Muse #55: Take Two!

Hello Everyone,
I am posting this second card for the Muse Challenge - I am not sure about this card, but I have decided to post it anyway. It is quite a bright take on Marion Vagg's Muse card this week. Again I used a Mint Motif Border stamp. I also used PTI's Wonderful Word die and Wonderful Word Additions stamp set. It has been so long since I used any of these items, I alsmost felt like it was NBUS! Anyway, Let me know what you think.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Muse #55: You are Fabulous

Hello Everyone,
It is Family Day here in Ontario, so no work for me today! I did manage to do a little work - made up a history test for my students... I am sure they will be thrilled! I also managed to get some crafting doen too. I love this fabulous Muse card by Marion Vagg - she really is an inspiration. I loved her card so much, I cased it pretty directly. I created my own clour ful background with a Mint Motif border stamp. I actually made two cards and wasn't sure about one, but I have decided to post them both anyway. I pretty much followed the same colour scheme. This version, I decided to leave lots of white space and go for subtler colours. I like the way it turned out - very CAS. Thanks for looking and as always I look forward to hearing from you!

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Paper Smooches Sparks: Anything Goes

Hello Everyone,
There is another "Anything Goes" challenge over at  Paper Smooches Sparks this  week. I am heading over to a winter bonfire tonight and I wanted to bring a hostess gift, so I decided to make a little box set of Thank You cards. This card is a total case of the great Jennifer McGuire - you can see her fabulous creations here. At first I did the rainbow and the "thanks" inlaid as Jennifer did, but found it too tedious for mass production. I kept the rainbow inlaid and just popped the "thanks" on top. In the card pictured here, I covered the rainbow and the sentiment in clear Wink of Stella, but my pen is running low, so for the card set, I just coloured the sentiment.

 

 



This envelope box is also cased from Jennifer - she really is a card-making genius! You can see the video tutorial here. I love the way the whole set turned out - so I will definitely be using this recipe again!

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Muse and CASology: Bold

Hello Everyone,
I am combining my Muse and CASology entries this week. I love playing along with these two FABULOUS card challenges. This week over at Muse, we can draw our inspiration from the fantastic Therese Calvird. You can see her card here.

I was inspired by the flowers, the beautiful green background and the "hello" sentiment. I will admit to being a little stumped, however, becasue I am not so great with the watercolouring. I decided to let the card percolate or as Darnell would say, I let the hamster figure it out! While I was leaving the hamster to do her thing, I popped over to the CASology blog - "Bingo!" squeeked my hamster. "Go BOLD or go home."

So I decided to  use the big, bold "Hello" from Simon Says Stamp and I coloured my "Tall Flowers" from Hero Arts with bold copics. I layered up that "hello" die to add some dimension and Voila! The "friend" is from a Hero Arts clear set - I am not sure of the name, but if I find it I will add it in.

Thanks for stopping by. Leave a comment to let me know you were here; or even better - become a member!

Happy Stamping,
Meg

PS Pro: Adding a Little Colour to my Life!

Holy Moly Everyone,
I was flabbergasted to learn that I won last week's Paper Smooches Sparks challenge. It was an anything goes challenge and this is the card I created.

In addition to a store coupon, I will be featured on the Paper Smooches blog tomorrow for their week in review. I am hap-hap-happy and can't wait for my "freebies" to come! I wanted to post the Badge, but for some reason it is not uploading:(

Happy Stamping,
Meg

CASology Cue Card: And

Hello Everyone,
As you have probably noticed from the last severall posts, my focus lately has been on Valentine's! Today's card is no exception. The cue car for this week's CASology is "And". I had seen this card of  Stephanie Wincott's, and knew that I had to case it. When I saw that CASology challenge, I knew this would be perfect.

I used the stamp set "Heart Swatches" from Penny Black and "You  and Me" from Hero Arts. I just loved the crisp clean layout and bold graphic nature of Stephanie's card - I hope my case does it justice. I used Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and Hero Arts Red Royal Shadow ink. Simple and straight forward.

Well, thanks for stopping by. Let me know what you think.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

The Card Concept: Monochromatic Pink

Hello Everyone,
This week I am entering the Card Concept challenge for the first time. For this challenge there is a theme and then inspiration cards by the design team in all different card-making genres. I think my card is a cross between the CAS and Graphic style. When I saw Ardyth's card it made me think of this card that I made a while ago. I love this card and thought that it would be perfect for this challenge. So, I changed it up a bit... I used my copics to colour the vellum strips in graduated shades of pink. Then I die cut the love sentiment from graduated colours of pink cardstock and layered them. I really wanted all the layers to show, so I didn't stack them one right one top of the other, but shifted each layer slightly to right, topping them all off with a plain white. I love the effect. The love die and "you" stamp are both Paper Smooches.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope everyone has a craftilicious Friday.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Muse Featured Member!

Hello Everyone,
I just wanted a quick post to say thank you to all those who voted for my Muse Card! I am thrilled to be featured as one of the top 3!

Thanks again!

 

Happy Stamping,

Meg

CASe this Sketch, Less is More Rainbow and Paper Smooches Sparks - Anything Goes

Hello Everyone,
I am taking a break from marking assignments - it is report card time and I am madly trying to get the final term assignments marked. I saw the Less is More Rainbow Challenge over on the Uniko Studio blog and loved the inspiration word rainbow! Love me some rainbow colours! I also saw that the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge this week is an "Anything Goes" challenge. So I decided to break out the "I Heart Art" set from Paper Smooches and combine the two challenges. Then lo and behold, didn't I remember the CASe this Sketch layout! Bingo! Triple threat card coming your way.

This is a very simple card, but I love the colour. I stamped the paint brushes first (I drew some guidelines with my pencil to make sure that I had them lined up). Then coloured with Copics. I used my silver Wink of Stella to do the touch of silver - it really adds a nice little shimmer to the card. I stamped the easel and sentiment and fussy cut that out. Then I added little hand darwn hearts to Valentinify the card! Mounted everything with foam tape and Presto! I think this would be a great card for my crafty sister.

Anyway, I better get back to the marking! Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

CASology Cue Card: Purple and Simon Says Stamp Work-it Wednesday

Hello Everyone,
Post number two for today. I am throwing this little card in the ring for the CASology Purple challenge and Simon Says Stamp Work-it Wednesday - use some thing new.

This card features two new things: an NBUS stencil I picked up from Michaels and a new technique, I picked up from Online Card Classes: Stenciled. If you haven't tried one of the Online Card Classes, you really should - they are fantastic. So the technique is sponging with a stencil - I think it was from Day one fo the class. The fabulous Debbie Hughes showed a sponging technique where the sponging creates a graduated value. I used my Distress Ink Dusty Concord and sponged the heart background. I covered these lovely little hearts with clear Wink of Stella and then with Glossy Accents. I love the way the shimmer shows through the glossy topping! I die cut the Love sentiment three times in white and twice in purple. I adhered two white layers, then a purple layer, then one more white and the top purple. I love this layered sentiment look (got it from Jennifer McGuire) and when you turn the card sideways, the hidden purple layer is a fabulous surprise. I just love this added detail (cased from Laurie Willison).

I am thrilled with this simple little card. The sentiment is all Paper Smooches, by the way!.Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Musing about Purple and Going Over the Edge!

Hello Everyone,
Today my card is combining three challenges: Muse, CASology, and CAS-ual Fridays. Most of the time I create with just one challenge in mind, but when this card percolated into my brain I knew it was destined for all three. It was this week's Muse card that piqued my interest first - I love the layout that Marion Vagg used. I had an idea bubbling away. Then on Tuesday, I checked the CASology blog and saw that the card was Purple . . .  Well, I LOVE purple and realised that I haven't used it in awhile. I knew that purple would be just the right pop of colour for my card. Last night, as I was browsing blogland, I stopped in at CAS-ual Friday and saw that the challenge was over the edge; my little hamster started running hard and fast on his treadmill and lo  and behold, the card that had been percolating all week, finally came together!

I cut the polaroid frame from this super-sumptuous 110lb paper that I got at Michaels. Then I die cut 3 of the Hello dies (Simon Says Stamp) and layered them. I mounted the polaroid frame on the cardbase (Woodgrain Craft paper from Simon Says Stamp) with foam squares. I triple layered the greeting so that it would extend across the frame without needing foam dimensionals and without sagging.  I am not sure if you can see it in the photo, but I also covered the Hello in clear Wink of Stella. The flower is a daisy die from Memory Box - I just love this die and haven't used it in ahwile. I cut it twice and covered each die cut with my clear Wink of Stella to get that glittery look I just can't resist. The vellum leaves are a leafy die set from Penny Black. I love the way this card turned out. I added a little bubble of Glossy Accents to the centre of the flower so that the Wink of Stella still shines through. All the layers spill over the edge of the frame. Love it!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Happy Stamping,
Meg