CAS94 & OLW27

How lucky that the card I made last night for Susan’s One Layer Wednesday Christmas card challenge had sponging…which is the CAS challenge today at SCS too!  I fell in love with this card from Jennifer, so set out to do one of my own….just a tad bit simpler.  I used some Whisper White textured card stock and the SU set Come to Bethlehem for my main image.  Before I stamped it, I used a Nestie to cut out a rectangle from a scrap of paper, used some Dotto to adhere it to the card, then sponged the opening with Marina Mist ink and stamped my image in Basic Black:

Since this card (and hopefully a few more I can do) will be going to prisoners to send to their families, I wasn’t allowed to put any bling on it…..so it really was clean & simple!  The sentiment is from a retired SU set called Star-Studded Season.  I like the rustic look the textured cardstock gives it.

Now, for a little bit about my stamping Saturday!  Here is a photo of all of us together:

Back row:  Janice, Jill, Carol, and me; front row:  Pattie, Denise, Cherie & Korin.

The whole shindig was put on by Korin Sutherland (poor thing---I mispronounced her name most of the day) and we had lots of food, fun and chatter—although not much stamping by me!!!  I guess I was having too much fun checking out everyone’s stamps and Copics and coloring techniques and all the other fun stuff that was floating around…..I think when I am in a crowd, I have stamping ADD!!!  But I had FUN, and thank you, Korin, for planning it all!  Here’s a picture of me with my sweet friend Denise:

And here are Carol and Denise; I blog regularly with Carol, but met her for the first time on Saturday:

and then me, Korin and Denise:

Here are Pattie & Janice, stamping away:

Thanks again, Korin!  Can’t wait to do it again!!!  And in the quiet of my own stamp room, I hope to play with some of the images and papers my friends so generously shared with me!  And on a last note, I just have to share this photo of my DGD wearing her new snowsuit…..it was really cold one morning so DD dressed her in it to bring her to Grammie’s:

She reminded us of little Randy in “The Christmas Story”!!!  Enjoy your day!

One-Layer Wednesday #8

Ah, Susan’s Simplicity challenge yesterday was to make a one-layer card….something I have not done in a while….using a masked background technique.  Since the man in brown delivered some NEW SU goodies, including my much-awaited Marina Mist (love my blues), AND my beautiful new free stamp set, Because I Care, I had to break them out! 

I actually used three new colors on this card; the mask, which was cut with a Labels One nestability, was sponged with Crumb Cake and Marina Mist.  The flower was stamped with Marina Mist and a Garden Green marker; and the sentiment was stamped with Early Expresso.  I love this technique---easy and impressive!  Can’t wait to play some more!!!

One-Layer Wednesday #5

I know, it’s Sunday, not Wednesday, but today was the first time I had some free time to do Susan’s one-layer challenge!  You can find it here; it was to use faux embellishments.  I really don’t have anything “faux” except buttons, and I really didn’t want to make my usual Sunday Christmas card  with buttons.  I thought about my JUGS project and the Waltzingmouse set I used, which looks like the images have all been appliqued with a blanket stitch, so I thought I would go with that:

Pretty basic; the cardstock is textured Very Vanilla; stamps are inked in Memento black and colored with Copics!  There is a little gold “brad” embellishment made with a Zig Painty pen!  As usual, despite my best intents, my sentiment is crooked (sigh).  Hopefully the recipient won’t notice! :D

• Stamps:  Sewing Box Christmas, WM
• Paper:  Textured VV
• Ink:  Memento, Rose Red
• Acc:  Copics, Painty Pen