JENerally Speaking

Monday, September 7, 2015

Flowers, Unicorns & Rainbows

I spent a bit of time in the Craft Cave today and have two cards to share with you. First up is for the Just Add Ink inspiration challenge. I love those bright blooms and they inspired me to ink up these My Cute Stamps flowers. I rock and rolled them all in various Hero Arts colours and then fussy cut them and popped them up. I'm also going to enter it in the Simon Says Stamp Make It Colourful challenge.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (White) Papertrey Ink, (Gumball Green) Stampin' Up

Stamps: (Flowers & leaves from Saying Hello) My Cute Stamps, (Sentiment from All Squared Up) Avery Elle

Inks: (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Gumball Green) Stampin' Up, (Bubble Gum, Raspberry Jam, Orange Soda, Butter Bar) Hero Arts

Dies: (Stitched Rectangles) Lil' Inker Designs

Markers: (YR68, E08) Copic

Gems: Recollections

Next up is a card for Seize the Birthday's weather themed challenge. I think rainbows and birthdays are a pretty good combination and rainbows and unicorns are an equally fabulous pairing so I put them all together for a bright and cheery birthday card. That's it for today. Have a good evening and I'll be back tomorrow with my CASology card!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (White) Papertrey Ink

Stamps: (Unicorn from Spectrum) Paper Smooches, (Awesome) CAS-ual Fridays, (Hope Your Birthday Is) Mama Elephant

Inks: (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Perfect Plum) Stampin' Up

Glitter Tape: American Crafts

Markers: Copic

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Geometric Birthday

Today's card is for 3 different challenges. I started out by looking at the design from CAS(E) This Sketch. I wanted to use the chevron pattern and when I saw the current Runway Inspired photo I thought it would work well with this and so used the colours from the model's shirt (although looking at the shirt more closely now I should have used Bermuda Bay for my blue instead of Island Indigo). Since each of the pieces that make up the chevrons are actually parallelograms I am also going to enter this in the Geometric Patterns challenge at Virginia's View.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (White) Bazzill, (Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Basic Grey, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps: (Sentiment from Halftone Hello) Altenew

Inks: (VersaMark) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder: (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Dies: (Chevron Cover Plate) Lil' Inker Designs, (Happy) Mama Elephant

Other: (Glossy Accents) Ranger

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

CASology #162

Welcome to Week 162 of CASology! Take a look at the cue word for this week:

So clearly Kimberly and I were on the same wavelength when we made our cards this week as we went for almost identical layouts. I was going to remake my card but Ardyth pointed out that, despite the similarities, they're really very different. She's right of course and that's one of the cool things about art - two people can start at the same point but the outcomes are usually totally different. Go and check out all the amazing designs from the team and then be sure to play along with us.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Gillian Ross - Taking a break

And this week's guest designer:

Diana

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

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (White) Papertrey Ink

Stamps: (Pen & sentiment from Happy Trails) Papertrey Ink

Inks: (Lost Lagoon, Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Pool Party, Soft Sky, Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Pacific Point, Night of Navy) Stampin' Up

Gems: Recollections

Monday, August 31, 2015

Altenew Birthday & Flowers

I've got two more cards to share that I made yesterday. The first uses the palette from ColourQ and the sketch from The Friday Mashup. All the stamps are NBUS from Altenew.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (White) Papertrey Ink, (Tangerine Tango, So Saffron, Bermuda Bay, Perfect Plum) Stampin' Up

Stamps: (All from Birthday Bash) Altenew

Inks: (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Tangerine Tango) Stampin' Up

Dies: (Stitched Rectangle) Lil' Inker Designs

Next is a card using the Just Add Ink colour palette. More Altenew stamps but this time Doodle Blooms - a set that sees a lot of ink. I fussy cut the leaves and flowers and also made one with opposite coloured flowers. I'm going to enter this in the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (White) Papertrey Ink, (Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Mint Macaron) Stampin' Up

Stamps: (Flowers & leaves from Doodle Blooms, Sentiment from Sohcahtoa) Altenew

Inks: (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Glitter: (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems: Recollections

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Giraffes, Trees & Planes

Thank you for all the love, thoughts and prayers you've sent out to Luis and me. We're both still feeling very raw and more than a little lost without Atticus as I'm sure we will for a while. Today we've been trying to keep busy - Luis puttering around in the yard and me in the Craft Cave. I have 3 cards to share but probably not much chatter.

First up is for the Colour Me challenge using a Papertrey cover plate and Altenew stamps.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (White) Papertrey Ink, (Tangerine Tango, Cajun Craze, Pool Party, Lost Lagoon) Stampin' Up

Stamps: (All from Geometric Menagerie) Altenew

Inks: (Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko

Dies: (Horizontal Stripe Cover Plate) Papertrey Ink

Markers: (YR68, E08) Copic

Gems: Recollections

Next is a card for the Muse challenge. I was inspired by the layout of Tracey's card and the tree and banner. All products are Paper Smooches.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (White) Papertrey Ink, (Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Soft Suede) Stampin' Up

Stamps: (Tree & large gift from Winter Groves, Small gift from Santa Paws, Sentiment from Christmas Sampler) Paper Smooches

Inks: (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder: (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Dies: (Flag Tags) Paper Smooches

Punch: (1/4" hole punch) McGill

Finally is a card using the design from Freshly Made Sketches and the Colour Throwdown palette. The "clouds" are made with white pigment ink steamed through a Crafter's Workshop stencil.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: (Rose Red, Marina Mist, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps: (All from Plane Awesome) Taylored Expressions

Inks: (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black, Memento Luxe Wedding Dress) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder: (Opaque Bright White Super Fine) Wow

Stencil: The Crafter's Workshop

Gems: Recollections

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Atticus

We lost our sweet sweet boy, Atticus, this past Tuesday. Luis was about to shower him off after a swim when he collapsed and was gone. It was so fast and so completely unexpected. We are all still in shock and trying to come to terms with a much quieter and more empty life.

Above is a photo from the day I brought him home. The picture below is from March.

He was 9 1/2 years old.

My heart is broken.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

CASology #161

Welcome to Week 161 of CASology! Take a look at the cue word for this week:

Whenever I thought about this week's cue word I just kept picturing plaid golf pants. I have no idea why especially as you really don't see them too often these days (at least not on the golf courses around here) but that's where my brain was taking me so I decided to go with it. I didn't have any golfer images though so I settled for plaid grass instead. A little bit of patterned paper can add a lot of fun to a CAS design - just keep it to a minimum!

And this week's guest designer: