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CAS Colours & Sketches #290

Sep 182018

Hello! It’s the third Tuesday of the month, which means it’s color challenge time again at CAS Colours & Sketches.

Although the colors this week strongly suggest autumn, I felt a more compelling urge to do something different. One set of stamps that I’ve had for a while has a lot of adjectives, so I decided to put together a sentiment using some of them, highlighting the descriptive words with the challenge colors. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of white cardstock, trimmed a black panel to mat it, and adhered everything to a card base of linen textured white cardstock. Easy peasy and rather quick! My Fresh Fig ink is quite dark in color, but rest assured, that’s what I used for the word “fantastic” even though it almost looks black. I don’t have the Granny Apple Green ink or cardstock yet, so I’ve substituted an older In Color ink that I thought seemed close based on photos I’ve seen online.

Now it’s your turn to create a clean and simple styled card using these colors, and share it with us at the CC&S site! You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, September 24 to link your card. We hope you’ll join us!

Supplies:
Stamps: Incredible (Technique Tuesday); Simply Said You (Avery Elle)
Cardstock: Solar White, Solar White Classic Linen (Neenah); Basic Black (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss, Fresh Fig (SU)

CAS Colours & Sketches #289

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Sep 112018

Hello there! We have a great little sketch for you this week at CAS Colours & Sketches and I’m looking forward to seeing what our challenge participants make with it.

I decided to combine my sketch with the color challenge currently going at Less is More and I’ve made another card to add to the stockpile that I’ll be sending to Send a Smile 4 Kids in a few weeks. For the circle element of the sketch, I made a stencil by cutting a circle from an index card. I attached the stencil to my card front with temporary adhesive and brushed blue ink into it. After I removed the stencil, I stamped the sentiment. I die cut several snowflakes from white cardstock. The largest one is layered for more dimension. I coated all three snowflakes with a generous dose of Wink of Stella to give them some shimmer. To bring out the black for the color challenge, I trimmed the edges of card panel a bit and attached the panel to a black card base. The card still looked a little plain to me after I put the snowflakes in place, so I added rhinestones for more sparkle.

There you have it! What will you make with this sketch? If you need extra inspiration, check out what the rest of the CC&S design team and our guest designer have made. Be sure to share your card with us at the CC&S site by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, September 17. We’d love to have you join in the fun and creativity!

Supplies:
Stamp: Bows and Holly (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Marina Mist (SU)
Other: Stitched Snowflakes dies (LF); stencil brush (Claritystamp); Wink of Stella pen (Zig); rhinestones (SU)

CAS Colours & Sketches #287

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Aug 282018

Hello there! It’s time for the last challenge of the month at CAS Colours & Sketches. This week we have a sketch challenge for you to try.

I decided to go with a cute kitty cat theme for my card. I’ll confess that I took the easy way out of coloring the images by stamping them onto designer paper and fussy cutting them. I did use a dark brown marker to fill in the trim on the cat’s bed. I chose two shades of blue cardstock for the card base and background, and the card came together pretty easily. To avoid cutting around the cat’s whiskers, I stamped the cat onto the background and glued the fussy-cut image over it.

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 Monday, September 3 to link your card at the challenge website.

Supplies:
Stamps: Furry Friends (Avery Elle)
Cardstock: Soft Sky, Baja Breeze, Whisper White (Stampin’ Up); scraps from Ambrosia 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: marker (Copic)

CAS Colours & Sketches #286

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Aug 212018

Hello there! Once again it’s color week at CAS Colours & Sketches, and this week we have some of the newer Stampin’ Up colors to work with. It’s a bright, rich trio that I think you’ll like!

I haven’t yet bought the new ink or cardstock, so I’ve made substitutions for the Merry Merlot and Mango Melody using some of the first In Colors that SU introduced. I did have Poppy Parade ink and cardstock left over from when it was an In Color so I was good there. The sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch! looked like a good one for incorporating the three colors, so I tossed a few ideas for how to use it around in my head before deciding on a butterfly stamp and a sentiment from the same set. My folder of Shimmery White cardstock was still on my desk, so I stamped the butterfly on a scrap of it to add a little subtle something extra to the wings. When I attached the butterfly to the card, I glued the body and antennae directly to the red panel, but I gently bent up the wings and used dimensional adhesive to stick them to the card.

How will you choose to use this week’s CC&S colors? Be sure to check out the terrific cards the the rest of the Design Team and our August Guest Designer have made with them. Then link your own card to the challenge site. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, August 27 to share your card. Thanks for stopping by today, and happy crafting!

All supplies for this card are from Stampin’ Up.
Stamps: Watercolor Wings
Cardstock: Naturals White, Cranberry Crisp, Marigold Morning, Poppy Parade
Ink: Cranberry Crisp, Marigold Morning, Poppy Parade, Smoky Slate
Other: dimensionals

CAS Colours & Sketches #285

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Aug 142018

Hi there! We have a fun sketch for you this week at CAS Colours & Sketches and I’m looking forward to seeing what our challenge participants create with it!

I guess I’m subconsciously wishing for winter weather because I decided to use snowflakes in place of the circles on the sketch. Besides, it’s time to start getting into holiday gear for Send a Smile 4 Kids. My snowflake dies are larger than the sketch elements, but I think the idea of the sketch is still conveyed. I cut the snowflakes from shimmery white cardstock, which is very pretty in person and very difficult to capture with the camera. Some iridescent rhinestones add some extra sparkle for a more festive touch. I turned the sketch on its side so the sentiment would better fit on the card. The card still looked a little plain, so I pulled out a corner rounder and punched the bottom corners of the card.

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, August 20. Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamp: Merry Messages (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Soft Sky, Shimmery White (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Smoky Slate (SU)
Other: Stitched Snowflake dies (LF); rhinestones (Recollections); corner rounder punch (SU)

CAS Colours & Sketches #283

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Jul 312018

Hello! It’s the last day of the month, and we’re squeezing in one more July challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. Since it’s the fifth Tuesday in July, we have a “Timeless Tuesday” double challenge – combining retired Stampin’ Up colors with one of our previous CC&S sketches.

I have to confess that because this was not one of my favorite sketches during its first go, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to using it again. After a lot of thought about how I could also incorporate the colors, I finally decided to use ice cream cones for the pennant shapes. Stamping the images and sentiment directly onto the main focal panel of the card helps keep it clean and simple in design. It seems like it’s been a long time since I used my Copics to color an image and I felt a little out of practice; I’m not so proud of this coloring job but I guess it’s not too awful.

Now it’s time for you to get your craft on and link your own card to our challenge post! You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, August 6 to share your card with us. We’d love to see what you can do with our double challenge!

Supplies:
Stamps: Here’s the Scoop, Chit Chat (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Baked Brown Sugar (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic)

CAS Colours & Sketches #282

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Jul 242018

Hello there! It’s sketch week at CAS Colours & Sketches and Jeanne, our July hostess, has come up with an interesting one for us this week.

I guess I still had winter lingering on my mind after making a Christmas card for last week’s CC&S challenge, because I decided to make a wintry any occasion card that I can donate to Send a Smile 4 Kids. I turned the sketch 90 degrees and made a portrait-oriented card. On my desk I found a scrap of white cardstock onto which I’d painted shimmery white paint some time ago. It was the perfect width to fit the angled panel of the sketch to use as snowy ground, but I trimmed the top so the snow line wouldn’t be straight and boring. I stamped the penguin on white cardstock, colored his scarf, beak, and feet and added a little shadowing to his stomach, and then fussy cut him. I assembled all the pieces of the card together and stamped the sentiment. Ta-da! Very CAS.

Be sure to check out the terrific cards the rest of the CC&S Design Team have made. Then make your own card following the sketch and share it with us at the CC&S site. You have until 6:00 p.m. Monday, July 30 to link your card. We’d love to have you join in the fun and creativity! Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:
Stamps: Warm Penguin (Lizzie Anne Designs for Gourmet Rubber Stamps)
Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah); Baja Breeze, Soft Sky (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); Frost White shimmer ink (Tsukineko)

CAS Colours & Sketches #281

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Jul 172018

Hello! I’ve been away for much of the last few weeks and while I’ve enjoyed seeing different places, it’s nice to be back home for a little while before my next adventure. Now it’s time for me to get back in creative mode for some more card making challenges. Today a new color challenge starts at CAS Colours & Sketches.

I have to admit this color combo threw me for a bit of a loop at first, and I finally decided that something with geometric shapes might be my best choice for using the three colors. But the Christmas in July challenge at AAA Cards held my interest and I wondered if I could combine the two challenges. Even though these colors are a bit unusual for Christmas, I thought they would work for ornaments. After I inked up the stamp with the three balls, I stamped it off once on scrap paper to lighten the colors before stamping it onto my cardstock. Then I inked it up again only partially and stamped it over the original, to add a shadow effect. I wasn’t going for a perfect, truly realistic look and I like the sort of sketchy effect I achieved. I finished my stamping by adding the ornament hangers and the sentiment in silver ink. I chose a card base in one of the challenge colors and rounded the one corner of the card to mimic the shape of the ornaments.

I considered adding a clear lacquer over the ornaments to give them some shine, but I was pressed for time in making the card and didn’t think it would dry quickly enough. (I’m actually writing this post a few days in advance because I’ll be out of town again when it’s due to go live.)

What will you create with these colors? Share your work with us at the CAS Colours & Sketches site by 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, July 23. Be sure to check out what the other design team members have made, too! Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fun With Shapes, All Year Cheer I (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Coastal Cabana (SU); Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Coastal Cabana, Powder Pink, Lemon Lime Twist (SU); silver (ColorBox)
Other: corner rounder (EK Success)

CAS Colours & Sketches #278

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Jun 262018

Hello there! It’s the last Tuesday of the month, which means that it’s sketch week at CAS Colours & Sketches. I really like the angled panel in this sketch because it provides a lot of fun creative opportunities.

I checked out a few other challenges before creating my card and combined them with the sketch challenge. Less is More is challenging their participants to use up bits and pieces leftover from other projects, and AAA Cards wants to see frames on cards. I chose a scrap piece of floral patterned paper which (I think) coordinates well with this stamp that combines a floral image with a sentiment. Because of the way the flower image is oriented, I thought it would look better to use the mirror image of the sketch. I cut a frame for the vertical rectangle from a scrap of cardstock in a coordinating color. Instead of coloring the image, I decided to cover the petals with a Prima flower, held in place with a tiny brad. I’ve used shims of scrap cardstock to add dimension behind the vertical panel.

If you need further inspiration for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge, go see what the rest of the design team has made! Then create your own clean and simple card using this week’s sketch, and link it to the challenge blog by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, July 2. We’d love to see what you can do! Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:
Stamps: For a Friend (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Perfect Plum (SU); scrap from Kioshi 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: Early Espresso (SU)
Other: stitched rectangle dies (Lawn Fawn); flower (Prima); brad (Recollections)

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.

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 #275

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Jun 052018

Hello hello! I hope the month of June has gotten off to a good start for you. As usual at CAS Colours & Sketches, we start off the month with a color challenge. Our challenge hostess, Wei, has chosen some bright and cheery colors for us.

It’s been a while since I’ve played along at CAS(E) this Sketch! but I liked the simplicity of this week’s sketch. I decided to use dies rather than stamps to create my focal point. After I cut the “lines” of the rose from pumpkin colored cardstock, I attached the die cut to a scrap of bright pink cardstock and then fussy cut around it to get my rose blossom. I originally planned to attach the small scalloped rectangle directly to the card base, and stacked it with an extra rectangle underneath to give it more dimension and definition. But the card still seemed too plain, so I decided to add a pop of pink underneath it. The sentiment comes from one of my oldest stamp sets and is stamped in green ink to match the leaves. That makes this another birthday card for the challenge at AAA Cards.

Be sure to stop by the CAS Colours & Sketches blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created! Then make your own card using the challenge colors and share it via the linky tool by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, June 11. We’d love to have you join us!

Supplies:
Stamp: All Occasions (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green (SU); Solar White and Solar White textured (Neenah)
Ink: Garden Green (SU)
Other: Swirly Scribbles dies (SU); Classic Rectangles Scalloped Nestabilities die (Spellbinders)

CAS Colours & Sketches #274

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May 292018

Since it’s the fifth Tuesday of the month, this week at CAS Colours & Sketches we have a Timeless Tuesday double challenge – which means certain retired Stampin’ Up colors need to be used with an older CC&S sketch! Cathy, our challenge hostess, has put some In Colors from a few years ago with a classic neutral and a sketch from five years ago.

To contrast with the retired colors and older sketch, I decided to use one of my newest stamp sets. The butterfly’s wings were stamped in three different steps – first with the yellow color stamped off once, then with the orange stamped off once, and finally with the orange full-strength. The dotted border stamp is from the same set as the butterfly. I’ve stretched the sketch into a landscape-oriented rectangle.

Although the colors listed are Stampin’ Up color names, you do not need to use Stampin’ Up products to create your card. Simply use whatever you have that is closest to those colors.

AAA Cards is celebrating their 4th birthday with a birthday challenge, so I’m entering this card there. Here’s wishing them many more years of fun challenges!

Be sure to see what the rest of the design team has made! Then we’d love it if you join in our challenge by making a clean and simple styled card of your own using this sketch and these colors. Share your work with us at the CAS Colours & Sketches site by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, June 4. We’d love to see what you make!

Supplies:
Stamps: Watercolor Wings (Stampin’ Up); Birthday Greetings (Gina K. Designs)
Cardstock: Thick Whisper White, Hello Honey, Whisper White (SU)
Ink: Hello Honey, Tangelo Twist, Going Gray (SU)
Other: stitched scalloped border die (Lawn Fawn)

CAS Colours & Sketches #272

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May 152018

Hello there! It’s colors week again at CAS Colours & Sketches.

Over the last few months I was focusing on holiday-specific cards for Send a Smile 4 Kids, but now it’s time for me to work on more non-holiday cards for them. Today’s card is meant to give a little encouragement but I suppose it could also be used for a birthday card if the sender writes a birthday message inside of it. Despite my efforts to make it gender neutral, I think it ended up looking a little more boyish than girly. But that’s OK. I used a CC&S sketch from a few months ago for the layout. We actually had a power outage following a massive thunderstorm yesterday evening while I was making this card, so my first go-through coloring it was literally done by fading sunlight just before sunset. When the electricity came back on a few hours later, I was able to see that I actually hadn’t done too badly with it, so after touching up a few spots I went ahead and assembled the card.

I’m going to enter this into the “For the Kids” challenge at Shopping Our Stash.

If you need further inspiration for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge, go see what the rest of the design team has made! Then create your own clean and simple card using this week’s colors, and link it to the challenge blog by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, May 21. We’d love to see what you can do!

Supplies:
Stamps: Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: So Saffron (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); stitched square die (Lawn Fawn)

simple sketchy butterfly

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May 142018

This is a quick and easy card I put together for a few challenges: The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches (which I’ve turned on its side), the colors at Less is More, and the theme at Shopping Our Stash. The butterfly was colored with Copics. It’s such a simple and straightforward card I don’t have much else to say about it!

Thanks for stopping by today! Comments are always welcome and appreciated.

Supplies:
Stamps: Somebuggy Loves You (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah); Brilliant Blue, Daffodil Delight (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); stitched rectangle die (Lawn Fawn)

CAS Colours & Sketches #270

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May 012018

Hello! It’s time for a new color challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This week we have a pretty trio of colors for you to work with.

When I started thinking of what to do for today’s card, I just couldn’t get the idea of a branch of flowers against a sky out of my mind. I found a new-to-me challenge blog, Just Add Ink, that had a neat sketch I wanted to try. So I pulled the two challenges together and came up with this. I painted a swash of sky blue on a piece of watercolor paper. When it was dry, I stamped one of my favorite flowery branch images on it, after stamping it off once on a piece of scrap paper to soften the ink color a bit. Then I used my watercolor paints to fill in the outline images. I also went back over the branch itself with the paint, to make it more in line with the soft neutral in the color challenge graphic. I used one of my new shimmery gemtone paints for the blossoms, darkened it a bit for the buds, and added a few white highlights for the centers of the flowers. I think the camera angle shown below captures the shimmer pretty well. I fully admit I need a LOT more practice at watercolor painting, but I’m satisfied with the end result.

My furbaby wanted in on the photography action, too.

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

Supplies:
Stamps: Artfully Asian, Always in my Thoughts (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Sahara Sand (SU); The Langton Prestige Extra Smooth Hot Press watercolor paper (Daler-Rowney)
Ink: Sahara Sand (SU)
Other: Soft Sky reinker, dimensionals (SU); Gansai Tambi watercolor paints (Kuretake); stitched circle and stitched rectangle dies (Lawn Fawn)

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