*CAS on Friday #341*

 The challenge at CAS on Friday this week is to make a round card.  I went searching for inspiration on Pinterestand found a card kind of like this one I made.  There was no name associated with the pin I found so I can't fully credit the creator, but click HERE to go see it...  It's gorgeous!

I started with cutting a stitched circle and cutting out the centre of it.  I folded the skinny circle in half.  I put the centre part back in to the whole I cut it out of and layered my elements on both the folded piece and the inset circle so that when you open the card, both pieces move...

Card Info

*Stamps:  Hunkydory Crafts

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Washi:  Pinkfresh Studio Fluttering Butterflies
*Dies:  Hunkydory Crafts; Pinkfresh Studio Fluttering Butterflies; Love From Lizi Stitched Circles

*Challenges:  CAS on Friday #341

*Create It 3-Ways Instagram Hop*

 Hello my friends...  this month on the Create It 3-Ways Instagram Hop, we are playing with the theme of Thanks. We are each challenge to make 3 cards using the same theme... and each of us chooses something from our stash (or our stash of techniques) to highlight in all three of the cards we've made.

This month, I chose to use the same leaf die set on all three cards... each a little different.

For my first card, I layered some pattern paper behind my front panel and put the die cut leaves back in to the holes I cut them out of.  I used some foam adhesive to pop up the sentiment in the centre of the card.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Paper:  Cocoa Vanilla Sunkissed

*Stamps:  Hunky Dory Crafts

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Pinkfresh Studio Foliage Shaker

*Etc:  foam adhesive

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

For my second card, I cut out two of the leaves and coloured the cut out bits with three colours of Copics.  I layered the one leave up with foam adhesive and finished it off with a die cut sentiment.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Stamps:  MFT Something for Everything

*Ink:  Verafine Clair Nocturne; Copics

*Dies:  Pinkfresh Foliage Shaker; MFT Something for Everything

*Etc:  foam adhesive

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

My last card uses three different mirror metallic cardstocks... I popped all the pieces out of each of the leaves and moved the inside colour to a different outside.  Gotta love paper piecing!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black; gold, silver and rose gold mirror

*Stamps:  MFT Something for Everything

*Ink:  Verasafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Pinkfresh Studio Foliage Shaker; MFT Something for Everything

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*AAA Colourful #31*

Hello friends... it's time for a new colourboard challenge at AAA Colourful.  I just love this inspiration piece... So many beautiful colours

I see a little hit of purple along the left hand side and some beautiful shades of blue and aqua. I took four colours of cardstock and cut them in to 3/4" wide strips.  I put them through an embossing folder and then put them on a panel with foam adhesive. 

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Gorgeous Grape, Brocade Blue, Blueberry Bushel, Coastal Cabana

*Stamps:  Hunkydory Crafts
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Hunkydory Crafts

*Embossing:  Daisy Swirl

*Challenges:  AAA Colourful #31

*CASE It Instagram Hop*

 Hello friends... it's time for the monthly CASE It Instagram Hop.  Each month, a group of us each find a card that inspires us on Instagram and we use that card (each our own choice) to create something inspired by the card.  It can be a direct copy or we can take elements and be inspired to create something more unique.

My card today was inspired by my online friend Sandy... please go check out her Instagram profile and share some love on her creations!

Here is Sandy's card...

I LOVE a raised frame, especially when it's done in white  I changed things up by making my frame a stitched circle and instead of in blended leaves, I did some pretty washi flowers.  I kept the idea of stamping my sentiment inside of the frame.

Card Info

*Stamps:  Hunkydory

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Washi:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses

*Dies:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses; MFT Stitched Circles

*Challenges:  All About Challenges #8

*CASE It Instagram Hop*

 I'm here today to share my creation for the CASE It Instagram Hop... each month several of my online friends and I choose a card that inspires us on Instagram and we use it to create something of our own.  Sometimes we copy the card outright, sometimes we each use elements to inspire something of our own.

This month I was inspired by my friend VonMarie...  this is her card.

I loved the distressed strips of colour and the big beautiful mostly white flower.  I changed it up a little bit by using some different shades of colour in a smaller aspect and instead of a flower, I used a big butterfly.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Stamps:  Hunky Dory Sparkling Sentiments

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry, Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron

*Dies:  Paper Rose Studio Alora Layered Butterfly

*Tools:  Perfect Layers

*Build Your Stash Instagram Hop*

 This month we are building up our stash of appreciation style cards for the Build Your Stash Instagram Hop.  Some of my friends did some cards to thanks the nurses or teachers or fire fighters in their lives.  I don't have a need for anything like that, so I went with a simple thank you card.  I used the exact same things on these two cards... even the same layout.  I love double sided pattern paper!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Granny Apple Green

*Paper:  Stampin' Up! Pattern Party

*Stamps:  Hunkydory Elegant Sentiments

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Dies:  Prism Studios Essential Greenery

*Challenges: Simply Clean and Simple February 2026

*This or That Instagram Hop*

 For the month of January, we are playing with the choice of OLD or NEW for the This or That Instagram Hop.  I tried something that is new to me for my card today.

I've wanted to play with intentional doodling for a while but have almost felt too intimidated to try it.  I did a few doodles in a sketch book I bought and I hated what I did.  Last week I was making a purchase on Amazon and found a couple of "bold and easy" zendoodle template books by Rokia Love and I bought them on an impulse.  I was hoping that they would be printed on heavy paper and was a little disappointed to learn that they were just regular paper.  I found a pattern I liked and slipped a piece of cardstock behind it since I'd be using alcohol inks... and then had the idea to use my laser printer to photocopy it.  I can't print on cardstock so I just did it on pattern paper.  If it didn't work, I'd go somewhere to get it printed on 100 lb cardstock.

And to my surprise, it coloured up pretty well!! 

I chose three colours of Copic (plus black), a black Micron pen and a white gel pen and I started to play.  Is it as good as the work I've been watching on Instagram?  Nope.  But Did I like what I created enough to cut a panel and use it on a card?  Yup!

Card Info

*Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! Basic Black

*Stamps:  Hunky Dory

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne; Micron Pen; Gelly Roll white gel pen; Copics

*Dies:  Waffle Flower Nesting Circles

*Pattern:  Zendoodle Templates by Rokia Love

*Two Challenges, One Card*

 I had a completely different idea in my head for a card to follow the current challenge at Freshly Made Sketches as well as using the "add a rainbow" challenge at Just Add Ink.  I had all the elements ready and I could not, for the life of me, make it work the way I saw it in my head.  So I scrapped all but one of the elements and went to work again...  and this is what I came up with.

Card Info

*Stamps:  Hunkydory Elegant Sentiments - Lovely Wishes
*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Washi:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses

*Embossing:  Stampin' Up! Brick & Mortar

*Dies:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses; Hunkydory Elegant Sentiments - Lovely Wishes

*Etc:  foam adhesive

*Challenges:  Freshly Made Sketches #654; Just Add Ink #720

*Another Wedding Card*

 How on earth are we at the beginning of September already?  It was June, I blinked and we are in September.  I'm not at all ready for the shorter daylight hours, the chill in the air, the windows being closed.

Anyway, I'm here with another of the wedding cards that I made for my friend, the marriage commissioner.  This one goes against what I said in my last post about what I try to create for wedding cards... I (gasp), added colour.  It's a little bit of colour with a gold foil element, but colour all the same.

Card info

*Stamps:  Moonstone by Hunkydory Crafts Elegant Sentiments Lovely Wishes

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Washi:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses

*Dies:  Hero Arts Infinity Hearts; Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses

*Tools:  Scor Pal

*Just Add Ink #716*

 I was away from my craft desk all day yesterday but with my car in the shop today, I have some free time today... tomorrow I am back to running around again.  I saw the challenge at Just Add Ink and wanted to play along.  I tried a few different things to create some stripes, but nothing was quite what I had hoped.  I then just did some soft blue and white strips of cardstock on a panel... If you look at the graphic at the bottom of the post, you'll find the challenge graphic... I was inspired by the blue and white stripes (the stairs) and the flowers along the side of the steps.

Card Info

*Cardstock:  unknown blue

*Stamps:  Moonstone by Hunkydory Elegant Sentiments

*Ink:  Versafine Clair Nocturne

*Washi:  Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses

*Dies: Pinkfresh Studio Vines & Roses, Slim Strips; Moonstone by Hunkydory Elegant Sentiments

*Etc:  foam adhesive

*Challenges:  Just Add Ink#716