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 time for a new challenge at Time Out Challenges...
The colours of fall here in Calgary are kind of boring. Our trees turn yellow and orange and not much else. We already have trees that are turning yellow and it's only the middle of September! Fall is short here!
I chose to do some ink blending in yellows and oranges to create a simple card for the challenge...
It's time for a fabulous new colourboard challenge at AAA Colourful. Let's have a look at the gorgeous photo...
Card Info
*Stamps: The Ton Easy Expressions Birthday
*Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne; Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry, Candied Apple, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron
*Dies: The Ton Easy Expressions Birthday; Gina K Fancy Florals
*Stencils: Gina K Fancy Florals
*Embossing Folder: Stampin' Up! Brick & Mortar
*Challenges: AAA Colourful #32
Happy Saturday, my friends! It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS! This is one is right up my alley since purple is my favourite colour!
Good morning... I'm here with my first post of the day, sharing a card I created for the "Think Fall" theme I was faced with for the Card Clubhouse Instagram Hop.
I am not a fall-loving girl. Sure, I like wearing hoodies, but fall to me represents the end of summer (which is my favourite season). We don't get a long summer here in Calgary... and fall brings cooler weather, trees losing their leaves and the threat of snow.
I started my card with a simple leaf stencil and some fall colours (not that the trees in Calgary have these colours). I added this adorable squirrel to finish it off.
It's time for a new sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenges...
I fell in love with this sketch as soon as I saw it... I'm not sure if it was intended to be a full sized or a mini slimline, but I love the mini slimline so that's what I went with! I just happened to have some extra cut up pieces from the Waffle Flower Postage set so I decided to use them...
I'm here with my card for the Just One Layer Instagram Hop... we are challenged each month to make a card that is just one layer following a common theme. This month, our theme is stencil.
I grabbed this fabulous ink splatter stencil and created a rainbow through a portion of the stencil directly on the front of my card. I then stamped my sentiment right on top.
Card Info
*Stamps: Concord & 9th Big Day Birthday Stamps
*Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne; Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean
*Stencil: Lawn Fawn Paint Splatter
This week for the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite tree themed items. I will admit that this is not my favourite tree themed item from my stash, but the ideas I had for my favourite tree stamp weren't working out for me. Instead I pulled out this stencil to create a simple sympathy card.
Hello Sunshine is the theme for the current Card Clubhouse Instagram Hop... I played with a sunburst stencil and some raised panels to create my card.
Good morning friends... it's time for a new clean and simple challenge at Addicted to CAS...
I don't have much for postage related items in my crafty stash, but I did recently purchase some Waffle Flower postage themed items. I played with some soft colours with the stencil and used one of the "stamp" die cuts to create my card. To add a little extra interest, I used an embossing folder on a white strip. I used a lot of newer stuff (to me) on this card... always good to use the new stuff you buy instead of ignoring it!
We have a wonderful new clean and simple challenge at Addicted to CAS...
I don't have a lot of family themed stamps or dies... but I was able to make a card for someone's Mom (since mine has passed). I started with a stencil and three colours of Distress Oxide Ink and did a little partial blending. I stamped this gorgeous butterfly on top of it and finished it off with the simple sentiment.
It's time for another Mini Slimline Instagram Hop... no themes for this hop... just sharing a mini slimline card each month. This is one of my favourite card sizes to play with. For my card today, I played with one of the left over pieces from the postage stamp die and stencil I used last week... I think it fit pretty well! I added a little embossing for an extra punch.
Card Info
This week on the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with my favourite woodland scene. I don't do much with scene stamping, but I wanted to play along. I sure hope that this works for the theme!
This week for the CAS on Friday Challenge, we are playing with the theme of MONOCHROME.
Monochrome can be any colour as long as you only use shades of that one colour. I've been fascinated by shades of grey in card making lately so I chose to do that for my card today... I used two shades of grey ink using them at different intensities for the different layers of my stenciled image and finished it off with black highlights.
Today we start the last challenge of 2025 at Time Out Challenges. We will be back in the new year to hopefully inspired your creativity!
We have an awesome photo challenge for this last challenge... be sure to tell us in your post how you were inspired by the photo below.
I find photo inspiration challenges difficult... but here's my tip for how I approached this one. I looked at the photo as individual elements... colours, locations, shapes... so I was inspired by the red and gold I saw in the photo as well as these friends together making memories.
This week on the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are each playing with our favourite stencil.
I'm not sure that I have a favourite stencil, but how could I resist playing with these beautiful snowflakes! This is a Taylored Expressions Create In Quads stencil... a multi-layer stencil that you use on a full sheet of cardstock to create several different panels. What a great idea!
Each month, a group of us gather on Instagram to share rainbow inspired clean and simple cards... we take the colours of the rainbow and make a clean and simple card that makes those colours shine.
This month, I chose to stencil my colours through a brick pattern stencil along the edge of my front panel. I stamped a floral stamp over top of it and let it stamp off the edge of my panel. Super quick and simple!
This week for the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are using our favourite monochromatic look... I saw some samples from Gina K where her hubby had suggested ink blending in shades of grey. I LOVED how they looked so I thought I would play with the idea... I did a full 6x6 panel and cut out a portion of it for my card today (you'll see the rest of it in about 10 days)
This week on the This or That Instagram Hop, we had to choose between Ice Cream or Ice Drinks. I struggle to make the drink stamps look like drinks so I once again played with this little ice cream cone die. I added a little ink blending behind the die cut to add a little something extra
There's a lovely new sketch at Atlantic Hearts that starts today... And I decided to make mine rather clean and simple (although with the all-over embossed background it's not really clean and simple).
First, the sketch...
And here's my take on the sketch...
