Smooches

This card was created for a few challenges:  Just Us Girls - make the sentiment the focal point, SCS CAS310 - create a card with love in mind and SCS TLC519 - sentiment down under.  The top panel was cut apart to reveal the sentiment that was stamped onto the card base.  The PaperTrey hearts were stamped with Real Red ink and the sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.  The top panels were popped up with fun foam before they were adhered to the card front.

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Hugs & Smooches

Time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS!  This challenge is hosted by Deepti and she chose the Code word: Hugs and Kisses.  I guess Deepti is getting us all ready for Valentines Day!!

We have two sponsors for our challenge:

We also have our guest designer Julia one last time so don't forget to check out her card along with the other design team members' cards on the ATCAS Challenge blog.

I just love the font on the Cas-ual Fridays stamps from the MWAH set which I used here.  I die cut the heart flourish out of the card front and also out of the red glitter paper and inlaid the red glitter die cut using the negative pieces from the white card stock.

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Happy Birthday

I created this card for a few challenges:

SCS Inspiration Challenge - Black Arrow Pillow
Cas-ual Fridays - Shades of Gray

Addicted to Stamps and More 84 - CAS card

The sentiment is from Winnie and Walter and I absolutely love the font of the large words in the set!  The triangle image is from paperTrey and I used three shades of Hero Arts Shadow ink and Versafine Onyx Black for the sentiment.  No embellies so I can use this for a masculine card.

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Another Happy Hanukkah Card

This is another card I created for Hanukkah.  The image and sentiment are from PaperTrey and they are heat embossed with silver embossing powder.  I added a few blue rhinestones to the menorah.  The silver card stock and the card front were both embossed with the Divine Swirls embossing folder.

This week's Cas-ual Fridays challenge is to use 8 of something.  Although there are nine candles there are eight nights of Hanukkah - the ninth candle is the shamash (helper) candle which you use to light each candle on each night.  Also, the word Hanukkah has 8 letters, so I'm going with it!!

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Warm Winter Wishes and CFC119

I created this card for Cas-ual Fridays Challenge 119 - Embossing, using this week's SCS color challenge - to use 4 different shades of blues and gray.  I stamped the snowflake flourish from Sweet 'N Sassy with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with white detailed embossing powder.  I then brayered on several different blue inks and wiped the ink off of the embossing with a paper towel.  I added rhinestones to sparkle up the snowflakes even more.  The sentiment from PaperTrey was stamped in Memento Gray Flannel.

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Birthday Wishes

I had a busy weekend but did find some time to play.  I made this card for a few challenges:  CAS(E) This Sketch:

CAS-ual Fridays:

 Dynamic Duos:

and Seize the Birthday:

The circular frame is a Marianne Designs die and the bird is Memory Box Perching Reed die.  I cut the bird from some MME polka dotted paper.  The banner is PaperTrey's Double Ended Banner die and the sentiment is also from PaperTrey.  I added a pearl for the bird's eye and a few pink pearls to embellish.
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SCS VSN Weekend

This weekend is Virtual Stamp Night (VSN)at SCS.  There are challenges posted every hour starting Friday afternoon through Saturday night.  You need to create your card according to the challenge criteria within 45 minutes.  If I keep then CAS I have a chance to meet the 45 minutes!  Since I had the colors already out while I was making my last card I used them for this card.  For this challenge we were supposed to case a card from luvlee's gallery.  I cased Sending Caring Thoughts.
Since I used the Play Date Cafe colors again I am submitting this to that challenge:

I also used a banner for my image so I am submitting this to the Cas-ual Friday Challenge:

I stamped the Flourishes image on PaperTrey white card stock and watercolored the flowers with SU! Taken With Teal and Marvelous Magenta ink and a water brush.  The card front was embossed with a Cuttlebug Embossing folder so the banner would stand out.

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Hello!

I loved the colors for the Play Date Cafe this week:

and I used Wanna Sketch #5 from Dahlhouse Designs:

I love this sketch and it had a banner deigned in so I thought it would be perfect for this week's Cas-ual Fridays challenge to use banners or flags:

I used my SU! Taken With Teal marker and colored the gingham square pattern from PaperTrey and stamped it on to the card front.  I used PaperTrey's double ended banner die on gray card stock and stamped the sentiment from MME in Hero Arts Charcoal Shadow Ink.  The daisies were cut with a Simon Says Stamp die out of magenta paper from my stash.

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Celebrate America!

This is for two challenges: CAS(E) This Sketch:

and CAS-ual Fridays:

I stamped the lines from PaperTrey with SU! Real Red ink and cut the stars with my Star Nestabilities from PaperTrey Shimmer Night Sky card stock.  The Sweet 'N Sassy sentiment was stamped with SU! Night of Navy ink.  I embellished around the sentiment with Amuse Star Twinklers.

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Hello Friend

Yay I got a chance to play with some challenges out there in blogland!  I am really excited about the new challenge that started today - FUSION CARD CHALLENGE:

Not only do I love the concept but I love this first challenge - the sketch and the inspiration photo!  So I chose to combine them both or FUSE them!
I am also playing in the CAS-ual Fridays challenge, CFC97 - Chevrons and Flowers.

I cut the chevrons with my MFT Die-namic die and the flowers with a Memory Box die.  The flower centers are just from a hole punch. The flowers are popped up with foam squares.  All papers from PaperTrey and the sentiment is from Avocado Arts.
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Thank You

I created this card for several challenges:  The FTL222 on the Clean and Simple Stamping blog, the SCS IC370 - Butterfly Pillow from MacKenzie Child website, Cas-ual Fridays: CFC84 - thank you card and the PPA150 color challenge.  The Making Memories butterfly image is stamped with Raspberry Fizz ink, the PTI flourish is stamped with Memento Gray Flannel and the PTI sentiment is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black.  I embellished the butterfly with black and silver pearls and cut the border with an EKSuccess border punch.

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