This week for the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite image or die of a leaf. I'm deep in to my Christas stash so I decided to play with this fabulous wreath for my card.
Happy Friday, creative friends! It's time for a new challenge at CAS on Friday. Our challenge #346 is to use an embossed background.
Now, I struggled with this because in my view of a true clean and simple card, an embossed background is a no-no. I almost skipped this challenge... but I had these scraps in my bin of extras and while I didn't emboss the entire background, I do have an embossed background!
The choices this week for the This or That Instagram Hop were Halloween of Christmas... this was a no brainer for me! Yes, I have a little Halloween themed product but I don't send Halloween cards, so of course I went with Christmas!
The current challenge at CAS on Friday is "use a tag"... so I pulled out these great ATC printed pieces from Stamplorations and cut a small tag out of one of them. I matted it in black, added a simple strip of cardstock and a die cut sentiment.
Good morning, creative friends... I'm here today with my card for the current Card Clubhouse Instagram Hop... we are playing with the theme of Opposites Attract.
I chose to do a couple of opposites... first of all, black and white is the most basic opposite out there. And then, all of those black and white strips are layers... so lots of layers on a clean and simple card.
Hello friends... it's time for a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. Challenge #596 is a colour challenge that is totally fall-inspired.
These are not colours that are in my wheelhouse. But you know what? I love how my card turned out! I guess it was good for me to step out of my comfort zone for a minute or two LOL!
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!
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...
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!
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.
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.
It's a fall themed challenge at CAS on Friday. I started out doing some ink blending on a piece of cardstock and then I cut a bunch of leaves out of it. They got lost on the white cardstock so I added a black strip of paper behind them to make them pop.
This week for the This or That Instagram Hop, we had to choose between Scarecrows and Woodland Creatures. I was going to do woodland creatures until I saw this fun scarecrow in my stash... I stamped it up, coloured it with Copics and die cut it out.
Hello friends... it's time for a new colour challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. I hope you'll play along with us with this challenge!
Let's start with the colours you need to use...
These colours made me dream of spring (I am NOT a fall loving girlie)... so I went with some beautiful flowers. I will admit that I saw a card very similar to this on Pinterest so it's not totally my idea
Hello friends... this month, we are playing with a "fall" theme for the Clean and Simple Instagram Hop. When I chose the themes for this hop, I didn't anticipate how sick of the "fall" theme I'd be at this point.
I did a simple card with some printed (and die cut) washi and a simple sentiment.
