CAS card set

 

The current Double Trouble Challenge is 

Challenge #164 "CAS Less But Better" partnering with Crafter's Cafe 

 

 

 

Yesterday I made a card for this pair of challenges.

(Please scroll down for details.)

I mentioned making a set of matching cards.

That's exactly what I did. 

I'll be entering both challenges with the yellow card.

 

(On this card I used a marker to outline the stenciled hearts and added some clear Wink of Stella for a bit of sparkle.)

 
 Thanks for stopping by my blog. 

Box Card for Margo

This little box card is for a 4 year old sweetie who is in the hospital undergoing cancer treatments.  

 

 Kind of puts things into perspective 

when you need to make a card like this.

I hope it made her smile.

 As usual, I made a few more cards with the leftovers.   These cards went to SAS4Kids for other children in hospitals.

 

 

Challenges:

Creative Knockouts Challenge #495 - Fun Fold Card

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Add a Sentiment 

Creative Creases # 57 - AG with a fun fold

 

 

Thank you for stopping by my blog

and

Please say a prayer for little Margo.  

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #672

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

 Here is the sketch for this week:

 

 

 

 And here is my card:

 

 

I hope you'll have time to play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Debbie 

Donna

Melissa

Patti

Raechelle

Tammy

Tangii

 

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting you!

CAS Get Well

 With the laundry finished and the bread pudding baked,

here's a quick card I decided to make.

 

using CTMH stamps

 It is my contribution to this week's Double Trouble Challenge #106,  a CAS card with just one color.

And I'm also entering this in their partner challenge :

Use Your Stuff Challenge # 444. 

 

Thanks for visiting.

 

The big save!

Last week my 10 year old grand niece was here visiting.  She loved all the crafty things I have.  Who knew a 10 year old could move so fast?  She would get one thing out and before I could explain how it was used she had something else.  It was more than frustrating! especially with her mother close by but not saying a word.

When her mother said it was time to clean up, she collected the things she had made and wanted to keep and everything else went in my little trash container.   

After she left, I salvaged quite a few items from the trash container that were perfectly usable.   There were several embossed paper pieces with circles punched out of them that she hurriedly discarded.  And that is how this get well card began.

Those tiny flower die cuts are by Spellbinders- 

a new purchase that I just love!

 

Try Stampin' Or Not on Tuesday

 I am fully aware that today is Monday.  

Some days I'm not too sure.  But today, I am.  

This week's challenge at Try Stampin' On Tuesday gives you the option of making a card with or without stamping. And it also gives you the option of following the sketch or the technique or both. 

 

Generally, if I'm in for a penny, I'm in for a pound.  So I did both.

(The front stamps are from CTMH, colored with markers and fussy cut.)

(The butterfly was a leftover, just laying on my table.  The sentiment is SU.)

By making this a top fold card, it was very easy to insert a clear piece of acrylic for the see through section.

Challenges:

Try Stampin' On Tuesday Challenge #507 - see above

Dare 2 B Artsy May Challenge - Flowers 

Stamping Sensations May Challenge - Beautiful Blooms 

Moving Along with the Times May Challenge #130 -  A Bouquet of Flowers

Creative Knockout Challenge - Finish the Inside 

Crafting Happiness Challenge #97 - Color It 

 

Use Your Stuff Challenge #423 - Tic Tac Toe (I chose the diagonal line, Flower,Butterfly, Purple) 

  

 

Thanks for visiting.

Hope you'll be back tomorrow to see the new sketch for 

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

and join the fun there. 

Tri-Fold Window Get Well Card

This week's Weekly Inkling from Splitcoast Stampers showcased a pretty Vertical Trifold Window Card and supplied  a link to a tutorial with directions on how to make it.  It was very easy.

I had to improvise a little, but I like the design.

  This is the card front.  My card base was already scored to make a side fold card, rather than the top fold shown at SCS.

I used a die from Die Versions to make the center window and the label die is Spellbinders.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up.

When you open the card, this is what you see...

I cut a second label to cover the back of the front label.   Inside the main card is another card cut slightly smaller.  This is also a side fold but the fold is to the right.  I used holographic paper to die cut the rose and mounted it on a multicolor piece of velum with multicolor dazzle stickers on the corners.

And when you open the inside card, this is what you see....

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

I'm sharing this card at the following challenges:

Creative Creases Challenge - AG with a Fun Fold

 

Creations in Pink Challenge #34 - AG in mainly pink

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge -  Dies/Punches

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge May 18th - AG

Creative Knockouts Challenge #402 - Finish the Inside 

Double Trouble Challenge #84 -  Patterned Paper, Girly Girl Project, Bling, enter ..........

Stinkin' Inkers Challenge - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

 

 

Get Well Slim Line

This card was made for a 14 year old young lady who needs lots of thoughts, prayers and get well wishes.

front

under the window

inside

back
 

Challenges:

Die Cut Divas Challenge - Slim Line Cards (I used Pretty Patterns Slim Line Die Cuts from LDRS Creative.); 2 Crafty Critter Crazies March Challenge- AG with critters; Through the Craft Room Door Challenge March 9th - AG; Aud Sentiments Challenge #270 - Show Us the Inside Sentiment; As You Like It Challenge - Favorite Way to Cut Your Image (I like to fussy cut my images.  It is generally relaxing, although I did lose a tail cutting out these mules, and then the flower fell off, too.); Allsorts Challenge Week #615 - Use a Stamped Image (The image stamps are from SU)

Prayers for Julia

My friend, Julia, is undergoing some medical tests and has asked for prayers.  I thought she might like a card, too.

 Here is the card, made by Nancy Gleason, I found on Pinterest and I tried to CASE.

Challenges:
Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Week of April 28th - AG
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - AG
Lil Red Wagon Challenge # 547- White or any color space
Through the Purple Haze Challenge #166 - AG
Krafty Chicks Challenge #505 - AG

CTMH Spring Fling

Today was Joyce Houck's annual Spring Fling, 

a day to get together with friends, make cards, see and try out some of the products in the new CTMH catalog.  Circulating from table to table, we each made four different cards, stopped for lunch, and then made four more cards.  And there were door prizes, raffles and wonderful desserts.

Here are the cards we made:

A fun day was had by all 

except Joyce.

She was home sick! 
Thanks for a great day, Joyce.
Hope you feel better soon!

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I have one more card to show you today.

It's a CAS card, not my forte. 

 The stamps are CTMH.  The actual card measures 4 x 5.25 and is mounted on a 4.25 x 5.5 of brown cs.  This gives you a nice contrasting border when the card is closed and when it is open.  The little hearts on the top right are stamped and have just a drop of Liquid Glass on them to make them shine.  The scallops are a stamp, too.  I can't believe I got them straight!

Challenges:

2019 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers' Blog Hop ( I can't believe there are over 300 entries and it is only the second day!)

The Alphabet Challenge - "C" for CAS

Creative Knockouts Challenge #296 - Friendship

Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge - Food/Drink

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #339 - CAS

DL.ART May Linky Challenge - AG

 

Joyful Stars Close to My Heart January Blog Hop

Welcome to the January

Close to My Heart Joyful Stars Blog Hop.

 

 Have some fun hopping between the blogs of this group of talented Close to My Heart consultants, and me, where we share creative projects using CTMH products.

It's a new year.  And there are a lot of new products available.

I've made a set of three cards to show you some of the new papers and two of the sentiments in January's Stamp of the Month set.

This sentiment is from an older CTMH stamp set.

Now, since this is a blog hop,

you might have arrived here from  Andrea Sherman's blog.

Your next stop is Marie Flayer's blog.  

The hop is circular.

If you are just starting here,

simply continue hopping until you find your way back,

making the full circle.

Black, White and Gold Cards

Making sympathy cards is not something I particularly enjoy making, especially when it is intended for a friend or family.  But you gotta do what you gotta do.  I saw a stunning black, white and gold card on Pinterest and thought I'd make something similar.

 First I die cut the Fanciful Leaf Flourish, a Cheery Lynn Designs die, from a scrap of gold.  Then I took a piece of black cs and a piece of white cs and simultaneously cut another flourish out of the center.  While holding the two pieces together, I hand cut them into to pieces following the curve of the die cut opening.  The sentiment was stamped next.  Then I fit a black half and a white half together and taped them, top and bottom, and embossed.  The embossed pieces were then adhered to a piece of gold cs and the gold flourish was inset into the opening.  The card front was glued to the white card base and the black and gold bow added.  

I went ahead, cut a second gold flourish and made a second card with the leftover black and white pieces.  But what to do with the black flourish, the white flourish, and the gold paper from which the gold flourishes had been cut????  

Why make 3 more cards, of course!

 The sentiment is a sticker and the flower is a CTMH stamp. 

I rubbed the champagne stamp pad I had used on the flowers over black and white polka dot paper to make it match.

Aside from the bits of white cs surrounding the fussy cut flowers,

 I used all the leftovers.    Yippee!

Challenges:

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #181 - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #394 - Polka Dots 

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - I See Spots

 

While the rest of the laundry dries, I think I'll make some cookies!

Bye!

Great Impressions Stamps Wednesday Inspiration

The other day my DH said he needed a card for a friend who had just been moved to a facility for rehab after an unfortunate accident caused him to have a stroke.  I told him about the new Great Impression Stamps I had, Beary Wet (F608) and  Spin Cycle (E867) , but questioned if they would be suitable for a man.  My DH said he had no doubt that I could make a "guy card" with the stamps.  Of course, I had to give it a try.  

How'd I do? 

Then, just for fun, I made a locking joy fold feminine version, too.
Instead of red and brown, I switched to bright pink and brown.

See how the bottom corner of the image locks the card shut when tucked under the flower?

You still have a week to enter the

Great Impressions Stamps May Challenge 

with your Feminine cards.

I am going to enter the following challenges: 
Crafting with Dragonfies Challenge #81 - Animals
Through the Craft Room Door Week of 5/23 - Always Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread Challenge #42 - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Anything Goes
The House That Stamps Built Challenge M2417 - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Challenge #342 - Anything Goes