CAS #15

This week's CAS-ual Friday challenge uses a sketch from the Clean and Simple Stamping blog.

Here's my card:

Not sure how I feel a about this one. The sketch felt really crowded on my card, probably because the stamp I used was so large. Anyway, I really struggled to pull this one together - this was my 2nd attempt and I still don't know that I'm completely happy with it. 

Well, phooey.

Apparently I wasn't paying any attention to the date when I sat down to create my challenge cards this week. I finished both my Mojo Monday and Play Date Cafe cards in plenty of time, but forgot to post and link them before the deadlines! Ugh. Oh well; I can still post them here.

Here's the Mojo Monday #203 sketch:

And here's my card:

The Play Date Cafe #94 colors this week were Fudge, Goldenrod, and Teal:

Here's my card. Trying to make some more masculine agape cards, since the men's Emmaus walk is coming up in September. 

Simply LOVING my new Verve stamps I just purchased recently! 

Play Date Cafe #93

Super excited about this week's Play Date Cafe colors! Watermelon, Sorbet, and Lime. Great for the summer, and let's face it - anytime you involve any type of pink and lime green together I'm gonna be excited!

Mom asked me to make a birthday card for our friend Diane, whose birthday is Monday. I thought these colors would work well for her card - she's fun and spunky like they are. : ) So glad I still had some this polka dot ribbon in my drawer -

Happy Birthday Diane!

CAS #14

This week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge was to use some glitter and some glue dots on a clean & simple card. I had never used glue dots before. They're pretty cool - other than the dilemma of how to get them off the roll without distorting them (I found pressing the dots to the paper without trying to peel them off the roll worked the best). Needless to say, a bit of a learning experience. And I don't usually mess with glitter since it makes such a mess, but the glue dots hold it pretty well, so I may have to start putting some glitter on some of my other projects. Anyway, enough chit-chat, here's my card:

Mojo Monday #202

Mojo Monday again! Here's the sketch:

And here's what I came up with:

I saw the technique for making the flower in the latest Paper Crafts magazine and decided to give it try. I raided my sewing boxes for the rick rack - it came out pretty cool! 

Here's a close up:

The Play Date Cafe PDCC92

The Play Date Cafe is all about color. It's also cool because you're not limited to cards or scrapbooking (which means I will be doing some jewelry for this one at some point!) Anyway, this weeks colors are Coral, Petal Pink, and Antique Gold. I confess, I have never used coral for anything! It's an interesting color. I ended up making 2 different cards as I was playing around with my papers.

CAS-ual Fridays CDC13

Challenge blog find #2! CAS-ual Fridays is all about keeping your designs Clean And Simple. This week's challenge was to make a 4 x 9 card.

I took an idea from another card I had done and simplified it down to a single flower.

I may have to try this size card again, it presents some interesting design challenges/possibilities. 

Mojo Monday #201

I don't remember how I found them, but I have stumbled onto several new (what I call) challenge blogs - and I'm hooked! The first one I tried is called Mojo Monday. Each week they post a sketch, and then you create something and post a link back on their site. Here's this week's sketch: 

I was a little intimidated by how many different things there are on the sketch - I don't usually do ribbons, bows or tags, and I've never made a circle or square card either. I happened to find this great combination of papers while going through some of my scraps, and the matching buttons, and the rest seemed to fall into place. I am VERY happy with how it came out! 

Christmas in July

Yesterday was a card-making day (lots of posts to come), and I finally got to try an idea I found a while back on a blog called Stamping with Roxie. It's a snow globe with actual water in it! In the card! It took me a couple of tries to find the right glitter (it has to be very, very fine - the first kind I used floated and then got all stuck together - ugh). But I finally got it to work - and it's pretty darn cool. Anyhow, here's the finished card!

Te he! A totoro!

Homage to my favorite childhood movie, My Neighbor Totoro. I used my versa mark pen to draw and emboss the totoro, then colored the whole card front with my new chalks. The acorns inside the sweet treat cup are made out of sculpy clay. 

A Little Bit of Love (Sew Easy Project)

Cards made using the "Love" stitch on the Sew Easy. The funny thing is I originally wasn't sure I even wanted this stitch head (it was my least favorite of the new ones). I'm sure glad I have it now though - otherwise I wouldn't have been able to make these:

 

 

 

Card Frenzy

Eek! I haven't posted in a while.

For whatever reason, the past few days I have been making a lot of cards. Birthday, agape, etc. Instead of posting a bunch of individual pics, I threw them all on one. Enjoy. (all but 4 below were made in the last 2 days!)