This month, the Clean and Simple Instagram Hop is playing with the theme of "Black & White"... one of my favourites!
I had fun playing with the This or That themes this week and almost did a card that featured both stripes and dots... and I guess I kinda of did in the end since I did some ink blended stripes and then flicked some water on it to create some dots!
I'm here today with my card that I'm sharing along with the Mini Slimline Instagram Hop. I really do think that this is my favourite shape to work with other than a standard quarter fold card. It's a challenge to keep it CAS, but I do enjoy trying!
My card today is created from scraps that were in my bin of extras! Don't you wish your bin of extras had stuff like this in it?
This week, the My Favourite Instagram Hop challenge was chosen just for me! We got to play with our favourite clean and simple card! I took the challenge to mean "make a clean and simple card using favourite elements".... So my card included a black circular frame, a die cut sentiment and one of those beautiful butterflies I'm so fond of using!
Happy World Cardmaking Day, creative friends!! A day dedicated to my favourite hobby! I love it! A group of Instagram Friends and I have gotten together to celebrate this day by sharing some beautiful cards...
I decided to create a card that is based off of a few ideas I saw on my friend Toni's Instagram page... Toni passed away suddenly a few weeks ago and I sort of thought that this hop would be an excellent way for me to send a nod her way as a thank you to her for sharing her creativity with everyone.
I was inspired by one of her cards that had a rainbow theme as well as one that had a wonderful radiating embossed background. I combined the two to create this card...
It's kind of an oxymoron that the team is playing with a "happy" challenge after recently finding out that one of our creative friends has passed away. I'm on a few design teams with Toni and have admired her work for a lot of years... she will be missed.
I'm sure that Toni would want for us to continue creating and sharing, so that's what we'll do. Today I am sharing the card I made for the current challenge at Addicted to CAS.
I think I've made a card similar to this before... but it was truly the first idea that popped in to my head (and let me tell you, my creativity has been struggling lately).
Every month (or at least most months), I play along with an Instagram Hop where we are challenged to dig in to our stash to create 1 or more cards following a common theme. This month, our theme was wedding, engagement or anniversary.
I decided to make a couple of anniversary cards...
My first card, I used these cute puffins and did a simple colouring on them...
Happy October, creative friends! I'm here to kick of the month at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers and the brand new sketch for the month.
I thought that this was a perfect sketch to use my favourite Christmas themed patterned paper...
Hello my friends... I'm here with my card for the One Layer Instagram Hop. For the month of October, we are playing with the theme of splatter. I had a few ideas go through my head including using some of the ink splatter stamps and stencils I have... but I decided to go super old school and do some actual ink splattering using some reinkers and a fan brush. I started out by stamping my greeting and then masked it off before starting with the ink splatter.
How is it already the end of September?! I am still not ready for summer to be over (and yet, here we are). Sigh...
Anyway... it's time for a fun new sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches!
When I saw this sketch by Rachel, All I could think of was snowflakes... so I went with it!
Hello friends... I'm here with a "fall splendor" themed card for the September Embossing Folder Instagram Hop. I maybe should have done something other than green for a fall card, but I liked how the green and gold embossed panel looked together. I took panels of each colour and cut them in half diagonally and then embossed them to ensure I had a seamless transition between the two colours...
Hello friends... I'm here today to share my design team card using the current sketch at Atlantic Hearts.
I took some liberties with the sketch... I had an idea to cut up a piece of pattern paper into a bunch of little squares but I KNEW I'd hate putting that back together. Instead I embossed some grid lines on to a panel with my Score Buddy and then decorated my card front. I like that it gave me a more clean and simple look to this sketch.
Good morning creative friends... time to share my second (and final card) using the September sketch at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers. Christmas will be here before we know it... are your cards ready?
I was totally in love with my first card... this one, not so much. I'm trying to get more brave and use up different pattern papers in my stash. I am so inspired by Crystal and the gorgeous cards she makes with pattern paper... I just don't have the same eye as she does.
This paper is SUPER old in my stash...
It's the time of the month where I'm playing along with some Instagram friends and all of the colours of the rainbow. We try to use the colours of the rainbow on a somewhat clean and simple card.
I took inspiration from a card I saw on Pinterest (see it HERE)... but instead of it being monochromatic, I chose to use the colours of the rainbow for my elements.
Today, I am celebrating my friend Parmi's birthday, together with some other Instagram friends... Please go wish her a happy birthday!
I set out to make a simple black and white card... In fact I had it all put together. But then I felt like it needed something more. And I was able to finesse this rainbow floral wreath behind the layered circle.
This month, my friends and I are playing with a monochromatic theme for the Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop... I bought this embossing folder a few months ago and had to see what it looked like so I embossed it almost as soon as I brought it home. And then it sat on my desk. Until now!
I left the embossed panel completely plain and added a simple stamped and die cut sentiment to it...
I am trying so hard to get better at mixing patterns... it's been so hard for me lately! Even using papers from the same package! I had to do it with this card for the PatternPaper Instagram Hop (where our challenge is "layers)... and I hope I did OK!
Card Info
*Paper: Unity Love Notes
*Stamps: Uniko Birthday Wishes
*Tools: Perfect Layers
Some online friends and I are celebrating our friend Heather's birthday today! I hope you'll go over and give her some birthday love!
I chose to play with this fabulous foil plate from Alex Syberia. I foiled it in black this time and chose to use some different colours with the stencil. One of these days I'll be brave and colour it with Copics!
It's a circles themed challenge at Addicted to CAS! How will you use circles in your clean and simple design?
I chose to do some ink blending in my favourite colours... I kept the ink blending rather light to keep it from being too overwhelming.
