CASology: Week 60: APPLE

Today's card is for CASology with the theme of "Apple."  I wanted to use this neat apple embossing folder and three attempts later I came up with this design.  The top piece of paper was embossed with the apple folder and then I used Nestabilities Classic Oval to cut the center.  Next using a folder piece of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 piece of white card stock I stamped the apple with an embossing pad and used gold embossing powder.  Lastly I attached the apple embossed paper onto the folded piece of cardstock with pop-ups.  I like this card and will give it to my granddaughter for her seventeenth birthday in November.  The verbiage that goes with this Unity stamp is "apple of my eye," and that she is.

Stamp - Unity "Apple of My Eye"
Paper - Kelly white
Embossing Folder - Quickcut "Apples"
Stamp Pad - Top Boss
Embossing Powder - SU! Gold Glory
Die Cut - Nestabilities Classic Oval
http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/09/week-60-apple.html

Less Is More Week 135 - Use a Rubber Stamp

This card was made for Less Is More using a Penny Black rubber stamp.  I am working on silhouette cards and sponging techniques and this stamp fit the bill.

First I made a mask with a Nestabilites die cut and attached to a piece of watercolor paper.  Then I sponged two colors of distress ink and then spritzed with water.  I let this dry before I used Versafine ink and heat embossed the image.  I thought of die cutting the image and mounting it onto another piece of watercolor paper but then I decided less is more.

Paper - Canson #90 lb.
Stamp - Penny Black "Winter Ledge"
Ink - Distress Ink Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass and Versafine
Die Cut (for mask) - Nestabilites Curved Rectanglehttp://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2013/08/week-135-use-rubber-stamp.html

OLW 155 - SILHOUETTE

I made this card for One Layer Wednesday and the subject was silhouettes.  I just purchased this new stamp and this was the perfect time to use it.  Karen's water-colored silhouette cards are very inspiring.  In reading the design team's blogs Linda's directions made it easy for me and allowed me to use some old SU! stamp pads.
I cut a mask using Nestabilities Curved Rectangle and placed it over Whisper White cardstock.  First I stamped Buckaroo Blue ink on the bottom of the masked portion of the card and then I used Soft Sky.  The bridge was stamped in Versafine and heat embossed.  The verbiage was stamped and heat embossed after the mask was removed.

Paper - SU! Whisper White
Ink - SU! Buckaroo Blue, Soft Sky and Versafine
Die - Stampabilities Curved Rectangles (for masking)
Stamps - Art Impressions (bridge), SU! (verbiage
http://snippets-karen.blogspot.ca/2013/08/olw155-silhouettes.html

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

 

 

 http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/08/week-59-book.html

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