CASology #201

Welcome to Week 201 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

Wow what a great turnout for our 200th challenge celebration last week!  Thank you so much to everyone who played along and we hope you'll continue to join us each week!  

Summer is well and truly upon us here in Bermuda.  The humidity has kicked in with a vengeance and it's only the beginning of June.  Ugh!  It's gonna be a long hot summer.  In honor of the summer we'd like to see your sunshine cards this week.  I used one of my favourite sun images (from Hero Arts) and an ancient mini envelope punch that had quite a layer of dust on it.  I combined words from 2 different Lawn Fawn sentiments to make my own, tossed on a few sequins and voila - the sunshine is ready to be mailed!

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:

Diana

This week's sponsor:

Rubber Dance Art Stamps

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

And now for the winner of the blog candy...

#47 - Tami of Team Gingerbread!

Congrats, Tami!  Please contact me at LilJen1 at northrock dot bm to claim your prize!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Sun from CL765) Hero Arts, ("Sending" from So Much To Say, "Sunshine" from Sunny Skies) Lawn Fawn

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Punch:  (Mini envelope) McGill

Sequins:  Doodlebug

Whales & Flowers

Hello, Monday!  I have two cards for four challenges to start off the week.  I love this happy colour palette from ColourQ and the patterns on the sheets were perfect inspiration for the Under the Sea theme at Cupcake Inspirations.  I used some Papertrey Ink birthday banner dies (or are they garlands?  Or streamers?) to make my waves and then popped up the PTI whale and sentiment on foam tape.  It actually came together quite quickly which is always a bonus.  :)

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Blue) Paperbilities, (Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Basic Grey) Stampin' Up!

Stamps:  (Whale & sentiment from Keep Swimming) Papertrey Ink

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko  

Die: ((Flag Tags) Paper Smooches, (Banners) Papertrey Ink,

Markers:  (c-1, C-5) Copic

Gems:  Recollections  

Next is a card inspired by the photo over at the Fusion challenge and I'm also going to enter it in the CAS-ual Fridays Florals challenge.  I stamped the CAS-ual Fridays flowers with Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink and then used some water and a small paintbrush to spread the colour around and fill them in.  Each one has a little Recollections gem in the centre.  

Okay that's it for today.  See you tomorrow for CASology!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Watercolor) Ranger, (Basic Black) Stampin' Up!

Stamps:  (All from Wallflower) CAS-ual Fridays

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Peeled Paint, Mermaid Lagoon) Ranger  

Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Gems:  Recollections  

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Teacups & Cupcakes

I've got two more cards to share from yesterday's time in the Craft Cave.  Oh and speaking of the CC I forgot to mention this.  The air conditioning unit for the Cave wouldn't work on Wednesday after having been perfectly fine on Tuesday.  We finally got someone down to look at it yesterday and discovered that a lizard had gotten inside it and electrocuted himself which shorted out the unit.  Poor guy was totally fried!  Not sure what possessed him to go in there as he's lived around that corner of the house for years.  I'll miss seeing him hanging out on the wall doing his push ups.  :(

Anyway, back to the cards.  The first one was inspired by the photo at The Card Concept and I'd say it's a Clean and Layered design.  Lots of different companies on show here - Paper Smooches tea cup, Lil' Inkers flower, Fresh Squeezed Stamps sentiment and My Favourite Things patterned paper.  Love when they all play so nicely together!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Coastal Cabana) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Calm & Cozy Chevron 6x6) My Favourite Things

Stamps:  (Teacup from Cyber Cafe) Paper Smooches, (Sentiment from You Said It Sister) Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Soft Granite) Hero Arts

Die:  (Stitched Arch STAX) My Favourite Things, (Stitched Flower) Lil' Inker Designs

Gems:  Recollections

My second card was inspired by the design at Freshly Made Sketches.  Some Crate Paper papers, My Favourite Things dies and Mama Elephant cupcake and sentiment came together for this one.  Yay for more happy colours and patterns!  

That's it for now. Have a lovely day!  

Supplies Used:

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

Patterned Paper:  (Party Day 6x6) Crate Paper

Stamps:  (Cupcake from Carnival Cupcakes, Sentiment from Carnival Toppers) Mama Elephant

Inks:  (Versa Fine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Die:  (Wonky Stitched Rectangles, Wonky Stitched Squares) My Favourite Things

Gems:  Recollections

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Patterned Butterflies

Hi there!  Hope you're all enjoying your weekend.  I got a bit of crafty time today and I really wanted to play along with the sketch over at The Challenge as they are taking a summer break after this.  I stuck very closely to the sketch and made use of some patterned papers and a few dies - no stamping in sight.  I actually made two cards but the one below veered off from the sketch a bit by using a full circle instead of a half circle.  I love my CAS designs but every once in a while I get a patterned paper bug and I just have to go with it!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Poppy Parade, So Saffron, Night of Navy, Early Espresso) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper: (Dolled Up 6x6, Indie Chic 6x6) My Mind's Eye

Dies:  (Stitched Circles) Lil' Inker Designs, (Butterfly) Papertrey Ink, (Many Thanks) Essentials by Ellen

Gems:  Doodlebug

CASology #200

Welcome to Week 200 of CASology!  Take a look at the cue word for this week:

Today is our 200th challenge!  Whoop whoop!!  A huge congrats and a big thank you to Melissa for creating this fabulous challenge.  I'm thrilled to have been along for the ride from the beginning and to be part of such a special group of ladies.

As you can see the cue word this week amounts to an Anything Goes challenge but it MUST BE CAS!  

As a reminder, here are some points from the CASology blog to keep in mind when you are creating a card in the CAS (clean and simple) style:

1. One main image
2. Lots of open space--uncluttered
3. Limited layers and embellishments
4. Quick and easy to recreate (note--it may take a long time to get a design you like, but once you have that design, making more should be a piece of cake).

As part of our 200th challenge celebration several members of the DT will be offering blog candy. Each DT member who is participating will select a random commenter from their blog who also linked up a card at CASology. Winners will be announced on each DT blog as well as on the CASology blog next Tuesday.

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:

Diana

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

All commenters who also enter the challenge will be eligible to win the above blog candy from me so please play along!

Supplies Used:

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

Inks:  (Abandoned Coral, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed Distress Inks) Ranger
Die:  (Happy birthday) Papertrey Ink
Punch:  (3" circle) Marvy Uchida
Glitter:  (Clear Wink of Stella) Zig

Totally Awesome Birthday

***This is my second post for today.  Please scroll down or click here for my earlier post!***

Hi there!  I'm popping in again with one more card for two challenges.  Using the fun photo over at Addicted to Stamps and More I was inspired by the primary colours and the stripes.  Since I these colours make me think of little boys I'm also playing along with the Birthday Boy challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays.  I actually used some coloured embossing powder (which is rare) and I love how bright and cheery it is!  

That's it for today.  Have a lovely evening!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black) Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper:  (Paper Cottage 6x6) Basic Grey

Stamps:  ("Hope your.." & "Totally" from Rad, "Awesome" from Wait for It) CAS-ual Fridays

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Die:  (Balloons) Simon Says Stamp, (Balloon string) Lil' Inker Designs

Barnyard Animals & Butterflies

Hello, Monday!

I managed to get a few more cards made yesterday - mostly special orders but I did get a couple of challenge cards completed as well.  I'm playing along with the MFT Sketch challenge for the first time with these cute NBUS farm animals from The Whole Herd.  I had fun Copic coloring them and then punched them out and layered them on top of some MFT plaid paper.  They are so adorable especially the pig and the cow.  :)  I'm also going to enter this in the Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes challenge.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink

Patterned Paper:  (Country Fair Plaid) MFT

Stamps:  (All from The Whole Herd) My Favourite Things

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Punch:  (1 1/4" circle) EK Success

Makers:  (RV42, R17, Y17, E08, E11, E31, E33, E35, E37, E43, E93, C-7) Copic

Gems:  Recollections

My second card is for the Seize the Birthday Dimension challenge.  The centre of the Lil' Inker butterflies are glued down while the outside edges of the wings are popped up on foam tape.  The Altenew sentiment is popped up as well.  

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

Supplies Used:

Cardstock:  (White) Papertrey Ink, (Blushing Bride, Melon Mambo, Mint Macaron, Bermuda Bay, Tip Top Taupe) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Birthday Greetings) Altenew

Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Die:  (Butterflies) Lil' Inker Designs, (Stitched rectangle) Mama Elephant

Gems:  Recollections