Polka Dot Flip Flops

I'm playing along today with the Inspired By... challenge and Just Us Girls (script).  I have a lot of flip flops but none as fun as these polka dotted beauties.  (Perhaps it's time to change that...)  The challenge photo inspired me to dig out this Lifestyle Crafts die that I've had forever but have very rarely used.  (Shocker, I know).  These fun scripty Avery Elle sentiments haven't seen the light of day in awhile either so thanks to JUGS for nudging me along to dust them off.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink

Patterned Paper: (Its Bitsy Polka Dots 6x6) My Favourite Things

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Cake & Candles) Avery Elle

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Flip Flops) Lifestyle Crafts

Other:  (Nuvo English Mustard Crystal Drops) Tonic

Birthday Giraffe

Today I have a card for the Freshly Made Sketches and Paper Players (A Day at the Zoo) challenges.  I actually made two - one is more CAS and the other is a little jazzed up for a 1st birthday.  

Jacquie said this sketch was inspired by a neglected diamond die that she stumbled across.  Turns out I have a whole set of nesting diamond dies that I had completely forgotten about so thanks for the reminder, Jacquie!

The Avery Elle giraffe is one of my faves.  He's long been retired but I find myself reaching for him often.  I also love my Lil' Inker balloon die set.  There are a few different shapes, sizes and designs and they've gotten lots of use over the years.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Night of Navy) Stampin; Up

Stamps:  (Giraffe from What's UP?) Avery Elle, (Hat from Hats Off To You, Sentiment from So Much To Say) Lawn Fawn

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko,

Dies:  (Diamond) Lifestyle Crafts, (Flags) My Favourite Things, (Balloon) Lil' Inker Designs, (1) Papertrey Ink

Markers:  (R17, Y06, R02, E33, E35, E51) Copic

Other:  (Nuvo Mustard Yellow Crystal Drops) Tonic

Rock Star

***This is my second post for today.  For my Colour Throwdown post please scroll down or click here.***

When I saw the latest CAS(E) This Sketch design I knew I wanted to use stars in the corner but it wasn't until I saw the latest ColourQ palette that I knew what colours I would make them.  I like that these colours could work for a girl or a guy and while I initially thought I'd inlay the dies I ended up stacking them instead for a bit of dimension.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Peach Parfait, Hello Honey, So Saffron, Bermuda Bay) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Label Love) Altenew

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Nesting Star) Lifestyle Crafts

Gems:  Recollections

Cool Summer

Hi there!  I'm popping in this evening with 2 cards for 4 challenges.  First up is this yummy ice cream cone for the CAS Summer Treats challenge at The Paper Players and the AAA Cards Paste and/or Stencil Technique challenge.  I used a Crafter's Workshop stencil and embossing paste to create the dotty background. I really love the fun texture it adds to the card.  Then I paper pieced a retired Sweet Stamp Shop ice cream, added a sentiment and some gems and I was done!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Regal Rose, Daffodil Delight, Sahara Sand, Soft Suede) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Cone & sentiment from Cool School) Sweet Stamp Shop

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Rose Red) Stampin' Up

Stencil:  The Crafter's Workshop

Gems:  Recollections

Next up is a card using the inspiration photo from Curtain Call paired with the sketch from ShowCASe Your Style.  I used a few different patterned papers, some Lifestyle Crafts Flip Flops and a sentiment from Fresh Squeezed Stamps (which, sadly, is now closed).  That's it for me tonight.  Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with a few more cards.  Have a lovely evening!

CAS(E) This Sketch 100!

Hello there!  I was so excited when Chrissy Larson contacted me to help celebrate the 100th sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch!  I was a member of the design team from November 2012 - June 2014 and I give CTS full credit for helping me overcome my fear of sketches.  I play along now and then and always check out the latest creations from the design team - it's a stellar group of ladies!  Anyway I spent a ridiculously long time on a card before finally admitting to myself that it just wasn't working and I needed to start over. Thankfully once I saw Therese's card over at Muse this idea came together very quickly and easily.  I hope you'll play along and make this 100th challenge a super special one!    

I'm also playing along with the Moxie Fab Tree-Mendous Trees challenge and the Simon Says Wednesday Star challenge.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Sentiment)  Woodware

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Die:  (Nesting Star) Lifestyle Crafts

Punch:  (1/2" circle) Marvy Uchida

CASology #121

Welcome to Week 121 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

This week the DT is playing along with our teamie Tracey McNeely's annual 25 Days of Christmas Tags event!  We've all used our cue word to make CAS tags instead of cards.  I'm generally not much of a tag maker and when I do make them I usually end up sticking them onto cards!  LOL!  However, there is so much amazing inspiration over on Tracey's blog that I had no trouble coming up with my own design this week.

Now, not only is Tracey showcasing a mind boggling number of amazing tags but she is also hosting a massive giveaway of goodies from 6 amazing sponsors:

CAS-ual Fridays

Clearly Besotted

Lawn Fawn

Neat & Tangled 

Paper Smooches 

Reverse Confetti

Awesome right?  Tracey is offering a chance to win every day by commenting on her blog posts.  She's also asked each of us from the DT to draw a name from today's post to add to her prize draw.  You have until November 27th to comment here for an extra chance to win!  Be sure and visit the rest of the Design Team to ogle their gorgeous tags and also to comment for even more chances to win!

 Ardyth Percy-Robb
Gillian Ross
Joyce Mehrberg 
Judy Marino
Kimberly Wiener 

Melissa Chipperfield
May Sukyong Park
Meghan McMillan

Tracey McNeely

And this week's guest designer:

Laura

Link your creations to the CASology blog and remember that the deadline for entries is Monday at noon (CST).

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Real Red) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Tree & sentiment from Get Merry) Hero Arts

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Gumball Green) Stampin' Up

Dies:  (Nesting Star) Lifestyle Crafts, (Tag Sale #3) Papertrey Ink

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stells) Zig

Retro Muse Smooch

I've got a trio of red and green Christmas goodness today! Michele is the guest designer this week over at Muse and she's set us a fabulous challenge to make three cards using one piece of patterned paper.  I have a ton of single sheets of 12x12 papers that I bought during sales over the years.  This challenge was the perfect chance to wipe the dust off the pile and put that paper to use!  

For two of the cards I used sketches from other challenges to help me out.  The above card uses the Designer Draft sketch from Paper Smooches Sparks.

For this card I used the current RetroSketches sketch and a Fresh Squeezed Stamps image.  

This final card is not attached to a challenge but was inspired by this beauty by Lynn from The Mango Boys and Me.  I'd forgotten about this Lil' Inker Stitches and Stripes Cover Up Die but dug it out after seeing Lynn's card.

Card Supplies

Joyful Greetings

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Soft Suede) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  Pebbles

Stamps:  (Tree from All Yule Need, Sentiment from Joyful Greetings) Paper Smooches

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Nesties Standard Circles Large) Spellbinders, (Nesting Stars) Lifestyle Crafts

Gems:  (Ladybug assortment) Doodlebug

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Sleigh Parking

Cardstock:  (White) Handy Hippo, (Black) Strathmore

Patterned Paper:  Pebbles

Stamp:  (Sign from Hello December) Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Ink:  (Gumball Green) Stampin' Up

Gems:  Recollections

Christmas Stripes

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Gumball Green) Stampin' Up

Patterned APper:  Pebbles

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Christmas Sampler) Paper Smooches

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Stitches & Stripes Cover Up) Lil' Inker Designs, (Wonderful Words:  Holiday) Papertrey Ink

Gems:  Recollections

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

The Cutting Edge

Jackie Rockwell has done it again and come up with another fantastic crafting challenge.  The Cutting Edge celebrates die cuts, die cuts and more die cuts and has a brilliant design team on board!  The first challenge asks us to take inspiration from this gorgeous card of Jackie's.  I was inspired by the yellow/orange and the large die cut.  I used a Lifestyle Crafts butterfly die and a Paper Smooches sentiment die to create this simple but effective silhouette. It's also flat and great for mailing.  This was super quick to put together so since I had all the supplies out I made another similar card.  Easy peasy!  

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  ((Atlantic 6x6) Studio Calico, (The Sweetest Thing: Tangerine) My Mind's Eye

Stamps:  (You from Simply Said) Paper Smooches

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Seafoam White) Ranger

Dies:  (Nesting Butterflies) Lifestyle Crafts, (Hello from Quote Tags, Love Word) Paper Smooches

Gems:  Recollections

CAS(E) This Sketch #75

Welcome to Week 75 of CAS(E) This Sketch!  Take a look at this week's sketch by N@ Ali:

Sadly, I have managed to reach  whole new level of disorganisation this week.  Between too much going on, internet issues, and trying to fight off a migraine I managed to miss the deadline for both of my design team cards this week.  Not good at all.  However, despite not appearing on the CTS blog along with the rest of the DT I'm going to post my card anyway.  I'm pretty pleased with this as I managed to use patterned paper and ribbon and still keep it CAS.  :)  Can't wait to see your entries for this sketch!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill

Patterned Paper:  American Crafts

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Oh Yeah) Avery Elle

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Nesting Butterflies) Lifestyle Crafts, (Tag Sale #3) Papertrey Ink

Ribbon:  Hot Off the Press

Twine:  Darice

Gem:  Recollections

Marker:  (R59) Copic

Muse Thanks

Hello all!  I had a bit of time to play around in the Craft Cave today and wanted to join in with this week's Muse challenge.  How gorgeous and fun and cheery is Marion's card?  I was inspired by the colorful repeated die cuts and decided to frame mine with the negative of this butterfly die cut. 

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend.  It was gorgeous here and we spent most of yesterday doing errands which did not please Mr. Atticus.  So today he got a swim, a walk and multiple ball plays to make up for it.  I guess he's appeased now as he's stretched out on our bed snoring his head off!  Have a good night!   :)

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Strathmore, (Regal Rose, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Bermuda Bay, Basic Black) Stampin' Up, (Blue) Paperbilities

Dies:  (Nesting Butterflies) Lifestyle Crafts, (Thanks from Quote Tag) Paper Smooches

Gems:  Recollections

Seize the Chevrons

Good morning! I've got a bright and busy card for you today.  I used the colours from The Paper Players challenge and the Seize the Birthday challenge to use chevrons.  This is another card (like yesterday's) made almost entirely with die cuts.  Lil' Inker, Papertrey Ink and Lifestyle Crafts are all represented here.  

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Crisp Cantaloupe, Midnight Muse, Brushed Gold) Stampin' Up
Stamp:  (Sentiment from CL139 Hero Arts
Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko
Dies:  (Chevron Cover Plate, Stitched Circles) Lil' Inker, (Nesting Stars) Lifestyle Crafts, (Double-Ended Banners) Papertrey Ink

Gem:  Doodlebug

Seize the Washi Tape

**This is my 2nd post for the day.  For my Lawnscaping/CAS-ual Fridays post please scroll down or click here.**  

Hello again! I'm back with another two for one challenge card.  I used the colors from the Paper Players challenge and the design from Seize The Sketch.  I love the bright and cheery colors in this palette - so perfect for a birthday card!  Instead of using patterned paper I pulled out 3 different washi tapes to decorate the stars and banner.  They are almost perfect matches for the colours and so fun to play with!  They're also NBUS (Never Before Used Sctuff) so I get a little pat on the back for that.  :)  

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Pear Pizzazz) Stampin' Up

Stamp:  (Sentiment from Birthday Bash Sentiments) Papertrey Ink

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Nesting Star) Lifestyle Crafts, (Double Ended Banner) Papertrey Ink

Washi Tapes:  (Pink) My Mind's Eye, (Yellow) Pebbles, (Turquoise) Scotch

Gems:  (Bubblegum, Bumble Bee, Limeade, Swimming Pool) Doodlebug

CASology #62

***This is my second post for the day.  For my CASE Study post please scroll down or 

click here.***

Welcome to Week 62 of CASology!  Here's the cue word for this week:

Arrows are super trendy right now and lots of companies have arrow stamps and dies and other arrow shaped odds and ends.  I wanted to make a clean and graphic Christmas card so I used Avery Elle's Chevron Die Bits to make a Christmas tree out of arrows.  Once I had all the little bits die cut it was super quick to put together.  It's also nice and flat - perfect for mailing!  Hop on over to the CASology blog and check out all the cool different arrows used by the rest of the DT 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:

Janet

Link your creations to the CASology blog and don't forget that submissions are due by 4pm CST on Sunday, 22 September.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Early Espresso) Stampin' Up

Stamp:  (Sentiment) Hero Arts

Ink:  (Real Red) Stampin' Up

Dies:  (Chevron Die Bits) Avery Elle, (Nesting Star) Lifestyle Crafts

Hello There

Good morning!  Just popping in quickly with a last minute entry for the CASE Study challenge.  I was inspired by the stripes, purple flower and blue bow.  I love that bright and cheery Simple Stories paper and I can see that my new Simon Says Stamp banners are going to get a lot of use!  The flower is a Hero Arts cling that I've had for a few years so this card has a good mixture of old and new goodies.  Off to get the day started. Hope yours is lovely!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Tempting Turquoise) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  Sn@p Life) Simple Stories

Stamps:  (Flower and stem from Luscious Patterned Flowers) Hero Arts, (Sentiment from Good Times) Mama Elephant

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Rich Razzleberry) Stampin' Up

Dies:  (Nesting Diamond) Lifestyle Crafts, (Small Folded Banners) Simon Says Stamp

Liquid Pearls:  (Buttercup) Ranger