CASEing a Crafter: At home, under the stars

Hello friends!  I pinned an adorable card by Paula of Stampinantics on my Pinterest board entitled, "Cards - New Home" a while back.  Recently, I had a chance to become inspired by it, and create my own version:

I love the Stampin' Up! set, Good Neighbors.  That's what drew me to Paula's card in the first place. She created a lovely, large moon behind her houses, and I riffed on that by sponging lots of dark plum and black inks around the edges.  Speckled stamps from SU's Itty Bitty Backgrounds became stars.

Just so happens that I had these little houses in my box of cast-offs from a project long ago.   I lined them up along a dark 'street', and stamped a Papertrey Ink sentiment there.

A big thanks to Paula for sharing such an awesome creation with all of us.  It's a neat idea!

And thank YOU for coming to see my creation today!  Have a wonderful day!

Stamps: Good Neighbors, Itty Bitty Backgrounds - Stampin' Up!; Daily Designs Sentiments - PTI Paper: white, True Black - PTI; Elegant Eggplant - SU Ink: Lavender Lace, Perfect Plum, Lovely Lavender, Basic Black - SU; Versamark - Tsukineko; white craft ink - Ranger Accessories & Tools: white embossing powder; corner rounder punch - Fiskars

CASEing a Crafter - Baby Bokeh

It's so fun to see all the crafting inspiration out there.  My Pinterest boards provide a never-ending source of it.  I think I've got enough ideas in my head to last me the rest of my life!

Deanna of Kloset Kreations made the CUTEST bokeh-inspired baby card that I fell in love with.  I made two versions of it.

I cut white cardstock into two panels, then got my Simple Shapes set from Stampin' Up! out, along with various green inks.  On one panel, I randomly stamped one circle at a time with the ink full-strength (second card).  Then, without cleaning the stamp, I stamped the same design onto the second panel. Repeat. (top card)

The sentiment I chose is different from Deanna's.  This one is from Technique Tuesday / Ali Edwards - Sweet Baby.  I bought the set in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in an Amish furniture shop. Who knew they had a whole scrapbooking area off to one corner!

Thanks to Deanna for such adorable inspiration.  :-)  Have a great day!

Stamps: Simple Shapes - SU; Sweet Baby - Ali Edwards/Technique Tuesday Paper: white - PTI Ink: Versafine Onyx Black - Tsukineko; Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Kiwi Kiss - SU

CASEing a Crafter: Baby Bee

This is my second post for today.  Please click HERE for 

"CASEing a Crafter:  Welcome Home."

Hello!  I've got a ca-yoot baby card to share today.  Adorable bee stamps?  Check.  Love 'em.  Real bees?  Respect 'em, but keep my distance, thank you very much.

I was inspired by THIS card, designed by the amazing Iwona Palamountain.  Love the sketch, and applied it to my own card.  The strip of black punched edging is an Iwona-touch, as is the black die-cut sentiment.

The cork circle was sitting in my bits-and-pieces box, and seemed a good fit with the ADORABLE bee (Circle Friends / Simon Says Stamp).  It's the first time I'm using the bee in the stamp set.  You can see two other cards I made with other animals from the set HERE.  (By the way, I don't like those cards as much as I like this one.)

I'm entering my friend Darnell's NBUS Challenge #2.  She challenges us to use "never-before-used-schtuff".  Heck, we've all got loads of that kind of stuff, don't we?

Stamps: bee - Circle Friends - Simon Says Stamp Paper: white, True Black - PTI; yellow flower - SU Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black - Tsukineko Accessories & Tools: adhesive cork sheet; circle dies; yellow gems; 'baby' die - PTI; Copic markers; Postage Stamp border punch - EK Success

CASEing a Crafter: Welcome Home

Hello!  I have unintentionally begun a series of posts called "CASEing a Crafter", with a few previous posts HERE and HERE.  CASE stands for Copy And Share Everything, and other crafters call this "lifting." Sometimes I see creations that make me want to copy nearly every lovely little detail, they are that amazing.  Love seeing the creativity from people around the world!

The card below was inspired by the incredible Nichole Heady of Papertrey Ink.  She posted a card on the PTI Forum (where you need an account to access the content), and I had pinned it on Pinterest.

My patterned paper is different than Nichole's, but I kept many of the loving details she featured using the set, Boards & Beams.  Look at the golden doorknob (made with Gold Smooch Ink).  That touch is Nicole's, too.

The next one is my own idea, but is similar to many of my New Home cards.  It's rather plain compared to something the Papertrey Ink gals come up with, but it's sweet in its own way, I think.

Thanks so much to Nichole Heady for providing marvelous inspiration at all times.  I would love to peek inside that girl's mind!

And thank you for your visit today!

Stamps: 'home sweet home' - Daily Designs Sentiments - PTI; all other elements and sentiment - Boards & Beams - PTI 

CASEing a Crafter: Hollyhocks

It's time for an unabashedly-CASE'd (copy-and-share-everything) card.  :-D

I found THIS on Chupa's blog via Pinterest, and was completely inspired.  I was having a difficult time figuring out how to use this Jumbo Hollyhock stamp by Stampendous, and her creation totally wowed me.

Since the stamp is so large, keeping everything simple is key.  And using amazing marker colors helps to add such interest.  A little sentiment from SU's Teeny Tiny Wishes and some pearls were added, and that's it.

Thanks for letting me share this with you today!

Stamps: Jumbo Hollyhock -Stampendous; Teeny Tiny Wishes - SU Paper: Pale Plum - SU; white - PTI Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black - Tsukineko Accessories & Tools: Copic markers; pearls - Queen & Co.