CASology Week 90: WET

The first thing that came to mind with the cue word of wet was "rain."  Honestly I hate rain, really.  I grew up in Oregon a very beautiful state with lots of rain.  We did not have school buses and when I arrived at school I had wet shoes and mud splattered legs.  On a fonder note I had a very cute yellow slicker with collar, cuffs and pockets made out of black corduroy.  Back then I even was a brunette.

This image is from My Favorite Things which I inked with Memento and colored with copics.  I die cut the image with Lil Inkers.  I like to focus on parts of an image as I like the look.  Yellow, black and white are one of my favorite color combinations.  The umbrella was paper pieced with a snippet of polka dot paper.  The colored image was attached with mounting foam. The second layer of cardstock was embossed with Spots and Dots embossing folder. The sentiment is from Gina K.  The finished card is 4 x 5.

Supplies - Neenah paper, snippet unknown, Copics and At You Spica, Memento Ink, Spots and Dots embossing folder, MFT "My Umbrella" stamp set, Gina K "Shine On" sentiment stampBarbara Roe

Addicted to CAS Challenge #35 - Wheels

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So this card is for ATCAS with the theme of wheels.  This LOTV image reminds me of my husband who celebrates a birthday next week.  He is not only vintage and a classic but he owns a classic vintage 1930 Ford Model A street rod.  His car is a pretty shade of blue and he loves to wear a cap like this one, and he likes orange.  Orange!  So I guess this card is for Cal my better half for almost 47 years.  Yikes!

This card is pretty basic I stamped the image with memento ink and colored with copics.  The sentiment I stamped off once so it looked muted.  Thenhttp://addictedtocas.blogspot.com/2014/03/challenge-35-wheels.html I punched the corners and mounted the image on a second piece of card stock.  Easy card, cute image and I think Cal will like it.

Supplies - Neenah paper, memento ink, copics, SU! punch, LOTV image, sentiment I am not sure

CASology Week 89: Joke

Well this card for CASology's joke, is not a haha joke it is more like a joke on me.  See several weeks ago I was going to submit a card for a theme of luck.  I made this card three times and finally on the last time it looked good but then I saw the sentiment was upside down.  Rats!  So the card got shelved and then when I saw the theme of joke I decided to post this card for CASology.

The image was stamped on Neenah with Versafine and heat embossed.  Then I matted the image and sponged on SU! Soft Sky ink.    The sentiment was also stamped and heat embossed.  Then I layered the image onto a second sheet of white card stock.  Is that when I noticed my goof?  I don't know, can't remember.  The image and sentiment are from two different Unity stamps, "Good Day Sunshine" and "Best Things Just Happen."

FYI -I struggle with submitting cards almost every time but I have not given up yet.  The last time I submitted a card was for Anita's birthday and it was not correct.  I think I hit preview instead of publish.  It was called to my attention but I chose not to correct it and the reason was while I was posting my left hand froze, as if I was holding a ball.  Egads talk about scary.  I waited a few minutes and then feeling came back into my hand and I finished the post, albeit incorrectly.  Since that infamous day I have been wearing braces on both wrists and trying not to do much typing.  Right now I am wearing one brace on my right hand.  Pain in both wrists happened to me once before and it is just over using my hands.  We are going away for a few days and hopefully time away from card making and the computer will help my carpal tunnel wrists.  Getting old is a pain in the butthttp://casology.blogspot.com/2014/04/week-89-joke.html and the wrists.

Anita - This one is for you!

This card was made especially for Anita (from France) who had a birthday last month.  And this month her blogging friends are giving her a party and submitting cards in her honor.

I consider myself a newbie to card blogging and Anita has been there the entire time supporting me and encouraging me to keep going.  When I think of her cards I think of flowers, pastel colors and some bling.  I did put bling on the card after I took the picture so I took two more photos and the first looks the best, so picture three little light green crystals  by the flowers.

I stamped the flowers onto water color paper with Versafine ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  Next I colored with Copics and used 8 shades of pink.  The paper is all SU!, except for the wc paper.  The sentiment stamp is Paper Smooches.

Happy Birthday Anita and many thanks for all your kind words.  Wishing you a wonderful year.

Hugs,

Barbara http://www.djkardkreations.com/2014/03/anita-this-ones-for-you-surprise.html

CASology Week 86: ROOTS

First I want to say that last week and the cue word of carnival was too much for me.  My first attempt of a ferris wheel failed and I actually threw away the stamp.  My thought about carnivals is my boys would always bring home a gold fish, or two, in a baggy from their grade school carnival.  We actually had two that lived for about two years but they passed away when we set off a bug bomb and forgot to move Rockin and Rollin out of the house.  So this second attempt at a card was a fish bowl with a fish and I put together pieces from three different stamp sets and it was a failure too.  Third and last attempt was another ferris wheel and all was okay until the paper slipped when I ran it through the Cuttlebug  and the piece was decapitated.  So no carnival entry from me.  This week is another story.

My first thought about roots is hair, in other words needing a touch up, but I let the thought vanish. This stamp is a cutey from Our Craft Lounge and one of my favorite stamp sets.  Everything was going well with this card, image stamped, colored, die cut and mounted onto a piece of embossed cardstock.  But then the image was off-balance and the mouse's tail was waving in the wind.  The stamp set had a border stamp of small flowers so I amputated one lone flower.  I stamped and colored it and glued it under the tail and now the image looks balanced.

Supplies: Neenah paper, Memento ink, Copic markers, Lil Inkers die cut, Cuttlebug embossing folder "Daisies," Our Craft Lounge stamp set "Mice Friends"

Note:  Our Craft Lounge is no longer in business.  When I first began taking Copic classes the instructor used OCL stamps and I still have several sets. 

The Male Room Challenge 5: Blue, Green and Brown

I chose this cute stamp for my first submission to The Male Room.  I have had this stamp for a couple of years and really love it as it reminds me of son #2 who was a skateboarder through his college years.  The image was stamped onto Neenah and colored with Copic markers and then die cut with Nestabilities.  I selected an earlier card sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #21 for this card layout. The patterened paper was in my scratch paper folder source unknown but the other papers are SU!.  I mounted the skateboarder (I will call him Matt) with mounting tape onto the background papers.  The sentiment is Paper Smooches.

Supplies: Neenah and SU! papers, Copic Markers, Nestabilities die cut, Paper Smooches "Sentiment Sampler" stamp, Stampendous! "Skateboard Kiddo" stamp

ATCAS: Baby Challenge 33

I have made this card for Addicted to Clean and Simple with the theme of Baby.  This Lili of the Valley stamp is so adorable and I thought of this image for this challenge.  Two of my friends are soon to be first time grandmothers and this is the card I will give them.  The image was stamped on Neenah paper and colored with Copic markers and then die cut with Lil Inkers rectangle.  The sun is also Lil Inkers and it was cut out of SU! Daffodil Delight.  The two pieces were mounted onto a second piece of Neenah with mounting tape.  The sentiment is also Lil Inkers.

Supplies: Neenah paper, SU! paper, Memento ink, Copic Markers, Lil Inker die cuts, Lil Inkers sentiment stamp, Lili of the Valley Stamp