Addicted to Stamps and More #49

Today I am here to share with you my card for our challenge this week at Addicted to Stamps and More. This week the challenge is 'Clean and Simple'. This has to be my favourite challenge. I so do love a CAS card!
My card is for my Parent's 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary. It is not until November but I do like to be prepared! I have heat embossed this 'Verve' sentiment in gold. I have not used this sentiment before as I have been saving it especially for this card.

I actually managed to tie the bow without too much fuss!!

Our DT have some wonderful CAS creations for you, so please take a peek here and then get inky. I am looking forward to visiting your blogs to get inspired!

And this week the winner will get a $10 voucher from our fabulous sponsor this week Di's Digi Downloads.

I am also entering this into the 'emboss it' challenge at A Gem of A Challenge and the yellow challenge at Casology

Happy Stamping x

Celebrate!

Hello my friends,

Today I have a card made for my nephew, Scott, who is going to the British version of U.S Prom night. To be honest I am not sure what we call here it here. When I was a teenager, many, many moons ago, we didn't have a prom, we had discos. You didn't go along with a partner, you went with your girlfriends and danced around a handbag.....oh the good old days!!

My Mum asked me to make her this card for Scott. He is going with a girl who is wearing a red dress and he is co-coordinating with a red tie (so sweet!). Before I tell you how the design of my card came about, have a look and see if you like it!

 I have been thinking of about the design of this card for a while, then when looking through my Fresh Squeezed Stamp's blog, I came across this card by Jennifer and and just loved this CAS design and thought this would work well with a tie stamp.
I was also inspired by the repetitive design and colours on the dress at Runway Inspired.
Operation Write Home Bootcamp this month is all about repetition in design and after reading this I decided to add variation by using the embossing folder on the background card. And finally, one of my favourite challenges, CAS on Sunday, has a black, white and one other colour challenge, so this card really has the last bit of inspiration it needed for me to get inky!

 Runway Inspired Dress;

                                

Inkspirational #23

I am here today with my 'End of the week encouragement' post for Inkspirational. You still have until Tuesday 6pm (GMT) to play along.
This week we are really getting into the Summer spirit with this colour combo for you:

I love these cheery colours and wanted to make a card all full of oranges and lemons but then I went a completely different way when I had a play around with a stamp my cousin Lynn sent me. This is quite a different card for me but some how still looks CAS!!

I stamped the outline in black then the bolder stamp in orange and coloured in the rest of the petals in yellow. I then found a thick ribbon in my stash that I thought really matched the flower colours. I tied this super sized bow (I am not letting you know how long it took me to get it right!!) and added this. Mounted all this on melon card stock and added a melon gem.

Our DT have some great creations made using these colours so take a peek here and don't forget this month the prize is 3 digi's from Milk N Coffee Digital Stamps!
I will also enter this into the 'bingo' challenge at Addicted to Stamps and the 'ribbons and lace' challenge at Rhedd and Rosie's Challenge.

Happy Stamping x

Addicted to Stamps and More #48

Happy Wednesday crafting friends,

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More we have a great colour combo challenge for you:

I wanted to use my PTI 'watermark wonder' set but struggled to get a colour ink that was near 'so saffron'. In the end I used memento 'peanut brittle' and stamped it off a few times and I think it came pretty close! What do you think?

These colours really do work well together.Please pop over here and see what our super talented DT have created and then get stamping!

This week you have the chance to win a $10 gift voucher from our fabulous sponsor Di's Digi Downloads

I will also enter this into the 'use a rubber stamp' at Card Makin' Mamas and the 'CAS' challenge at Penny Black and More

Muse #20

Happy Tuesday my crafting chums,

I have not played along with at the Muse Club for a couple of weeks but when I saw Laurie's fabulous card this week, I immediately had an idea and was inspired to get inky and play along. I loved the layout of Laurie's card, the score lines and the stamp she had used.
And here is my 'case':

I had to hunt around for some ribbon that I was happy with and ended up layering this thin pink ribbon on top of the black. I thought this sentiment went so well with the feel of the card. Inside I stamped 'celebrate in style'. This card is going to go to one of my more glam friends who really is a style queen!

And here is Laurie's card:



I am also going to enter this into the 'CAS' challenge at Penny Black and More and the 'anything goes with a ribbon' challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge and the 'use lace or ribbon' challenge at Make My Monday

Have a great day x

A Belated Happy Birthday to Ardyth and an early Dad's DAY!

Happy Sunday,

Today my card is actually going to my Dad for Father's Day but it is also a virtual card made for Ardyth. Her Birthday was on Wednesday and Darnell held a hop for her and also asked us to make a card inspired by Ardyth. Now, my card isn't a Birthday card but it was most definitely inspired by Ardyth's love of CAS, bright colours. geometric and graphic style cards. I thought of various ideas to portray all these elements then decided that this embossing folder and bold sentiment together did all this for me! What do you think?

The sentiment is a freebie from Create With TLC and I have just coloured in 'Dad' with promarkers. A very CAS card that I thought was perfect for my Dad-he likes the cards I make that are made with Kraft card-and a 'case' of how I see Ardyth's style.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

CAS on Sunday-make it masculine
Cards for Men-Dad
The Sisterhood of Crafters-say it loud
Sweet Stampin' Challenge-Father's Day

Enjoy the rest of your weekend x

Inkspirational #22

Its the weekend at last and our first day June! And I am here today with my card for the 'end of the week encouragement' post for our 'Anything Goes' challenge at Inkspirational.
If you haven't played along yet you still have until Tuesday to join in the fun. And, as this week 'anything goes', you can really have some fun!

I played along with my Fresh Squeezed 'on trend' stamp set. When I got these stamps I looked through their fabulous blog to get ideas of how to use my new stamps and wow there is a lot of inspiration there! I saw this card by Jingle and loved it a decided to case it for my inspiration card for you today-thank you Jingle!!
And here it is:

I have added a little bit of glamour to my card by using a gelly roll sparkle pen on the cityscape but it is hard to see from this angle. Plus the chevron strip is on foam pads for dimension. So here is another view that I hope shows these elements a bit better. However it was a rainy day in May when I scheduled this post so my glamour doesn't show so well!

This card is going to a very dear girlfriend of mine, who like myself, is a real city girl........we both love London!

Now it is your turn to play along but first pop over to our blog here to see the fab projects our DT have made and don't forget that you could win these goodies from Tammy at Creativity and Me