What's Cookin'?

Here's one last card CASEd from one of Cindy Lawrence's cards for Flourishes Designer CASE Challenge. And, it fits in perfectly for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday garden challenge that Katie Sims is hosting this week.

Here's the card I cased. Cindy's coloring on that watermelon is just amazing!

And, here's my version. I think this beet image is the only veggie stamp I have that I had never used before, so I figured it needed some ink. Besides, pickled beets are a fav of mine, so it's about time I featured them on a card. ;) My card is CASEd very closely to Cindy's, but instead of stamping the sentiment directly on the image layer, I put it on a vellum flag and stapled it to that layer instead.

The beets are colored with Copic markers, and the white spots on the beets and on the tips of the leaves were made with Copic Opaque White Pigment and a toothpick. I got the pigment when I went to the Copic class a few months ago, and I love how it looks on the image.

With all that rich color on the front of the card, I felt that it needed at least a little bit inside, too. The panel for personalization doesn't go to the bottom of the card so that it won't show through the punched borders at the bottom of the front of the card.

I can't wait to see which Flourishes designer will be featured next! I'm having fun with all this CASEing!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a fab day!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Flourishes Designer Focus CASE Challenge: CASE Cindy
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #223: From the Garden
Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge: Brought to you by the Letter S (scalloped circle die) 

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Stamps: Garden Fresh (Flourishes)
Paper: Que Sera Sera (K&Co); Summer Song (My Mind's Eye); Flourishes Classic White; vellum
Ink: Copic markers; Copic Opaque White Pigment; Memento; Distress; Versamark
Dies: Classic Scalloped Circles (Spellbinders); Banner Stacklets 1 (Taylored Expressions)
Accessories: Garden Trellis edge punch (Martha Stewart); Tropical Paisley embossing folder (Sizzix); Ranger embossing powder; ribbon; twine; button; pearls; mini stapler
Size: 4.5" x 6"

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Artichoke Thank You

Hi Friends! Hope you all had a great weekend. I did...I spent it with lots of friends and went to a stamp convention. But, more on that in a later post. ;)

This will be short and sweet. I am selling off most of my knitting books and yarn, and I'm going to try to include a mini thank you card in each package when I ship it. Of course, as you know, being small doesn't mean it is any easier or quicker than a larger card--it just weighs less. :)

This was a fun card to make, and fortunately, I was able to make it in about 5 minutes, using an image I had already colored about a month ago, because I had to get the package in the mail, pronto. 

The stamp was in a set I found on sale at Hobby Lobby for $2! Isn't it pretty? I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I wasn't pleased too much with how it turned out until I distressed it. That totally transformed it (or at least my opinion of it). ;) The background is just a piece of scrap dp that was off-white with light brown and pink lines on it. I embossed it, distressed it with Distress Inks, then dipped the edges in water so I could roll them a little, and finally glued it to the base. That was it. Easy peasy! I didn't have time to photograph the inside, but it was left plain except for a simple Thank You stamp. I need to get busy and make these in advance so I'm not so rushed, but sometimes I think I work better under a little pressure. :)

I'll be entering this in the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful day!

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Stamps: Victory Garden (TCP Studio)
Ink: Memento; Distress
Accessories: Prismacolor pencils; Decorative Tile Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug)
Size: 3" x 3"

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Tomato Soup

Good Morning to you! I hope your week is a good one so far. 

Before I tell you about today's card, a quick Thank You to Lydia (Understandblue at Splitcoaststampers) for posting my Spooky Tree Halloween card on Facebook yesterday. It generated 1,500 views to that particular card in just one day! Wow! I didn't even know that was possible. 8~D

I made today's card using the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #133. It follows the sketch fairly closely, except that I put copper brads at both ends of the rickrack, and where 3 small embellies would be in the upper left corner, I used a Leafy Sprig die cut, and I put a smaller one in the lower right corner to balance it out. They look a little bit like tomato leaves when they are cut without using the coordinating stamp, don't they?

I'm also playing along with the Flourishes Bring Back Beauty Challenge #14. This month's theme is "The Beauty of Color," and the challenge is to make a monochromatic card. I couldn't begin to tell you what the color of my card is, but since it features tomatoes, I'm calling it tomato soup. Even the rickrack looks like it's been colored with tomato soup. Okay, I know that the leaves are green, but I couldn't find a way around that. :D  I was a little bit concerned that I wouldn't be able to do this stamp justice because of all the red I would be using, but it turned out okay. I did have to use yellow and white colored pencils with mineral spirits to highlight the bumps on the tops of the tomatoes. I never seem to leave enough room for highlights when I'm using Copics.

For the inside of my card, I stamped the tomato image in Rusty Hinge Distress Ink. I stamped off onto scrap paper one time before stamping my card so the image would be light enough to be able to write a message over it. I love the look of this stamp--even when it's left plain it's beautiful.  

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!!

Challenges:

Flourishes Bring Back Beauty Challenge #14: The Beauty of Color

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #133

Stamps: Italian Garden, Garden Fresh (Flourishes)
Paper: The Breathe Paper Collection (Prima)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Memento; Staz-On; Copic markers
Dies: Std Circles Lg; Lotus Pendant (Spellbinders); Leafy Sprigs (Verve)
Accessories: Diamonds in Diamonds embossing folder (Sizzix); rickrack (Fancy Pants Designs); antique copper brads (Making Memories); colored pencils; sewing thread; Corner Chomper
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Peas to meet you

I'm back with another card. This one is for Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful Challenge #13. The challenge is CAS--not my strong suit, but here goes.

I colored the pea stamp with Copics, cut it with a Spellbinders oval die, and backed it with a SB Parisian Accent die that I cut in half. Since the green accent blended in almost completely with the background paper, I cut another larger white oval to put behind that. I really like the background paper with this stamp because the leaves on it look just like the leaves in the stamp. Besides the Copics, the only ink I used was on the edge of the background paper and to accent the embossing on the Parisian motif. I considered just one strand of twine with a simple knot around the card, but I tried it, and it actually took away from the rest of the card, so I scrapped that idea.

We are going to Open House at my daughter's school tonight, and her new teacher is one whom she hasn't actually met yet, so I thought, with the right sentiment, this would be the perfect card. I typed one on the computer and printed it directly onto white cardstock:

Before adhering the sentiment panel to the inside of the card, I used my scoreboard and scored two sets of lines around the edge. It's faint in the photo, but it's visible if you look close enough.

I wasn't sure my daughter, who is only seven, would like this as a card for her new teacher, but she loves it. She even liked it before she read the sentiment, which she thinks is a cool joke.

So, there you have it--my version of CAS. I wasn't sure I was up to the challenge of a clean and simple card, but it was fun. (Is there anything about cardmaking that isn't fun?) After I colored the stamp for this card, I realized the color of the basket is the same as a fresh radish. Well, low and behold, there is a stamp of radishes (or is it beets?) in the same set as the peas, so my next card may end up being CAS, too.  :D

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you'll visit again soon! Have a nice evening.

Stamps: Garden Fresh (Flourishes)
Paper: Summer Song (My Mind's Eye); Recollections
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Memento; Copics
Accessories: Dies: Classic Ovals Lg, Parisian Accents (Spellbinders); Score Board (Martha Stewart); sentiment generated on computer and printed on cardstock
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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