Market Street Greetings

Hi there!  I'm excited to be back with my second showing as Guest Designer over at Market Street Stamps!  I wanted to make some Christmas cards but when I looked through my MSS collection it turned out I only had one Christmas set, Prancer, which I last used here.  I decided that this was a good opportunity to "stretch my stamps".  I'd use the sentiment from Prancer but I'd try and use non-Chrismas images to make the rest my cards.

For my first card I used the outline triangles from Nuts About Nature.  I stamped them onto patterned paper, fussy cut them and made a little forest.  The border along the bottom is from Great Big Greetings and the star is from Blast Off (now retired).

For my second card I went for a simple, graphic design using the chevron from Riding By in red and greens.  A one layer card perfect for mailing!  Isn't it fabulous how versatile these stamps are?  Do check out the Market Street Stamps shop if you haven't before.  I bet you'll find something you like!  :)

Supplies Used:

Triangle ForestCardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Cherry Cobbler) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Christmas Mat Pack) Anna Griffin

Stamps:  (Triangle from Nuts About Nature, Star from Blast Off, Border from Great Big Greetings, Sentiment from Prancer) Market Street Stamps

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Always Artichoke) Stampin' Up

Gems:  (Fabrications "Linen" collection) Teresa Collins

Chevron Greetings

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill

Stamps:  (Chevron from Riding By, Sentiment from Prancer) Market Street Stamps

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Real Red, Garden Green, Lucky Limeade) Stampin' Up

Gems:  Doodlebug

CAS(E) This Sketch! Challenge #7

Hi there and welcome to the latest CAS(E) This Sketch! challenge!  This week's sketch was designed by challenge creator Jackie Rockwell:

Initially I was a bit stumped by the stripes at the bottom but once I decided I was going to use a candy cane on the card then I had the idea to make red and white stripes.  I layered together 3 Papertrey Ink Half and Half tags to make my stripes and then popped up and Glossy Accented the candy cane image.  What do you see when you look at this sketch?  Be sure to check out the gorgeous inspiration by the design team over on the CAS(E) This Sketch! page and then get creating!

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Riding Hood Red, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Candy cane from Sweet Home) Neat & Tangled, (Sentiment from Tags - Christmas) Elzybells

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Clear) Ranger

Die:  (Half & Half die) PTI

Punch:  (Threading Water) Fiskars

Gems:  (Lily White assortment) Doodlebug

Framed Hello

It's been a while so I wanted to play along with the latest Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World.  I was inspired by the frames and their colours and wanted to do some masking especially now that I have the handy Stamping Mask Paper from Inkadinkado.  I've tried using post-its but never with much success.  I also have the Eclipse Art Masking Tape but the rolls I have were too small for the frame stamp.  The Mask Paper worked beautifully!  I may have to try masking more often now. This challenge also got me to use ink colours I usually forget I have.  I tend to reach for Stampin' Up colours first but today I dug out some Colour Box inks and they were fabulous matches! They also give really smooth coverage. I must put them out where I can see them so they get used more often.  

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill

Stamps:  (Frame from Lovestruck collection) Amy Tangerine

Inks:  (Shabby Pink, Apricot, Lettuce)  Colour Box

Alpha Stickers:  Scenic Route

CASology #21

Welcome to Week 21 of CASology!  Here's the cue card for this week:

I recently went through a clock phase and ordered a whole bunch of stamp sets based solely on the fact that they included clocks or watches.  Not sure why I wanted them so much as they haven't seen much ink so I was glad to be able to use a clock image this week. However, did I use a new, uninked one?  Of course not.  I went for an old favourite from Paper Smooches.  *Sigh*  What can I say?  I'm a creature of habit!  Although perhaps it's time to change my ways...  It's definitely time for you to check out the gorgeous creations by the rest of the design team and then get started on your own creation!

  

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Melissa Chipperfield

Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely

And this week's guest designer:

N@ Ali

Link up your creations to the CASology blog and remember that submissions are due by noon CST Sunday, 1 December.

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pacific Point) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Image from Perpetual Bliss) Paper Smooches, (Sentiment from Vintage Clocks) The Craft's Meow

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Gems:  (Beetle Black collection) Doodlebug

Creepy Photo Ahead...

Good morning!  A quick post before I jet off to work. Neat and Tangled is hosting a new challenge called Little Tangles.  The first challenge is to create a Hello card which is perfect because my favourite N & T set is Just Hello.  I stamped the envelopes on a selection of Amy Tangerine paper and popped them up on the card.  The sentiment is two put together. Colourful and cute no?  Check out the challenge if you haven't already.  You don't have to use N&T stamps but they have free digi stamps if you want to try some out!

And now for the creepy part.  I'm not generally squeamish about bugs - remember our housemate from here?  However, centipedes, especially the giant variety, make me scream like a girl.  I've always been terrified of getting chomped by one - they give a nasty bite - and unfortunately they are plentiful at our end of the island.  Just a couple of week ago my mom was battling one on her porch.  She tried to smoosh it with a wine bottle, broke the bottle and ended up impaling it on the jagged edge of the bottle!  LOL!  Go mom!  Yesterday I found one in our kitchen and was pretty sure it was dead as it was all curled up so I tried to stretch it out to show you how big they are.

This one - at about 5" fully stretched out -  is actually on the small side.  Anyway after being prodded around and stretched out it decided it wasn't dead any more and it went berserk - started spinning around and going crazy!  Cue Jen screaming and running from the room and Luis rolling his eyes as he went to deal with the beast.  The perils of living in paradise!

Candy Cane Madness & Heat Tool Drama

Hi there!  Popping in with an entry for the latest challenge at Jay Gee's Nook.  The photo inspiration collages are always gorgeous although I don't play along as often as I'd like.  This time I was inspired by the middle picture on the right side - love that candy cane inspired comforter!  I pulled out a few different stamp companies for this one - the noteblock is Purple Onion Designs, the candy cane is Neat and Tangled and the bow is Papertrey Ink.  

This is one of the last cards I made before my heat gun died.  :( For 5 years I've had an EK Success Colourizer and I loved it!  It had two heat settings and was super quick to melt embossing powder.  I noticed it was starting to slow down a bit recently though so I tried to order a new one.  Unfortunately they don't seem to make them anymore so I ordered a Ranger heat tool.  I'm glad I did as it was here and ready to use when the Colourizer died but I'm not impressed with it.  It takes forever to melt the powder and it seems to only work when placed at one very specific angle to the paper.  It's really put me off heat embossing now as it takes so long.  :(  Any recommendations on other brands?

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill

Patterned Paper:  Anna Griffin

Stamps:  (Christmas Noteblock) Purple Onion Designs, (Candy cane from Sweet Home) Neat & Tangled, (Bow from Bells & Boughs) PTI

Inks:  (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Clear) Ranger

Punch:  (1/8" hole punch) McGill

Copics:  R46, G07

CASology #20

Welcome to Week 20 of CASology!  Here's the cue card for this week:

It's Thanksgiving time in the US which means the gobbling down of a Thanksgiving feast.  And you can't have a feast without utensils can you?  Well, you can, but it would be a bit messy...  I used StazOn ink to stamp these Unity utensils onto silver foil card, popped them up and then paper pieced the red hearts onto them.  I love the shine and it's perfect for the Paper Players challenge to use silver or gold too!  How does the word gobble inspire you?  Check out what the DT girls came up with and then join in the crafty fun!

    

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Melissa Chipperfield

Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely

And this week's guest designer:

Donna

Link up your creations to the CASology blog and remember that submissions are due by noon CST Sunday, 25 November.

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Cherry Cobbler) Stampin' Up, (Silver) Craft supply

Stamps:  (Image & sentiment from Sit. Est. Enjoy.) Unity

Inks:  (StazOn Jet Black)  Tsukineko, (Cherry Cobbler) Stampin' Up