CASology #244

Welcome to Week 244 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

This week's cue word gave me the perfect excuse to finally ink up this adorable little Avery Elle chick because what's one way to get strong?  Exercise of course!  I don't think I generally look that happy when I'm exercising but that's just me.  :)  Since I had the set out I made a couple more cards in different colours.

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

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas 

Janet Ribet

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield 

Rachel Bergfeld

Sherrie Mannion

This week's guest designer:

Sarah

This week's sponsor:

Kitty Bee Designs

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

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, Island Indigo) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (All from Hot Chick) Avery Elle

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

Die:  (Stitched arch) My Favourite Things

Markers:  (RV13, RV21, RV23, YR16, Y06, Y08, Y11, Y17, YG23, G000, BG34, C1) Copic

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems:  Recollections

Purr-thday Kitties

Hi there!  

I'm starting off the week with a card for three challenges - Freshly Made Sketches, the Simon Wednesday Happy Birthday challenge and the Addicted to Stamps and More Anything Goes challenge.  I love the fun sketch this week at FMS and decided pretty early on that I'd be using these MFT kitties for my design.  The kitties and cake are Copic coloured, fussy cut and popped up on Lil' Inkers stitched squares.  I'm going to have to go back and make a dog one as well I think.  Got to keep all the different animal lovers happy.  :)

Have a great day!     

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Bermuda Bay) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Cats from Cool Cat, Cake & small hat from Birthday Bears, Large hat from Beary Special Birthday) My Favourite Things

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

Markers:  (R32, RV10, RV21, RV23, YR00, YR20, YR68, Y38, BG15, C1, C3, C5) Copic

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems:  Recollections

Purple Bottles & Kites

After a busy couple of weeks I was excited to get some crafty time this weekend and not just card making crafty.  Last night a few friends got together to make Bermuda kites.  It's tradition here on Good Friday to fly kites and to eat lots of hot cross buns and fishcakes. 

As you can see from the photo we all went for different patterns.  It's a seriously fiddly job cutting the panels and gluing them down and I confess that by 10:30pm I was losing the will to live but I got it done and we'll see on Friday if it flies.      

  

As for my card this is for The Card Concept and I'd say it definitely falls into the clean and simple category.  The bottles and sentiment are from Fresh Squeezed Stamps (sadly closed) and the flower is Altenew.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Daffodil Delight, Bermuda Bay, Wisteria Wonder, Perfect Plum, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Bottle from Soda-Lighted, Sentiment from Mother Knows Best) Fresh Squeezed Stamps, (Flower from Doodle Blooms) Altenew

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFne Onyx Black) Tsukeniko

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Gems:  Recollections

CASology #243

Welcome to Week 243 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

What a yummy cue word this week!!  I am a big fan of cake and icing.  It's pretty much my favourite dessert.  Nothing fancy either - a good old Duncan Hines box cake makes me very happy - Devil's Food with whipped vanilla frosting preferably!  While I love chocolate cake with white icing it's not that fun to colour so this little bear got to chow down on yellow cake with strawberry icing.  He's made an admirable start but I think I would have gotten a lot further before I gave up.  Not sure if that's actually something to be proud of...

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

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas 

Janet Ribet

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield 

Rachel Bergfeld

Sherrie Mannion

This week's guest designer:

Lin B.

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

Supplies Used:

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

Patterned Paper:  (Capture Life 6x6) Echo Park

Stamps:  (All from Beary Special Birthday) My Favourite Things

Inks:  (VersaMark, Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukeniko

Embossing Powder:  (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Markers:  (R32, RV10, RV21, RV23, YR00, YR20, W1, W3, W5) Copic

Gems:  Recollections

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CASology #242

Welcome to Week 242 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

I had completely forgotten about this Hero Arts stamp set but when I stumbled across it I realized it was perfect for this week's challenge and I'd knock an NBUS off the list!  I went for colours that could work for a guy or a girl and a jaunty angle for a bit of fun.  Also I discovered that if you put Nuvo drops onto stamp ink they'll take up the colour of the ink.  Kind of fun!

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

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas 

Janet Ribet

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield 

Rachel Bergfeld

Sherrie Mannion

This week's guest designer:

Melissa

This week's sponsor:

Waffle Flower

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

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Smokey Slate) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (All from CL737) Hero Arts

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukeniko, (Bermuda Bay, Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Point) Stampin' Up

Other:  (Nuvo Oyster Grey Crystal Drops) Tonic

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CAS Colours & Sketches Guest Designer Take 4

Hi there!  I'm back for my final week of guest designing for CAS Colours & Sketches.  I just want to say thank you to the lovely CC&S ladies for welcoming me and letting me play along with them for the last 4 weeks.   

This week we have a sketch challenge:

When I see layers for a CAS card sketch I always get a little worried but keeping the top layer white helps to keep it clean.  I used a peekaboo amount of patterned paper underneath it and pulled colours from it for the rest of the card.  This MFT bear is from one of my most used My Favourite Things sets.  I think he's just so cute!

Be sure to check out the inspiration from the Design Team and then play along!  You have until 6pm Eastern Time on Monday, 3 April.    

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Island Indigo, Smokey Slate) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Sweet Celebration 6x6) My Favourite Things

Stamps:  (Bear & sentiment from Beary Special Birthday) My Favourite Things

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

Markers:  (RV10, RV34, Y15, YG03, C1, C3, C5, 100) Copic

Gems:  Recollections

Die Cut Sympathy

Hi there!  I've got a card today for the Simon Says Wednesday challenge to use more than one die cut or punch.  This card is pretty much all die cuts so I think it qualifies nicely.  All the elements on the card (except the gems) are from Paper Smooches.  I love those paint stroke dies.  They're so cool and can be used for so many different types of card.  To help the leaves pop I cut them from green and black card and layered them to give a bit of a shadow.  

That's it for now.  See you tomorrow for CASology!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White, Dark grey) Papertrey Ink, (Certainly Celery, Basic Grey, Basic Black) Stampin' Up, (Light grey, Blue) Bazzill

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Good Gab) Paper Smooches

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Die:  (Vase, leaves, paint strokes) Paper Smooches

Markers:  Zigs

Gems:  Recollections