CASology - Week 59 "Book"

 

 

This card is being submitted to CASology Week 59 with the cue word book.  Like many I do not have a stamp with books so I had to put on my thinking cap.  Recently I purchased a new magazine which had a free stamp and the issue had a phone stamp.  So I came up with phone book or address book.  I do use an address book and I keep one in my craft room.  

First I typed the word "addresses" a few times in different fonts and then printed the page on my favorite kraft paper.  I selected this great font "academy engraved" and chose  18 pt. font size and selected a brown/red color.  Next I stamped the telephone stamp in black and heat embossed the image.  I trimmed the image to a size that fit my base card and I cut a small strip for the left side of the book and scored a line.  I placed the book on a piece on poster board but positioned it so a smidge of white showed on the top and the right side of the book.  I used pop-ups but also added a small piece of mounting tape on the right side so that the book would not sit perfectly flat, as if the book had been opened a lot.  Next I embossed the base cardstock with a medium size polka dot embossing folder like replicating the dial on the phone.

 

Paper - SU! Kraft

Stamp - Inky Doodles (free from Craft Stamper magazine)

Ink - Versafine

Embossing Folder - Quick Cuts Polka Dot Medium

 

 

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CASology - Week 58: PAPER

 

The cue word for this week's CASology is paper.  My first thought was paper dolls and as a young girl I made my own paper dolls and clothes.   At the time my best friend was Deanna and we spent hours playing with paper dolls in her living room.  Paper dolls was my very first craft and I have very fond memories of those happy times.  Now many, many years later I have done numerous crafts from cross stitch to calligraphy and for the past seven or more years cardmaking.  Since January I have participated in CASology and my first cards were far from clean and simple but along the way I think I "got it."  The past month or so I played with watercolor techniques and it is my new love.  So for this card I did not select paper dolls but instead chose watercolor paper.
I stamped with SU! writers a stamp image from MFT and used five of my all-time favorite SU! colors, tempting turquoise, old olive, ruby red, perfect plum and tempting turquoise.  Next I used a new die cut from MFT "Paint Brushes" and made the paint brush.  Lastly I stamped happy birthday with my favorite hb stamp and thought the cursive image suited the card.
So there you have it old paper favorites and new paper favorites that span more years than most of you little whipper-snappers.

Paper - Canson Water Color paper 90#, SU! Kraft, Basic Grey
Stamps - My Favorite Things "Abstract Art", Stampabilities "Happy Birthday 10"
Die Cut - My Favorite Things "Paint Brushes"
SU! Writers - Pumpkin Pie, Perfect Plum, Old Olive, Ruby Red, Tempting Turquoise

OPERATION WRITE HOME - OUR DAILY BREAD August Challenge

Our Daily Bread Designs August Challenge


The August challenge is to use the colors brown, green and pink.  I selected this stamp because it makes me laugh.  Green and pink are a great color combination and I like a touch of brown.  I used Nestabilities die cuts.

Stamp - Our Craft Lounge "Granny's Secrets"
Paper - Neenah and unknown
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics
Nestabilities - Cicles, Lacey Circles

CASology Week 57 - Picnic

 

 

 

This card made for CASology's theme of picnic was stamped and colored with copics.   I  then die cut the center of  a second piece of white cardstock and the large piece of paper was embossed with an embossing folder and then mounted onto the colored image paper.

This is the first time I have matted an image and a minor problem is the back of the colored image shows on the inside of the card.  So I will attached a clean sheet of printer paper inside the card for writing purposes.

 

Paper - Neenah

Stamps - Our Craft Lounge "Vintage Wine" and "Patriotic Parade" (verbiage)

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Embossing Folder - Quick Cut "Vine"

Copics - E13, Y21, YG23, YG63, V15 R37, R39, N2, Blender Pen

Other - Mounting Foam

 

Melissa's Baby Shower for Bryna Kate

http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/08/melissas-baby-shower-reminder.html

 

 

The cute baby bunny is a House Mouse stamp that I stamped on Neenah paper and colored with copics.  The image was die cut with Lil Inkers rectangle and then matted on SU! Rose Red cardstock and then matted and die cut on SU! Kiwi Kiss.  The background paper is unknown (two separate papers)and the image was mounted using pop-ups.  The verbiage was stamped and colored with a copic pen and then attached with adhesive.

 

Welcome Baby Bryna and congratulations to Mom and family.

 

Stamp - House Mouse Sleepy Head, SU! For a Friend

Paper - Neenah, SU! Rose Red and Kiwi Kiss

Copics - E000, E01, E31, N2, R81, R83

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

 

 

 



CASology Week 55 - Camp

 

 

The stamp for this challenge is Our Craft Lounge's Bear-ly Fishin.'  The components to the stamp set were all individual so I had to arrange them and there were a total of four pieces.  The image was colored with Copics and then I got to use my new die cut set from Lil' Inker Designs.  I waited all week for the order to arrive so I could use it on potential entrants into challenges.  The background paper was embossed with Cuttlebug's Traffic Jam.

 

Stamp - Our Craft Lounge "Bear-ly Fishin"

Paper - Kelly white cardstock, Neenah

Ink - Copics

Embossing Folder- Cuttlebug "Traffic Jam"

Die Set - Lil' Inker Designs "Stitched Mats: Rectangles"



One Layer Wednesday #150 - Life's A Beach

 

 

 

This is my first card for One Layer Wednesday.  I marked the image with SU! writers, spritzed with water and stamped onto white Kelly paper.  Easy-peasy, so easy in fact I made several more and they "sucked."  The saying goes if it ain't broken don't fix it.

 

Stamp - SU! "A Light Unto My Path" (retired)

SU! Writers - tempting turquoise, pacific point, crumb cake, smoky slateSnippets:OLW150-Life's A Beach

Paper - Kelly