CASology - Week 101 WOOD

This is a card I made for CASology with the cue word of Wood.  I chose this birdhouse and the sentiment because son #1 and family are moving shortly to a new home.  The first thing I did was stamp the house onto a piece of wood designer paper and heat embossed.  I also stamped the entire image onto a piece of white cardstock and glued the two pieces together because the dsp was thin.  The roof was was stamped and fussy cut and attached to the house.  A piece of kraft paper was die cut with LI rectangle and then I stamped the birds at the top.  The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed on the the kraft card base.  I mounted the house onto the smaller piece of kraft paper.

Paper - SU! DSP (wood), Kraft, Real Red

Stamps - Unity "Where You Are" (house), Sweet Stamp Shop (birds), Verve "Happy Thoughts"

Die Cut - Lil Inkers Rectangle

Other - Versafine ink, clear embossing powder

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/06/week-101-wood.html

Addicted to Clean and Simple - SUN

This card is for ATCAS with the cue word of Sun.  I do not profess to take great photos for card challenges but they are okay.  One thing I do need is sun.  Today the sun came out at 4 pm and in Southern California this is known as June Gloom.  The card use materials from four different companies starting with the base layer which was embossed with a Sizzix folder and then two tags topped with a die cut sun.  The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed.

Paper - PTI (thanks Kimberly W)

Embossing Folder - Sizzix (name unknown)

Die Cuts - PTI Tag Sale #8, Lil Inkers Sun

Other - Versafine ink, embossing powder, yellow ribbon, mounting tape

http://addictedtocas.blogspot.com/2014/06/atsm-challenge-41-sun.html

CASology: Week 100 CELEBRATE

 

Many years ago I became fast friends with three other women through our work with our children's PTA.  We served on committees together, did paper drives, made cookies and soon joined a bunco group.  When I stopped playing bunco because I returned to college (by then both boys were in high school) we got together for our birthdays.  One thing we did have in common is we were all the same age and soon we turned 40, then 50 and now a really big milestone.  So having said that this card will go to the first in this group of friends who turns this number (shhhh! 70).  I did not take a photo of the inside of the card but it reads, "Some days ya gotta but on your boots and just dance - happy birthday."  She will love this card as she is one of my friends who loves any card I send her and we all know how good that makes us feel.  Personally I don't think my friends and myself look our age, not like my mother's generation.  Let's face it girls always want to have fun.

My usual routine is stamping with Versafine and heat embossing on Neenah paper.  I like doing this for most stamped images because it is more vibrant.  Then I colored with copics and a little At You Spica markers.  The corners were punched with a SU! corner punch no longer made and then I mounted the image onto a second piece of Neenah.

Stamps - Penny Black "The Sensations! 2887K, Unity "It's a Party"

Other - Copics, Versafine, Neenah, SU! corner punch, At You Spica, mounting tape

P. S. Congratulations to the CASology team of designers for making this such a fun challenge to enter. I am certainly not the cardmaker I was a year and half ago and looking back at my first cards is pretty funny and sometimes I feel like deleting them, but I won't because they are a learning tool. Thank you all for all the kind comments.

http://www.casology.blogspot.com/2014/06/week-100-celebrate.html.

Seize the Birthday - Summertime

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2014/06/summertime.html

I am spreading my wings and submitting to more than just a couple of challenges.  This card is for Seize the Birthday with the topic of Summertime.  So what a great way to start summer with a string bikini and a glass of lemonade.  There was a time when I would have worn a bikini (string was not invented) but those days are looooong gone.  Nowadays you will not see me in a swimsuit unless I need to be in the pool for physical therapy, it is dark outside and no one is around but me and the mister.  I am serious.

The image was stamped on Neenah and colored with Copics and At You Spica.  I used Nestabilites circle die for the image and the mat.  A second piece of Neenah was dry embossed with the newer SU!/Sizzix folder Decorative Dots, this was trimmed and the bottom corners rounded.  I attached the bikini image with mounting tape.  The sentiment was stamped and matted. Lastly I attached the embossed piece to a piece of Pretty in Pink cardstock.

Stamps - Penny Black 3476H Cheers!, Savvy Stamps 784D Cheers to Your Birthday

Paper - Neenah, SU! Pretty in Pink

Die Cut - Nestabilities Circles

Embossing Folder - SU!/Sizzix Decorative Dots

Copics, Memento ink

SEIZE THE SKETCH - #22

http://seizethesketch.blogspot.com/2014/06/seize-sketch-22-sketch-from-lori-tecler.html

This card was made for the challenge at Seize the Sketch.  The image was stamped, colored with copics and die cut.  The two pattern papers are from Basic Grey and the solid cardstock is SU!. The sentiment is part of the stamp set.

Stamp set - My Favorite Things "Fred Bear Hits the Beach"

Paper - Basic Grey "Plummeria," SU! Soft Sky, Neenah

Copics and Memento ink

Other - mounting tape, baker's twine

CASology - Week 99 "Anniversary"

Next month son #2 and wife will celebrate their tenth anniversary and the mister and myself our forty-seventh.  Who will get this cutesy card?  Several years ago friends and I did a field trip and visited about ten stamping stores in the San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties.  We had such a fun time and spent one night on the road.  One store had a card similar to this featured and I asked if I could take a photo and they said they could give me a photocopy.  For all these years I have had the photocopy stashed in a notebook and recently I went to the store to ask if they had the heart punch and they did not.  The fortunate thing is the store is still in business The Stampin Post in Temecula, CA.  But I found a very old Cuttlebug die and embossing folder set which I have had for years, actually since I purchased my Cuttlebug (which I love).

For my card I used a Lil Inkers die for the base.  The black heart has a second layer of white which I trimmed.  White heart has been embossed and I added the adorable Lil Inkers bow.  Sentiment was inked and heat embossed.  Both hearts have SU! candy dots.

Die and Embossing set - Cuttlebug Textile Hearts Combo

Die - Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangle, Bow

Paper - Neenah, SU! Black, Pink Passion

Ink - Versafine

Stamp - Inky Antics

Other - SU! Candy Dots, embossing powder

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/06/week-99-anniversary.html

retro sketches #118

This is the first time I have submitted a card to retro sketches.  While viewing Joyce's Cards by the Sea blog I found this challenge.  The image was stamped three times onto a piece of remnant paper I made using distress inks and water and then cut and mounted onto a piece of black cardstock and then apricot appeal cardstock.  This was mounted onto a piece of whisper white and then the sentiment was stamped and heat embossed.  After rounding the corners this was attached to apricot appeal.

Stamps - Michael Strong "Mini Cloissone Shapes", SU! sentiment

Paper - SU! Apricot Appeal, black, Whisper White

Ink - Versafine