CASology #397

 Welcome to Week 397 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

I have a few typewrite stamps but this one from Hero Arts is one of my favourites.  It reminds me of the one my grandmother had and I loved the clack of the keys and the thunk of the return.  Such good solid sounds!  I fussy cut this one from Bermuda Bay cardstock and made the paper bright yellow so the sentiment wouldn't be missed.  I also added some scored lines in the background to give it a little texture

We're welcoming a new DT member today - Asa Johanssen!  Asa has been a long time player at CASology and I have been a long time admirer of her clean and crisp style.  I'm excited for her to join us!

Looking forward to seeing what direction the cue word takes you.  Check out the gorgeousness from the rest of the design team then play along!

Asa Johanssen

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Melissa Chipperfield

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munroe

Sue Symens

This week's guest designer:

Claire

***You've got 4 weeks for this challenge!***

Link your creations to the CASology blog by 9am Monday, 6 December (CDT).

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Daffodil Delight, Bermuda Bay) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (All from Typewrite Notes) Hero Arts

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Other:  (Nuvo Oyster Grey Crystal Drops) Tonic

Time Out Guest Designer

 I was lucky enough to be the winner of a recent Time Out challenge and was invited to be a guest designer for their latest challenge!  It just so happens that today is also my birthday - a pretty cool birthday gift huh?

It's an Inspired by Words challenge this time and, as always, you can take inspiration from the whole quote or just one word.  Usually I end up just working off one word but this time I found a rose die and friend sentiment that seemed to work well together and I went with it.

The sponsor this week is CAS-ual Fridays and you have until August 11th to play along!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, White) Papertrey Ink, (Certainly Celery, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Sentiment from All Year Cheer) Wplus9

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow'

Dies:  (Fantasy Floral, Halftone cover plate) Altenew

Other:  (Nuvo English Mustard Crystal Drops) Tonic

What's Mew?

 I've got a super simple card today for the Colour Hues challenge.  I love this kitty from Frantic Stamper and thought she'd go perfectly with these sentiments from Paper Smooches.   I broke out those EBE square dies again (have I mentioned how much I love them??) for a simple graphic design.

  

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White, Black) Papertrey Ink, (Bermuda Bay) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Feline Friends) Paper Smooches

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Cat) Frantic Stamper, (Squares) Essentials by Ellen

CASology #389

 Welcome to Week 389 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

Both this Lawn Fawn stamp and the Cosmo Cricket patterned paper have been in my craft room FOREVER!  I have used them both before so they're not NBUS but it's certainly been awhile since they came out to play.

Looking forward to seeing what direction the cue word takes you.  Check out the gorgeousness from the rest of the design team then play along!

Deepti Stephens

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Melissa Chipperfield

Milka Gubo 

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munroe

Sue Symens

This week's guest designer:

Tenia

***You've got 2 weeks for this challenge!***

Link your creations to the CASology blog by 9am Monday, 10 May (CDT).

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink

Patterned Paper:  (Circa 1934 6x6) Cosmo Cricket

Stamps:  (Just My Type) Lawn Fawn

Ink:  (Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukeniko, (Rockin' Red) Catherine Pooler

Markers:  (YR23, YG63, BG93) Copic

Other:  (Nuvo English Mustard Crystal Drops) Tonic

CASology #388

Welcome to Week 388 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

This die was on my wish list FOREVER and I finally got it at the end of last year.  I actually made this card in January and used the negative die cut for this card here.  Love when you can get a two for one deal like that!

Looking forward to seeing what direction the cue word takes you.  Check out the gorgeousness from the rest of the design team then play along!

Deepti Stephens

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Melissa Chipperfield

Milka Gubo 

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munroe

Sue Symens

This week's guest designer:

Asa

***You've got 2 weeks for this challenge!***

Link your creations to the CASology blog by 9am Monday, 26 April (CDT).

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Sweet Marmalade 12x12) Sassafras

Dies:  (Say Hello) My Favourite Things

Other:  (Nuvo Caribbean Ocean Crystal Drops) Tonic

Rainbow Ridin' By

 

Today's card is for the Just Us Girls Rainbow Colors challenge.  These fun wavy dies screamed out at me to make a funky rainbow so I obliged.  I white embossed the Reverse Confetti bike and speech bubble on black cardstock so they wouldn't get lost against the rainbow colours.  They're popped up on foam tape and I managed to use a few large gems that have been haunting my craft space for years.  In fact I was so proud of using those embellishments that I made 3 cards just to use up different coloured gems!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pacific Point, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  Reverse Confetti

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Dies:  (Wavy lines) Papertrey Ink

Gems:  Doodlebug

Scribble Flower Twofer

 

I've got cards today for Darnell's Twofer challenge where the prompt is Flowers.  I had pulled out my Taylored Expressions Scribble Flowers dies for a recent challenge and while I was making those cards I had the spark of an idea for the Twofer challenge.  For the first card I used the dies to create a simple flower in a frame.  For the second card I took part of the flower and created a fun polka dot background with it.  It's bright and cheery and maybe even a bit silly but overall it has a fun and celebratory feel to it I think.  

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Old Olive, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Hello Beautiful from Essential Sentiments) My Favourite Things, (Happy from Birthday Greetings) Altenew

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Clear) Hero Arts

Dies:  (Scribble flowers) Taylored Expressions, (Frame) Paper Smooches, (Flag) My Favourite Things, (Birthday) Papertrey Ink

Other:  (Nuvo English Mustard Crystal Drops) Tonic

Hello & Thanks

 

I've got two cards inspired by the colours at the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge.  I pulled out this scribble flower die from Taylored Expressions which I thought would be fun with these bright and cheery colours.  The sentiment dies are both Paper Smooches.  I finished them off with one pink Nuvo crystal drop at the end of each sentiment.

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Dies:  (Scribble flower) Taylored Expressions, (Hello, Thanks) Paper Smooches

Other:  (Nuvo Rhubarb Crumble Crystal Drops) Tonic

Speech Bubble Hello

 Today's card is for the Hello challenge at Just Us Girls.  I was making another card and ended up with this colorful leftover hello speech bubble.  I couldn't let it go to waste and the JUGS challenge gave me the perfect opportunity to make use of it.  Originally I was going to mount it on a black card base but then I decided I wanted a little more pizzazz so I cut it down and put it on a Granny Apple Green card base instead.  

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Granny Apple Green, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Sweet Marmalade 12x12) Sassafras

Dies:  (Say Hello) My Favourite Things

Other:  (Glossy Accents) Ranger, (Nuvo Oyster Grey Crystal Drops) Tonic

Patterned Hello

 

Hi there!

Clearly this card is not my usual style but the challenge at Simon Says Stamp this week it to Layer It Up so I decided to stick a toe outside my comfort zone and see what I could come up with.  This took waaaaay too long to put together but I was determined to come up with something!  I broke out some Pinkfresh patterned papers and some dies from Paper Smooches and MFT and finally ended up with this.  I don't hate it but it's definitely a style I need to practice more.       

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  Pinkfresh

Dies:  (Hello, Notebook paper, Speech bubble) Paper Smooches, (Hearts) My Favourite Things

Other:  (Nuvo Ebony Black Crystal Drops) Tonic, (Glossy Accents) Ranger

CASology #375

 

Welcome to Week 375 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

Autumn is the time for pumpkin spiced everything which is where I took my inspiration from and I created a happy little rainbow of pumpkin spice lattes.  Truth be told I'm more of a caramel latte girl myself but I'll happily take a pumpkin muffin with my coffee!  :)

Looking forward to seeing what direction the cue word takes you.  Check out the gorgeousness from the rest of the design team then play along!

Deepti Stephens

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Melissa Chipperfield

Milka Gubo 

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munroe

Sue Symens

This week's guest designer:

Galina

This week's sponsor:

Your Next Stamp

***We're going back to challenges every 2 weeks!***

Link your creations to the CASology blog by 9am Monday, 12 October (CDT).

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink

Stamps:  (Coffee from Everyday Doodles, Sentiment from Everyday Punnies) Essentials by Ellen

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Tutti Frutti, Tiki Torch, Tiara, Lime Rickey, Aquatini, Something Borrowed, Flirty Fuschia) Catherine Pooler

Other:  (Nuvo Oyster Grey Crystal Drops) Tonic

Hey, Friend

 

I'm back with another card from yesterday's crafting session.  This one is for the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge and the Simon Says Wednesday challenge (No Stamps Allowed).  The Hey and Friend dies are from Simon Says Stamp and I love the look of the two fonts together.  I thought the rich autumn colours from CAS C&S would be fun and playful and make this card good for guys or gals.  I added a couple of skinny strips of cardstock and a star for some balance and I feel like they give it a bit of a cool 80s vibe.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Dies:  (Hey, Friend) Simon Says Stamp, (Stitched Star) Lil' Inker Designs

Rainbow Balloon

Hi there!

I had a little bit of crafty time today and made a card for Freshly Made Sketches and Just Us Girls (Rainbow).  This happy little rainbow hot air balloon has been sitting on my desk for a while and I decided it would be perfect for Jacquie's sketch.  I die cut a few PTI clouds and layered them with the balloon and then added a sentiment.  I was going to go for my usual white font embossed on black cardstock but instead I took a page from Anna Lorenzetto who often uses colours for her sentiment strips and I love the way it turned out!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Textured White) Bazzill, (Daffodil Delight, Soft Sky) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Balloon from Uplifting) Skipping Stones Designs, (Sentiment from Simple Sentiments No 1) Simon Says Stamp

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Clouds) Papertrey Ink

Markers:  Copic

Other:  (Nuvo White Crystal Drops) Tonic

Circle Twofer

Last time I tried to play along with Darnell's Twofer challenge I missed the deadline so this time I'm determined to get in there before it's too late!  

WPlus9's Doodle Buds set has a few different flower shapes in it including this fun circle.  On my first card I used it as it was intended as a flower.  I thought, however, that it would also make a fun balloon so I created some bright and happy birthday balloons for the second card.  I used some baker's twine for the string and added a fun, curly happy birthday sentiment.

Supplies Used:

Flower Card:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizazz, Crumb Cake) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Flower from Doodle Buds) WPlus9

Inks:  (Jet Black Archival Ink) Ranger

Dies:  (Tag) Papertrey Ink, (Hello) Paper Smooches

Markers:  Zig

Other:  (Nuvo Ebony Black Crystal Drops) Tonic

Balloons Card:

Supplies Used:

Cardstoc:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Circle from Doodle Buds) WPlus9

Inks:  (Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Sentiment) Paper Smooches

Markers:  (R22, Y15, Y38, YG06, BG23, B05, B23, B63, BV13) Copic

Twinery:  (Stone) The Twinery

Other:  (Nuvo English Mustard Crystal Drops) Tonic