second word die but I decided to stack them so I didn't really have to cut it out after all!  The top word die is cut from another panel of blended cardstock but with the colour fading in the opposite direction, from bottom to top instead of top to bottom.  The panel was adhered to my card base using 3D foam and I added an epoxy heart sticker to finish.

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Anna Marie Designs
• Ink: Distress Ink - Spun Sugar and Seedless Preserves
• Die: Lawn Fawn - Scripty Hugs
• Accent: Stampin' Up - Itty Bitty Accents Epoxy Stickers

Challenge entries:

CASology - Week 143 - Ombre
CAS on Sunday - Challenge #57 - White and one other colour
Happy Little Stampers - April Sketch Challenge

That's all for now, thanks so much for visiting.

One Layer Chalk and Ink

Hi guys

No, your eyes aren't deceiving you, I've actually made a card and written a post!

The chaos being caused by the new kitchen in still in full swing but I managed to grab a small space amongst the clutter and dust to make a card.  I couldn't let this week pass by without entering a card over at Less is More for their 4th birthday.  Less is More was one of the very first challenges I discovered and I'm gutted I've missed so many challenges so far this year, but hopefully I can soon get back to normal and get my craft workspace back properly!

It's a colour challenge at Less is More and they want us to use Pink and Grey on our creations.  So here's what I made...

I thought I'd reach for my chalks as I hadn't used them for ages so I masked off a rectangle and blended three pink shades with cotton wool to create the background.  I then simply stamped the silhouette, butterfly and sentiment in Memento ink and that was it, done :)

Materials used:

• Chalks: Craf-T Products - Decorating Chalk
• Stamps: Inkylicious - Meadow Breeze; Wild Rose Studio - Everyday Greetings
• Ink: Memento - London Fog

I would also like to enter this card at the following challenge blogs:

One Layer Simplicity - Challenge #13 - You Blend (chalks)

CAS on Sunday - Challenge #51 - Flowers

Thanks so much for visiting today, and I hope it won't be too long before I'm back with more to share.

Lots of Love

Good morning

A few weeks ago this card earned me the joint top spot at Crazy for CAS and I was lucky enough to be offered another Guest Designer role which is for today's new challenge.

And that new challenge is a sketch.  Here is my card and the sketch inspiration.  (I really must sort myself out with a new camera, these tones are more teal and mint than blues, it drives me bonkers how some colours just don't appear as they should!)

Apart from the sequins and the ink my card is made up purely using Clearly Besotted products.  I LOVE them!  I stamped the large butterfly first then masked it off so I could stamp the chicken wire strip, which I did by just partially inking up the stamp.  I then stamped the small butterfly on its co-ordinating die cut.  I die cut the banner and curved the sentiment stamp slightly to fit the curve of the banner.  This and the small butterfly were popped up on 3D foam and a few sequins were added to finish.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Flight of Fancy, Background Builder III
• Dies: Clearly Besotted - Flight of Fancy, Mini Basic Banners
• Ink: Versa Color - Lagoon Blue, Mint, Sky Gray; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Doodlebug Sequins

Crazy for CAS is a great little challenge if you love clean and simple designs so why not head over there, get some inspiration from the Design Team and have a go yourself.

That's all for now, hope to see you again soon.

CAS(E) this Sketch #43

Good morning fellow crafters

I've got a horrible cold at the moment so got up early this morning as I couldn't breathe lying down!  So I had a little tidy up of my crafty mess that was left after making my last couple of cards and then made this card for the latest challenge at CAS(E) this Sketch.

Yes, its that Fancy Pants paper pad again but I love it and chose to team it up with a kraft card base as it works so well with the neutrals in these patterned papers...

 

And here is the challenge sketch...

 

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Card base - Papermania Kraft; cream cardstock from stash
• Patterned paper: Fancy Pants - Country Boutique
• Stamp: Wild Rose Studio - Everyday Greetings
• Ink: Versa Color - Charcoal
• Button: Stampin' Up - Designer Very Vintage
• Ribbon from stash



That's all from me today but please pop back tomorrow when I will have some very exciting news to share with you ;)

Until then, take care

CAS One Layer Flower

Hi guys

A bit of a late one for me tonight but I wanted to take part in a couple of challenges, one of which ends tomorrow.

This card is very CAS for me but I thoroughly enjoyed creating it and it gave me another chance to practice with my ProMarkers and Flexmarkers.  I still don't have my markers organised so it took longer to find the right colours to blend together than it did to colour it in!

 

and a closer view...

 

 

 

I started by using a score board I got free with a magazine ages ago to create the embossed waves and dots at the top and base of the card.  Its not too easy to use as you have to place your card on it and try to find the grooves but it worked ok here.  I then stamped the image and sentiment with VersaMark and heat embossed with black embossing powder.  I love this gerbera image and it took a while to decide what colour to use.  I've seen alcohol markers used on kraft card before so thought I'd give it a go and I really like it.

 

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Kraft base card from stash
• Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - With Love stamp set
• Ink: VersaMark
• Embossing Powder: Stampin' Up - Black
• Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

 

 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

 

The Paper Players - One Layer Card

 

 

Addicted to CAS - Flower

 

 

Thanks for popping by, I hope to be back very soon with more to share :)

 

 

 





 

Less is More - OLC Spots & Stripes

Hi blogger friends

Dropping by today to share a card for the current challenge at Less is More.  The brief is to create a One Layer Card with the theme Spots and Stripes.

I trawled through my stamp sets and I actually really enjoyed making this one and I'm really happy with the result.

 

 

I ended up using 4 different stamp sets to come up with this design!  I wanted to use a spot stamp to create the petals of the flower but found nothing in my stash.  Then I cast my eye over them once more and the stamp I used was actually from the Clearly Besotted Stamps 'Merry Little Christmas' stamp set and is actually a tiny spotted bauble.  I was going to colour in the spots but decided to leave this card purely stamped (apart from the gem of course) and didn't want to introduce any other medium.  I stamped the vase a second time on a post-it note and cut it out to create a mask before stamping the striped background.

 

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Base card from stash
• Stamps: Penny Black - Salutations stamp set (vase and stem); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Merry Little Christmas stamp set (flower petals); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Building Blocks stamp set (striped background); Wild Rose Studio - Everyday Greetings (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Orange, Fresh Green, Sky Blue, Canary
• Gem from stash

 

Thanks for visiting as always crafting lovelies :)

 

Neet x