CASual Awareness

It's Friday so time for a new challenge over at CASual Friday's and this week I can join in - I skipped last weeks be inspired by your blog header as mine is just too complex to make a CAS card from.  This week it's simply to make a card for a girl but with the added theme of Breast Cancer Awareness as it's awareness in October http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/cfc73.html
 
My card today is a CASE as I was completely inspired by Debbie's technique of white embossing onto white card and colouring today on this card http://limedoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/clearly-besotted-stamps-day-2.html from the new stamps from clearly besotted.  I decided to try the technique and this is my first attempt:

I used the colour combo from this weeks' ColourQ as it matches the awareness theme.  Simply stamped the skipping stones bra set directly onto cardstock and embossed in white then coloured in with pink pencils and gave a shadow with a grey pencil all blended with sansoder.  The sentiment is from the same set stamped in black.  Finished with a tiny pink button and white cotton thread bow.

Hope everyone is ready for World Card Making Day tomorrow - I plan to play as much as possible!  It would be rude not too frankly ;-)

Doggy oval

I've should have had a nice long day of crafting, but as seems to be the way of late, things didn't go to plan and even when I did finally make it to my craft room late this afternoon, my mojo seems to have upped and left me high and dry (probably as I've got some card orders to fill - it always seems to run away when I need it most!)  Anyhow, I thought I'd try my favourite challenges to see if I could dig up some mojo and I've combined the colour theme (black and white plus one of your choice) over at CASual Fridays with the theme (ovals) at Less is More with a new challenge to me - 365 cards (they do a new challenge every day and I picked one from a couple of days ago which is CAS with one embellishment)

I opted for a very simply thin black mat, a strip of black with an embossed birthday sentiment in white and a little black scottie dog embellishment framed in a pink spotty oval with a line of white faux stitching.   Not the most original of entries but I am pleased with the very clean lines and hint of pink.  The scottie dog has been in my stash for ages and is fluffy with a velvet collar.

http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/cfc70.html

http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/week-85-theme.html

http://365cards.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/day-196-keep-it-simple.html

Time to make dinner - will catch you all later

Anniversary Embossing

I have a few annivesaries coming up this month that I need to make cards for, so you may well see a theme here this week........

Firstly, I used this week's embossing challenge at CASual Fridays to create the first one I need   http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/cfc69.html

This particular friend's wedding colour theme was green so I always make their anniversary card to match.  This year, I went with a couple of green birds (wplus9 die cuts), perched on a green embossed tree branh (hero arts whoo loves you).  I used one of their wings to create the little heart above them (embossed and glossy accented too).  The birds are mounted in the center of an embossed frame (sorry don't know who the folder is by - think I got it at the Range though)  I drew around the scallops with a sakura pen which I used to draw a line around the green mat too.  Finished with a PTI sentiment and a little glitter in the love-heart leaves.  I quite like the kraft and lime colour combo - may have to use it again.

Manly paper

The challenge this week at CASual Fridays is to use Decorative Papers on masculine cards http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/cfc54.html   Well as I am trying to make some more father's day cards for the St Luke's Summer Fair on 9th June, this was perfect timing so I've made a couple for this challenge.

On this first card I've used a couple of different digi papers, the background strip is a Sherry K digi and the dotted kraft is basic grey.  The sentiment is from a couple of different waltzingmouse sets and the big stars were die cut (mft die) from double sided sticky sheets and covered with gilding flakes (I'm loving this technique - you need to run the sheets through your die cutter 2 or 3 times but it makes easy and dramatic embellishments).

 

For this second one I used another of the Sherry K digi papers as the basis for the design and used my favourite masculine stamps from the Crafts Meow to match - I stamped and cut the moustache onto a die cut circle and added a sentiment from the same set underneath.  The strips of paper were from my snippets box and the sentiment circle was cut from another Sherry K sheet.

It's the first time I've used digi papers and I have to say I like the flexibility they offer and they certainly help me get over my "but if you use it you won't have it any more" issues.....   If you like them, she is currently having a 3 day 50% off sale and there are even 3 packs you can get for free:-)  http://www.sherykdesigns.com/shop

CASual sketch

The challenge over at CASual Fridays today is a sketch  http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/cfc49.html

I decided to have a play around with some new washi tape I got with a magazine and used that to be the basis of the design and made a frame with some nesties to represent one of the square's on the sketch and finished with a pink paislee chipboard, also free with a magazine for the other.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts, as is the dragon fly which is from one of their sets that comes with sizzix dies.

Opposites attract with doodling

 

I've been struggling with this weeks Less is More challenge all day - they would like us to "doodle" on our card in some way.  I doodle alot when I bored, but I only ever seem to draw stars and they're not even proper ones, so this was a tough challenge for me - almost as bad as the dreaded acetate :(  

http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/week-62-one-layer.html

I've been trying out lots of things on paper with the first ink pad I grabbed and the pen that was out on my desk and they just happened to be orange and blue which are opposite on the colour spectrum (and sooo not my go to colours) and something just clicked.  The challenge at CASual Fridays this week is to use two opposing colours so I have made a card to combine both challenges.  http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/cfc48.html

I stamped the happy birthday ticket in momento tangelo and then hand drew the squiggly lines and circles with a bright blue fine liner from muji (I LOVE these pens and was so glad when they brought them out in 15 colours not just black and blue).   Not the most inspiring card ever, but better than anything else I've come up with so far!

CASual Song Inspiration

This week's challenge at CASual Friday's is to make a card inspired by a song - I decided to take one of my husband's favourite bands Kraftwerk for my inspiration and their song is called "The Robots".

I used the super cute set designed by Torico from There She Goes stamps - I have all her robot sets they are just wonderful.  These 2 are best friend robots - I stamped them onto grey card, shaded with pencils and then added some googly eyes before fussy cutting them out.  The stamps also come with a smaller solid block matching stamp which I stamped repeatedly to make a background before adding one of the sentiments from the set.


http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/cfc46-and-last-chance-for-dt-call.html

When looking for this set, I pulled out another one of theirs so decided to make another card for this challenge and also this week's challenge at There She Goes which is to use metal embellishments.  This card is inspired by the Christmas song "Little Donkey".

I don't think its particularly clear from the photograph but I have decoupaged the "butt" on the donkey, with and extra layer for the tail and the fluffy hair, stamped on kraft card and shaded again with pencils.  I added a strip of metal embossed with stars and also die cut some large stars from the same metal - the stars fit the theme at TSG and also echo the sentiment.

http://tsgclearstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/tsg150-metal-embellishments.html 

CASual Contrasts

This week's challenge at CASual Fridays is to contrast bold black with soft pastels  http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/cfc45-and-dt-call.html

I decided to make a little card for my husband who has been great during my recent health scare - I really wouldn't cope without him and think this sums him up perfectly.

I made a paperpieced row of pastel crayons using my new There She Goes stamp set and created my sentiment on the computer.

CASual Baby

It's Friday night so time to play with the CASual Friday Girls and this week the challenge is a CAS baby card, they must have known that my new Magnolia stamps had arrived today - the new release is all about familiy and they're super cute  :-)  http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2012/03/cfc42.html   I decided to play with the little boy first as I wasn't in the mood for pink.

I also thought I take the opportunity to join the paper players again this week as they want a card to feature something old and something new, well my stamp is new, so I selected some old papers to go with it.  The alphabet DP is what remains of the very first 12 x 12 sheet I bought many moons ago and the blue strip is from an old DCVW sticky backed matt stack.  http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/2012/03/12-week-9-something-old-something-new.html

I coloured the baby Edwin on kraft again with my faber castell pencils and carefully cut him out to mount him on the card.  The senitment which I think is really lovely, is from a Fiskars set all about babies.

As there is a lot of kraft going on, I'm also going to enter my card into the follow challenges which all want kraft card to be featured:

 http://thespottedchick.blogspot.com/2012/03/thats-krafty-thursday-59.html

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/2012/03/k-for-kraft.html

Catch you later.

spots, stripes and scallops!

For my card today I've made something combining a couple of challenges - this weeks CASual Friday which is scallops and MAWTT which is spots and stripes.  As Annabelle Stamps is sponsoring CASual Friday I an also entering this into their anything goes challenge for this week.

I started with a square kraft base and cut a scallop from a sheet of scrap card using a spellbinders edgeability and used it to create a mask.  I used mahogany and walnut stain DI to create the first two rows of scallops and then cut a final row of scallops form striped paper and finished it with a red spotted ribbon.  The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse and stamped with chocolate pearl.  The final element is a chipboard flower, covered with chocolate glitter with a red button centre.

http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2012/01/cfc35.html

http://annabellestamps.blogspot.com/2012/01/say-it-withanything-goes.html 

http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-130-spots-and-stripes.html 

I'll be back later with this weeks' LIM entry - been busy today helping a friend prep her wedding invites - I've stamped 100 this morning!

Craftilicious x

CASual chipboard

This week's CASual Friday challenge is to use chipboard.  I had a dig around to see what chipboard I had and I found a pack of chipboard ribbon sliders that I've had for ages but hadn't even opened - I think they were K&Co.  I picked one and used that as my starting point and this is what I came up with:

I chose some complimentary coloured striped paper and stamped a floral silhouette stamp from inkylicious directly onto it, stamped a kaisercraft sentiment directly onto the ribbon and added some glitter highlights to the edge of the chipboard and the stamp.  http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2012/01/cfc34.html  There's is a bit of an error with the chipboard but you can't tell what it is unless you get up close and I'd stuck it down before I spotted it so hey ho, let's call it a deliberate design feature!

See you tomorrow with a couple more challenges as I have more time to play tomorrow.

Night all.

CASual Misty Snow

Well, the Christmas party is over so what better way to recover than with a little Saturday afternoon crafting.  I have loads of presents to make, but I'm not sure I'm awake enough yet so I'm starting gently with my favourite two weekly challenges - Less is More http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/12/one-layer-card-let-it-snow.html and CASual Fridays  http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2011/12/cfc31.html

Firstly I made a card for Less is More and  as it is the second week of the month it's the One Layer Week and this month the theme is "Let it Snow".  The problem is I'm not sure if I've made a backwards 2 layer card rather than a one layer one....

I started with a 4 inch hammer finished base card, die cut some snowflakes using a memory box die, and added one of my lovely new snowflake sentiments above in pearl blue.  However the die cut just didn't show up enough so I added a strip of blue paper to the inside of the card and sprinkled it with glitter.  Sorry ladies if that makes it 2 layers, but I'm hoping cos it's on the inside it still counts.....

So, I had another go, DEFINITELY one layer this time, and this time it's a double entry as I used pearl misting spray so it's also going to be my entry for this week's CASual Friday "in the mist" challenge.

This time I used a DL base card, scored some lines from the top and the bottom, but not all the way to the middle so I could leave space for my sentiment - another from my new papermania set which I embossed in pearl indigo shimmer.  I masked off the sentiment, and then the space outside the lines and embossed a snowflake outline in white detail powder.  I sponged blue and grey distress inks in the masked off area and then misted them with pearl shimmer spray to blend the colours together and give it a misty shimmer.  I finished each snowflake with a tiny indigo gem in the centre.   Here's a close up but unfortunately the pearl still doesn't show - crappy grey light in Sheffield today.

Right, time to tackle the Christmas presents as they aren't going to make themselves - unless someone has some crafting elves they can spare that is............

Tag you're it!

This weeks challenge at CASual Friday is to make a clean and simple tag or a card with a tag on it.  I don't really make tags - this is my first - and I'm not really thrilled with it but am not sure I can do anything better so it will have to "do" for my entry this week.

I used the colours from this weeks Annabelle stamps challenge which are to say it with "lime, black and white" as my starting point and took a lime tag from a pack I bought a couple of years ago from paperchase.  I then used one of the fabulous birthday pressies from my OH - this gorgeous new stamp and die set from Hero Arts/Sizzix and stamped and embossed the trees and snowflakes directly onto the tag with white detail ep.  I stamped the reindeer in black on white card and cut him out with the matching die - I used a black gel pen to highlight some of the details on him.  The sentiment is from the same set and is embossed in black glitter ep.

Here are the links to the challenges if you want to play too.

http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2011/11/cfc28.html

http://annabellestamps.blogspot.com/2011/11/say-it-inlime-black-white.html

Craftilicious x

off the edge.......

This week's challenge at CAS-ual Friday is to make any card but to have an element of it which falls off the edge of the card itself.  I am most definitely in Christmas card mode at the moment - I seem to be struggling to make anything else - so here's is my off the edge bauble card.

I've really struggled to get a decent photo, but now the dark nights are in my chances of daylight photography are pretty limited and isn't helped by my choice of silver pearl as a base card - sorry :-(   I have used the smallest nestie bauble die to cut out lots of tiny baubles from a double-sided snowflake DP in red and blue, and also from silver mirri.  They were arranged patchwork style using pop dots for dimension and the silver ones at either end "fall" off the edge.  I finished with some blue ribbon (which is a much better match to the blue DP IRL than it seems) and repeated a Merry Christmas sentiment from Waltzingmouse underneath just in black.

I do love the effect and thought I could make a few but it was quite fiddly to put together so maybe I need a more simple design to mass produce!

Catch you laters - Craftilicious x

CASual Sketch

I've not been feeling well today so I've not really been up to crafting, but as I made the VIP club over at CAS-aul Fridays last week, I wanted to play along again.  :-D

This week they have a sketch which is a lovely clean and simple design open for interpretation.  I decided to make a Christmas card for my stash as I have bought a lot of holiday stamps recently and haven't used many.

I started with a 3 inch red square, added a green striped mat and lovely Christmas ribbon.  The bauble is from the new Waltzingmouse release and is embossed onto silver mirri card with red ep and green for the sentiment from the same set.  They were cut with the matching nestie.  Clean, simple and quick so I may make more when I'm feeling better.

Craftilicious x

CASual Witches

This week's challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to make a Halloween card without using any orange.  Well, Halloween isn't such a big deal in the UK so I don't have any use for Halloween cards per say, but I do love witches - so I'm hoping my witch themed card still counts and I haven't missed this challenge since it started.

I've used this cute little digi image that was a great freebie from Michelle Perkett Studios and coloured her copics and cut her out and popped her up on dimensional pads but - it's not showing up on the photo - the problem with flash photography and nighttime blogging!    I printed the sentiment  and just cut it really close and finished with a couple of strips of paper to pull out the colours from the witches clothing.

Here's the link to the challenge if you want to play along - http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2011/10/cfc24.html

Thanks for visiting tonight - have a good weekend.

Craftilicious x

CASual Colours

Back again, this time with my entry for CASual Friday - which is a colour challenge - 3 shades of one colour plus brown and here's my take on it.

It's definately a Waltzingmouse stamps day as my card features only their stamps again.  I've started with a blue top fold base card and I've added my brown in the form of a script embossed chocolate brown strip which overhangs the card.  I've then stamped a WM doily onto white card with aqua ink (shows up better irl than on the photo I'm afraid) and I cut it out, on top of that I stamped a smaller doily from the same set onto aqua card and embossed it with sapphire ep.  I cut that out too and mounted onto the other with foam pads and finished with an aqua pearl centre.  I've then used a WM sentiment "thinkin' about ya" under the brown to finish if off in sapphire but without the ep just the ink so again it isn't show up on the photo as well as it does irl (very poor lighting here today so flash was necessary)

I love the addition of the brown to the blue - not something I'd considered before but from the looks of the other entrants and DT samples - brown could very well be the new black ;-)

Thanks for stopping by - be sure to let me know you've dropped by so I can return the visit
x

Embossed movement

The challenge at CAS-ual Friday this week is to use embossing - either dry or wet, and the challenge this morning at Less is More is to have something on your card which moves - either physically (like a spinner, shaker etc) or an image of something which moves.

I've used a crafts too embossing folder with butterflies on buttercup yellow cardstock, and then I've used the Stampin! Up butterfly embosslit to cut and emboss some more butterflies on kraft paper.  I stuck those on top of some of the embossed buttterflies and added a sentiment from Amy R.  Mounted on black and onto kraft cardstock.

As this is a very "krafty" card, I'm also entering it into The Spotted Chick's "That's Krafty Thursday" challenge too.

I have another couple of idea for both challenges so will see you later.

Craftilicious x

CAS-ual Inky Cake Colours

I'm doing a triple challenge with this card - using the sketch from CAS-ual Friday, the use a new to you inky technique challenge from Less is More, and the colours from annabelle stamps colour challenge which are orange, raspberry and olive.

For the inky technique, I used twinkling H2O's to create the pearly background.  I painted them with a waterbrush onto a brand new rubber eraser and stamped the orange leaving a gap for the green.  I then stamped the cake onto and off centre in raspberry ink and embossed with clear gloss.  I stamped the ribbon and candle in the same ink but without embossing.  The olive greeting is from Waltzingmouse.

I think I cursed the weather with the hot colours though as the blue sky has gone and we're back to grey so I think I may go and make more Christmas cards.....

Craftilicious x

CASual Friday Krafty Men

I was really excited when I saw the challenge at CAS-ual Fridays this morning and wished I didn't have to go to work so I could play immediately.  The challenge is to create a card for men, using kraft cardstock.  Sometimes you just get a challenge which you know was meant for you, and as I received a new cricut cartridge yesterday which is all sports related, then I knew instantly that I could use it for this challenge today - you ladies must have seen my order ;-)

I opted for this great football (I know in the US calling this a football will confuse you, but trust me, here soccer is football and I'd get withering looks for calling it soccer!) in a frame with a matching sentiment, both cut on my expression.  I added white behind the ball for realism and then used my WM frame it stamps to create the white frame within the black diecut one, and to create the corner framed edges to bring the card together.  I think I'm really going to use this cartridge a lot once I get to grips with all it can do.

Have a great weekend.

Craftilicious x