Warmest of Wishes

Hi ya'll! :)  I wanted to pop in this evening and share with you my submission for the latest CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  It is all about Birthdays ( in particular - Michele's birthday! HB Michele!)

This card is also going up for my second submission for the PDCC because of the color scheme.

Here is my card:

I stamped my card using this set by Paper Smooches.  I just love, love this pattern!!  I stamped it in Dandelion and Gray Flannel Memento Ink.  Then I die cut one of the Apothecary labels from the exclusive die set from Simon Says Stamp, and I then I colored my label my using this ink, and let it dry a bit before stamping my sentiment from this set also from Simon Says Stamp.  I stamped that in Versa Fine black ink.  To finish off my card I added this "always" wood chip piece that I just LOVE!  

See you soon!

CFC#93 Color Block

*This is my second post today* Scroll down if you are here to see the LSC post*

SUCH a long time since I have played along with the CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  This challenge looked interesting to me since I LOVE color - its all about creating a clean and simple card featuring a color block.  This gave me a fun chance to play with my new PTI "HELLO" die from their latest release. I thought it would be fun to use some of my EVER growing washi collection too!

I picked out some solid washi tape colors which coincidentally is also the colors for the PlayDate Cafe Challenge for this week - so I am also entering this card into that challenge also.  So - I put down my washi tape on a piece of white card stock that I had in my scrap pile, and die cut my "hello" sentiment.  I adhered it to my white cardbase, and added some gems that went well with my washi tape colors.  I had a section of the color blocked washi left and I thought it would be fun to adhere it to the top left of my card to round out everything.  

Hope everyone has a nice rest of the weekend!!  See you back here on the blog soon!

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!!

CAS-ual Friday - #71 Fall Fun

Hope all of you are having a good Monday - I won't even go into the Monday I am having - so I will digress and share with all of you my project for the latest CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  You can tell around my area that fall is here - the cooler temps, the turning of the leaves - my favorite time of the year.  So - it was fun to create this fall themed card!

I started out with a 4.25 square piece of Vintage Cream card stock from PTI - and used my Hero Arts Woodgrain background stamp to add texture to my card stock.  I stamped out some leaves from Stampin' Up cling set called "Gently Falling" - this is actually a two step stamp set - but I just used the outlined portion.  I stamped out all of my leaves onto pattern paper that I purchased from Michael's that is a 6 x 6 pad from AC.  I then "fussy cut" out all of the leaves.   I added some pretty Glitter tape from AC as well as some Perfect Pearls Mists for some shine and shimmer to my fall card.  My sentiment comes from a Lawn Fawn set called Many Thanks.  The stamp is actually one line - but I stamped it out into a two lined sentiment.  I punched that out with a Stampin Up punch - I forget the name of this punch ( sorry).  

Here is a close up of the shimmer if you can see it.  

Are the fall colors turning where you live????  It would be fun to capture that in pictures :)

**By the way I wanted add that Katie from KB Stamps and Chari from MossyMade nominated me for the Liebster Blog award.  I am honored that these talented ladies thought of me for this award.  Thank you to you both!!

ABOUT THE AWARD

This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you've been nominated, you award it to blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers, to encourage new visitors to visit these new blogs.

RULES FOR ACCEPTANCE

Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog. Post the award onto your blog. Give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers. Leave a comment on their blog letting them know that you have given them this awesome award!

PAY IT FORWARD
Here are the five blogs that I'm nominating. These ladies are fabulous!!  You won't be disappointed by the talent that these ladies bring to the blog world!!  Check 'em out!!

1) - Yainea - I can't say enough wonderful things about her!  Her talent is out of this world and she is an absolute sweet heart!! 

2) Rachel - She was my first blog/crafty friend so she holds a special place in my heart and she loves her Paper Smooches stamps :)

3) - Kelly - This girl has a heart of gold and she is uber talented! I just love her style!!

4) - Kim - Fellow DT member with Sweet Stamp Shop and all around fantastic crafter!

5) Stephanie - The moment I saw her blog I was hooked and she's done some awesome video tutorials as well! Very talented!!

Again Thanks to Chari and Katie :)

CAS-ual Friday Challenge # 67 - Banners/Flags

Good Evening my friends - I wanted to share with you my submission for the latest CFC - Banners and Flags.  I haven't played with CAS-ual Fridays in several weeks - and thought this would be a fun one!!  I will just get right into it.  I used my Stampin' Up Mini Banner Framelits to die cut out several different pattern papers from the Echo Park Sweet Day 6 x 6 pad.

I adhered all of my banners to a piece of Kraft card stock and, then I dry embossed the whole panel with my Herringbone embossing folder.  It gives the effect that the banners are already in the kraft card stock!!  Love this look.  I made my own custom sentiment with some Hero Arts Micro White Letters.  I did use my Copic marker in Prawn R24.  I used dimensionals to adhere my sentiment to my card panel, and then adhered that to my SSS 120 lb. card base.  

Here is closer look at the embossing.

This card would be a great card for a student, since school is just starting!!  It would be a great encouragement card to keep them motivated through the upcoming school year!!

Have a great remainder of the weekend!!!

CFC#61 - Let's Strip

Happy Sat. everyone!!  So happy it is the weekend - but like every weekend, it will go like the speed of light!!  So - I am taking advantage as much as I can and doing a little crafting today.  I'd like to share with you what I am submitting into the latest CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  Use strips of card stock, pattern paper, washi tape - what ever you can think of to create a clean and simple project. 

I thought it would be fun to use strips of AC glitter tape to mimic the flash of a camera - so I first stamped my beloved Polaroid camera image from one of my favorite Lawn Fawn sets - Say Cheese. 

 

I stamped my camera onto on yummy chevron pattern paper from Amy Tangerine- Sketch Book line from AC.  My sentiment actually comes from the sticker element sheet from Simple Stories - Fab-U-lous.  

 

To finish off - just added some faux stitching to tie everything together.  Pretty fun card.  Hope the girls at CAS-ual Fridays like it, too :)  Have a nice rest of the weekend everyone.  Do some crafting - or whatever makes YOU happy!!  

See you soon!

 

CFC#59 - Round and Round

Good Afternoon bloggers - First - To all the Canadians out there - Happy Canada Day!  I'm back to share with you my submission for the latest CAS-ual Friday Challenge - Round and Round.  Isn't there a song with that title??  Anyway, the challenge is to make a clean and simple card incorporating two circles - I technically  used more - but the circles are intertwined :)  I used a SU! background stamp for my design.  Check it out.

I heat embossed my background onto different colored card stocks from both SU! and Paper Trey Ink. I applied my color block panel with dimensional adhesive onto my card base which is Simon Says Stamp 120 lb weight card stock.  My sentiment comes from Stampendous called Happy Messages.  I also adhered that to my card with dimensional adhesive.   Pretty simple card - but the different colored card stocks really makes this card in my opinion.  

Here is another look - 

Thanks for stopping in!!  Have a nice rest of the weekend!!

CFC#57 Challenge: Clear as Day

Helloooo!  Kari back with you to share a card I have made for the CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  I haven't submitted an entry to this challenge for a few weeks, and thought I would get back into the swing of things.  I haven't had the CAS mojo, so I opted out for a little bit.  This week challenges us to use either acetate or vellum on our projects.  I have only made a few "clear" cards - and they CAN be challenging.  So - I thought I would break out my acetate - and THIS is what I came up with.

It is very warm afternoon here - and I was inspired by the birds that take a bird bath on a hot summer day.  So - I have these cute card stock stickers from Echo Park's Hello Summer line.  I first punched out some cloud images from masking paper, and applied them to my white card stock insert.  I then used some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and applied it to my card stock to create my sky.  I removed my masks - and you are left with a beautiful sky.  I took the adorable bird on a limb sticker and applied it to the outside of my acetate card and put some pop dots to create some dimension between my white card stock insert and my acetate card base.  I then added this cute butterfly sticker to add a bit more of color.  My sentiment is from Unity and Authentique called Direction of Happy.  

Here is another look at my card.

I hope that you are having a nice fulfilled weekend!!  

CFC# 51 - Happy Birthday!

Monday, Monday...I'm actually enjoying Monday today as I am on vacation, and free to be crafty a little bit more this week than usual.  This morning, I wanted to share my card for this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  Over at the blog, they are celebrating their 1st birthday.  So - its all about making birthday cards!!

Who doesn't love getting a birthday card - and to me birthday cards are suppose to be colorful!  Since its CAS-ual Friday's birthday, I wanted to incorporate the logo's birthday colors - blue and yellow.  I love this embossing folder!  And - I thought the sentiment went well with the occasion.  It comes from Stampology.  I stamped my balloons from one of my Fiskars stamp sets ( sorry, I don't have the name on this set).  

So - Happy Birthday CAS-ual Fridays!!  Here to many more happy birthdays and fun challenges. :o)

Have a great day, everyone!

- Kari

CFC # 2 - April Showers.....

Hello everyone!  Hope everybody's week is going smoothly!  I wanted to pop in real quick, and share with all of you my second  submission to this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  I got inspired today by seeing one of my very first cards I ever made!!  I have an embossing folder that I haven't used in a VERY long time, and had  the idea today to use it on another submission.  As I mentioned in my first post - the "theme" is to made a CAS card inspired by trees or flowers since we are celebrating Spring time!  So - I got home - and I thought it would be pretty cool to do "color embossing" ( that is what I call it at least).

All of my inks are my much loved Memento Inks - Lulu Lavender, Dandelion, Summer Sky and Angel Pink.  To add a bit of color to my embossed flower, I took my Copic Markers G05, and FYG2.  I added a pink gem in the middle of the flower to finish it off.   It turned out so cool!!  I feel it represents Spring, don't you!!  

Take Care!!

- Kari

CFC: April Showers Bring May Flowers

We are starting another week, and thought I would start by making a clean and simple card for this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  This time we are challenged to make a CAS card featuring trees and or flowers since Spring is here.  One of my favorite SU! sets that I have is Trendy Trees, and I haven't played with it in a long time, so I thought I would get it out, and use it for my card.

In order to use this set properly, you will need to use a stamp-ma-jig, which is something else I haven't played with in a while.  It was fun stamping these trees in spring like colors.  Brings so much "happy" to the card, in my opinion.  I wanted to do add "something" to the card besides my tree images, so I just made a border on my card base by scoring the outer edges.  I punched out my trees with a 1 3/4 circle punch and popped them up on my card.  The colors I stamped the trees in are SU! colors Pink Passion, Daffodil Delight, and Lucky Limeade.  The tree trunks I stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa ink.  

I wanted to add a simple sentiment to my card - and this "Hello" sentiment comes from the Stampendous set, "Happy Messages".

In other news - I am looking forward to Friday for two reasons, one to see who has been chosen as this weeks challenge winners, and two I will be on 11 days of leisure!!  May 4th- 14th, I call VACATION!  I am so looking forward to the time!! 

I feel there will be shopping in my future for craft goodies during this time. :o)  Everyone have a nice week!!

- Kari

CAS-ual Friday Challenge : Sketch

Good Monday Evening to you all - I just finished making my submission for this week's CFC. This week is a sketch we had to follow.  I played around with a couple of ideas - and then my eye's met all of my Ranger Blending Tools for my Distress Inks - and thought - "hmmm - I could do something different with those".  So - I picked to bright Distress Inks - Ripe Persimmon and Mustard Seed, inked up each of my blending tools really well, and applied the ink straight down.  No blending - nothing - so it would take on the shape of that blending tool.

Then, I cut out the middle of the two rectangles and thought of my sentiment I was using.  I thought having little twinkling stars went well with my sentiment from Hero Arts.  It is hard to tell, but I added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to my stars.  I popped up my card panel from my card base for dimension - and I edged my panel with Black Soot Distress Ink to make it pop against my card base.  

That concludes my take on this challenge!  See you on the flip side :o)

- Kari

CAS challenge - Opposites Attract

It's that time again to show you my submission for this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge - Opposites Attract.  Like most of us I love color!! So, this week we had to choose to opposite colors on the color wheel for our CAS projects.  I choose yellow and purple! I started out by stamping my houndstooth pattern from my Paper Smooches set Debonair.  I just love this set!  It is awesome, people!!  I stamped one in Grape Jelly Memento Ink, and the other in Dandelion Memento Ink.  I love the coverage that these inks give me on photopolymer stamps.

Then I picked some paper flowers from my stash that were yellow and purple, and added black in the middle to compliment my sentiment, which comes from HA set Sky's The Limit.  I popped up my card panel on foam adhesive, and called it done.  I love the contrast of these two colors.  I hope it makes you smile, like it does me!!

Stay Inspired my friends!!  Be back soon!

- Kari

CAS-ual Friday Challenge - Name That Tune

So I made it through another Monday!!  YAY!!  Hope the rest of the week goes as smooth as today did.  I couldn't wait to get home and make my submission for this week's CFC - Name That Tune.  Make CAS card inspired by a song.  Since Lionel Richie recently came out with an album of his greatest hits with a country flair - it brought to my mind one of my favorite songs of his - "Stuck on You".  I have loved this song since I was a child.  It brings back so many wonderful memories of my mom putting his albums on while cleaning the house - and I would sing along!  Good Times :o)  So - I that song inspired me for my idea for this weeks challenge.

I had some really cute alpha stamps that I hadn't used yet by Inkadinkado - and I inked up most of the alphas in Versa Mark and inked up my Hero Arts Kraft note card.  For the letter "U" - I wanted it to stand out - and so I inked it up in Lady Bug Red Memento Ink.  My letters I applied to some vellum card stock, and to enhance the red letter "U", I added strips of red card stock.  I did some faux stitching with my Uniball Signo Broad White gel pen.  Hope this card inspires you to listen to some Lionel!  :o)

See you soon!!

-Kari

CAS-ual Friday #44

It is CAS-ual Friday time!  This week "It's easy as 1-2-3".  It can't get any more simple that this - create a CAS card with a pattern, image and sentiment!
From last SU! workshop, I had earned one of the hostess sets - Ain't Love Grand.  I loved this set from the time I saw it in the latest catalog.  So happy that I was able to earn it before my SU Demo "retired" from being a demo.  Now, I will be the first to admit, I am not the best when it comes to Copic coloring, because I am still learning, but in my opinion this came out pretty decent.  I punched out my image with 1 3/4" circle punch, and then adhered that to a scallop circle.  Then, from my new Paper Smooches border set Debonair, I stamped that to the bottom of my card base.  I added some trim to complete my border, and added my sentiment " Ain't Love Grand".

This would make a cute card for any newly married couple!  Or that couple keeping the LOVE alive :o)

Thanks for visiting!! 

:o) - Kari

CAS-ual Friday Challenge 41: Jest for the Pun of it.

What a beautiful Sunday afternoon it has turned out to be.  I wanted to share with all of you my entry for this week's CFC - Jest for the Pun of it.  Make a clean a simple card, with a "punny" sentiment.  This time I chose two different stamp sets from Hampton Art- owls, and woodland animals 1 .  I love this cute lil owl, and the sentiment that goes with it.  Who doesn't love owls?!  I stamped my owl on a piece of PTI white card stock, and stamped the same owl onto patterned paper from My Minds Eye 6 x 6 paper pad, A Happy Heart, and paper- pieced the owl onto my white card base.   I am becoming a paper fanatic for  6 x 6 paper pads - especially My Minds Eye. I finished off my card with some patterned paper stitched together, and some stickles for a bit of pop.

A cute little simple card this week.  Well, I'd better get busy doing other things around the house before the weekend ends :)  I will be back soon to share another project with all of you :)


- Kari

CAS-ual Friday Challenge - Penguin Suit ( third and final )

Gosh - This challenge has really got my creative juices flowing!! I am back again for the third time today to share my third and final ( I promise ) submission for this challenge. I will make this short and sweet, so what I did was you call the "split negative" technique. VERY FUN!! Looks super cool too!! Take a look!!

My sentiment comes from Hero Arts set called "Friends". I love this set. It has some very nice sentiments!! OK - That's it from me today!! Third times a charm right!! :) See you all next time!! Kari

CAS-ual Friday Challenge - Penguin Suit # 2

Yes - I am back. I decided to go ahead and make another card since I was in crafty mode!! So this time I took out one of my HA stamp sets that I hadn't really used yet, and have had for a while.

This type writer is so cute, and this set comes with three different sentiments! This one is my favorite out of all of them. I used some black enamel accent by Ranger to bring out the type writer keys. Here is a closer look. Gives them a bit more dimension.

I enjoy entering into these challenges - because it is just that a challenge to see where your creativity takes you. I am hoping one day that I will have the winning project!! I will be over the moon happy. One day my day will come!! Thanks for visiting!! See you soon!! - Kari

CAS-ual Friday : Penguin Suit

Good Afternoon! So I'm sharing with you all this afternoon my submission for the latest CAS-ual Friday challenge. Pretty simple really on the concept. Make a black and white card. You know I haven't made too many black and white cards. Don't know why - know real reason really, but nonetheless I wanted to enter this challenge. I do have a confession. I started out making a completely different card than the one shown, which was an actual penguin card, but after the advice of my husband ( I asked ), I decided not to do that. So - here is what I did come up with. I am also thinking of doing another one as well - we will see. For now - here is my first entry :o)

I love doilies!! They can really make an impact on a card. This one is from Stampin' Up! This is all one layer card. My sentiment comes from Paper Smooches, and the tag image comes from Inkadinkado. Hope you all like! I might be back to share another submission...we will see! Have a nice rest of the weekend!! - Kari

CAS-ual Friday Challenge #35 - Highs and Lows

Hi crafters-

I am back to share with you my submission to the current CAS-ual Friday Challenge. This time it is creating a clean and simple card using scallops!! Easy - Peazy!! For my card, I envisioned nothing but color!!! I also wanted to use my newest Paper Smooches stamp set!! I thought what a better and simple way to create my card is use a big scalloped circle and add lots of color!!!!

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!! Mine so far as been pretty "Cas-ual". HAHA. Thanks for stopping in!!! See ya next time!!


- Kari