Seize the Birthday: Seeing Orange and a Farewell

This card for Seize the Birthday with the toppings using the color orange uses some of my favorite card techniques. The first thing I did was the embossing folder, distress ink and water technique. I used PTI white card stock, Sizzix chevron folder and spiced marmalade Distress ink and I let this sit overnight. Today I chose pumpkin pie paper, and snippets of really rust and ruby red and used a very old cuttlebug die cut set. The leaves looked bland so I embossed them with another embossing folder swiss dots. The leaves were attached to white cs and attached to another piece of pumpkin pie and this was attached to the base piece with mounting tape. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment. Because this card is for a friend's birthday I chose to add a little bit of crystal bling.

Paper - SU! Pumpkin Pie, (snippets of pp, ruby red, rust), PTI white card stock

Embossing Folders - Sizzix "Chevron," Cuttlebug "Swiss Dots"

Die Cut - Cuttlebug "Leaves:

Ink - Distress "Spiced Marmalade, VersaFine "Onyx Black"

Other - Recollections rhinestones, mounting tape, clear embossing powder

Stamp - MFT (unknown name)

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2014/11/seeing-orange-and-farewell.html

CASology: Week 121 "Festive"

This tag is for CASology with the cue word of Festive. The stamp is NBUS which I received recently from My Favorite Things. I stamped the flower onto kraft paper using Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I die cut the red paper with a Nestabilities die. The poinsettia was fussy cut and attached to the red paper with mounting tape. The sentiment was also stamped and heat embossed. I used gold Stickles and gold sequins for the center of the flower. While pressing the sequins into the Sickles a couple of gold droplets appeared, so I took a small amount of Stickles and using a small stylus added additional droplets. The gold ribbon and hemp cord were attached to the top of the tag.

Paper - Snippets of red and kraft cardstock

Ink - Versamark

Stamps - MFT "Holiday Botanicals," "Christmas"

Other - ribbon (Michael's), Stickles Gold, Recollections "Snow" embossing powder

Die - Nestabilities "Curved Rectangles"

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/11/week-121-festive.html

Addicted to CAS: Code Word TAG

This tag was made for ATCAS with the code word of tag. This stamp which is NBUS is from Paper Smooches and all of the paper used are snippets of paper. I stamped the image onto white cs and then stamped the various parts of the image onto scraps of paper, and the beard is previously embossed. I used the holly from a second paper Smooches set and added bling. The second layer of the tag is also a snippet. The beard was mounted using mounting tape and lastly I used grosgrain ribbon and baker's twine.

http://addictedtocas.blogspot.com/2014/11/challenge-51.html

CASology: Week 120 SEA

Visualize that you are looking out of a porthole on a ship. Guess that is pretty far fetched but that is what I am portraying. This Christmas the mister and I are taking a cruise to Hawaii and this must be my Christmas tree. This stamp set is one from Our Craft Lounge which is no longer in business. The embossing folder is NBUS. As usual I stamped the image and colored with copics. The top panel after being embossed was trimmed and attached to the base card. Both the image and sentiment were attached with mounting tape.

Stamps - Our Craft Lounge "Sea-sons Greetings"

Die Cut - MFT Pierced Circle

Embossing Folder - Provo Craft "Candy Cane Stripe

Inks - Memento, Copic markers

Other - Neenah paper, mounting tape

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/11/week-120-sea.html

Seize the Birthday - Seize the Toppings 'WASHI TAPE'

The Seize the Birthday challenge requests washi tape - that works for me. I love washi tape, I guess I love lots of card making supplies, but washi tape is really fun. My granddaughter just started her freshman year in college and she said she decorated her portion of the dorm room in washi tape. (Boy I hope it peels off the wall easily.)

Today I am cleaning and reorganizing the craft room and found my assortment of handmade background paper and I decided to use MFT butterfly stamp and die. I chose my washi tape colors based on the background paper and added a touch of Summer Sun ink with a SU! stamp. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches. I added some GellyRoll ink pen onto the butterfly (which I heat embossed), the sentiment ,and a hit or miss on the splatter. Both the card front and butterfly were mounted with mounting tape.

Stamp and Die - MFT "Winged Beauties", Paper Smooches "Sentiment Sampler"

SU! "Gorgeous Grunge"

Ink -  Stampin Up!, Versafine

Other - Washi Tape, mounting tape, embossing powder, GellyRoll pen

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2014/10/washi-tape.html

CAS(E) this Sketch - Challenge #98

I planned to finish my Christmas cards for my charities but somewhere during the course of the day I began to re-organize, something I like to do. While going through plastic SU! stamp boxes full of images I found some previously colored pieces that I could make into cards. I made a sympathy card and a thank you card and this image, which I love, I decided to make for CTS.

The focal image was made using SU! markers on glossy paper. Once I scribbled ink on the stamp I  spritzed with water and then applied to the paper. Then the fun begins and using a blender pen and the markers I had to work at finishing the image because it was not a clear image. But that is the fun part like finishing a puzzle. I embossed the blue paper and cut the lake image and the left side covered up a previously stamped sentiment. A couple of weeks ago I made two sympathy cards and I could not get a good image and 2 1/2 sheets of paper later I decided it was not me but the stamp - I changed the sentiment. I added some gems to the card and stamped the sentiment. One more image from my UFO stash finished.

Stamps - Stampscapes "Lakeside Cove", Avery Elle (sentiment)

SU! Markers and blender pen

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug (name unknown)

Paper - SU! glossy, Soft Sky

Other - mounting tape, Gemstones (Paper Studio)

http://casethissketch.blogspot.com/2014/10/case-this-sketch-98.html

Merry Monday #132

I liked the concept of the latest challenge at Merry Monday and I used some of my favorite products namely embossing folders, kraft paper and embossing powder. This elegant folder from Sizzix  Snow embossed on PTI white card stock. I made two panels one kraft paper and the second dsp. I die cut two separate tags and punched two separate snowflakes. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The smaller snowflake was punched with a gold paper that was given to me. I tied a piece of grosgrain ribbon and jute on the top of the tag.

Paper - PTI white cs, MFT kraft textured paper, Close to My Heart dsp

Embossing Folder - Sizzix  "Snow Cap"

Die Cut - PTI Tag Sale #8

Punches - Marvy, Martha Stewart

Stamp - Paper Smooches "Warm Hearts"

Other - SU! ribbon, jute, gold paper, mounting tape

http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2014/10/merry-monday-132-snowflakes-neutral.html