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

Speech Bubble Christmas

It was an absolutely gorgeous day today so I didn't spend much of it in the Craft Cave.  I ran some errands and spent a few hours this afternoon with a couple of girlfriends. Then Atticus and I went for a walk and played some ball.  Once he was finally tired I decided I'd have time to squeeze in a card before Luis got home.  For this one I've played along with the Just Us Girls sketch and the Dynamic Duos colours.

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill

Patterned Paper:  Adornit, Fancy Pants, Me & My Big Ideas

Stamps:  (Speech bubble from He Said, She Said) Paper Smooches, (Merry from Tremendous Treats: Christmas) Papertrey Ink, (Christmas from Traditional Christmas Greetings) Woodware

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Clear) Ranger

Punches:  (1 1/2" circle) EK Success, (2" circle) Marvy Uchida

Gems:  (Lily White collection) Doodlebug

CASology #22

Welcome to Week 22 of CASology!  Here's the cue card for this week:

The word "Sparkle" always makes me thing of my great-aunt Phyllis' toy poodle named (you guessed it!) Sparkle so I really wanted to make a poodle card this week.  Sadly, my stamp collection is sorely lacking in the poodle department so I had to go with the next thing that sprung to mind:  a snowflake.  I actually don't tend to use a lot of snowflakes (or snowmen, etc) on my cards as we don't have snow here but I kept envisioning a snowflake with gems on it so I broke one out.  My layout was inspired by this card designed by Danielle Walls.  I love how clean and crisp it is and it's a great way to use washi tape.  I added some lace for texture and my sparkle comes from the shiny silver card and the gems on the snowflake and around the sentiment.  Now it's your turn to bring on the sparkle! But first, check out the gorgeous designs by the DT:    

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Melissa Chipperfield

Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely

And this week's guest designer:

Birgit

Link up your creations to the CASology blog and remember that submissions are due by noon CST Sunday, 9 December.

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Night of Navy) Stampin' Up, (Silver) The Stampin' Place

Stamps:  (Snowflake from Get Merry) Hero Arts, (Sentiment) Woodware

Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko, (Night of Navy) Stampin' Up

Embossing Powder:  (Silver) Ranger

Punches:  (1 1/2" circle) EK Success, (2" circle) Marvy Uchida

Gems:  (Lily White collection) Doodlebug, (Green from Fabrications 'Linen' collection) Teresa Collins

Lace:  Hero Arts

Washi Tape:  Crafty Basics

New Puppy

Hello hello!  We had a lovely visit with some cousins from the US this weekend who I haven't seen since I was about 14!  It was wonderful to catch up and share lots of laughs and good food.  I also found some time to spend in the Craft Cave which always makes for a good weekend.  ;)  


A lady at work asked for a new puppy card for a friend and this design works perfectly for the latest CAS-ual Fridays challenge to use 2 circles.  I saw this idea for using two hearts to create a bone shape on someone's blog ages ago and cannot for the life of me remember who it was.  (If it was you let me know so I can give you proper acknowledgment!)   


Cardstock:  (Kraft, Rustic Cream) PTI, (Early Espresso, Certainly Celery) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Background images) Woodware USA, (Paw Prints from With Sympathy:  Loss of a Pet) PTI, (Sentiment from Baby) Hero Arts
Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko, (Early Espresso) Stampin' Up

Punch:  (2" circle) Marvy Uchida

Die:  (Nesties Standard Circles Large) Spellbinders, (Heart Prints) PTI

Hello Hello

I've got a multi-challenge card for you today.  I started out with the colours from the Play Date Cafe.  I love their bright and cheery colour story this week.  Susan of One-Layer Wednesday has challenged us to use more than 5 circles on our card and Chrissie and Mandi at Less Is More are looking for one-layer cards with stripes.  I figured there must be a way to combine these and I ended up using my new (to me) Background Basics: Retro stamps from PTI which incorporate stripes and circles!  Using the PTI stamps also made this eligible for A Passion for Papertrey's stripes challenge.  A CAS four-challenge wonder!

Cardstock:  (Rustic white) PTI

Stamps:  (Background Basics: Retro) PTI, (Hello) Woodware USA

Inks:  (Pacific Point, More Mustard, Night of Navy) Stampin' Up

Gems:  (Bumblebee Assortment) Doodlebug 

Paper Piecing Throwdown

***This is my 2nd post of the day.  Scroll down for my Tuesday Trigger post!***

Another card from my WCMD weekend. This was made using the colours from the Colour Throwdown challenge.  I used a Woodware USA stamp and did some paper piecing. This works perfectly for the Wee Memories challenge this week as we are to use our favourite technique on our project and I love me some paper piecing.  :)  And, surprise, surprise (say it with me now!) - I'm going to enter this in the 4 Crafty Chicks and Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenges.  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and managed to squeeze in some crafty time.  I've had a blast checking out what everyone has been up to - so much amazing inspiration!      

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill Basics, (Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Chocolate Chip) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Image) Woodware USA, (Sentiment from Asian Fusion) PTI
Inks:  (VersaMark & VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Seafoam White) Ranger

Birthday Bear

I hope all of you in the US are okay after those wild tornadoes this weekend.  There was some really scary footage on the news tonight.  It had been forcast that we were going to have crummy weather this weekend but it turned out to be gorgeous here.  Today was also beautiful but we had an earthquake!  We have minor ones very occasionally (we're close to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge).  I felt one once when I was a kid and I only felt it because I was sleeping on the floor (there's a pretty crazy story behind why but I'll save that for another day).  I didn't feel today's quake but all the dogs (and the geese!) in the neigbourhood started making a racket around 12:30pm.  An hour later my mom called to ask if I'd felt the earthquake!  She'd felt it in her office in town but hadn't realised what it was until later. Weird...  Last week there was a group here from the US who spent the day in town handing out flyers to everyone about how the world is supposed to end on May 21st.  With all the wild weather stuff that's been going on lately it's not seeming all that crazy right now...


Despite all the excitement I got a few cards completed today.  This one is for two challenges: Colour Cue Challenge #14 at WPlus9 and Woodware USA Challenge #23 - Die Cuts/Punches.

I used a cute Woodware teddy stamp which I paper pieced.  The little tag is a Woodware punch that I got from England - I love their punches!  When will they have their punches in the Woodware USA shop I wonder?

Supplies:  CS: PTI, Paperbilities; Stamps: Woodware, Hero Arts, Elzybells, PTI; Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMark, SU Real Red; IP: PTI; Die: Nesties Labels 1; Punch: Woodware

The Play Date Cafe Challenge #74

I had a few different ideas for cards for this week's Play Date Cafe challenge but I ended up having to go with the quickest as I got yet another call from work asking me to come in today.  *Sigh*  I have a feeling this may become a regular thing.  Perhaps next Monday I'll turn my phone off...  

Supplies: CB: The Stamp Pad Co; Stamps: Hero Arts, Lawn Fawn; Ink: VersaMark, ColorBox; Lavender & Starry Night Stickles

Back to the card:  I went with a Hero Arts flower and sentiment and a Lawn Fawn banner and sparkled it up a bit with some Stickles.  I think if I were to do another one I might shade in the flower a bit but for now I'm sticking with uber-simple.  :)
  
On another note, Emily asked me what punch I used for the flowers in yesterday's post.  Both the flower (Pop Flower) and the tag are from Woodware in the UK.  There is a Woodware USA but currently they only carry stamps, peel offs and ink pads.  Hopefully they'll start selling the punches too because not only do they have a huge selection of designs but they are also durable and give a great clean cut.  I don't have the same problems with them as I did with another brand as mentioned here.  


Edited to add:  The stems and leaves from yesterday's were cut from Scenic Route patterned paper.

Challengarama!

As I mentioned yesterday, I haven't been playing along with many challenges lately.  However, I had a bit of time in the Craft Cave today and decided to tackle a few.  I really would love to do a different card for each challenge but, as always, there aren't enough minutes in the day and I figured I'd combine some.  However, I was still surprised that this card ended up incorporating 4 different challenges!  Here's what we're entering today:

Stamping 411 #194 - Yes, I am again facing down my nemesis again - a sketch!

Color Cue #13

Wee Memories Challenge #47

Woodware USA Challenge #18 - Spring Is Coming!

Woodware has so many cute flower stamps and I really like these framed ones.  After working on this card today I have a few more ideas for these stamps.  Must make a note before those ideas float away...

Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics; Stamps: Woodware USA; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; EF: Cuttlebug; Copics: Y08, YG23 & C1

Clean and Simple 130

I have looked at the Clean and Simple sketch every week for months though have never played along with it.  I think it's time to remedy that with this week's challenge.

Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzil; PP: DCWV; Punches: PTI & Woodware; Ribbon: HOTP; Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type

After my photographic confession of my hoarding I decided to use some patterned paper.  I pulled out DCWV's Green Stack papers and they're so pretty with such cute images that you don't need to do much to them.  Since I had the paper out I made a couple of other cards too.

Supplies: Card Blank: Handy Hippo; PP: DCWV; Stamp: Hero Arts; Ink: SU Night of Navy

Supplies: Card Blank: Handy Hippo; PP: DCWV; Stamp: WoodwareUSA; Ink: StazOn Jet Black

 I wasn't sure if there was too much white space at the top of this card.  I considered cutting it down to make it a square.  The more I look at it the more I think that's what I should have done.  Any thoughts?

  

Multi Challenge card

Supplies: Cardstock: SU Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight and River Rock;  Stamps: Woodware  USA image and Hero Arts sentiment; Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Cherry Cobbler; Copics: R59, Y17, YG91; Martha Stewart Daisy Dot punch; Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder

I'm on a birthday card kick at the moment.  I never seem to have one when I need one (or when someone else wants one!) so I'm trying to build up a stash.  This birthday card was supposed to be for three different challenges but one has already closed.  Doh!  I have to remember the time difference when I'm entering a Just Add Ink challenge.  :)  I used the JAI colour combo and the the sketch from Card Patterns Sketch 104. 

I also used a Woodware stamp which means I can enter it in the Woodware USA Challenge #16 - Anything Goes.  I really like Woodware's stamps and as a company they also provide fantastic customer service.  I had an issue last year where it appeared that my order had gone missing.  The rep that I dealt with was lovely and worked quickly to sort everything out and not only did they resend the order but they added extra goodies to the order to say sorry for the delay!  Woodware is definitely on my thumbs up list.