CAS-ology #7

A while ago I made this card for a "Less is More" challenge - and I decided I liked it so much I'd do something similar for a new challenge I discovered CASology who's challenge this week is 'green'.

I used two shades of green papermania ink. Masked of a square in the middle of a 5x5 card and sponged it in green and then used a darker green to stamp the shamrock from Vap Scrap and the sentiment from stampin' up - adding a pearl to the center to finish. I'm not sure it works exactly a well with the shamrock as it did with the original flower image, but I don't hate it - and I do love the simplicity of the sponged backgrounds with a darker inked image stamped on top - I may make a whole set at some point *g*

May All Your Wishes Come True

A card for both "Less is More" #80 - One Layer Fur or Feathers and CAS-ual Fridays #65 'Square Cards' Challenge today

I used Colour Box Blue Iris to ink the masked of square and then stamped the birds from Skipping Stones Design's Dandelion Dreams set and embossed them with gold embossing powerder. Stamped and embossed the sentiment from the same set and added a few gems to finish.

I think this could be used for a few different occasions... birthdays is an obvious one, but the sentiment I think would work for something like a wedding/engagement card, or as a good luck to someone moving away, or starting a new venture :)

CPS 5th Anniversary - Day 3

Card Positioning Systems 5th Anniversary - Day 3: Sketch with Angie Hagist and Gina K Designs.

CPS Sketch: #54

I cut a 4x4 card base in orange card stock and used another Pollycraft Image, this time the lovely Cherry Kisses Frame - Remmbering. Coloured with Promarkers - Poppy, Amber, Mustard, Chestnut, Caramel, Sandstone, Blush, Dusky Rose and Pear Green. I stamped the stampin' up sentiment with Papermania ink and finished it with a couple of gems from Anita's.

I'm also submitting this to Rainbow Lady's Challenge #190 - Wear Red Day.

Good Luck

This week when I saw the new challenge at both Moving Along With the Times and Totally Paper Crafts was for a card with spots and stripes I instantly knew what papers I wanted to use. My We R Memory Keepers Travel Light paper was just the ticket... (in fact, someone on the MAWTT DT clearly thought so too!) and today when I saw the new Card Patterns Sketch, the rest of it just came together in my mind.

This is the Sketch:

This is my card:

As I said, the papers are We R Memory Keepers Travel Light. The hot air balloon is a digi stamp from Birds Cards coloured with promarkers. The sentiment is stampin' up, stamped with papermania ink. The green card stock was left over scrap from another card. And the ribbon came from 'the snowman' ribbon set.