SEIZE THE SKETCH #25

Another card for the day and this one is for Seize the Sketch. Lately there have been several cards using black and white paper and I like the combination but it is not something I would typically make because my "thing" is coloring. This image was part of a sympathy stamp set I just received but it did have this flower. So I stamped and embossed the flower and matted it on black card stock. I have a file cabinet with only folders of paper scraps so I chose these two pieces of black/white paper. The floral paper is double sided and side two is the gold. I die cut the wave from a NBUS die set from Paper Smooches and punched the two circles. The sentiment was a sticker which I mounted onto a piece of scrap white cardstock.

Amigos may seem like an odd sentiment to put on a more serious card but one of my oldest and dearest friends of fifty years has a birthday shortly. Her husband also has the same birthday so I used the word amigos. They are truly great life-long friends and I love when we can get together which is not often as they live in Oregon and moi in California.

Paper - Snippets, SU! Black, Whisper White card stock

Stamp - Unity "May Hope Sustain You"

Sticker Sentiment - Paper Source (Hobby Lobby)

Versafine ink, embossing powder, mounting tape

Die Cut - Paper Smooches "Borders 1"

http://seizethesketch.blogspot.com/2014/07/seize-sketch-25-sketch-from-mona.html

CASology: Week 106 RAINBOW

OMG I have never submitted a card so early and my last post was the latest I entered a card. So I saw the cue word and first thing I did was look up colors in the rainbow. I have several brush stroke stamp sets and dies but then I thought of sentiment. This sentiment is a favorite so I went to the upstairs and found a box of the grandkids crayons. I used this NBUS die set from MFT that I purchased in May at the store in Eustis, Florida. (Lucky me) Using PTI white card stock I began the task of die cutting and eventually I cut in white and colored the paint swatches with crayon. Next I die cut using a snippet of kraft paper and stamped the sentiment (4 tries) and used crayon on the brush. Then I had to assemble all these pieces so once again I die cut on white and trimmed the paper to 4 x 5 1/4 and then applied double sided adhesive on the back turned over the paper and inlaid all the pieces  and then attached to white cardstock. Da da, done.

Stamp - American Art Stamp LAD-340 (I purchased at Hobby Lobby)

Die Cut - MFT Dienamics Artist Palette

Other - Crayola Crayons, Memento ink

PTI white cardstock

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/07/week-106-rainbow.html

Seize the Birthday "Anything Goes"

I completed this card a couple of days ago but did not want to post so many cards at once. Then yesterday came and went but I had fun watching grandson #1 who turns 8 next week. We played Racko with grandpa which is a great game that teaches kids about numbers, and then we painted rocks. Before long it was time to get him returned to his mom at work. The mister and I waited from 9 to 3:30 for a repairman to come fix the A/C and then he left at 5:30. So it is a new dayhttp://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2014/07/stringing-along-more-birthday-wishes.html and this card needs to be posted. Blah, blah, blah - I am babbling.

Once again I used the EF/distress ink/water technique - give it a try. When the paper was completely dry I stamped the images and the sentiment. This was mounted onto marigold morning and then the base of the card is baja breeze. The sentiment is from a new set I just ordered from SU! and I like the style of font.

Stamp - My Favorite Things, SU! Sassy Salutations

Embossing Folder - SU! Honeycomb

Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass,, Spiced Marmalade, Evergreen Bough, Memento

Paper - Neenah, SU! Baja Breeze, Marigold Morning

ATCAS: Code word: CELEBRATE

This card is for ATCAS challenge of celebrate. Many birthdays in my family in the month of August but all are males so this will be for a friend who turns 80 in September. The image was stamped on white cardstock and then die cut with a Lil Inkers rectangle die. Next I stamped the cake on five additional pieces of paper, which I cut and glued onto the main image. The candle was colored and I used Copic pink and yellow At You Spica. I mounted this onto a pink piece of paper and with mounting tape attached to the base white card stock.  The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed. Lastly I rounded the corners.,

Stamp - Unity "Party, Party, Party," Paper Smooches "Sentiment Stamps"

Paper - snippets, Staples white card stock

Die - Lil Inkers Rectangle

Other - Versafine, At You Spica pens, mounting tape. embossing powder

http://addictedtocas.blogspot.com/2014/07/challenge-43-celebrate.html

CAS(E) this Sketch #86

This card was made for CAS(E) this Sketch. I began by using the distress ink/embossing folder/water technique which I really enjoy using. When dry I stamped the sentiment on the honeycomb paper. A strip of black cardstock was attached on the left. I inked and heat embossed the bee image and with a paint brush and water I colored with distress ink and Inka-Gold and matted this piece with apricot appeal paper. Using mounting tape I attached the bee strip to the honeycomb piece and then lastly mounted on the the base piece of apricot appeal.

Stamp - Unity "All Hail the Queen Bee"

Embossing Folder - SU! Honeycomb

Ink - Distress Spiced Marmalade, Versafine, Vica Inka-Gold

Paper - Neenah, SU! Black, Apricot Appeal

http://casethissketch.blogspot.com/2014/07/case-this-sketch-86.html

CASology - Week 105 "RUN"

Some weeks the cue word is easier than others. When I saw run I thought of granddaughter Kiera age 2 1/2 who runs everywhere and all the time. Last year the other grandmother gave her a pair of hot pink high top tennies and they were the cutest. I knew I had a pair of tennies but they were not high tops and when I went to stamp them with pigment ink I did not have a bright enough shade of pink. Idea scrapped. So I chose paint running down the pail and I used this stamp which is one of my favorites. About three weeks ago the cue word was glow and I probably spent 3 - 4 hours on a design and it did not come together.

I cut an aperature on the front of the base card and did some line work with a copic multiliner pen. On a second piece of neenah cardstock I stamped the image and heat embossed and colored with copics. The sentiment was stamped and colored on the bottom of this paper and then I attached it to the inside of the base card. I drew some more paint dribbles and colored them.

Stamp - Unity "You Color My World"

Paper - Neenah

Ink - Copics, copic liner pen, Versafine

Other - embossing powder

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/07/week-105-run.html

CAS(E) this Sketch #85

This card is for CAS(E) this Sketch challenge #85.  The image was stamped on watercolor paper heat embossed and colored with copics and I dabbed silver in the center of the two larger flowers. I fussy cut the flowers and used mounting tape to attach onto a piece of neenah paper and then stamped the sentiment. This was attached onto a piece of pixie pink paper and then a second piece of neenah.

Stamps - Unity "Bundle of Care," Precious Remembrance " Positive Thoughts"

Paper - Neenah, SU! Pixie Pink, water color

Ink - Versafine, Memento "Cottage Ivy"

Copics

Other - embossing powder, mounting tape, silver Sakura Gelly Roll pen

http://casethissketch.blogspot.com/2014/07/case-this-sketch-85.html