The Flower Challenge Reminder #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

 

Good Morning and welcome to a challenge reminder for The Flower Challenge.

For the month of July we are asking you to create a CAS card.

For some folks, a masculine card is the hardest to make. For me, it's a CAS card!

Clean  and simple... plenty of white space, and a main  focal. Oh and, a flower

of course!

I picked Honey Bee's Lovely Layers Water Lily, to use as my centerpiece, 

and added just a bit of Tiffanylou's Blue magicals to simulate water the

lily is floating on.

The layers make the petals pop off the card. Not so simple, but oh so pretty!

Happy Birthday is from The Greetery's Full Panel Leaves Stamp Set. It seemed

to fit the wavy leaf perfectly! 

I'd love to see what you make with this month's challenge. Believe

me, I need all the CAS ideas I can get! 

Blessings  sweet friends!

Reminder #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

The Card Concept Challenge Signs of Spring or Butterfly Blues

 

As March rolls along, we're all anxiously awaiting spring. The Card Concept

has a new challenge for you, and you get to choose what to play with,

Signs of Spring or Butterfly Blues.

The inspiration for my Mixed Media card comes from the Butterfly Blues photo,

and the color swatches given.

My C9 die was cut from a panel I did with Magicals. In powder form, you sprinkle

the colors on your paper, in my case watercolor cardstock, and spray with water.

The result is 'magical'. The colors come to vibrant life, and achieved just the look

I wanted.

The die cut is popped up onto a panel sprayed with Lindys Stamp Gang.

Sentiment: Simply Stamp Blessings/Beatitudes 1

Pick a favorite style and play along! 

The Card Concept #191 {Signs of Spring} or {Blue Butterfly}

You Are a Masterpiece

Hello Crafty Friends!

Don't you love making a card for no other reason but that you want to?

Going through my ever growing Greetery collection of stamps and dies,

the Macra Made made me smile, so out came the dies. 

Pot-Pourri plants and pot, with a background I made a while back. 

Nuvo dots

Our church knows I make cards, and has asked if I'd supply cards when needed for 

births, get well, encouragement, etc. I had to laugh when they offered to pay me

for them. "No", I said, "I'd love to give you whatever the occasion calls for". With

that purpose on my agenda, I've begun to do a stash of cards that are ready and on hand.

Ah... a purpose to be creative... life is good!

Happy Crafting, my friends!

PTI June Blog Hop '18

Hello everybody! It's the 25th and that means time for a blog hop.

PapertreyInk's Blog Hop, where our inspiration was this photo of

riotous color!

Now when I see an inspiration photo, sometimes I go for mood or 

certain items, sometimes a color scheme or style, but today I went literal... 

those colorful popsicles!

The only way to come close to those wow colors was Lindy's Magicals. My

friend Marcia Hill (Marcia's Stamping Pad) introduced them to me, 

and it's been love ever since!

In each little powder filled jar, there's a bit of mica flakes. I wish you could 

really see the shine! Magical!

Play along all day on the PTI blog. Besides the fun of creating, playing and

commenting, you're sure to be amazed at the scope of fabulous posts. So 

much fun to see how we were all inspired!

See you at the hop!

My supplies used are listed below. If you click on what you like

it'll take you to the PTI item in the store.

Papertrey Ink - Summer Sweetness Die

Papertrey Ink - Bold Borders: Shine Die

Perfect Match Blueberry Sky - Inkpad

Perfect Match Amethyst Allure - Inkpad

Perfect Match Pure Poppy - Inkpad

Perfect Match Classic Kraft - Inkpad

note: The stampset, Summer Sweetness is no longer available in the PTI store.

(Hopefully it's in your stash!)

Lindy's Magicals (Amazon) Mad Hatter collection

Two-fer Challenge #6 ~ Trees!

I'm so excited to be playing along at the latest Two-fer Challenge. It's Darnell's brain

child, where we're challenged to use the same stamp (or die) 2 different ways and 

create 2 different cards for 2 different occasions.

This month's key word is 'Trees'. 

I chose a die set from Frantic Stampers called, Lollipop Trees.

1st card:

I used my lollipop trees the traditional way, and set them in a window created with 

MFT's Jumbo Peek-a-Boo Circle die. Then framed the window with PTI's

Coverplate: Nesting. 

Have you ever worked with Lindy's Stamp Gang's Magicals? 

It comes in powder form, and when you apply water, the effect is well, magical!

The trees are die cut from a panel I made from 'hi Maintenance Magenta.'

Tree trunks cut from a wood look washi tape.

2nd Card:

On a PTI tag, I made the 'tree' into a triple ice cream cone, with lots of sprinkles. 

The cone is from PTI's Colorful Treats. 

Those cute little sprinkles are actually from a PTI die!

Below is a list of supplies I used. 

If you'd like to purchase something, my links take you to the Papertrey store and item.

Papertrey Ink - Cover Plate: Nesting Die

Papertrey Ink - Tag Sale #12 Die

Colorful Treats Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Colorful Treats Die

Make It Market Kit: Shakers + Sprinkles

Make It Market Mini Kit: Still Life: Summer (pattern paper)

Perfect Match Raspberry Fizz Cardstock (24 sheets)

Frantic Stamper, Lindy's Magicals, Catherine Pooler Inks, 

Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

You better hurry, only 3 more days to play! Ends the 24th.

The Card Concept: Happy Birthday

The Card Concept's newest challenge is this yummy photo.

I was inspired by the feminine pink and frosted goodness.

My Clean and Layered card has the elements of the photo, colors, cake, and circular shape.

What inspires you?

Play along with the photo and styles for 2 weeks at the Card Concept.

Happy Crafting!

Concord & 9th

Catherine Pooler Inks

Lindy's Magicals

PapertreyInk products: If you like what you see, my links will take you

directly to the shop.

Papertrey Ink - What the Doodle: Piece of Cake Die

What the Doodle: Piece of Cake Mini Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Wonderful Words: Birthday Die

Papertrey Ink - Shape Shifters: Circle 1 Die

Papertrey Ink - Tiny Tags Die

The Card Concept: Spring has Sprung

The Card Concept begins a new challenge today, very timely,

called: Spring Has Sprung.

Crisp white, bright sunny yellow, with a few color accents, guided my choice to

center a card around Easter, in a favorite style: Clean & Layered.

I was recently introduced to Lindy's Magicals, during a craft weekend (thank you Marcia Hill),

and created a bg for my birds with them, and a scrap left over from a die cut.

Marcia demonstrated  her Magicals, and I was hooked! You never know what will 

turn out after the powder dries, and these little jars are filled with iridescent magic!

With the exception of the Magicals, and some sequins, my Clean and Layered card uses all PapertreyInk stamps & dies.

Inks are another new find from the Craft Weekend, Catherine Pooler Inks.

(Thank you, Colleen, Linda & Marcia!)

You will find links to each PTI product at the end of the post.

Hope you'll be inspired to play along.

A list of styles, and much more inspiration by the designers can be found on

The Card Concept Challenge Blog.

Happy Crafting!

Stamps: Brushed Birds Stamp Set, Forest Floor: Spring Stamp Set

Dies: Papertrey Ink - Cover Plate: Nesting Die,

Papertrey Ink - Brushed Birds Die

Cardstock: Paper Basics - Sea Shimmer Cardstock (12 sheets)

Lindy's Stamp Gang: Magicals (Amazon)

Inks: Catherine Pooler, Tiki Torch, Tiara, Mint to Be, Aquatini, Skylight

Full Ink Collection: Complete Bundle 39 Colors