From the archives...

For this weeks' Addicted to CAS - Challenge 140 Baby  

This is a very old Stampin' Up stamp, so old I have no idea what the name of the set is.  The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.  

Simple card using only Neenah solar white and SU Melon Mambo card stocks.  

Colored the carriage and phone twice with Copic's, fussy cut, then popped the images up over the main panel.  Used Nuvo white drops for the polka dots on the carriage (though they look gray here) and finishing off with Kaiser Craft Hot Pink pearls (because every girl should have pearls). 


Thank you for stopping by. 
Carole

Lonely Cactus....

My submission for this week's Fusion Challenge - Cactus Door.  There are some pretty amazing submissions this week as well as the gorgeous cards created by the design team.  I chose to go CAS with this card and kept it to the sketch, colors and the cactus.  

I spent a good amount of time looking through every one of my stamp sets and found only one that had a succulent.  Can't believe with the gazillion sets in that craft room that this was the only one that had a cactus.  

Starting out, the left side of the card panel was painted with Americana Decor chalk paint using white, green and teal.  I wanted to carry the shapes of the door panels into the card but not add more color, so using TCW's stencil Mini Labyrinth plain white texture paste was layered on.  

The cactus is from Paper Smooches and is part of a set that spells out LOVE so using only the stamp with the cactus, the letter post was cut off and substituted with a bit of SU Really Rust card stock shaped into a pot, then brushed the edges a bit with Versamark to give is some depth.  The cactus was stamped out and colored with Copic markers (BG13, BG11, BG49) several times, then the smaller one was cut out, rounded and then popped up on the main image.  I tired to take a close up picture of the cactus to show how its rounded but its really hard to capture (see below).  The sentiment is by SSS called Happy & Smile.   

The card stock is Neenah solar white, SU Really Rust, Bazzil Blue Oasis and the DP is by Authentique (Spring time).  The enamel dots are from My Minds Eye which I thought about doing in the color of the lights hanging around the door, but decided to keep them in the same tones as the rest of the elements. 

This is the close up of the cactus which has been rounded to give it dimension.  

Thank you for stopping by.  I'm off to finish up another of the several cards I have been working on this week.    

Carole

Zoom Zoom

My submission for this weeks' CASology Challenge #307.

This card was so much fun to make.  I thought only of my youngest grandson while putting it together.  Lawson loves his toy cars and is rarely without a car in one or both hands.   

I ran to the local scrapbook store to cut the ZOOM from clipboard, then painted it with black chalk paint.  The road lines were drawn with Uni-ball Signo white pen.  The cars (Memory Box Auto Parts) were cut three times from each color then glued together to give them some depth and strength.  The wheels are Stampin' Up Candy Dots which I think might be retired.  The card base is 110lb Neenah solar white; with a layer of SU Basic Black cut to fit the top; then the main panel was trimmed down and centered on the base.  Easy and other then the three layers per car, this card came together very quickly.  

Thank you for stopping by.  
Carole

Best Wishes

This is my submission for The Card Concept #96  and CAS-ual Friday's Challenge #203.  

  

For The Card Concept, my goal was classy/elegant with the focus on the main elements of flowers, gold and the wood.  The CAS-ual Friday's challenge was to use heat embossing.  

The main card base is covered in a designer paper that has a pale wood grain design that manages to incorporate hearts into the "grain".  (picture at bottom of post)

The flower die is by Poppy Stamps, and was cut 6 times.  Five layers were glued together then attached to a base of Neenah solar white cut to the same size square as the die.  I then used Copic's to color the flowers and background.  The coloring had to include the base as well as the sides of the five layers so that there would not be any white edges showing when looking at the card from all angles.

The top die was then heat embossed with several layers of WOW Metallic Gold Rich Super Fine powder (my favorite) then carefully glued down to the other dies.  Once everything was dry, the

four outer edges of the completed center piece, were also heat embossed with the gold so that no white edges appear anywhere on the card.

Lastly, the sentiment is from Mama Elephant set Bountiful Blessings and also embossed with the WOW gold.  The final touch was to add bitty green beads to the centers of the flowers.    

I honestly can't remember the last time I put this much time and effort into a card.  I am very pleased with how it turned out, but of course after taking the pictures and working up this post, I think I might go back and add just a few gold sequins to finish it off.  

Thank you for stopping by,  

Carole

Robot Birthday

This card is for Fusion Challenge: Primary Bookcase.  This card is actually the 4th one I made.  The other three were cluttered because I was trying too hard to match the sketch, incorporate a bookcase and layer in the colors.  Since none of them were any good I wasn't going to submit anything, but as I was working on a different challenge this evening, it finally hit me how to layout the bots. 


It's not much, just a simple one layer card, but it has dimension, texture and a simple straight forward sentiment.  Its after midnight here so I had to use a desk lamp to take the picture instead of natural light.  

The robots stamp set is by Clearly Besotted (Mini Bots) and the sentiment is from Altenew (Birthday Greetings).  I used color pencils on the robots and SU markers on the "Happy" sentiment.  Unfortunately I have no idea about the washi tape, it is not marked.  

I just checked out the other submissions and there are some wonderful cards in the gallery.  

Thank you for stopping by.
Carole