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Feb 112022

Hello! There are so many awesome card making challenges out there, and not enough time in a day, so I’ve combined four challenges into one card for today’s post. I do have to say that as I was creating it, I had a mental picture in my head of how the finished card would look… and then when I finished the actual card, I looked at it and thought, “meh”, because it didn’t quite turn out as nicely as my mental picture card. Oh well.

Anyway… I’ve used this week’s sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches with the color scheme from Color Hues. The themes from The Paper Players and Addicted to CAS are similar enough to work together. I stamped a filigree design on a scrap of textured red cardstock and die cut the hearts from it. I stamped the sentiment on a scrap strip of cardstock and trimmed the ends into a banner shape. The small heart and the banner are attached with dimensional adhesive in an attempt to keep them from blending into the large hearts and white background. I added a narrow mat to the focal panel to give an extra pop of black for the color scheme.

The CC&S sketch challenge is open until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Monday, February 14, and we’d love to have you join in! Thanks for stopping by today.

All supplies are from Stampin’ Up unless otherwise noted:
Stamps: Filigree, Short & Sweet
Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red textured
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: dimensionals; heart dies (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)

CAS Colours & Sketches #354

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Jan 212020

Hello! It’s another Tuesday, which means it’s new challenge day at CAS Colours & Sketches! This week we have a trio of colors for you to work with.

The colors initially spoke nature and flowers to me, and when I was starting to work on my card yesterday, I noticed that several of my CC&S design teammates had used floral images for their cards. Then I felt like I wanted to go with something different to add some variety to the mix. I saw that the AAA Challenge was to create a one layer card with an optional twist of including a polar animal. Even though one layer cards are not my favorite (because there’s nowhere to hide any mistakes!) I decided I’d try combining the challenges. Since I don’t own any ink or cardstock in the challenge colors, I knew I’d have to do some coloring with either markers or colored pencils in similar colors. I hadn’t used this polar bear image for a while, but it’s a great image to color and it fit into the AAA challenge twist. My original thought was to use all three colors on the scarf, but then I realized the blue would make a nice sky color for the background. Using colored pencils blended with odorless mineral spirits means no color bleed through to the inside of the card (another reason why I shy away from one layer cards). The sentiment comes from a different stamp set that I haven’t used in years. I chose it because it filled out the space on the card better than any of the sentiments in the set with the image. I rounded the bottom corner for two reasons – to give a little extra visual interest following the curve of the image, and to trim off a corner of the cardstock that had gotten slightly bent.

After browsing around some more challenge blogs, I believe this card also works for the current challenges at Less is More and Addicted to CAS.

We’d love to see what you can create with this week’s colors! Share your card at the CC&S website by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, January 27. Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps: Cozy Friends (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps); Year Round Sentiments (Hero Arts)
Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: Premier colored pencils (Prismacolor); odorless mineral spirits (Gamsol); corner rounder punch (EK Success)

CAS Colours & Sketches #276

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Jun 122018

Hello again! This week at CAS Colours & Sketches we have a simple little sketch challenge up for the offering. There is a myriad of things that can be done with the block on the sketch – and of course, the sketch can be rotated or flipped mirror image.

I noticed that the current challenge at Addicted to CAS is “rainbow”, and I wanted to incorporate that into my card. I thought that a card suitable for a child, that I could donate to Send A Smile 4 Kids, would be a good way to put a rainbow into play. I looked through my stamps and supplies and decided to turn the sketch 90 degrees on its side. I used water-based markers to color a stamp of zigzag stripes using the rainbow colors and stamped that as the rectangular block element of the sketch. I stamped a panda with a party hat on a scrap of cardstock, colored his hat, and fussy cut him out. Then I stamped the sentiment onto the card. Finally, I used dimensional adhesive to attach the panda on top of the stripes. Ta-da! – clean and simple, following the sketch, with a rainbow, and appropriate for a child.

What will you do with this sketch? There are so many possibilities! I hope you’ll try out something and share what you create with us! Link your work to the CAS Colours & Sketches blog by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, June 18. Thanks for stopping by today!

All supplies for this card are from Stampin’ Up! except where noted.
Stamps: Party Pandas, Work of Art
Cardstock: Whisper White, Thick Whisper White
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: Real Red, Only Orange, Yoyo Yellow, Glorious Green, Brilliant Blue, and Lovely Lilac Stampin’ Write markers, dimensionals

CAS Colours & Sketches #238

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Aug 292017

Hello there! August has five Tuesdays, so that means it’s Timeless Tuesday double challenge week at CAS Colours & Sketches! Karen and I combined forces for creating this week’s challenge – she chose a previous CC&S sketch to use, and I picked some of Stampin’ Up’s retired colors to use with it. Although we use Stampin’ Up color names for reference, you may use any companies’ products to make your card, so long as you match the colors closely. You’re also welcome to stretch the square format of the sketch into a rectangular card, and/or turn the sketch on its side.

At first the colors suggested two things to me: flowers and babies. I ended up going with a different nature-related thing: birds. I stamped the birds and their branch on scraps of cardstock and fussy cut them to add to the blue background circle. I didn’t fussy cut around their legs, though, because that’s tooooo fussy. So I drew the legs back into place as I was assembling the focal point. For the vertical strip, I stamped dots in each of the challenge colors onto a scrap of white cardstock, and matted it with pink and green. I chose a sentiment to tie into the “friends” theme going on at Addicted to CAS.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the CC&S Design Team has made. Then get your craft on and link your own card to our challenge post! You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, September 4 to share your card with us. We’d love to see what you can do with our double challenge! Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:
Stamps: Feathered Friends [for Simon Says Stamp], Sophie’s Sentiments (Lawn Fawn); Itty Bitty Backgrounds (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, thick Whisper White (SU)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink (SU)
Other: stitched circle die (Lawn Fawn)

CAS Colours & Sketches #201

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Nov 242016

Hello, and Happy Thanksgiving to my American visitors! It’s time for another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and this time we have a very simple sketch for you to try.

I’ve turned the sketch 90° on its side for my card. I swiped three shades of blue gel sticks onto a card base of shimmery white cardstock and blended the gel sticks with a damp paper towel. Then I flicked some white shimmery paint over it, thinking it would look like falling snow, but on second thought maybe it looks more like stars in the sky. I cut a narrow scrap of the shimmery cardstock to neaten up the top border of the blue part of my card. For the bottom, I die cut a border of trees using another piece of shimmery cardstock. I added a simple sentiment and then glued the panel to the card. I had thought about using cardstock shims to raise the white panels over the blue for a little extra dimension, but supporting the trees would have been difficult without cutting more of them and layering the die cuts. So the white panels are adhered directly to the card base. Getting the shimmery cardstock to show in the photograph wasn’t easy. I wanted to brighten up the photo to show the whiteness of the cardstock, but that washed out the shimmery-ness.

When I started out with this card, I didn’t intend to use the color scheme from last week’s CC&S challenge! I tried out a few other sunset-inspired color combos with my gel sticks, but I liked the blues the best.

The Paper Players has a CAS Christmas card challenge going, and I’m also planning to enter this card into the Ombre challenge at Addicted to CAS.

What will you create with this sketch? Share your work with us at the CAS Colours & Sketches site by 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, November 30. Be sure to check out what the other design team members have made, too! Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamp: Holiday Script (Lizzie Anne Designs for Gourmet Rubber Stamps)
Cardstock: Cryogen White (Curious Metallic)
Ink: Pacific Point (Stampin’ Up)
Other: gel sticks (Faber Castell); Wide Open Spaces die (Memory Box); Frost White shimmer ink (Tsukineko)

CAS Colours & Sketches #186

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Aug 112016

Hello there! It’s the second Thursday of the month, which means it’s time for another sketch challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.

I’ve used the mirror image of the sketch because it just seemed to work better with placing the sentiment I chose. I decided to combine the sketch challenge with the color challenge at Less is More and the theme challenge at Addicted to CAS. I stamped the birdies, the notes, and the sentiment with very dark brown ink. I colored the birds to coordinate with the dusty blue of the card base and the sandy brown of the background banner. It’s really a quite simple little card so without further chitchat, here it is:

Since the birdies do have wings, I’ve decided to enter into the theme challenge at Cards in Envy, too. I recently stepped down from the design team there due to time constraints in my personal life, but I still love the concept of their challenges (making cards that are flat enough to easily fit “in envy” – in an envelope – to be mailed) so I don’t think I’ll be able to completely stay away from there! 😉

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out the CAS Colours & Sketches blog to see what the rest of the design team has done with this sketch. Then make your own card and link it to the challenge post. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, August 17 to participate. We hope you’ll join us!

Supplies:
Stamps: Love Quotes (Mama Elephant); Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Kraft (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Early Espresso (SU)
Other: markers (Copic)

CAS Colours & Sketches #183

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Jul 212016

Hello! Please accept my apologies for being a little late with my card for this week’s challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. I was having a hard time getting in a crafting frame of mind after being out of town last weekend. But my brain finally kicked back into gear this morning. So without any further ado…

We have a color challenge this week. I bought this stamp set a while ago but hadn’t worked up the nerve to use it yet – I’ve seen so many adorable cards using it, that I worried I wouldn’t make one up to par! But I felt the taupe in the color challenge was a good color for this cutie pie elephant and I decided it was time for me to give it a go. I don’t have ink in the actual Tip Top Taupe color, so I colored the elephant with my markers the best I could to match the cardstock. Trying to blend grey with a brownish color to make taupe wasn’t the easiest thing, but I think it worked out okay in the end. (This card shows my second attempt; my first elephant didn’t match as well.) I attached the striped piece of designer paper to the card base and stamped the balloon to get a sense of where to place the elephant. I also stamped the balloon onto some curry-colored designer paper to fussy cut and adhere into place along with the elephant. The card seemed a little flat once I had it all together. So I stamped the balloon again onto the same designer paper and onto a scrap of cardstock. I fussy cut them and glued them on top of the first designer paper balloon, sandwiching the cardstock between the two designer paper layers. This gives the balloon a little more dimension, which makes me happier with the finished card.

I’m going to enter this card into a couple of challenges. The code word for the current challenge at Addicted to CAS is “stripes”, and the repeating stripes are my repetitive element for the current challenge at Less is More.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the CAS Colours & Sketches design team did with these colors. Then show us what you can make with them! You can link your creation to the challenge blog until 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, July 27. Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps: Ellie (Avery Elle)
Cardstock: Tip Top Taupe, Watercolor Wonder designer series papers (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic)

CAS Colours & Sketches #153

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Dec 032015

Hello! It’s time for a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. The first challenge of the month is always a color challenge, but during the month of December, we’re doing something a little different. This week, we’d like for our challenge participants to choose any of our color challenge combinations from 2015 and use it to make a Christmas or holiday card.

I’m revisiting Challenge #125 for my card – Crushed Curry, Elegant Eggplant, and Garden Green. I also reworked a card I’d made last fall. The golden yellow and the green lent themselves easily to a Christmassy feel, but then I had to work in the purple, too. I started by stamping the tree, covering the image with a mask, and masking off a horizontal strip for the sentiment. Then I dipped an old toothbrush (appropriated for crafting purposes only!) into yellow ink and spritzed it over the card. I repeated that process with green ink. (It’s a messy but fun and quick process. I did wear a disposable glove so my fingers and thumb wouldn’t turn colorful, LOL! I also covered my work area with scrap paper.) I let the ink dry for a few minutes, and then removed the masks and used purple ink to stamp the sentiment. To help set off the sentiment area, I made tiny dots with a purple marker near the edges of the area, using a ruler to space the dots evenly. I added some purple and yellow enamel dots to decorate the tree, and finally I rounded the corners of the card for a finishing touch. I don’t often make one-layer cards, but I like how the masking gives the illusion of the tree being set above the sentiment area and the splattered background. The enamel dots give some actual dimension.

I’ve decided to play along in the current challenges at Addicted to Stamps and More and Addicted to CAS, too.

Which of our approximately 25 color combinations from 2015 will you use? You can check all of them out on the CAS Colours & Sketches blog using the Color Challenges Archive tab. Be sure to see what the rest of the design team has made, too! Then link your card to the challenge site by 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, December 9. We’d love to see what you come up with! Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies are from Stampin’ Up unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Season of Joy, Christmas Greetings
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Elegant Eggplant
Other: corner rounder, Garden Green and Crushed Curry ink refills, Elegant Eggplant marker, Regals candy dots

CAS Colours & Sketches #143

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Sep 242015

Hello there! It’s the fourth Thursday of the month, which means at CAS Colours & Sketches, we have a new sketch challenge for you to try. This one is open to interpretation in different ways – any shape can be substituted for the star shapes, and the sketch may be rotated or flipped or manipulated to a rectangle if you desire.

I’ve stretched the sketch into a landscape-oriented rectangle. You might remember that a couple weeks ago I shared a card with some leaves I had die cut from cardstock colored with a watercolor wash. I had about half of that piece of cardstock left over, so I’ve put it to use for today’s card. Once again I’ve die cut leaves from it, and I arranged them on my card front in place of the star shapes. It doesn’t show in the photo, but the vanilla cardstock for the card front is textured. The maple and oak leaves were stacked with additional cardstock underneath, so they have a bit of dimension, which was also hard to capture in the photo. I thought this sentiment went well with the brightly colored leaves. The stamp has the sentiment all in one line, but due to the space on my card, I’ve broken it up into two lines, which also allowed me to highlight the last two words in a different color. I thought it was a good positive attitude type sentiment for a card to send to Send a Smile 4 Kids.

I had die cut an extra leaf when I was making my card a few weeks ago, so I put it to use to brighten the inside of the card. This photo shows the dimension of the two larger leaves a little better than the other photo.

I’m submitting my card to a few other challenges. AEIHeartU is looking for cards with a non-white base, Addicted to CAS would like to see cards with leaves, and Retro Rubber is asking their participants to show off an ombre effect like I’ve done with the leaves. (Edited after I received Katy’s comment to add – I’ve had this stamp set for about 15 months. Thanks for the reminder to note that for the Retro Rubber challenge!)

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What will you do with this sketch? There are so many possibilities! Be sure to go see what the rest of the Design Team has made. I hope you’ll try out something and share what you create with us! Link your work to the CAS Colours & Sketches blog by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, September 30. Thank you for stopping by today! Comments are always welcome and appreciated!

Supplies:
Stamp: So Happy (Avery Elle)
Cardstock: Marigold Morning, Very Vanilla textured (Stampin’ Up); watercolor paper (Artist’s Loft)
Ink: Marigold Morning, Real Red (SU)
Other: Riding Hood Red and More Mustard reinkers (SU); Stitched Leaves dies (Lawn Fawn); corner rounder punch (EK Success)

CAS Colours & Sketches #132

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Jul 092015

Hello there! It’s time for another sketch challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This one has some fun stripes and a trio of elements that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. You’re welcome to flip the sketch or rotate it on its side. So long as we can see the basic idea of the sketch in your interpretation of it, it’s all good.

I’ve taken the liberty of stretching the sketch from a portrait-oriented rectangle to a landscape-oriented one. This allowed me more width for the sentiment and the trio of elements. I’ve chosen to use stars in place of the circles. The die cut letters aren’t quite as bold as I’d like, but they were the ones that fit best on the card. I’m also really disappointed that the texture of the white cardstock isn’t very noticeable. The red, white, and blue color scheme and the “thanks” theme are because this will be one last AnyHero card for me to send to Operation Write Home before the end of the month.

The color scheme and the “thanks” theme also tie this card into the following challenges: Less is More, Addicted to CAS, and the OWH Our Daily Bread Designs challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you’ll check out what the rest of the design team has made, and then join us over at CAS Colours & Sketches with your own take on this sketch! You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, July 15 to link your card at the challenge website.

Supplies:
Stamps: none
Cardstock: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Whisper White textured (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: none
Other: Stars die (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps); “Bounce” alphabet dies (Sizzix)

CAS Colours & Sketches #124

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May 142015

Once again, it’s sketch week at CAS Colours & Sketches! We have a pretty interesting and versatile one for you this time.

I’ve stretched the sketch out into a rectangle since I prefer to make A2 sized cards, and I flipped it mirror image because I felt it worked better with the image of the snuggling birdies. I also took the liberty of substituting hearts for the squares in the sketch, but it’s still easy to see that my card is modeled after the sketch. There’s a slight woven texture to the red cardstock I used for the hearts, but it doesn’t show in the photo. The birds are raised up from the card base with dimensional adhesive. The largest heart (below the word “hugs”) is raised with a few scraps of cardstock as shims, so it has some dimension but not as much as the birds.

I’m also entering this card into the challenges at Addicted to CAS, where the challenge code word is “birds”, and to Addicted to Stamps and More who are having a CAS style challenge.

What will you create with this sketch? Check out what the rest of the design team has made for further inspiration. Share your artwork with us at the CAS – Colours and Sketches site by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, May 20. We’d love to have you join us! Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Supplies:
Stamps: Feathered Friends [for Simon Says Stamp], So Much to Say (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Soft Sky, Sahara Sand, Real Red Core’dinations (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: dimensionals (SU); marker (Copic); corner rounder punch (EK Success)

CAS Colours & Sketches #119

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Apr 092015

Hello! It’s time for another sketch challenge at CAS – Colours and Sketches! As always, the sketch can be rotated or flipped – so long as we can see the basic elements of the original sketch, it’s all good!

I’ve stretched the sketch out to a portrait-oriented rectangle for this card. After a lot of thinking of various things I could use for the circular elements, I finally decided on these cute little birdies. I stamped them onto scraps of designer paper, colored in their beaks, and fussy cut them. I positioned them in place on the sky blue background, drew in the birds’ legs and the rightmost bird’s right eye, and then used dimensional adhesive to pop the birds up over the background. Admittedly, it’s not the most imaginative use of dimension, but it’s enough to qualify this card for the current Lawnscaping challenge. The code word for the current challenge at Addicted to CAS is “cute”, and it’s “Clean and Simple” week at Addicted to Stamps, so I’m going to enter into those challenges, too. And it’s a good card to add to my stash for Operation Write Home!

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you’ll join us over at CAS – Colours and Sketches with your own take on this sketch! You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, April 15 to link your card at the challenge website.

Supplies:
Stamps: Feathered Friends [for Simon Says Stamp]; Sophie’s Sentiments (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso (Stampin’ Up); designer papers from Two Scoops 6″ x 6″ paper pad and Blitzen collection (Basic Grey)
Ink: Early Espresso (SU)
Other: dimensionals (SU); marker (Copic)

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