Hi there!  It’s time for another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.  For the month of September, several of the design team members are taking turns as host each week.  Since it’s the first Tuesday, we have a color challenge for you to consider and I think it will put most everyone in the mood for autumn.

When I saw the colors I knew I would want to do something with a tree, so I chose this tried-and-true stamp set. (LOL, my first attempt at typing that I put “tried-and-tree”.)  I did some second-generation stamping to get the color variation in the leaves.  I didn’t think the green grass showed up very well, so I chose green ink for the sentiment and put a green mat behind the focal panel to try to boost that color of the challenge trio.

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, September 9, 2019.  Thanks for stopping by today!

All supplies for this card are from Stampin’ Up.
Stamps: Branch Out, Three Little Words
Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Very Vanilla
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Soft Suede

Greetings!  It’s time for another color challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.

This week’s colors suggested doing something from nature, so after browsing through my materials, I decided to try combining stenciling with fussy cutting.  In order to keep my card very clean and simple in style, I stenciled the flowers stems and leaves directly onto the card base.  (I figured if I messed it up too badly, I could still cut it down to a card front size and mat it onto a different card base.)  I’ve had this designer paper for years and thought the colors matched well to the challenge colors, so I used the stencil to trace the blossoms onto the paper and then fussy cut them out.  To keep my tracing lines from showing on the card, I flipped the stencil and the paper over and traced the outlines on the back of the paper.  I also traced the two larger blossoms again on a scrap of cardstock so I could use those as shims behind the designer paper to give the blossoms a little bit of dimension.  I stamped the sentiment before I glued the blossoms to the card front.  I didn’t want to risk assembling the whole card and then smudging the sentiment!

Be sure to check out what the rest of the CC&S Design Team has done with these colors!  Then share your own card with us by linking it to the challenge post by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, August 12.  We’d love to have you join us!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:
Stamp: So Happy for You (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Fall Flowers designer paper (SU)
Ink: Old Olive (SU)
Other: Verdant stencil (Penny Black); stencil brushes

Hello!  I’m the challenge hostess at CAS Colours & Sketches for the month of May.  I’m looking forward to seeing what our challenge participants make with the challenges I’ve created!

As usual, we’re starting off the month with a color challenge.  I’ve used the three colors from the combination to stamp a rose and some leaves, using generational stamping to get the different shades of green and marigold.  (I don’t actually own any Mango Melody cardstock or ink, so I’ve used a long-retired In Color called Marigold Morning as a close substitute.)  I stamped the images on a scrap of white cardstock, fussy cut them, and then assembled them together.  I used dimensional adhesive to attach the flower to the card.  The layout for my card is my take on a recent Freshly Made Sketches challenge; unfortunately for me, that challenge has already ended so I can’t link my card there.  The white cardstock background has a subtle linen texture that is very hard to capture in photos, but it does add extra visual interest to the card.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the CC&S Design Team and our May guest designer have made! Then create your own clean and simple styled card with these colors and link it to the CC&S site by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, May 13.  We’d love to see what you make!

All supplies for this card are from Stampin’ Up.
Stamps: Picture Perfect
Cardstock: Marigold Morning, Whisper White textured, Whisper White
Ink: Marigold Morning, Mango Melody, Garden Green
Other: dimensionals

Hello there!  It’s the fourth Tuesday of the month, which means it’s sketch challenge time again at CAS Colours & Sketches.  It’s a pretty interesting one and I hope our challenge participants will have fun with it!

I decided to substitute a butterfly for the circular shape.  It’s not exactly circular but it doesn’t take away from the main idea of the sketch.  I started out by cutting the focal panel to size and putting down a piece of washi tape as a mask for the sentiment area.  I’d missed out on one of the CC&S color challenges earlier this month, so I chose those colors as my color scheme.  I stamped the butterfly using the two lightest colors of the combo.  I knew I would use the third color for the sentiment and the card base, but I wanted to incorporate it a bit more.  So I masked off the butterfly, dipped a paintbrush into that color ink, and splattered it around the butterfly.  When that was dry, I peeled off the masks and stamped the sentiment.  All that was left to do after that was attach the focal panel to the card base, but I decided to round the bottom right corner first to give the card a little extra visual interest.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the CC&S Design Team has done with this sketch – they’ve made some amazing cards!  Then give it a try yourself.  You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, April 1 to link your card at the challenge site.  Thanks for stopping by today!

All supplies are from Stampin’ Up unless otherwise indicated.
Stamps: Watercolor Wings, Messages for Mom
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Blackberry Bliss
Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Pool Party, Lavender Lace
Other: corner rounder punch (EK Success)

Hello!  I’m sorry I’ve been posting so sporadically recently.  I’ve been away from home off and on over the last several weeks.

It’s time for the first sketch challenge of March at CAS Colours & Sketches.  It just seemed appropriate that my card for challenge #312 which starts on the date 3-12-19 (using American date formatting) should go to someone whose birthday is March 12.  🙂  I wasn’t feeling like going my usual route of butterflies or nicey-nice stuff and opted for a slightly snarky, humorous image and sentiment.  I hadn’t used this stamp from this set yet so this was a little challenging for me.  I colored the image with colored pencils blended with odorless mineral spirits.  I chose the purples in the color scheme based on the folders of cardstock I had out on my desk from my attempt to create something for last week’s CC&S challenge, and then I added the yellow as a nod to the school colors of the card recipient’s alma mater.  The dry embossed strip was a scrap I found in one of my cardstock folders, left over from a long-ago project, but perfect for today’s card.  I trimmed the bottom edge following the contours of the embossed circles as a way to incorporate the scalloped edge on the sketch.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you’ll make a card with this sketch and share it with us at CC&S. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, March 18 to link your card at the challenge site.

Supplies:
Stamp: Humorous Birthday (Inkadinkado)
Cardstock: Daffodil Delight, Lovely Lilac (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine)
Other: Premier colored pencils (Prismacolor); odorless mineral spirits (Gamsol); Spots & Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug)