Happy Tuesday and Happy Birthday to CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. This week marks its sixth birthday and 300th challenge! We'd love to have you join us in this week's sketch challenge!
Here is my Design Team Card:
And the posted challenge:
This was a super easy card to make with minimal coloring and shading.
I kept it flat for mailing but could easily have added a bit more interest by using foam dots under some of the hexagons.
Stamps: Honey Bee Stamps Bee-You-Tiful Sentiments and Busy Bees
Dies: My Favorite Things Hexagons
Copic Markers: Y15, Y19, RV04, RV09, N7, N9
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I hope everyone had a good weekend! We got our Christmas tree mostly up and I had a chance to work on some cards. My card today is for this week's color challenge at Splitcoast Stampers where Mary is the hostess. She has chosen Tranquil Tide, Lemon Lime Twist and Gold. Not exactly traditional Christmas colors but ones that work beautifully with today's card.
This was a super easy card to make. I used my Stamparatus to stamp the tree and trunk in Tranquil Tide ink. Then I went over what I had stamped with Versamark ink and used clear embossing powder to heat emboss over the tree and trunk in clear. I also heat embossed the sentiment in gold.
Next I used my aqua painter to wash over the tree with water; some of the Tranquil Tide ran give a nice light blue to the background but the snowflakes stayed in tact. Then I added a wash of Lemon Lime Twist.
Finally I mounted it all to an A2 card base and added a 1/4 inch strip of gold foil card stock and A gold enamel star to the tree top!
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Stamps: Snow is Glistening
Ink:
Lemon Lime Twist
Tranquil Tide
Versamark
Paper:
Watercolor
Gold Foil
Accessories:
Stamparatus
Clear Embossing Powder
Gold Embossing Powder
Aqua Painter
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Happy Black Friday! I
hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Now it's time to get ready
for Christmas. The last few years our Christmas has been rather last minute, but this year I've already started shopping and the tree will go up this weekend.
Even after my
Thanksgiving cooking I'm still in the mood for more - sort of. I'm featuring cookies today, only they are made out of paper!
This card is made from die cuts and goes together very quickly. Handmade Cookies 1 and 2 are two dies that can be run through the Big Shot together and each die cuts four cookies at once. Run them through your Big Shot several time you'll have lots of cookies! I used six cookies for this card. As long as you don't mind the cards being slightly different just use six different cookies on each card you make.
To keep these easy I use Kraft paper for the cookie base and glossy white card stock for the icing. Adding self adhesive sheets to the back of the white makes assembly super quick.
I
placed the cookies on the card but did not glue them down. This helped me position my sentiment and then I used my stamping platform to stamp it in
red. Keep the stamping platform loaded up and you could print off multiples in no time!
I glued most of the cookies to the card base, but used foam dots to pop up the tree and the angel. Finally I added a few sequins for sparkle.
This card goes together quickly and would be perfect for making multiple cards. It is also relatively flat for mailing (totally flat if you eliminate the foam dots under the angel and the tree.)
I kept my card simple. But I really had to resist the urge to "sparkle up" those cookies! Just like real cookies, you could get pretty fancy in your decorating. Add some Nuvo drops, Stickles, glitter, etc! The possibilities are endless....
The secret to making multiple cards is to keep it simple and
economize your work. The ability to make a bunch of cookies at one time
makes this card easy. And a stamping platform (I used my Stamparatus) is
essential for the stamping. If you don't own one you should put it
on your list to Santa! You could even send Santa the link below ;)
Dies: Cottage Cutz Handmade Cookies 1, Cottage Cutz Handmade Cookies 2, Cottage Cutz Double Stitched Nested Rectangle
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Merry Messages
Card stock: Stampin' Up! Glossy White, Stampin' Up! Retired Christmas paper, Kraft
Ink: Stampin' Up! Real Red
Accessories: Stamparatus
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Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope you're not too stressed getting ready for Thanksgiving. I'm surprisingly calm considering the state of my house and the fact that I have 19 people coming to dinner on Thursday! But I find it fun and wouldn't trade hosting Thanksgiving for anything.
Now on to this week's DT card for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge.
The colors this week are:
I must admit that the colors challenged me a bit at first, but once I started on this card I almost couldn't stop coloring. I tried making the mugs all three colors but liked it best with them all the same. My Tranquil Tide is there - the sentiment is stamped in it and I used two layers of Tranquil Tide card stock under the stitched square.
To get the candy canes to fit in the mug I carefully used an Exacto knife right along the mug edge.
This was a super fun card to make. To get a little bit of sparkle, I used a Versamark pen, some Heat & Stick powder and glitter on the snowflakes. Then I heat embossed the milk in the latte with white embossing powder. It's little things like that which make cards fun.
This stamp and die set has so many possibilities! It's one of my favorites.
Stamps and dies: Lawn Fawn Thanks a Latte
Dies: MFT Stitched Rectangles
Markers: Stampin' Up! Blends Cherry Cobbler Light and Dark, Mint Macaron Light and Dark, Copic markers G0000, R81, E23, E25, N0, N1
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Today's card combines challenges from two different sources - Splitcoast Stampers Color Challenge and CAS Colours and Sketches Sketch challenge. The colors at Splitcoast Stampers this week are very close to the colors from last week's color challenge at CC&S.
Here is the sketch:
The colors are Pineapple Punch, Granny Apple Green, Balmy Blue and Rich Razzleberry.
I used a curved scallop die instead of a straight one (I don't have a straight one) and a stamp set that I've had for some time but have never used. A NBUS (never been used stamp) is the dessert option this week at SCS. This Alenew set is beautiful but it took me some time to really figure it out in terms of lining up the images. Thankfully, the style is loose so precision in alignment isn't necessary! Instead of using two colors for the flowers I opted to stamp off the first layer and stamp the second layer full strength. I tried using the berry over the yellow but did not like the look. I also stamped off the green to make it lighter.
To add my touch of Razzleberry I decided upon a single glitter enamel dot. I thought the green, yellow and blue were so pretty together I didn't want to overpower it with the berry.
Stamps: Altenew Painted Flowers
Die: Simon Says Stamp
Paper: Stampin' Up! Subtles DSP stack
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