Sunday, September 30, 2012

CFC# 72 - Toot Your Own Horn

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend!!  This Sunday morning - I wanted to do a bit more crafting - and I decided to make another card for the latest CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  This week its all about "ME" - haha - You draw inspiration from you own blog - which is different and fun!  To talk about my own blog - I, probably like a lot of us crafters/bloggers are proud of our blog - and how its turned out.  I've had my blog up and running for two years now and its flown by so fast, but feels just like yesterday too when I decided to create a blog.  I didn't know what they heck I was doing - so I must say I am proud of how far IT and I have come in two years!!  Onto my card that is inspired by my blog!



I drew inspiration from my caricature.  It was actually drawn for me at a craft fair here where I live, and I brought it home and my hubby did his magic on the computer with paint shop and added color as you see it now!  I knew I wanted it to be the focal point of my blog - I never get tired of it!!  I am a card maker - and what more to represent my blog than to create my CAS card with supplies :)  This fun stamp set is from TPC Studio called "Card Crafting".  I actually bought the set off of EBAY. I first dry embossed my white card base with the "Fancy Fan" embossing folder from SU!  I stamped out the envelope, and the glue bottle from white card stock, and added color with some Copics.  Then I thought it would be fun to stamp and emboss my "card" from a piece of Lucky Limeade card stock from SU!  Then, from the Tiny Tags set from SU!, I stamped the "4 YOU" and punched it out with a small heart punch, also from SU! I added some washi tape ( because it seems I can't make a card without it anymore) to represent ribbon and my fun sentiment from the same TPC studio set.  To finish the sentiment off, I added some green jewels from Little Yellow Bicycle.  


Here is another closeup of my card - 










Where do you draw your inspiration???  It is all around us - even within ourselves :)  Have a nice rest of the weekend!!







5 comments:

  1. oooh wow you nailed this challenge! it is SUCH a great take on your banner. All the details are faboosh :)
    -Rachel w k
    rwkrafts.blogspot.com

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  2. I love the caricature of your header~it's so you! Delightful card too~

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  3. Great card and fabulous header! (Umm, no pun intended! LOL!)

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  4. I love it! Your card is fun and full of whimsy just like your header :) So glad you tooted your horn for us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  5. I agree. There ARE too many crafts and there ISN'T enough time. Or money. Mostly it's about the money.

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