Calling All Sistahs July Challenge

Hi Sistahs,


I am here with our monthly Calling All Sistahs Encouragement challenge from CAS-ual Fridays. Our little bunch of Sistahs are all about raising awareness for Breast Cancer and would love you to join our monthly challenge.

What do we mean by an 'Encouragement' card? Well anything that would brighten someone's day. I am sure you have plenty of ideas of how to do this and make cards like this every time you sit down you craft. So why not share them with us?

We have a photo and some colours to inspire you. Use either the photo or the colours-you don't need to use both but can if you want.

Here I have used the CAS-ual Fridays Stamp set 'Breathe'

I was a bit stuck here at first with this photo but suddenly inspiration struck me looking at the lower part of the photo and the stripes of colour on the back board-not sure exactly what they are but they gave me the idea of using the stripes from this set in our colours. And the sentiment would surely encourage any one that needed it!

Here is how you play along:

1. Make a card that will brighten someone's day inspired by the photo or colours or both.

2. Link up here by 12am EST on the 13th of June

3. Share with your friends and followers so we can get the word out about our challenge.

One person will win a $25 gift code to use on anything in the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps store.  All products are welcome, but if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps or dies on your card, Michele will DOUBLE your prize!!!

My fellow Sistahs have all made amazing cards-check them out here and then get inky!

Make someone happy today with a very special card from you!

Can't wait to see your cards!

Enjoy xx

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Calling All Sistahs July Reminder

Hi There Sistahs,

I am here today as part of the Calling All Sistahs design team, to help raise awareness of Breast Cancer and the importance of doing that monthly self breast exam. It takes 5 mins-check out how to do that here.

Michele, owner and designer of CAS-ual Friday Stamps designed a special line of stamps and dies to help raise awareness of Breast Cancer-you can check them out here. Michele donates 50% of the profit from these to National Breast Cancer Awareness.

Here is my reminder card for this month:

Here I have used the following products from CAS-ual Friday Stamps

Word Ribbon Stamp set

Hope Ribbon stamp set

Ruffled Ribbon Die

All our Design Team have made amazing cards-check them out here.

We would love you to go shopping from this range to help us raise awareness of Breast Cancer and if you do and use the code 'cas comfort' you get a discount!

Come back tomorrow as I will be here with our monthly 'Calling All Sistahs' challenge!!

Have a super day and don't forget to put 5 mins aside to do that self exam!

Have a fun day x

    

Inkspirational #165

Hi All

Time for a new challenge at Inkspirational

It is our Word Prompt and the word is:

'Birthday'

Nice and easy and I made a masculine card for this:

Using my fav combo of colours for cards-purple and yellow.

This doe was a pressie from a crafting buddy and sure made it easy to make this card.

Hope you will join us but before you do check out what our amazing DT have made to inspire you-here

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Addicted to Stamps and More-6th Birthday Celebration-congrats to Kylie and her team!

Christmas in July!

Hi There,

Popping in with a CAS card for the Christmas challenge at AAA cards

This card was inspired by DT member Maaike with this card. Her card reminded me I have this stamp. I had to think hard on how to CASE her card so it wasn't a complete copy and think I got there-Thanks Maarike for the inspiration.

I used delicata ink to stamp my reindeer onto this pretty frame. The background card was used as I thought it had a woody feel to it. Just added a few gold enamel dots and a sentiment-both from the sponsors of this challenge Happy Little Stampers.

Enjoy your day.

Super!

Hi There

Popping in with a card inspired by the latest challenge at The Library Challenge.

Here is what I created:

 Marina is challenging us to be inspired by the book 'Hollywood Wive's'. You can be inspired by the Title, the Book Cover or the Story.

I was inspired by the Hollywood in the title...they are all super stars in Hollywood!

My layout I got from the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch

I was actually in the middle of making a watercolouring card when this idea just popped in my head and off I went and made this. The other card will have to wait until another day now...at the least what I have water coloured so far will be dry!!

Have a fun day x

      

Olive and Tangerine!!

Hi There,

This week I haven't crafted much but today I found some mojo when some new goodies I had ordered yesterday from Uniko arrived this morning!

One of those goodies was the Gerbera Dies-I have had the stamps for ages and finally decided to buy the matching dies and made this card:

I heat embossed the gerbera stamp in white then die cut it before water colouring it in orange. I heat embossed the sentiment in tangerine embossing powder.

I used a left over frame from my stash box-it was left over from cutting a fishtail tag! I found some old 'olive' coloured card and just layered this behind my frame. Then went about arranging it, until I was happy with the result.

Enjoy your weekend x

A lat minute entry into AAA Cards challenge-use a frame

Also entering into:

Less is More-olive and tangerine

CAS-ual Fridays-Heat Embossing

CAS Mix Up Challenge-colour your die cuts, stamping and your choice-water colouring and heat embossing.

The Library Challenge-The Rose Garden-my inspiration coming from flowers and 'gardens' being part of the story.

       

    

Time Out Challenge #113

Hi There,

Time for a new challenge and we have our 'Inspired by Words' challenge and the words are:



What a beautiful quote! 

You can use any of these words, just one or the whole phrase-hard to choose we know!!

I went with 'Smile' and created this:

I have used a wonderful star stencil from our sponsor today Sarah who has her own store full of goodies that you can find here. The winner of this challenge will get 3 stencils of their choice from this fabulous store. You can check out Sarah's Instagram account here to see her cards using her stencils-they are fab!!

I simple sponged through the stencil using this as my background and then heat embossed the 'Smile' from the CAS-ual Fridays 'Sassy Smiles' stamp set. Using the part of the same stamp set I white heat emboss the rest of the sentiment on black card and popped it up. Added a few star enamel dots and done!

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very creative Amanda. Her blog Diamond Laine Designs is a delight to visit and full of stunning cards-pop on over there now and you will love what you see!

Amanda and the DT have created some stunning cards for you-check them out here and then get inky!

Enjoy!

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