Happy Little Stampers February CAS Challenge

Hi All

We are back at Happy Little Stampers with a new 'Clean and Simple' card and this time the challenge is:

Blue

Here is my card:

I went with 'feeling blue'.

My fav kind of card-one layer and stamping only.

All my stamps are from Happy Little Stampers set Rainy Days. I love the curly cloud in this set.

Just finished off the card with my linen embossing plate and curved one corner.

The winner of this challenge will get a $15 discount voucher for the store.

Our DT have all made amazing cards-check them out here and then get inky!

I will enter this into:

SisterHood of Crafters-Simply Made-one layer cards

Time Out Challenge #76

Hi All

We have a new challenge starting today at Time Out Challenges.

It is our Inspired by words challenge and the words are:

'Friends are connected heart to heart, distance and time can't break them apart'

We thought this was the perfect phrase for us all. We may not all know each other in real life but crafting connects us, no matter where we live.

You can use any of these words to inspire you or the whole phrase. 

We have the wonderful CAS-ual Fridays Stamps sponsoring this challenge with a $25 gift voucher for our winner. All our DT have used stamps from their store-we loved creating with them.

Using the stamp set 'Girlfriend' from CASual Fridays Stamps.

For this challenge we have the very creative Jane as our Guest Designer. I have admired Jane's style for a long time now and she is a regular at Time Out and is often on the winner's roll call! I am so pleased she is joining us for this challenge.

Take a look here to see how Jane and our DT were inspired by this phrase.

Come on-you deserve some TIME OUT to craft and play along at TIME OUT

I will enter this into:

Simon Says Work it Wednesday-something new with a new product (Cas-ual Friday Stamps)

Darnell's NBUS-CAS-ual Friday Stamps

    

Enjoy x

Inkspirational #127

Hi All,

Today at Inkspirational we have our designer's choice. The very creative Yvonne has chosen:

Polka Dots

I went with Polka dots designer paper and made this:

The stamps I have used here are all from The Ton

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Jane.Check out here blog here. I guarantee you will be inspired.

Our DT have all made amazing cards-check them out here

I will enter this into:

The Ton Challenge-Celebrate

Sweet Baby

Hi All,

My Goddaughter had her first baby last week and yesterday I made a card for her. I find making baby cards so hard. I am not good with cute images and hardly have any new baby stamps. However blog land to the rescue. A number of you and some challenges helped me create this:

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All these stamps are from Uniko

Here is where the inspiration came from:

Ksenija's Chasing Mojo fun-I loved the lay out and stitching on Aapba's card here-I used an embossed line instead of stitching. My line has a curly top which I thought could look like the ducks were on water. I substituted the feathers for ducks but kept the sentiment at the top.

Esther's new home card here-at the 'New Beginnings' challenge at Less is More, gave me the idea to heat emboss, in white, one duck. For this I used scrap card I had previously water coloured.

This card was a challenge but I did have fun making it.

I will also enter this into:

Uniko-AG with optional twist of love-I am going with the twist as there is nothing like the love of Parents for their kids.

     

AAA #82 Winter Chill

Hi All

A new challenge at AAA cards starts today and our theme is:

Clean and Simple Winter Chill Cards

I thought in the Winter when it is all chilly outside what we all need is a warm and loving hug and so made this super CAS card:

This challenge is sponsored by STAMPlorations. The 'Hugs' die on my cut is from their collection of CUTplorations dies-I love the font on these dies.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Katrina. Take a look at her blog here to see all her wonderful creative projects.

Then pop over to AAA cards for more inspiration from Katrina and our fabulous DT.

I will enter this into:

STAMPlorations CAS challenge

CASology-Cut

STAMPlorations CUTplorations Jan challenge-again I went with a coloured base and this CUTploration die 

Happy Little Stampers AG with dies

       

Chasing Mojo with Sweet Kobylkin

Friday at last and I hope it is a good one for you all,

Have you seen the fun that Ksenija is running for us on her blog Sweet Kobylkin?

She had a great idea for us to get back into card making after the Christmas break-it is called 'Chasing your Mojo'. You can see all the details here.

I chose this card by Svetlana Pavlova and made this:

I can't seem to copy Svetlana's card but you can check it out here on Instagram or here on Ksenija's blog (number 15)

I loved her CAS style and the elements I took from this card were:

-the coloured base

-the white embossed image

-the layout

-the popped up sentiment with white embossing

-the stitched die cut

I loved making this and really liked the end result-thank you for the inspiration Svetlana and Ksenija for this fun.

I will enter this into:

CASology-cut-my stitched die from STAMPlorations

STAMPlorations-CUTplorations Jan challenge-I didn't go with the black base but did go with the coloured base and used their this stitched die from their CUTplorations range

Darnell's NBUS #8-sorry no coloured pencil's Darnell just this stitched die that hasn't been used before.

       

Time Out Challenges #75

Hello There,

We have a new challenge starting at Time Out today. It is our CASE (copy and share everything) the designer challenge. And the designer we are CASEing is the very talented Ksenija. Her blog Sweet Kobylkin is full of amazing and inspiring projects. I urge you to take a few moments to pop over there and have a look. I guarantee you will come back ready to craft.

Here is the card I made inspired by Ksenija's card:

I was inspired by so much of Ksenija's card and actually made my version the day I saw this card! Firstly I loved the soft stamping on the base of card but instead of stamping I used an eggshell textured card. I also really liked the tiny strip of red embossing on the side of the panel. Instead of embossing I used some black fun foam to match my sentiment. I also followed the basic curve of the leaf stamp but substituting this for a flower. 

The stamps here are both from the stamp set Especially for You by Happy Little Stampers who are sponsoring this challenge. The stitched die is from STAMPlorations.

Here is Ksenija's card:

Our Guest Desigenr for this challenge is Marjan. We are very pleased Marjan is joining us for this challenge. She is a very creative designer. Take a look at her blog here and you will see all the creative projects that she makes.

So how will Ksenija's card inspire you? Our DT have made a fabulous set of cards-take a look here.

Time to kick back and take some TIME OUT with us x