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.

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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)

Posted by PH in VA at 8:00 am Addicted to CAS, Addicted to Stamps and More, Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Lawn Fawn, Operation Write Home, Stampin' Up!

CAS Colours & Sketches #122

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Apr 302015

Hello there!  It’s the fifth Thursday of the month, so that means at CAS Colours & Sketches we have a double challenge for you!  This week we have a sketch and a color combination for you to use together in creating a clean and simple styled card.

I’ve taken a few liberties with the sketch element – I’ve turned it 45° on its side and attached it to an A2 sized card base.  The challenge colors reminded me of a beach at sunset, so I made a watercolor wash using inks in the three colors for the background of my sketch element.  (I actually made two, but I didn’t like how the wisteria color turned out on the first one, so I tried again and came up with the one you see here.)  I stamped the otter and his gift box on a scrap of white cardstock, colored them, fussy cut them, and attached them to the square.  Then I freehand cut a wave from the first watercolor wash I’d made and attached that to the square so the otter wouldn’t look like he was randomly floating.  The first wash was a lot darker than the second, so there’s some color variation there, but trust me, they’re from the same color ink!  Anyway, then I attached my sketch element to the card base and added the sentiment.

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I’m including this in the “Make Your Mark” challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More, too.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Be sure to see what the other CAS – Colours and Sketches design team members have made.  Then show us what you can create with the colors and the sketch! You have until 6:00 p.m. eastern time Wednesday, May 6 to link your work to the challenge post.

Supplies:
Stamps: Year Five (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Kraft, Basic Black (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah); watercolor paper (Artist’s Loft)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: Wisteria Wonder, Calypso Coral, and Island Indigo reinkers (SU); markers (Copic)

Posted by PH in VA at 8:00 am Addicted to Stamps and More, Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Lawn Fawn

Cards in Envy - Pretty in Pink

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Apr 202015

Hello!  It’s the third Monday of the month, which means it’s time for a new challenge at Cards in Envy.  This time we have a color challenge for you – “Pretty in Pink”.

I wanted to use the current sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch! for the layout of my card.  The vase of flowers in the inspiration photo at Addicted to Stamps and More nudged me in the direction of using pink flowers on my card, and the creamy white table and chairs inspired me to choose ivory for my card base.  I looked through my stamp sets to figure out which one to use, and found this one that I hadn’t used for a long time.  I thought it might work well with some of my stash of Prima flowers, so I went through them and found these that were just the right size, with the bonus of the darker ones matching the dark pink cardstock perfectly.  The rediscovered stamp set and flowers tie into the current Shopping Our Stash challenge.  The current challenge at Retro Rubber is to use brads, so I looked through my horde of brads and found these little green ones that would work as the centers of the flowers.  So I was able to combine all the challenges together and came up with this:

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Now that I’ve completed my card for this challenge, I have the Psychedelic Furs song “Pretty in Pink” running through my head, and I’m tempted to see if I can find the Molly Ringwald movie on Netflix.  Ah, the 1980s.  Good times!  🙂

If you need additional inspiration, please go check out the Cards in Envy site and see what the rest of the design team has made.  Then create your own pink card following our challenge guidelines and share it with us on the Cards in Envy site by 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, May 3.  You can make your card  for any occasion or theme you like, so long as the dominant color is pink, it’s A2 sized, and that there are no lumpy, bumpy embellishments that would prevent the card from being mailed at the first class postage rate.  We’d love to have you play along with us!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Edited on April 24, 2015:  Thank you to the Addicted to Stamps and More team for naming me as an Honourable Addict for their challenge!  What a sweet surprise!

Edited on April 26, 2015:  Thank you also to the Retro Rubber Mod Squad for selecting my card as one of their Fab Five!  What a happy way for my week to start!

Supplies:
Stamps: Artfully Asian, Three Little Words (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Pink Passion, Pink Pirouette (SU)
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Pink Passion (SU)
Other: marker (Copic); flowers (Prima); brads (Recollections)

Posted by PH in VA at 1:00 am Addicted to Stamps and More, Cards, Cards in Envy, CAS(E) this Sketch!, Retro Rubber challenges, Shopping Our Stash, Stampin' Up!

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!

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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)

Posted by PH in VA at 8:00 am Addicted to CAS, Addicted to Stamps and More, Basic Grey, Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Lawn Fawn, Lawnscaping challenges, Operation Write Home, Stampin' Up!
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