Showing posts with label CAS on Sunday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CAS on Sunday. Show all posts

Friday, 3 April 2015

Happy Umpteenth Birthday SUO#119 & Cas On Sunday#55

Today I have tried an Easel Card to meet the 'Fun Folds' challenge at SUO Challenges and used numbers as suggested by CAS on Sunday.







Happy Umpteenth Birthday is a cute sentiment, and lends itself to layering. Because it's ambiguous, I used an assortment of numbers from two different stamp sets. One is current, Memorable Moments, the other, 25 Days, was in the last Holiday catalogue. It could easily be 'tuned' to suit the birthday by raising up the appropriate number.

Smokey Slate is the base and Blushing Bride features along with Pistachio Pudding (soft green) and Crisp Cantaloupe (soft apricot) They are part of the In Colors which retire in June. I'm sorry to see them go and have already stocked up on card and re-inkers for my stamp pads. Think I'd best get some 12" x 12" card too, to make box envelopes for these easel cards!

 Deco Label Framelits came in handy for cutting the opening because it matches perfectly with Oh My Goodies. They are paired for a bonus bundle at 15% off from April 1st until 17th April. It's actually $62.81 for the clear bundle and $73.01 for the wood mount bundle, not the prices shown below. If you click on the link, you'll see it is correct in the online shop.



Cheers,
Rachel



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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Floral Fantasy

CAS on Sunday have a challenge with 'flowers', one of my favourite stamping  images. For a bit of a change, this time flowers aren't the focal point, rather the background. Since I have been working on my next few class samples and had the spritzers out and loaded up with  colours - Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo and Bermuda Bay.

It was time I experimented with the SAB Designer Series Paper Irresistibly Yours and so I've spritzed a few different patterns. This is the Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo spritzed and overlapping on the floral pattern paper. So easy, and yet so effective.

Balloon Bash arrived in my order this week, and I didn't waste any time in inking it up. I do like the sketchy-billboard poster look of the sentiments.
 I tried cutting with different framelits but eventually settled for hand cutting and mounting with Dimensionals.


Some sequins add a little sparkle and glamour, and a thin ribbon tied in a casual bow to the side is the finishing touch.
I might try using the Brayer on this paper next.
Cheers...
Rachel


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Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Just Ducky, Darling!

Something For Baby is a cute stamp set, made doubly cute by having matching framelits. They give such a nice crisp edge to the cut out images.
I made this as a birthday card for a one year old, the age when they are right 'into' rubber duckies and stacking toys.  Such a sweet time, dear little one-year-olds are such fun, aren't they?

Primary colours feature here, and the composition is very simple. I love to add some candy dots here and there, and a clean sentiment comes from Something To Say.

I made good use of the Designer Series Paper Stack (Brights) to line the inside of this card and to make a co-ordinating envelope with the Envelope Punch Board. I really should try to make an envelope more often, they're are really easy with the 'recipe' actually printed on the Envelope Punch Board for a multitude of sizes. This card will be taped to the gift bag, so it doesn't matter about the patterned paper, but you could use an adhesive label if the pattern is too distracting.

CAS on Sunday have challenged for a 'clean and simple children's card'. I think this one qualifies in that category! Thanks for reading my blog.

Rachel
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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Tangled Bloom

CAS on Sunday has challenged us to use black,white and one colour this week. I decided to add Daffodil Delight Blendabilities to my zentangled bloom. SUO Challenges are after a Clean & Simple card and Colour Me are after Daffodil and a neutral.

Zentangling is a technique first brought to my attention by my downline, Angela T. who sent me a link. Next day at work, I noticed a big display that the art teacher at school had worked on with the grade 5 and 6 children. I haven't been involved in the art room this year, so often don't notice what they are making. I HAD to give it a go!

It's very relaxing sitting and doodling away, and it's probably something you get better at with practice. I found the trickiest part was thinking up contrasting patterns for Blended Bloom.

I used the Textured Impressions Arrows Embossing Folder to match the geometric feel of this card and Sassy Salutations seemed to suit it very well also.

Cheers

Rachel
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Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Butterflies and Birthday Wishes

I haven't had much time or energy for crafting this week, but finally I have put together a card for three challenges.
Just Add Ink has provided the colour palette, CASE This Sketch, the sketch (obviously!) and Cas On Sunday, the subject, a butterfly. Frames are the order of the day at As You See It Challenge, but I linked without fully realising I hadn't met all the criteria and haven't managed to delete my link.


I haven't attempted a collage card before, and it has developed mainly because this card has been on my desk for three days, and each day something  new seems to get added. Most recently was the strip of gold sequins with a scattering of loose ones. It began with inking up a Lovely Lace Embossing Folder, which seemed to call for butterflies. I used the Kinda Eclectic stamp set for the butterflies, Something To Say for Happy Birthday. Each element was added bit by bit, and some were even removed!!!
 I'm fairly sure I saw something similar in last year's catalogue, but I haven't been able to find it as I've quickly flipped through the pages.


It has also been a challenge to photograph this card at night, I think the So Saffron seems to change with various light, so I might try again tomorrow.




Thanks for looking,

Rachel
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Thursday, 24 July 2014

Sympathy Blues


I began my card last night before I knew we were about to be hit with another family emergency which has kept me a little preoccupied ever since. I have come home now, while my husband takes my place, and instead of sleeping, as I am supposed to be doing, I thought I would finish my card. I have attempted a very simple, monochromatic sympathy card, as I do seem to need them rather too frequently, and just as often, the recipient is a male.
I used an acrylic block 'stamped' into the ink pad, sprayed with water to make the textured sky in Soft Sky, Pool Party and  Lost Lagoon. The ribbon is also the silky smooth Lost Lagoon. And what about the everlasting Stampin' Up stamp set, Lovely As A Tree? It is a classic, which I hope remains in the catalogue for a long time more.

It so happens that The Paper Players have suggested a monochromatic theme, and as my favourite colour is blue, I've totally gone with the colours in the sample picture. It could have been shades of green, yellow or beige to brown, but for me, it had to be blues. In fact, it is lucky that I was beaten to using feathers by a couple of other entrants, as I rather like that idea too. LOL, not very original am I?


And CAS on Sunday challenged us to make a sympathy card, which as I mentioned before are so often needed at short notice.

Cheers
Rachel



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