Cream, Kraft & Cranberry Christmas 1

My first take for the Color Throwdown colours of cream, kraft & cranberry ...

I remembered that Hero Arts had this lovely White Satin Pearl that actually comes out cream. Thought I'd pair it with one of my golden oldie favourites ... the Starburst Lace.

Here's the lovely pearl shimmer of the embossing powder. 

My entry to ...

... Color Throwdown Challenge #616

... TimeOut Challenge #173

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Layer it Up

Best Friend's Birthday!

When it's one of your best friend's Birthday, you need to make a special card.

The Flaunt It set was the perfect choice. In order to keep it CAS, I decided to use part of image. There are actually 3 ladies in the stamp.

To make it special, I used Jennifer McGuire's Interlocking Gatefold card design.

Added some glossy accents to the glasses and lips.

My entry to ...

... CAS on Friday : People

... Addicted to Stamps and More : Anything Goes

Little Birthday Boy

I've got some Birthday's for little ones coming up.

Some glossy accents to add dimension.

My entry for Color Throwdown Challenge

Rainbow Butterflies

Combining two of my favourite things ... butterflies and rainbows! And watercoloring!

I added glossy accents ... 

A while back I had to flatten a card and so weighted it down. And it flattened the glossy accents too ... and gives them a more velvety look. Nice to know there are 2 ways to use them.

My entry for ...

... CAS-ual Fridays Challenge : Butterflies and Rainbows

... AAA Cards Challenge : Somewhere over the Rainbow

... Addicted to Stamps & More : Make your Mark

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes

Sharp and prickly Holly

This week's CASology Challenge cue word is SHARP.

I've gone with sharp and prickly Holly leaves ...

The red lines are washi tape. I've decided I've got to use my stash! 

And a close up of the double layered die cut sentiment and glossy accented berries.

Come on over and get more inspiration from our gifted design team ...

Anna Uhras

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Jacquie Southas 

Janet Ribet (you are here)

Jen Wills 

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

Sherrie Mannion

List ...

The CASology Challenge cue word this week is LIST. I was pretty stumped until I remembered the Life's Messages stamp set of Penny Black.

I first tried stamping each of the lines in a different colour, but it didn't have enough punch, so I did reverse by keeping the text white, but colouring the background. 

Adding some glossing accents to give the hearts an extra pop, and some embossed lines to add interest and flow.

Come on over and get more inspiration from our gifted design team ...

Anna Uhras

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Jacquie Southas 

Janet Ribet (you are here)

Jen Wills 

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

Sherrie Mannion

Guest Designer : Darnell

More Progress

I decided to combine the Just Us Girls #378 and the Paper Players Sketch Challenge #329.

  

I have a cute ladybird border punch that I thought would be fun. This was my first card.

I thought the ladybirds were too big / strong / solid for the small flowers. So searched my stash for a bigger flower, and came up with my second card.

I was much happier with the balance of this card.

What do you think?

Fancy Folds

I recently discovered Patrice's Fancy Fold Blog Hop which he runs once a month. As I love doing technical things with a little challenge, I had to try and make one. The first card I spotted was the Lever card of Fancy Fold #6 Blog Hop ... but they are already on #11.

With summer in full swing, Life is certainly better in Flip Flops and this is my take on the lever card ...

I will enter this into ...

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes

... Inkspirational Challenge #127 : Polka Dots ... on my sun

Primary Colours

Primary colours make me think of children, paint and blocks .... so here's my card ...

My entry for Less is More : Primary Colour Challenge

Make a Wish

Keeping it to one layer and CAS ... with some Glossy Accents to give it that extra dimension.

My entry for ...

... CAS-logy #226 : Candle Challenge

... Color Throwdown Challenge #421

Adore

Thought I would like to make a card that had a more masculine feel to it.  Kept to black, white and red and aligned the Hero Arts border alphabet stamps to line up the letters for "adore". Added glossy accents to make it pop.  The 'U' was cut with my Silhouette.

My entry for CASology Challenge : Adore.

and AAA Cards Challenge : Love me like you do

Merry Christmas

I had a friend over for a crafting session and I used her Memory Box Holly die. So sorry that I only cut one! I coloured the leaves and berries with Copics.

The middle panel is mounted on foam, and put lots of Glossy Accents on the berries. So lovely in real life.

Submitting it to the Addicted to CAS : Dimension Challenge. It's also there 3rd Birthday - a wonderful milestone!

More for Graduation

I'm going to have to make more than one graduation card this year! So here's a second card.

I got the printable from Neat and Tangled from a couple years back, but I added the arrow stamps, a silhouette cut layered grad cap and glossy accents to the Grad; matted it on red cardstock leaving the tiniest white border.

An entry for the CAS-ology Challenge : Graduation and a2z scrapbooking : New Beginnings Challenge (Hero Arts : Borders and Arrows set).

Cool Bubbles

I still have the child in me that loves bubbles and fun, so I couldn't resist blowing coloured bubbles using the technique I spotted on the Scrap RDV blog (and here and here) this week.

For my first card I have used just the blue.

Once I die cut circles, I stamped in the negative space, and added dots of liquid pearls, and glossy accents to the sentiment.

Will enter this to :

CASology : Shape Challenge

Seize the Birthday : Use the Negative Challenge

I knew that Less is More had a water challenge, but I forgot that it was a one layer challenge! Lucky I have made quite few sheets, so will go back to the drawing board for that one.

Celebrate Tropical Style 2

It was only went I posted my Celebrate Tropical Style 1 that I realised the top blue shading was too heavy! I wanted to do it again, but then decided I would just do something with the shaded die cut circle.

More in keeping with CAS challenge at CAS-ology :Tropical.

My Day 6 of Kathy's 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Another for a2z Scrapbooking Colour it in Challenge.