There's a new challenge at Addicted to CAS.... the prompt word is "ornament". We always love to see what others create using our code words, so I hope you'll play along with us!
I have a few ornament dies in my stash, but I don't often play with them. But I LOVE this one...
November is just FLYING by! I don't know how it's time to be sharing my second card using the great sketch at Build Your Stash!
I realized as I was typing up this post, that I left the sentiment portion off of my card. Whoops! This card using some great papers from Die Cuts With A View... even the Santa was on a page in this 6X6 pad I have! I channeled my Mom who loved to fussy cut to cut him out.
We have a fun challenge for you this week at CAS on Friday... we want you to make a holiday card using items from your stash that are not holiday items! I had a LOT of ideas but was short on time, so I ended up doing a split circle card. I did use one holiday item on my card (I hope it's OK!)... I guess I could have used a "best wishes" stamp or something instead of the Christmas greeting.
I'm back again, playing with the Is It Fall or Is It Winter Instagram Hop. Today our prompt is Scarves or Stockings.
My initial thought was to play with the scarf theme... but then I came across this small piece of patterned paper and decided to go for it.
We have a fun new inspired by words challenge at Time Out Challenges...
My first thought for this challenge was to do something in black and gold, like something I'd wear for a fancy evening. But the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to play with something a lot more fun! So I pulled out that Catherine Pooler stamp set I used a few weeks ago and came up with this!
I was playing around with an embossing folder the other day and tried embossing it on a dark green cardstock. While it was pretty, I just felt like you couldn't see the definition. I took a chance with a white pigment ink pad and a blending brush and put a very light layer of white ink on the raised portions of the embossed panel... and it did exactly what I hoped it would do!
It's time for a new sketch at the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge blog.... This would be a great sketch for putting together a batch of cards for a gift or to donate somewhere.
I saw the sketch and knew exactly what I wanted to do... snowflakes, of course!
A few weeks ago, I shared a card using a die set that I won in an Instagram giveaway. To get the pieces I used, I had to cut two of each of the pieces... so today I am sharing the card I made using the pieces I didn't use in that first card.
I'm back with another card with the My Favourite Instagram Hop.... this week we are sharing our favourite Christmas movie!
Once again, I took a little creative license with my card. I am one of those people who loves watching Hallmark Christmas movies. I love that they always have a happy ending. I like that they are simple in their storyline because it makes them perfect to watch while I am crafting.
Now, how does my card represent Hallmark Christmas movies? Well, to start I used a shiny gold cardstock for the word die cut, emulating the gold Hallmark logo. The sentiment refers to their always being a nod towards "Christmas magic" in these movies. And finally, if you've ever played Hallmark Christmas Movie Bingo, then you know that an ugly Christmas sweater shows up in almost every single movie.
It's a new month and time for a colourboard challenge at AAA Colourful. I can't wait to see what you all come up with using these fabulous colours!
I saw this colourboard and of course thought of Christmas. My colours aren't quite as rich as in the inspiration photo, but the colours are there. I played with my favourite patterned paper for this card... and added a little gold for a pop!
I'm playing along in the Is It Winter or Is It Fall Instagram hop today.... we are given two choices to use as a prompt to make our card... one fall and one winter.
This fall in Calgary has been quite nice. Usually we have seen a lot more cold weather and a lot more snow by now... but so far I'm still wearing sandals most days! Woohoo!
Our choices for todays hop were pies or beverages. For my card I started with some mugs and stamped them on to a white panel. I coloured them with Copics, added some white highlights with a white gel pen and then did a grey outline around each element to add some depth. I added a black die cut word and a black mat and called it done.
Happy Wednesday crafty friends... I'm here with a quick post this morning before I head off to start my work week. I love my work schedule that allows for me to have a series of days off in a row. I can get a lot done if I put my mind to it... but usually I sit in my craft room and think about crafting. LOL
I used a HUGE embossing folder for my card today... it has a framed out section in the centre. I put my cardstock in on one side of the folder and the frame is along the right edge of the card. I covered it with my sentiment.
I am just LOVING making Christmas cards. I'm pretty sure I have more than I need, but it's always good to have extras on hand. For my card today, I followed the sketch at Just Add Ink.
There's a fun new slimline sketch at Atlantic Hearts that starts today. I always find that the sketches are nearly as beautiful as the creations made using the sketch!
You all know that I prefer a mini slimline size, so of course that's what I went with. I decided to play with shdes of blue, silver and white to create a fun Christmas card following the sketch.
Another card from my weekend in the creative space... this time following the sketch at Paper Craft Crew!
I had yesterday off work (I get one Saturday off each month) and since I had nothing I had to do, I spent most of the day in my creative space. I didn't get a tonne accomplished, but I did get a few Christmas cards created.
The one I am sharing today is following the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.
This week I'm playing again with the My Favourite Instagram Hop... for this week, we were to choose a favourite Instagram creator and make a card in their style. I absolutely LOVE Cecile Ribon's clean and simple creations and I chose one of her cards to emulate. I changed it up a little bit, but the essence of her design is still there.
First, here is her card (that you can find on her Instagram):
And here is what I created... as you can see, I sent with snowflakes instead of tress, kept the colour palette (although my kraft cardstock looks more yellow than hers... I might need to find something better!). I like the size of her white panel more than mine... I think there is too much white along the bottom of mine and makes the card more off-balanced.
Welcome to the first in a monthly series... an Instagram Hop with a few online friends where we each find a paper crafting project on Instagram and we CASE it. Wait... you don't know that that means? CASE stands for Copy and Share Everything. Basically, we are going to take a creation by someone else and make our own creation that is inspired by that original. We don't want to copy it exactly, but we want to put our own little twist on it to make it our own idea.
First, this is the card I was inspired by... It's made by the owner of Uniko (go check out their Instagram!)
And now for the card I made, inspired by this card. You can see that I took the idea of the card, changed the colours, changed the word, changed the graphic... and added my signature coloured mat.
It's a snowy challenge at Addicted to CAS, and I was excited to play with it! You know me and love of all things snowflake (unless it's actually snowing... then not so much!)
There are a lot of ways I could have gone with this theme, but I settled on a mostly monochromatic card. I had to add a little sparkle, of course!
