Another Christmas Card!

Happy Friday my friends!

I have another Christmas card for you today. 2 this week!!

I have not played along at the Muse Christmas Visions yet but this week the card by Kimberly really caught my eye. I loved the Christmas scene she had created all in a little circle. Here is my CASE:

I had no idea how to do this and I don't have any curvy dies. I just sat down on the floor with a few punches, dies and scissors until I came up with this. I used lots of slightly different white glitter card so you could see the dimension and the base card has been embossed with my fav. linen embossing folder. This card was fiddly for me to create but was fun playing around to challenge myself to see if I could create a little scene in a circle. 

Thanks Kimberly for this inspiration. Here is Kimberly's card:

I will aslo enter this into the mononchromatic challenges at Virginia's View Challenge and Colour Me

Thanks Kara

Hello all

This week I haven't had much time to craft but today I really wanted to make something but time was short and I needed some quick inspiration. Then I remembered that yesterday Lynn posted that Kara is running a challenge to be inspired by her Friday Inspiration File. I had a look through here and immediately found this card by Kim-loved it and went straight off and cased it using the sketch this week at STAMPlorations-I have used the long sentiment for the strip.

Now I look at this card, I realise how 'me' it really is and guess this is why Kim's card caught my eye...we are attracted to the cards we like to make!

Apologies for the darkish photo!

The sentiment and small circles are from STAMPlorations.

I got my crafting and blogging fix all in 30 mins-amazing what you can do when you get some stunning inspiration and just stick to what you love. For me that is a few stamps, some ink, CAS and pink and grey help!!

I will enter this into:

Kara's Inspiration 200 challenge

STAMPloratons-sketch

CASology-date-this is going to a friend who is celebrating a special 'milestone' Birthday!!

Virginia's View #11-clean slate

Grateful for you!

Happy Friday to you all!

I was inspired yesterday by a few challenges and made this card:

These are the challenges that inspired me:

Winnie and Walter Birthday Bash-one challenge-one layer. This is my first Winnie and Walter set and I am loving it!

One Layer Simplicity Challenge-Opposite attract. I went for colours that are opposite on the colour wheel and 2 fonts that are very opposite but look so good together

Virgina's View Challenge-Clean Slate-lots of white space here!

Darnell's NBUS #3-I only got this sentiment set from Winnie and Walter the other day and haven't used these words yet!

Have a fun day x.

TIME OUT Challenge #16

It is time for me for our CASE challenge with your own twist at TIME OUT Challenges. For this challenge we are very lucky to have the opportunity to CASE one of Heather's card. Heather's blog Bits and Pieces is full of creative and stunning cards and we have this gem to CASE today:



And here is my CASE using the colours, leaves and Autumn theme as inspiration and adding my own CAS twist:

I wanted to enter the One layer Simplicity Challenge-Turning to Fall. I thought falling leaves was perfect and got my lay out from the challenge at Retro Sketches this week-I have used sketch #126. The leaf stamps (Clearly Besotted) are just inked up in various colours. The sentiments are a mix from STAMPlorations.

This week our Guest Designer is the very creative and fun Carol. I just love Carol's cards and her blog Just Me:c is full of inspiring ideas and always fun to read. She is one of the most generous people in blogland always there to give an encouraging comment!

So what does Heather's card inspire you to make? If you need some more inspiration, check out the wonderful cards our DT have created here

Then kick back,take some TIME OUT and get inky!

I will also enter this into the following challenges:

Less is More-Autumn Bounty

Keep it Simple-three

STAMPlorations-anything goes

Virginia's View Challenge-CAS

   

CASology Guest Designer!

Today I am very excited as I am Guest Designing for CASology. I was amazed when I won their 'Fluttering' challenge last week and when asked by Melissa if I wanted to be their GDT for this week it didn't take me long to say 'Yes please!'

The code word for this week is:

and here is my take on this:

I have added Wink of Stella to my splatter and sentiment but it is hard to see in this photo. Purple glitter card....was this made for me!!!

Don't forget to check out what the DT have made for this challenge here

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Virginia's View Challenge-Clean and Simple

STAMPlorations-Anything Goes using STAMPlorations stamps (I have used Sentiment Builders-celebrate)

Just Us Girls-word challenge-celebrate

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