Late to the party

I am so sorry about being late with my Flutterby post this week. We went on vacation and apparently my do to list before leaving was not as checked off as I thought it was. Anyways, I am here with my card for this week's challenge, and it was an easy one for me too: create a CAS card with a butterfly or fairy.

For my card, I used the zig-zag border from Lawn Fawn's Belinda's Borders. I stamped it in three shades of green to give it an ombre feel. The sentiment is from PTI's Beautiful Butterflies while the black butterfly is from the matching die set. I rounded the edges to give it a softer feel too. There is still plenty of time to play along too. Can't wait to see what ya'll come up with :)

His and Her Day

I had so much fun this weekend creating His and Her cards with Paper Smooches that I just had to try it out again. This time I used Lawn Fawn's Dad's Day. these came together just as easily too. Since I wanted to play with this fun tiny stamp set, I decided to play along with Lawnscaping Challenge too: Clean & Simple. Some days I struggle with the white-space CAS cards and other days it comes a little easier. No matter what, I do seem to gravitate towards them, lol.


Her card (because it's ladies first don't 'cha know, lol)

One thing I love about this set is how easy it is to cute out the images. I wanted a nice cool and relaxing color scheme for this card and thought blue and grey would be perfect. I stamped the chair on some white c/s and then cut it out and put foam tape on the back. Before I taped it down I placed it to see where I wanted the grey shadow/rug to go. Once I figured that out I simply shaded with my copics and then taped the chair down. The upper corner was put together with washi tape and one of the sentiments from the set stamped onto a vellum banner. I used the washi tape to "tape down" the banner. To bring it just a hint of girly I simply added some bling...still trying to perfect that whole random bling thing.


His card (because he's a gentleman and let the lady go first):

Another CAS one. This time I used kraft and vanilla with a touch of blue. This one used the other sentiment, the mustache, and the tie. Again, these images were so easy to cut out (LOVE that). To give this CAS card a little umph but not be busy or girly I simple popped up the images like I did with the chair in the above card. I also added some brown stitching around the vanilla base to help frame it. As a bonus, I now have a father's day card done (one down and three more to go).

Absolutely Fabulous

was the time I had at the 3 in 1 concert Saturday night. I great night singing and worshiping our Lord in a way that works for me. This title of the post also speaks for my card for this week's Flutterby Wednesday challenge. This week is an open challenge which means it can be anything as long as their is a butterfly or fairy on it. I decided to create a simple no-layer card that had some pop to it. I simply die cut a large banner from sticky paper and placed it where I wanted my white to still be. Then I took a red, orange, and yellow distress pad and sponged on the colors. It was like magic after I removed the sticky as that white looked so good next to the bright colors. The stitching is a stamp but I don't remember which one. The butterfly and sentiment is from PTI and I did a rock n' roll technique to them. Inked them first in one color and then rolled the second color along the bottom.

Can't wait to see what ya'll come up with. While creating this card I managed to use two other challenge blogs :) They are:
The Pink Elephant - use spring colors
My Time To Craft - no more than one layer

Spread the love take 3

As promised, here is my last card (ok, three cards) for the Spread the Love challenge Amber of Damask Love created. My blog crush that inspired this card is another than Kristina, the master mind behind Friday Focus, Make a Card Monday, and so many other inspiring videos. Her style is amazing and clean. Love that her designs can be messy, fun, serious, for the young and the young at heart. In honor her and the challenge of using colors that I don't normally go to, I created three cards.

The colors above are beautiful together and they make me think of springtime. I don't, however, normally go to them when I create my cards. Not sure why though because they really are pretty together. Now, I don't have exact colors so the ones I used below where the closest I could come to with what I have :)

This first card was my attempt to create movement on my card like I see on some of Kristina's. This one was really a stretch for me as I don't normally do this I think. While I like the idea, I think that I needed a bolder sentiment as the one I used really gets lost in the circles.

Sorry for the bad picture. I just couldn't seem to get a good one, even after photo editing

The second card started out wonderfully. I love banners (the ones from WMS are some of my favs) and the clean look of masking for layers without the bulk, but with the sentiment so far down I decided it was too stark so I played with idea of making it a square card. The results of which is below. Of the three the third is my favorite. I think the size of the card works well with the three banners and the sentiment. The slightly rounded corners softened it up just a touch which made it feel more airy to me.

CAS Christmas

I have discovered that when I am crunched for time CAS is the way to go for cards. In under a total 4 interrupted hours this week I was able to create 12 cards. Now for some this isn't all that fast, but for me when I haven't been really focused this is lightening quick. This post is just a quick one so that ya'll can see most of the cards. My favorite ones I created were the Holy Night cards (I created two of these) and you can see that one in the post below this one.

 I made three of these

 Made two. To get the blue I used glossy accent to cover the ornaments and heat embossed the sentiment. I also used a white pen to add a touch of snow to the branches.

These were fun to create and color. Here are the close up of the cute little images too.

Holy Night

When this set (Star of Wonder) first came out from PTI last year, I knew I had to get it. Then I never played with it. Well, after their last release where several cards used this set, I knew now was my chance to play with it. Perfect timing too as it went perfectly with several challenges.

To create my banners I simply cut strips of different widths from white c/s and for two of them (the wider ones) I swiped Chipped Sapphire to color my c/s to match my inked image. Then I mied Perfect Pearl's spray in perfect pearl with white ink and flicked/splattered it onto the now navy strips. Love how you could use this for either snow or stars. For the top banner I stamped and embossed Hero Arts Lattice bg stamp and used a water brush and Chipped Sapphire ink to color a few random spots. To carry my navy over to the other side so it wasn't so heavy on one side I simply stamped the simple sentiment on the flip side in the same color. LOVE how this turned out.

Challenges used:
Clean & Simple sketches
Charisma Cardz: clean & simple
A Blog Named Hero: clean & simple
CASology: night

Flutterby

Here is another card I submitted to the Flutterby Challenge DT call. Sticking with my latest CAS style I used CPS's current sketch challenge. I was also inspired by the CAS-ual Friday's things you see in the sky (the butterfly) and CASology's pond challenge. With the cue word being pond I instently thought of blues and greens and flowers I always see growing along the edge. Butterflies and dragonflies are alway flitting about a pond too so I used one. I used PTI's Flutterby set to create my littel framed scene. The stamp frame chipboard is from Tattered Angles and was misted with a light blue and a light green glimmer mist after I sponged on some ink to simulate the sky and ground. The sweet little butterfly was stamped and colored on watercolor paper. Just for fun, I thought this would be great for the Papertake Weekly Challenge's anything goes.