Celebrate May!

Welcome to May!

I made a card last night inspired by a few challenges. 

First the card:

I was browsing blogland and came across this dramatic and stunning dress at Runway Inspired Challenge

Wouldn't you just love to wear this?

This dress reminded me that at Addicted to CAS the code words are black, white and gold. 

I then saw the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and was inspired by Leigh's use of vellum, check it out here

With all this inspiration...crafting I went!  

Enjoy the first day of May!

       

Fun with Balloons!

A very Happy day to you all!

I have been doing quite a lot of water colouring recently-more cards to show you next week!

After doing all this water colouring I was in the mood for a 'stamp and go' card. A quick stamp and off I go!

I saw the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and decided it was all the inspiration I needed to 'stamp and go'

A quick one layer card using different shades of green so I could enter the 'green' challenge at Addicted to CAS

Even the masking was quick and easy. This was fun to make and I think I need to make a few more 'stamp and go' cards as I feel I need more of a fix!!

All these stamps are from Uniko-check out our latest 'Anything Goes' challenge here-you can use any stamp not just Uniko stamps and lots of prizes up for grabs.

Also this card could be entered into our 'CAS' challenge at Time Out-check it out here-CAS-ual Fridays Stamps to be won here.

Here are the 2 challenges I will enter my card into

CAS(E) this Sketch

Addicted to CAS-GREEN

     

Addicted to CAS #54 and Goodbye

Today at Addicted to CAS our challenge is hosted by the very creative Shana and she has chosen the following code word:



I decided to use my new die from Clearly Besotted Stamps for this code word-all families live in 'Homes!!'

I have gone a bit crazy with the embossing here and although hard to see from this photo I have popped the little houses up on foam pads for dimension. The snowflakes and sentiment are both from Uniko Studio.

We are sponsored by Stamp Art design and you could win some of their fab digis!

Our DT have all made some great cards and you can see them here

Now it is your turn!

I will enter this into:

The Mixed Media Card Challenge-home

Just us Girls-mixed media

This is my last DT post for Addicted to CAS and I would love to thank all the team for their support and inspiration whilst I have been on this amazing team. And finally to thank Kylie for being such a super team leader-highly organised, efficient and full of fun-thanks for choosing me to be on this team. I am still on Kylie's team at Addicted to Stamps and More so you can't get rid of me too easily!!

     

Addicted to CAS #51

How about you welcome in November by joining in our challenge at Addicted to CAS?

Our hostess for this challenge is the very creative and inspiring crafter Vicki and she has chosen the following code word:



Here is my take:

I am not a fan of making tags so decided to take a different approach to this code word. When I was young (many, many moons ago!) we used to play 'tag'....a run and chase game where if you are 'it' you have to run around and catch someone else, 'tag' them and they are 'it'. I wasn't sure if in every country you play this or it is known by the same name? With all the 'tagging' blog hops going on at the moment I thought you would get the idea.

The children playing tag here are cut out from using a silhouette cutting machine (thanks to Marina who did this for me when I had a crafting play date with her). It took me ages to come up with a sentiment to match my image. I did some stamp surgery on the 'city scene' sentiment set from PTI to come up with this one.

This month we have Linda joining us as our Guest Designer. Check out here inspiring blog here .Then see what she and the DT have created here to inspire you this week.

Sponsoring us this week is Stamp Art Designs, their digis are wonderful and you could win some by joining in with us at Addicted to CAS

So what do you call 'tag' where you live???

Have fun!

Addicted to CAS #50

We have a fun challenge for you this week at Addicted to CAS chosen by the lovely Marie. She has chosen this code word:



I had fun with this and tried out using pink embossing powder on vellum. See what you think:

I stamped this butterfly stamp from Uniko Studios directly onto the card and then onto some white card and some vellum. I fussy cut the white card and vellum and layered them up. 

Our Guest Designer for this month is wonderfully creative Hannelie, you can check out here vellum card here where you will also see all the fabulous inspiration our DT have for you this week.

We are very lucky to have Scribbles Design as our sponsors this week-check out their store here

Now it is your turn your turn to get creative with vellum and I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Enjoy!

I will enter this into the 'Emboss it' challenge at CAS on Sunday

Addicted to CAS #49

Time for a new Addicted to CAS challenge. This week our wonderful team leader Kylie has chosen the code word and it is:

Our Guest Designer this week is Hannelie. Hannielie is so very creative and if you are not aware of her blog Desert Diva I urge you to visit her blog and I guarantee you will be inspired!

I only have one stencil and using that I came up with this:

I was crafting with my friend Marina last weekend and she has some embossing paste. I have never used this and was eager to have a play. Marina was very patient with me and taught me how to use this. I used my stencil and the paste to cover some white card. When I got home I was a bit stuck what to do with it. Then I came up with the idea of die cutting it. I thought it might all crack up but it works really well. 

I just layered up some plain 'happy' dies and stuck by stencil/embossing paste 'Happy' on the top. Used my fav linen embossing folder to add more texture. I love how this turned out. Used my fav Xmas colour combo to stamp my Uniko snowflakes and I have another Xmas card to add to my collection.

Our DT have all come up with fabulous examples for you, check them out here. We are sponsored by Stamp Art Designs-you could win some of their fab digis!

I will enter this into the following challenges:

Virginia's View Challenge-CAS

STAMPlorations October Challenge-stamp and embossing

Marina's Festive 48 challenge-any Xmas cards go

Christmas Card Challenges-Anything Goes

eclectic ellapu-purple team-embossing paste/texture