CASology #377

Hi Crafty Friends,

We have a new challenge at CASology.

Here is our cue word:

And my card:

Well I thought this would be easy but no!

I tried out all my ideas and none worked. So in the end I water coloured a sheet of paper in lots of different sunset colours and just left it on the side for a few days....and then suddenly an idea came to me!

I just die cut a cloud from the sheet and one strip to add interest-not a traditional sunset card but I did it!

The sponsors for this challenge are Uniko

Our Guest Designer is Marina. I have known Marina for many years and her blog is a delight to visit-take a look here

Pop on over to CASology to see what the DT have created for you and then join on in!

Our Design Team are all worth a visit and some love-here they are;

Deepti ,Deidre, Jacquie, Janet, Jen, Karen, Joyce, Melissa, Milka, Nancy, Sue

Enjoy!

I will enter:

AAA Cards-maxi white space-option not taken

Warmest Winter Wishes!

 Hi All

I have had this white strip of card on my desk for over a week with this sweet sentiment from STAMplorations. I even had that tiny gem on it. I had stamped it when I had out the first ever STAMPlorations sets but hadn't got as far as entering into the AAA Card Challenge (I went with the 'cosy' option) that I had intentions of doing so.

Yesterday I realised the challenge was nearly done so I quickly made a super CAS card by just adding some green glitter card!

The weather here is awful so it was hard to get a good photo but if you zoom in you will see this lovely 'warm' sentiment!

Have a good day x

Time Out #173

Hi All

Time for our photo challenge at Time Out.

Here is my card:

And here is the photo that inspired it:

I think it is pretty easy to see what inspired me but their is plenty there-the colours, the wood, the succulents and what about that cute little face on one of the pots!

Our sponson for this challenge are Altenew-I love there store-take a look here

I have used the medallion stencil is from Funky Fossils and the sentiment is from our wonderful sponsors Altenew. The set I have used is Halftone Circles

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is one of my favourite designers Rahmat. I have been a long time fan and love all she does. Pop on over to her blog here to see her amazing designs.

So excited you are joining us Rahmat-welcome x

Rahmat and our Design Team have all made amazing cards to inspire you.

Check them out here

Time for you to take some TIME OUT and play!

Enjoy!

I will enter into:

Color Thrown

Photos inspire!

 Hi Crafty Friends,

I have a bit of a different card for you today.

I have actually water coloured and used embossing

Photo challenges have always been my fav kind of challenge and this card was inspired by 2 of these and in quite a weird way-if you want to know how, read under photo!

First off the photo at Fusion really caught my eye-I loved the swirly purple and the dark surround. I knew I wanted to use water colouring for this but was not sure how.

Then the photo at Inkspirational popped up and so did an idea in my head!

I noticed it also had the dark surround like Fusion but completely different colours. So I decided I would use an Autumn colour with the purple and see where it took me!

And so you have my thinking behind the card!

The image is from Visible Image

Have a good day.

I will also enter it into Just Us Girls

One Image, 3 cards!

 Hi All

I hope this finds you all well.

Trying to get those Christmas cards done!!

And the one layer ones are the best for sending abroad.

Here are a few:

And another one using the same stamp but in a different place:

And another one using the same stamp centred and no red strip!.

This stamp is from the very first challenge that STAMPlorations held. I was luck enough to win and got 7 stamp sets! And since that day I have been a fan!

When I saw the challenge at AAA Cards Challenge-use one corner and make it cosy if you want-I wanted to be cosy so I thought this set would be perfect. Imagine sat in front of this fireplace in a cold winter's night! I coloured the mantle piece in and the top one I added a red strip.

I enjoyed colouring this tiny image and decided to have a go at using it again but placing it in different positions and I quite like them all!

I will also add to:

AAA-us one corner and option of cosy.

Watercooler Wednesday-all about occasions

Christmas Kick Start-pink Christmas-my stockings are pink!

Crimbo Christmas-AG

 

CASology #376

Hi All

Time for a new challenge at CASology

Here is my take:

And our cue word is:

She is cleary dry under her umbrella!

To take the cue word further one I did some 'dry' embossing-running it through a polka dot embossing folder to add some 'rain' like texture!

This is a layout I love to use with big images to make a CAS card. 

I decided to stamp in navy and have a navy base as it seemed to go with my theme better than black!!

Our sponsors for this challenge are STAMPlorations

Our Guest Designer is the wonderful Jasleen-I am a long time fan!

The image and sentiment are from Visible Image

Pop on over to CASology to see what the DT have created for you and then join on in!

Our Design Team are all worth a visit and some love-here they are;

Deepti ,Deidre, Jacquie, Janet, Jen, Karen, Joyce, Melissa, Milka, Nancy, Sue

Enjoy!

Peace, Love and Joy

 Hi All

A Christmas card today inspired by a few challenges.

The layout was inspired by Fab Friday and the colours at Color Throwndown.

I was going to place the purple die straight but remembered over at Inkspirational they have an 'anlged' challenge so I decided to angle it and I think it looks better that way as seems to flow with the leaves which I also angled.

Enjoy your day!