CCC #17.... Sugar

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Hello.... I'm back with my post for this week's CASology challenge.  This week the cue word is sugar and CASology is being sponsored by a fun new stamp company called Neat & Tangled.  Lots of cute stamps to be found at their site so make sure you check them out!   For all the details, please check here.  Our guest designer this week is the very talented Bev!

Danielle, the owner of Neat & Tangled, was so sweet to provide the CASology design team with some of her cute stamps.  For my card I'm using a fun little set called "Hey, Cookie".  The set contains boy and girl cookie images in two different sizes.  I used the two larger images and stamped them on kraft cardstock so they looked like gingerbread.  I then paper pieced their bodies using some My Mind's Eye Merry & Bright patterned paper.  Once, again, I made a card that is a little bit busier than the usual CAS card.  However I'm able to maintain a CAS feel to the card by grouping everything in one spot.  A Sizzix die was used to cut the MME patterned paper that the little cookies were mounted on.  A bit of MME Merry & Bright washi tape was added underneath and then a little fishtail flag was stamped with the sentiment (from the PTI set Holiday Button Bits), a button added and then adhered to the card. 

Thanks for stopping by....make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, Bev! Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

ODBDSLC128... For the Guys

Hello friends!!  Tuesday is here and that means time for another Shining the Light challenge.  This week the challenge team is asking you to make a card for a guy... something I think all of us find hard to do... I know I find it hard!   Today marks the last challenge for our very special guest Bridget.   Make sure you stop by her blog and leave her some love!   I would also like to ask everyone to please pray for all our fellow crafters and bloggy friends who live on the East Coast and who are now experiencing the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. 

Initially I thought I was going to use the ODBD set The Mighty Sea, but then as I was going through all my ODBD sets to find that particular one I pulled out the set Never Give Up and decided to use that set along with the Grunge Cross and matching die.  As this is a card for a guy I kept everything really, really simple.  I stamped the grunge cross image from Never Give Up using Ranger's Gathered Twigs distress ink and then inked up the piece using Old Paper and Vintage Photo distress inks.  Once I finished the inking I used my distressing tool to rough up the edges and add a few tears here and there.  The single grunge cross was stamped using Gather Twigs and die cut using the matching grunge cross die.  Some distress ink was added to the cross along with an antique looking brad.   I stamped the sentiment using black ink and then adhered the cross.   A nice grungy, masculine card, don't you think?

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, November 4th at 8:00 pm EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, November 4th at 8:00 pm EST. If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword: ODBDSLC128. When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, and this month's guest designer, Bridget! To join in the fun, please click here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft & rustic cream; Stamps:  ODBD; Inks:  Ranger Gathered Twigs, Old Paper & Vintage Photo; Memento Tuxedo Black; Die:  ODBD Grunge Cross die; Brad:  Stamping Up!

nature....

hello friends!  got some time this morning to make a card for this week's Less is More challenge (a sketch) and i used the new color combo from Dynamic Duo (more mustard & so saffron). 

lately i have seen alot of people using their dies in a fun new way and i wanted to get it a try.  basically what you do is die cut your image on your main card stock, then die cut the image a second time using a contrasting color and place the die cut image into the negative space on the first piece of card stock.  the look created is really neat.  so i got out my memory box prim poppy die and die cut a strip of black card stock.  a second image was die cut using more mustard card stock and the placed in the negative space on the black cardstock.  because of the nature of the sketch diva chrissie provided for the LIM challenge i then cut the image in to three sections.  but before i did that i made the black strip a bit more stable by adhered a piece of card stock to the back.  the three piece were aligned and then matted using a strip of so saffron card stock.  everything was then mounted on a white card stock base.  the sentiment (also memory box) was stamped, die cut using a spellbinders long rectangle die and then adhered to the card.

thanks for stopping by....

supplies:  card stock:  pti white & black; stampin up! more mustard & so saffron; dies:  memory box prim poppy & spellbinders long rectangles; ink:  memento tuxedo black

just for you....

hello friends!  the weekend has arrived and i have a little card to share.  this one uses the current sketch from CAS(e) this Sketch and the current ColourQ combo. 

I do admit this isn't a very original take on the sketch, but i like it.  i recently got a couple of new stamp sets from stampin up! and i used one of the sets for this card.  a strip of white cardstock was cut and then a partial circle punched out.   i placed the strip on my card based, applied some eclipse tape to the piece so that i wouldn't get any ink on the strip and then stamp the flower using orange and green inks.  the lattice image was then stamped using dark purply-maroon ink and the sentiment in black.  before adhering the piece to the card base i added a thin strip of black cardstock.  some clear rhinestones finished things off.  

thanks for stopping by and for all the lovely comments i get... i really appreciate them.

supplies:  cardstock:  pti white & black; stamps:  stampin up! summer silhouettes; inks:  stampin up! & memento; rhinestones:   hero arts; punch:  stampin up!

perfect gift...

Hello friends!!   A few weeks ago I was contacted by the super talented Kim Teasdale of ISpy Sketches asking if they could use this card as the basis for an upcoming ISpy sketch challenge and I, of course, said YES!!!  Can't tell you how excited I was to have been given this honor because the ISpy design team is fab-u-lous!!    So the current ISpy sketch found here is based on my little ol' card and I just  had to play along!

I used another newly release ODBD set for my card called Perfect Gift.  I decided to make it easy on myself and just stamp the tree image and leave it uncolored.  It is for this reason I chose to stamp the image using my favorite red, SU!'s Cherry Cobbler.  I trimmed the tree out and then lightly inked the edges with Rangers Old Paper distress ink.  The verse was also stamped using Cherry Cobbler, die cut using a Spellbinders long rectangle die and then lightly inked the edges with Old Paper.  The tree and verse were mounted on a circle cut using a Spellbinder plain circle die that was matted with a Spellbinders scalloped circle.  The papers are from the My Mind's Eye Merry & Bright 6x6 pad. 

Thanks for stopping by and if you have a chance give the ISpy sketch a try....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI cream; SU! kraft; PP:  My Mind's Eye; Stamps:  ODBD; Ink:  Cherry Cobbler & Ranger Old Paper; Spellbinders dies

CCC #16 - Go Hog Wild!!

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Hello!!!  Back with my post for this week's CASology challenge.   Lots of fabulous cards for last week's challenge!  It was so fun to see how everyone interpreted the cue word "night".  This week the cue word is "wild"... so many different options for that one!!   Our fabulous guest designer this week is Vicky!  All the details for this week can be found here.

I'm going to admit that this week's cue word was a bit tough for me.  I don't have a ton of stamps that lend themselves to the word "wild".   Then I remembered that I had a super cute My Favorite Things Pure Innocense set called Piggy Bank and in that set is the sentiment "go hog wild".  Perfect for the challenge.   I used a striped down version of Chupa's Sketchbook Saturday sketch for the layout.   I recently purchased the My Favorite Things Jumbo Fishtail Flag Stax dies and have been wanting to use the largest one to make a card... which is what I did here.  I stamped the little PI using Tuxedo Black ink, then did a combination of Copic coloring and paper piecing and trimmed her out.   She was then mounted on the second fishtail flag and that was adhered to the card base as shown.   A couple of tiny fishtail flags and a button were added to the top.  I'm going to drop this card into the current CAS-ual Friday "off the edge" challenge.

Thanks for stopping by....make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, Vicky! Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

Supplies:   Cardstock:  SU! kraft; PTI white; PP:  My Mind's Eye Breeze; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Dies:  My Favorite Things; Twine:  PTI; Button:  DeNami Designs; Ink:  Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers