Merry Skinny Tree

Hi there!  

Back to Christmas again with a card for the Merry Monday challenge to use a Christmas tree.   How cute is this Tara Wakefield tree?  I love her fun style and wish she would make some more stamps.  She only has a few available but they're all fabulous.  I paired the tree with some ancient Pebbles paper and a Reverse Confetti "Merry" for a quick and simple card - so simple that I made a few of them.  Yaaaassss for easy multiples!

I'm also going to enter this in the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Christmas.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  Pebbles

Stamps:  (Tree) Tara Wakefield, (Christmas) Winnie & Walter

Inks:  (Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko, (Real Red) Stampin' Up

Die:  (Merry) Reverse Confetti

Markers:  (Y15, G07, G14, E37, C1) Copic

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems:  Recollections

CASology #224

Welcome to Week 224 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

I am head over heels for these adorable images from Tara Wakefield.  How sweet are these critters?  I coloured them with Copics and gave them a little shadow to ground them.  I also added some Wink of Stella to the hearts.  I actually made 2 of this card but with different sentiments.  The first is from Neat & Tangled and the second is from WPlus9.  Which one do you like best?

Looking forward to seeing what direction the cue word takes you.  Check out the gorgeousness from the rest of the design and then play along!   

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield 

Sherrie Mannion

Tracey McNeely

This week's guest designer:

Bobby

This week's sponsor:

Stamplorations

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

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White, Soft Stone) Papertrey Ink

Stamps:  (Critters) Tara Wakefield, (Sentiment from Purrfect) Neat & Tangled, (Sentiment from Happy Mail) WPlus9, (Shadow from Shadows) Paper Smooches

Inks:  (Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Sahara Sand) Stampin' Up

Markers:  (RV29, YR02, YR04, E31, E33, E35, C1, 100) Copic

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems:  Recollections

Reindeer, Leaves & Flower

Hi there!  I had a little time to work on cards today and I started out by playing along with the design at Freshly Made Sketches.  I wanted to use some non-traditional Christmas colours so I dug out this ancient 12x12 sheet of Adornit paper and used it on the card base.  Then I tried to match my Copics to some of the colours from the paper and used them for the ornaments.  I added clear Wink of Stella to the ornaments and some Stickles to the baubles around his neck.  After going through all my Christmas sentiments I finally decided that the retro font of this one from Lawn Fawn worked well with the style of the reindeer.        

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink

Patterned Paper:  Adornit

Stamps:  (Reindeer) Tara Wakefield, (Sentiment from Let It Snow) Lawn Fawn

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Markers:  (R17, Y17, G00, G17, B95, E33, E35, 100) Copic

Glitter:  (Waterfall Stickles) Ranger, (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems:  Recollections

Other:  (Glossy Accents) Ranger

      

Next I played along with Anita's gorgeous card at Muse.  I was inspired by the overlapping leaf dies and it gave me the perfect opportunity to use these gorgeous leaves that were sent to me by the lovely Joyce.  I made a whole bunch of cards with this sentiment a while back and I'm glad I was reminded of it - I think it's a good one for a lot of occasions.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Kraft) Papertrey Ink

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Vintage Clocks) The Craft's Meow

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Dies:  (Leaves) Papertrey Ink

Gems:  Recollections

  

Finally, I recently got a couple of Winnie & Walter stamp sets and wanted to play along with some of their World Card Making Day challenges.  In the end I only had time to play along with one and chose Heather's Pinspiration challenge.  I love the yellow, black and white on that gorgeous cake.  I used a flower and leaf from two different sets and realized those sets don't have any sentiments so I used a Mama Elephant stamp and die cut to create the Happy Birthday.  The scalloped panel is also W&W.  I'm going to make a few more of these in different colours - I think they'd make a fun set!

That's it for now.  Hope your week gets off to a wonderful start!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Daffodil Delight, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Flower from In Bloom: Eva's Favourite Flowers, Leaf from In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet) Winnie & Walter, (Happy from Labelled Messages) Mama Elephant

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Daffodil Delight) Stampin' Up

Dies:  (Scalloped rectangle) Winnie & Walter, (Birthday) Mama Elephant

Gem:  Recollections