Through this Just for Giggles Instagram Hop, I have discovered that I have two types of humour... dirty and sarcastic. I struggle as I have a lot funny and snarky and dirty sentiments, but not much to support them. So for today, I sent with a super pretty floral card and added a fun sentiment to it.
It was a fun time, creating all of these Christmas cards as spring was showing us what she might be like... some days it was sunny and warm, some days we had snow! Welcome to spring in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies LOL!
Another card using a piece of paper from my favourite package... one piece, cut in to strips to create a window effect... I love the Spring Into Christmas Holiday Linky Party!!! So many amazing entries so far!!!
Yup, two cards today... like I said, I made an extra card for the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Spring Into Christmas Linky Party and I thought today would be a great day to share the extra one!
I love this Gina K embossing folder. This time I used it with the debossed side up. That's new for me! And there's nothing like gold mirror cardstock at Christmas!
Another Christmas card for you today... once again playing along with the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Spring Into Christmas Linky Party. More of my favourite paper, using up some of the smaller scraps that I have held on to. I saw this idea on Pinterest and am so glad I tried it!
I love the simplicity of this card for the Spring Into Christmas Linky Party over at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers. I had this little scrap of patterned paper in my stash and it was perfect for this idea...
Usually the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Linky Parties catch me somewhat off guard... this time I decided to make a different card for each day of the hop! (and to tell the truth, I made an extra one!).
For today's card, I chose a super simple design with some sparkly snowflakes (I LOVE this iridescent cardstock) and a large sentiment.
Welcome to the first day of the new challenge at Addicted to CAS! We are looking forward to seeing your fiesta themed clean and simple creations!
Each month, I participate in an Instagram Hop where we create 1-4 cards using a common theme to help build up our stash of cards to send. To be honest, I don't need to build up my stash as I've been making way more cards than I send lately... but it's a fun way to create and I'm enjoying it.
This month, our theme is Anniversary. I really like a classy looking anniversary card and I tend towards black, white and red for these cards.
For my first card, some simple embossed lines, a couple of hearts and a congratulatory sentiment...
It's time for the {BYSHC} Spring Into Christmas Holiday Linky Party!!! We want to help encourage you to make a bunch of Christmas cards this week, to build up your stash so that you don't feel the pinch in the fall! We have a TONNE of great prizes to be won... how do you win? Simply create and share (new creations only) Christmas cards at the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers website... the more you enter, the more chances you'll have to win! You'll get an entry for every card you share with us (no back linking please!)
And now on to my card... I can't believe I used such a LARGE piece of gold glitter paper for this card! But I am SO glad that I did! I love how this card turned out!
The current challenge at CAS on Friday is to use black and white plus only one other colour. I had some fun with this, and even managed to make a Christmas card using black and white with a pop of red!
Each month, a group of us each posts a rainbow colour themed card to our instagram page... we don't use rainbow images or dies, but the idea of the rainbow instead. These always end up being such pretty and happy cards!
For this month, I took a piece of black and white patterned paper and coloured the white stripes with a rainbow of Copic markers.
We have another fun colour challenge for you at CAS Colours & Sketches...
To me, the colours look nautical and masculine... the day I was creating, I wasn't feeling super creative so I went simple with my card. I cut some super skinny strips of these three colours and made a "barber pole" style element for my card. It almost looks like a tie to me!
We have a wonderful new sketch for you at Atlantic Hearts...
I decided to play with a stencil instead of a stamped or die cut image for my card today... I hope you can see the sketch in my creation...
This week on the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are creating sympathy cards with our favourite floral image. I cheated a little bit as this isn't my favourite floral image that I have in my stash, but it is my favourite flower. I had this piece left in my bin of extras from a card I shared a few weeks ago (it's a huge floral) and it seemed to be perfect for today...
This month on the Rediscovery Instagram Hop we are using our stash (not buying new) to create cards with the theme of spring flowers. We are trying to rediscover what we already have.
I created a card with a bunch of blue flowers that I tried to make look like forget me nots... and I love a raised white stitched frame on a card... it adds a great element without being too busy.
I'm back with my second and final card following the April sketch at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers.
Once again I turned to a package of patterned paper and chose some different patterns from the same package as I know that they should go together. I liked the idea of the candycane stripes on either side and then chose a couple of other fun patterns for the two strips in the middle. I added some traditional Christmas colours to finish it all off. And that "Joy" stamp? It honestly felt like it was meant for the centre of this diecut!
For the final This or That Instagram Hop of April, our choices were Sea or Sky... I chose to go with sky.
I bought a new rainbow stamp and die set and was a little disappointed that once again, it's one die for all of the pieces. I know that keeps the cost down, but I think I could have so much more fun with separate dies (if you know of a good rainbow die set that is multiple dies, please leave me a comment!)
I chose some beautiful rainbow paper to make my rainbow...
There's a new photo inspiration challenge at Time Out Challenges this week...
With our photo challenges, we want to know what inspired you in the photo.... I'm sure you might be scratching your head if you look at my card without knowing what I saw when I looked at the inspiration photo. I was inspired by that swag of flowers along the edge of the booth.... lots of green with a few pink flowers.
This month, we are playing with Fun Fold cards with the Birthday Bounce Instagram Hop. I don't do a lot of fun fold cards and I thought I found a new one to play with... and then, I was scrolling through the photos on my phone and discovered that I made a card using this layout a while back as a Christmas card. Whoops!
I guess that just means I really like the fun fold of this one!
This month, the theme for the Create It 3-Ways Instagram Hop is "celebrate". Each month, we create three cards using at least one common element following the theme. Our hope is that we can show you how you can stretch the supplies that you already own!
For this month, I not only used the same package of patterned paper (one that I will be sad to use up!) but I also used the same word die for all three of my cards.
My first card is my favourite... I did this one first and I knew exactly what I wanted when I started creating.
It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS... and this time I am the host! I chose the code word "star" for this challenge!
I'm sure I had an idea when I chose this word for my challenge... but when it came time to create, I had no idea what I wanted to do LOL! I had some of this beautiful rainbow pattern paper on my desk so I decided to play with it.
The current challenge at CAS on Friday is to use a stencil... I find that that can be challenging while keeping a card clean and simple... I played with some soft ink colours and a fun daisy stencil. To keep it more clean and simple, I overlapped by sentiment with my stencilling.
