Another for CASe this Sketch 231

Hello Everyone,

Yup, I have another one for this weeks CASe this Sketch! I sort of turned the sketch on its side for this card. Here it is...

Can I just say that I LOVE this little chef - he is so stinking cute. He is from MFT's Recipe for Happiness - so is the sentiment. The heart background is made with MFT's nesting hearts dies and their brick wall stencil. I have some sheets of stencil plastic (bought it at the local craft store) and made a heart stencil with the dies. I put brick wall stencil under the heart stencil and sponged with MFT's Razzleberry Fizz dye ink. I coloured my chef copics and popped him up on foam. Love the way it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by; feel free to leave some feedback as I always love to hear from you!

Happy Stamping,

Meg

CASe This Sketch 231

Hello Everyone,

Here is the latest sketch over at the CASe this Sketch blog. I bought some new foils and some new microfine glitter and decided to put them to good use. Here is the card I created.

I used an old set of nesting dies from spellbinders to create my glittery background. It is hard to capture the glitterificness of these colours in the photo - you will just have to trust me. The butterfly is a Memory Box die and I cut it out of toner paper and foiled it with Gina K silver confetti foil - you can see it picks up on the colours around it. I felt the simple white "Hi" went perfectly - it is from Paper Smooches.

Thanks for stopping by; feel free to leave some feedback - I always love to hear from you!

Happy Stamping,

Meg

A Couple More for Muse!

Hello Everyone,

This is the wonderful Muse inspiration card this week. I already posted an entry (scroll down to previous post), but this wonderful card just kept inspiring. Here is what I came up with:

The first card uses two Neat and Tangled sets: On the Strip and Out of the Box. I used some new Altenew inks - I have wanted to try them out for awhile and LOVE them. The Blues are from the Glacier Caves set. They stamp so crisply and cleanly.

The second card uses the same two sets from Neat and Tangled and an MFT Hello die. This time I used three reds from the Altenew Red Cosmos inks - again I LOVE these inks!

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave some feedback!

Happy Stamping,

Meg

Muse and CASology "Wish"

Hello Everyone,

It has been awhile - I have been crafting, but life has been a little busy and I just haven't been able to post. When I saw this wonderful inspiration card over at Muse, I knew I had to play along. I also checked out CASology to see what the cue card was for this week - here it is:

I remembered my Neat and Tangled stamp set Everyday Circles and came up with this simple card:

I adopted the rainbow coloured shapes with the imbedded "happy" greeting to mirror Tracy's coloured shapes with the camouflage "Hello". Adding the Birthday sentiment in bold black fits with CASology challenge making it a birthday wish!

While I was at it another idea popped into my head which is a more direct case of the Muse inspiration card. Here it is - it uses the Avery Elle "Rounded Diamnonds" set and a PTI Hugs die:

Of course I had to add a touch of Wink of Stella to the Hugs!

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave some feedback - I always love to hear what you think!

Happy Stamping,

Meg

CASe This Sketch and Muse

Happy New Year Everyone,
Today I am playing along with CASe this Sketch and Muse. Above is the sketch for this week and below is the inspiration card from Muse:

You can see that the layout is quite similar. I was inspired by the sentiment mounted into the geometric circle, but offset my sentiment to fit the sketch. I also used camouflage inlay technique for my hugs sentiment (PTI Big Hugs dies). 

I bought some stencil sheets at a local stamp store and made my own heart stencil with MFT Heart Stax. I sponged the larger heart using Picked Raspberry Distress Ink and then sponged the smaller heart inside with Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink. I popped the Hugs up on four die cuts to give it dimension and topped it off with a bit of clear Wink of Stella.

 I love the simplicity of this card. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to leave a comment!

Happy Stamping,

Meg

CASology: Space

Hello Everyone,

The cue card over at CASology is space; I am interpreting that as use of white space. I have created this simple card to fill the bill.

I used the dove from Paper Smooches "A Blessed Christmas". I have had this set for awhile and had never used this little image. I paired it with a sentiment from another Paper Smooches set. I love the simplicity. Just to break the white space up a smidge, I die cut the main panel using an SSS stitched rectangle die. I also covered the dove and the sentiment with some sparkle using my Wink of Stella and Sakura glitter gel pen. Here is how sparkly this looks.

I love the way it turned out. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will let me know what you think!

Happy Stamping,

Meg

CAS(e) this Sketch 201: Guest Designer

Hello Everyone,

I am super-excited and honoured to be guest designer at CAS(e) this Sketch this week. Here is my card:

I got the candle die from Memory Box recently and went nuts foiling with my new Minc Mini. I love the results. Here is a close-up

I hope you will play along with the sketch challenge. Be sure to check out the CAS(e) this Sketch blog.

Thanks for stopping by and I love to hear your feedback!

Happy Stamping 

Meg

CASology Cue Card: Candle

Hello Everyone,

For a long time I have been mourning the loss of my favourite local craft store: Heather's Stamping Haven. I was not only an enthusiastic customer, but I also taught classes there too. When Heather decided to retire, she was not able to find a buyer for the store:( Recently I discovered another store in the Ottawa area. It is a little far for me - it is in the very east end of the city and I now live 40 minutes west of the city - but, let me tell you it is worth the drive. So, what does all this have to do with CASology's cue card: Candle? Well, when I went to check this store out, I bought a most beautiful Memory Box Candle die. How perfect is that. Here is the card I made.

I die cut several candles and layered them for dimension. I love the white on white look, but I wanted just a pop of colour - hence the red sentiment from Paper Smooches. I also went over the die cut with my glitter gel pen for just that added touch of sparkle. I love the way it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by. I love to hear your feedback, so feel free to leave a comment.

Happy Stamping,

Meg

CASology Cue Card: Soft

Hello Everyone,

This week I am playing along with CASology - the current cue card is "Soft". Well we have had our first real snowfall of the winter season and I always think that the white blanket of snow gives the world a hushed softness - that was my inspiration for this card. I wanted a white on white soft touch with a highlight of soft colour. Here is my card:

The house die is an old one from Memory Box that I forgot I had. I used MFT stitched hill dies to create the hill and sponged the back panel with Broken China and Faded Jeans Distress Inks. I wanted the colour to fade softly from dark to light. I added some texture paste snowfall with the SSS Falling Snow stencil. I left the house white and used a soft yellow to illuminate the windows. The "Joyeux Noel" sentiment is from SSS last year. I love having the French sentiment as I live in a bilingual area and many of my co-workers are francophone. I am pleased with the result! I did add a touch of sparkle to my sentiment with a gel glitter pen.

Happy Stamping,

Meg

Merry and Bright CASe this Sketch 193

 

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Time to play along with CASe this Sketch 193. I will admit that I find Sketch challenges hard. When I saw that vertical stripe, I immediately thought of this fabulous glitter washi tape that I just purchased at Michaels. I am not a huge user of washi tape, but I just loved the textured glitter of this selection. Here is what I came up with:

I cut my cardstock focal panel to size and ran two strips of the gold washi down the left side. I covered a piece of scrap cardstock with my silver glitter washi and die cut the snowflake from it - the snow flake is from Simon Says Stamp. Next I die cut the merry from some glitter cardstock and stamped the "and Bright" (PTI "Wonderful Words" and "Wonderful Words Holiday Additions") in versamark and heat embossed with silver (SSS). The sparkle in real life is quite dazzling. Here is a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the challenge. As always, any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Happy Stamping,

Meg