CASology #64

Welcome to Week 64 of CASology!  Here's the cue word for this week:

Despite the ridiculous number of stamps I own I have almost no harvest related images.  It wasn't until the last box of stamps I pawed through that I came across this Inkadinkado image.  I stamped it on the More Mustard card first in Cajun Craze ink and then again in More Mustard ink to give it a bit of depth.  I love the warm rusty colour of Cajun Craze - it just says autumn to me - and it really lets this image pop.  The CASology Design Team ladies have come up with their usual array of stunning creations.  Go and check them out and then play along with us!

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Melissa Chipperfield

Rosemary Dennis 

Tracey McNeely

Judy Marino

Maureen Merritt

Meghan McMillan

Gillian Ross

Kimberley Wiener

And this week's guest designer:

Gay

Link your creations to the CASology blog and remember that submissions are due by 4pm CST on Sunday, 6 October.

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Cajun Craze, More Mustard) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Grain from Meadow) Inkadinkado, (Sentiment from Golden Days) The Craft's Meow
Ink:  (Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Early Espresso) Stampin' Up

Gems:  Recollections

Just Us Girls #150

Good morning and welcome to my third week as Guest Designer for the fabulous Just Us Girls challenge!  This week is a colour challenge - warm fall colours with a pop of blue.  I dug deep into my Unity stamp collection and found these sweet pumpkins from the September 2010 Kit of the Month. I paper pieced them and popped them up on some Pop Dots and added woodgrain debossing to the card base to complete the rustic feel.  Ready to play along? First pop over to the Just Us Girls blog and check out the gorgeous creations from the design team and then get to work!  You have until 9pm EST on Thursday, 23 August.

Supplies Used
Cardstock: (Kraft) Gina K, (Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Baja Breeze) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Pumpkins & sentiment from Sept '10 KOM - When I Am With You) Unity
Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko
Impression Plate:  (Woodgrain) PTI
Gems:  (Lily White assortment) Doodlebug

Thankful Trees

Hello, all! Popping in with a quick card for several challenges. First off, if you have any Unity or Ippity stamps you should definitely join in with Unity's Friends With Flair weekly event.  Not only do you get to see a ton of fabulous cards but you have two chances to win a prize - one by entering and one by commenting on the other cards.  Easy!  I'm also going to enter my card in The Paper Players fall themed challenge, Wee Memories' Brads, Buttons or Bows challenge, Simon Says Stamp's button challenge and Use It Tuesday's Orange, Black or Purple challenge.  I bought those little buttons at the dollar store about 3 years ago and since then they've done nothing but look cute in their little storage drawer.  Now they finally get to look cute on a card!  :)

And just an update to let you know that the puppies that Atticus donated blood to are doing really well.  It was amazing to watch their transformation as the blood was infused.  At the start they could barely stand.  Halfway through they were looking around and reacting to what was going on in the room.  By the end we had to hold them down because they were up and about and wanting to scamper around!  A beautiful sight!  :)

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Kraft) PTI, (Old Olive)  Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Trees from Bella Trees, Sentiment from Sept 2011 KOM - All Seasons) Unity Stamp Co
Ink:  (Chocolate Chip, Cajun Craze) Stampin' Up
Buttons:  Craft Supply

Coloured Woodgrain

***This is my second post for the day.  For my A Passion for Papertrey post plase click here!***

A super CAS card for the Tuesday Trigger challenge at the Moxie Fab World. I was inspired by the colours and the woodgrain in the picture.  I love the autumn colours of the trees so I used the "Season's Greetings" sentiment - that way this could be a Christmas card or an autumn card.  And that makes it eligible for The Paper Players challenge to add a fall element to your card.  I realise this may be a bit of a stretch but I'm going there anyway!  :)
Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Pacon, (Cajun Craze)  Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Small tree from Holiday Tree, Large Tree from Season's Greetings) Hero Arts, (Sentiment from Merry Messages) Stampendous
Ink:  (Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke, More Mustard) Stampin' Up
Impression Plates:  (Linen, Woodgrain) PTI  

Print Candee Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Print Candee blog hop!  The theme this month is Fall/Spring - depending on which hemisphere you're in of course!  I'm excited to be the second stop on the hop.  If you haven't checked out the Print Candee blog then please stop there first so you don't miss out on any of the fun or potential prizes!  

For this card I decided to try and improve my digi skills and play with the images on the computer a bit more.  I used the tree image from Digital Potpourri's Halloween Horrors and the leaf piles and individual leaf from the Digi Butterfly's Fall Leaves Clip Art. It took me a while to figure out the layering and rotating but I got there in the end and created this little scene.  Of course, I had to have some traditional stamping in there so stamped the sentiment and layered the image on embossed card stock.  

After finishing the card I played around with layering some more.  I layered a couple of the leaf piles and then added a label from Assorted Labels to the top.  I stamped names on them, fussy cut them, added cardstock props to the back and ended up with these cute place cards!  I thought they'd be perfect for a table on Thanksgiving.  :) 

Fun stuff huh?  There really is a huge selection of goodies in the Print Candee store and they are always offering specials.  There are also a few prizes to be won on this hop - 2 $10 Print Candee gift certificates and a $15 Two Peas in a Bucket gift certificate!  To increase your chances of winning leave a comment on the Print Candee blog as well as on each of the Design Team's blogs.  You will have until 11:59pm EST on Saturday, October 29th to comment for prizes.

Speaking of the fabulous DT, here's a list of all the blog hop participants so you don't get lost:
              Print Candee Blog
              Jen (Me in my first ever hop!)
              Jocelyn
              Marion
              Kalyn
              Jackie 
              Therese                   

That's all from me for now.  Get hopping over to Jocelyn's blog and check out her fantastic projects!

Autumn Beauty & RAK

I really don't know what possesses me to decide to fussy cut and paper piece such tiny designs but here I've done it again!  I cut lots of little leaves, popped them up on Pop Dots and added Glossy Accents to them.  The colours I used are from this week's ColourQ challenge and I'm also going to enter this over at Unity's monthly challenge (Autumn Harvest), Picture Perfect Creations (Fall/Halloween Specialty Challenge) and Create's Fall challenge.  


I had a lovely surprise arrive in the mail yesterday.  Awhile back Amy Tsuruta had asked for some crafty storage ideas and I linked her up to my Craft Cave pictures.  As a thank you she sent out a little care package with stamps, notepaper, buttons and, of course, a fabulous card!  I was so excited although I'm not happy with Bermuda Customs.  They opened the package to "inspect" it and clearly just crammed everything back in and bent the card.  :( Typical.  I still love it though - especially the delicate stitching! 

 I also realised that I never posted a picture of the fabulous card Lynn Mangan sent when I won some blog candy from her.  Love all the layers and PTI goodness!  

  

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill Basics, (Lucky Limeade, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Image from Beauty Tree Itty Bitty, sentiment from August 2010 KOM - All You Need) Unity Stamp Co
Ink:  (Early Espresso, Rich Razzleberry) Stampin' Up

Dies:  (Nestabilities Labels Eleven) Spellbinders

Other:  (Glossy Accents) Ranger

Use It Tuesday

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I had a jolly good time inking up stamps that had been sitting completely unused in the Craft Cave.  Having such a neglected collection helped me win Use It Tuesday's Uninked Stamp Challenge and my prize is that I get to be a Guest Designer for this week's challenge!  Whoo hoo!  The challenge is to use metal on your cards.  So I burrowed into my stash and came up with these leaf brads that I bought back in 2007 from The Stampin' Place which is the first place I ever ordered stamp supplies from.  I cut the backs off the brads and attached them with Pop Dots.  (The tree and stitches stamps were previously uninked and are glad to get their moments to shine alongside the brads!)  If you get a chance, pop over to Use It Tuesday and see the fabulous designs created by the rest of the design team then break out the metal detector and make a card!  :)     
Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Kraft) PTI
Stamps:  (Tree) Unity Stamp Co, (Stitches) Purple Onion Design, (Sentiment) PTI
Inks:  (Chocolate Chip, Old Olive)  Stampin' Up
Gems:  Doodlebug