CAS Camera

The challenge this week at There She Goes Stamps is to make a CAS card and as I love their stamps and CAS is my style, I had to join in  http://tsgclearstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/tsg210-cas.html

I decided to use this weeks' sketch from CAS(E) this sketch http://casethissketch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/cts-31.html  and the colours from Play Date Cafe http://theplaydatecafe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/gorgeous-great-impressions.html   and this is what I came up with when I combined all 3 challenges into one CAS card.

I went with a favourite stamp set - Oh Snap - and my favourite of the camera images from it coupled with a film canister.  I coloured both with copics and did a bit of layering of the camera and lense to add dimension adding a little glitter and glossy accents cos CAS doesn't have to be bland.  To follow the sketch I used a little striped DP (fancy pants) and a strip of really fun film cell washi tape.  I finished with a sentiment from the same set in versafine deep lagoon.

Say Cheese!

I'm combining a couple of my favourite challenges tonight - this really fun and funky sketch from CASe this sketch http://casethissketch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/case-this-sketch-23.html  was the perfect jumping off point for me to work out how to tackle this weeks colour combo over at There She Goes stamps http://tsgclearstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/tsg202-color-challenge.html

I paper pieced the fun camera from their superb "Oh Snap" set with 2 shades of yellow and some DP - all from my scrap drawer so I'll link it up to Di's Sunday Snippets challenge too - been ages since I made it into the playground.  I added a little glitter for the flash and some liquid black pearl from the lens.

I die cut a film strip (MFT die) from some blue card and backed it with a little blue vellum and stamped the Say cheese! sentiment from the same set over the top and finished with 3 yellow sequins just because I can't get enough of them and bought a stupid amount of colours!

Camera Window

I'm back to cross off another card off the list of the challenge I've set myself to complete all 75 challenges in this Paper Crafts special issue.   This one however is also one of the challenges picked out by Cath as a Moxie Fab challenge so I am naturally going to enter it to the challenge there too  http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/01/75-creative-card-challenges-week_8.html

This particular challenge is No 60 on the list (you can see all the ones I've completed here) and is simply to use a window on your card.   I made this card for my husband, who loves photography so I decided to make my "window" the lens of a camera.  The camera which was a design I cut  using my silhouette and pieced together the layers after colouring with copics.  I added some vellum to the flash area and covered in it stickles and added a red gem for the light.  I used a gate fold kraft base card and added a sentiment from PTI's movers and shakers on the outside with it's partner sentiment on the inside.  It was a little plain so I added some dotted lines for interest around the edges and took care the line the camera up so the lens was in the middle of the card which is important when you see the inside.....

I also included the shutter on the inside of the card, and when they open, they reveal a hidden image - cute n'est pas?  I learnt how to make the shutter part of the card using the magic marquee technique from a class I took last year taught by the marvelous Julie Ebersole - don't you just love her laugh?   I could listen to her videos all day long she just brightens my day!   This was why my lens had to be centralised, or the mechanism wouldn't have opened fully.

I stamped the cameras from the "Oh Snap" set from There She Goes - one of my all time favourite stamp sets to add interest to the inside and popped the sentiment on a red banner to make it pop - its quite small on the photo but it reads "a birthday as special as you are".

Finally, inside my second window I hid my other favourite There She Goes set - one of the little solid "Lovebot" images which is only revealed when you fully open the "shutter".

It was quite a fiddly card to make, but I had fun doing it and gave a little whoop of satisfaction when I finally got the shutter mechanism working smoothly (tip - a nice shiny coated card stock really helps here)