CAS-ual Fridays #61: Let's Strip!

It's CAS-ual Fridays time! 

Come join us for this week's CAS-ual Fridays #61: Let's Strip! 

Create a CAS card using strips of paper or color!

I used Smash tape, love how it comes with little strips already pieced together for you! 

If you play, you might win a $25 gift certificate from this week's sponsor, Freckled Fawn, where you can get some of your own fancy washi tape! *smile*

When I was trying to decide which sentiment to put on this card, I sought dh's advice, to see what he thought of the "whoa!" sentiment with a custom message inside. He said yeah, like "Whoa! This card is really busy!" hahaha! So now I hope it still qualifies for a CAS card! 

The second funny thing about this card...I gave it to my friend Robyn at her birthday celebration Sunday night. When she goes to photograph it and put it on Facebook, I'm like, "Stop! What are you doing?! You can't put a picture on Facebook, this is my CAS-ual Fridays card for Tuesday at midnight EST!" Is that tacky, or what?! She couldn't even photograph her own card! 

I hope you'll come play along with us at CAS-ual Fridays this week! 

Check out all the fabulous samples from the other Girl Fridays on the blog and Facebook!

You have until Thursday noon EST.

Can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: Whoa! from Scarlet Lime kit.

Ink: Memento Black.

Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black.

Accessories: Section SMASH tape.

Play Date Cafe #140: You're Amazing

Happy Monday! 

Popping in to share this card for The Play Date Cafe Challenge #140! Aren't these colors fabby?! I wouldn't mind an island beach house like that pic on the bottom!

I better skedaddle, need to get a few household chores done before my new Stampin' Up! order arrives, hehe! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: You're Amazing.

Cardstock: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Whisper White, World Spectacular dsp.

Ink: Island Indigo.

Accessories: Big Shot, Apothecary Accents framelits, Island Indigo Twine, Daffodil Delight Ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, 2-Way Glue Pen, Stampin' Dimensionals.

Shine

Happy Sunday! Here's a little sunshine for you, although we need rain more! 

I started this project for CAS-ual Fridays Let's Strip challenge this week, but I got stuck and gave up. (You'll see the card I made instead Tuesday at 12 am EST.) So I had lots of different abandoned parts, etc. Sometimes you have to wait about 3 days, pick the parts back up, and voila, it all falls together. Funny how that happens.

While checking out this fabulous card from Tenia, I learned about two more challenge sites so I'm playing along with them: CASology Cue Card Sun Challenge and Papercraft Star Hot, Hot, Hot challenge. Popular themes this week, huh? I think the heat is getting to all of us! *smile*

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: Unity.

Ink: Memento Black.

Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, scraps of patterned paper.

Accessories: Big Shot, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White and Basic Gray designer buttons, black/white twine, white perle cotton, PTI dies, Stampin' Dimensionals.

Embellish Challenge: Tea Party

Happy Saturday! What's everyone up to so far?!

So far I've accomplished making breakfast and this one little not-too-exciting card, and now I feel in need of a nap, hehe! I used the Embellish Tea Party Color Trends Challenge, more great colors from them! Remember a few weeks ago when I was looking for a telephone for their last challenge? Well, while looking for a teacup, of course, I came across lots of different phone stickers, die cuts, etc, ugh! It never fails! 

I ended up going to Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio (MDS) to find this Tiny Teacup image. Yes, I used MDS. That is a first. I didn't use it too creatively, mind you, since I only picked the teacup, resized it, assigned the color pink, and printed it, but still, I used it!! I actually bought the teacup file for $1.95. I wish I had bought this one when it was a stamp last year. 

Okay, signing off for now. Stay cool and enjoy your weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: Digital Tiny  Teacup.

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White.

Accessories: Washi tape, October Afternoon die cut oval sticker, Cosmo Cricket Tiny Text saying sticker, SU Linen Thread & Chocolate Chip button.

Clean & Simple FTL198: Happy Birthday Friend

Happy Thursday and almost Friday!

Here's the last card I made during my stamp-a-thon last Sunday with Cindy. This was the first challenge we tried and we used the Clean and Simple FTL#198. You can't go wrong with a sketch from the Clean and Simple blog to jump start your creativity! You can see Cindy's adorable card here, she used the new Reason to Smile set!

I proposed like 40 minutes for this challenge, and I used the Blue Ribbon set and started out trying a 5 1/4" square card. It wasn't working, ugh, so I dug through my kraft cardstock scrap file and found a 4 1/4" square card that had some stitching and a bench image using the Have a Seat stamp set. I ripped that image off, and no, it wasn't a clean tear, some white cardstock remained. That forced me to crumple up my new Baja Breeze patterned paper piece and adhere it "loosely" so you couldn't tell there was old cardstock remnants below, lol! Anyway, I went a little over on time for our challenge, but I like how it came together finally. Do you ever do that, recycle old rejected cards or card parts? That would be a fun bloggy link up party!

Okay, that's enough talk for today. I'm *steeling* myself up for a dreaded annual check-up this afternoon, I think you know what I'm talking about. Maybe I'll go out for *pancakes* when I'm done. Get it?! lol!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: Blue Ribbon and Family Reunion.

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Twitterpated DSP. 

Ink: Midnight Muse.

Accessories: Scallop & 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Ticket Duo Punch, Calypso Coral brads, Corner Rounder, Stampin' Dimensionals, sewing machine & thread.

You're My Type: thank you

Happy Wednesday! Can't believe another week is slipping by...tick...tock...tick...tock!

During my virtual stamp-a-thon with Cindy last Sunday, we challenged ourselves with this fabulous Retro Sketch #19 and some yummy colors from Design Seeds. I do love the blues and grays! I took a little liberty with the colors and at the last minute I switched from Lucky Limeade to Gumball Green because I wanted to use that dahlia flower. You can see Cindy's card here using the same sketch/colors, but beware, it will blow you away with amazing details!!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: You're My Type

Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Gray, Bashful Blue Textured, Marina Mist Polka Dot Parade & Twitterpated DSP.

Ink: Memento Black.

Accessories: Gumball Green Stitched Satin Ribbon & Dahlia flower, Whisper White & Basic Gray Designer Buttons, Spiral Punch (retired), white perle cotton, Stampin' Dimensionals.

CAS-ual Fridays #60: Text Me

It's time for CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #60: Text Me! Create a CAS project using text! Easy and fun, right?! For my card, I went to the Wordle website, you've probably heard of it, right? You can enter your own text or a URL and it creates a "word cloud" for you. You can change the font, direction, color, etc. It's really fun to play with! I made this card for a special bloggy friend, so I used the link to her blog (Do you see any clue words from her blog to figure out who she is?!) and then played around with the different fonts. I ended up liking this one because the shape looked like a dress, then that led to the idea to use the crown and "you rule" sentiment. If you play with Wordle and create something cool, please email me or leave your link in my comments, I'd love to see!

So what are you playing for this week?! Two awesome prizes: a Guest Designer Girl Friday spot for August AND a $25 Simon Says Stamp gift voucher! Yahoo!

Head on over to the CAS-ual Fridays blog to check out the awesome "texty" samples from the other Girl Fridays AND don't forget to like us on Facebook so you can see the awesome cards the Facebook Girl Fridays (like me!) put up each day! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!




Recipe
Cardstock: Whisper White.
Accessories: Wordle website, Thickers letters, Jenni Bowlin kit gold crown.

Hi Winner

Happy Thursday! Hope everyone had a wonderful and peaceful July 4th! 

Here's a little card I whipped up for the Freshly Made Sketches #42! My sinus/head has been giving me fits, but I was determined to get a card done today! I just started sticking stuff down without a plan, unusual for me, but I like the way it turned out. Guess we need to break out of our normal patterns sometimes, huh?!

Now that that's done, back to my book, hehe! Last night I ventured outside my usual young adult paranormal addiction and started reading The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen. I daresay, it's quite delightful! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: Take a Ticket Wheel.

Ink: Memento Black.

Cardstock: SU Whisper White & Pool Party, Amy Tan Sketchbook patterned paper.

Accessories: Washi Tape, Thickers, Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type letter stickers, stapler, dimensionals.

CAS-ual Fridays #59: Round and Round

It's CAS-ual Fridays time! I'm back with my card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #59: Round and Round...use 2 circles in your CAS creation!  I used the bike wheels as my 2 circles, and I know there's the polka dot paper, but we're not counting all those circles, okay?! hehe!

I know you'll want to play along to win this wonderful assortment of twine from this week's sponsor, The Twinery. It's a $32 value! The design team was so fortunate to get a sampling to work with, and I used Shore for the "spokes" in my wheels and Cantaloupe looped around the top piece. So yummy! 

If you're curious how made I those twine "spokes"...I came across a tutorial on Pinterest awhile back that showed how to make mini pom poms, you can see it here. (It's in French, but don't worry, the pictures are perfectly clear to understand!) I just followed that tutorial, but then I cut half of the pom pom off, behind the thread that was holding it together, so it would be flat on one side. I punched the center of the wheels out with a 1" punch, then popped the top piece up with Stampin' Dimensionals, so there's "room" for the half pom poms to be glued down inside the circles. Does that make sense? Let me know if you have questions, I can always add pictures!

Okay, get cracking on your 2 circles card and link it up over at CAS-ual Fridays so I can come check it out! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Happy Birthday

Happy Monday! Did you have a good weekend? I'm not quite sure when I have ever got as little done as I did last weekend! *Hanging head in lack of output shame*


I did squeak out this one little card for this week's The Play Date Challenge #138. This picture and the colors were pretty wild (get it?!), so I thought it really fits the term "challenge" well! That's what I love about challenges like this one, though, because they really push me to try color combinations I would have never thought of on my own. 


I flipped open the back of my Stampin' Up! catalog and found a card on page 202 with a layout that I thought would work well, so I cased it for my card. It helped me envision where I would "put these colors" so that helped a lot. It definitely fits that design principle (I forget the name) where you use different amounts of each color, like the most of one color, then a smaller amount of the next color, then an even smaller amount of the next color, and a very tiny amount of the last color.


Okay, better get moving. It's laundry day, yippee! hehe! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!




Recipe
Finished card size: 4 1/4" x 4 1/4"
All supplies from Stampin' Up!
Stamps: Priority Mail hostess.
Cardstock: Basic Gray, Whisper White, World Spectacular DSP.
Ink: Basic Gray, Cherry Cobbler.
Accessories: Curly Label punch, More Mustard button, White Twine, Stampin' Dimensionals.