CAS on Friday: Butterflies..

Hey,

With all the traveling and working! I haven't been playing along with too many challenges.

So this weekend has I had some time, I thought I would play along with one of my fave challenges - CAS on Friday.

The theme is Butterflies.

I think my card feels pretty CAS..but we'll see what the DT think ;)

I smooshed half of my paper in distress oxide's and water and dried it before using a large rectangle stitched die to die-cut it to size.

I used my new Lil Inker stitched butterfly dies and embossed the large butterfly and a trail into my panel. I die-cut a smaller butterfly from the same set using a coordinating scrap of paper and popped that up on my card.

I finished it off with a simple sentiment.

I am really happy with how it came out, I really like the embossed butterfly that overlaps the coloured and plain parts of my background.

Cx

CAS On Friday: Talk Nerdy...

Hey,

Happy Friday!!

It seems only fitting that I post my entry for CAS on Friday today :)

I love their current theme of Watercolour...

I started with a piece of Tim Holtz watercolour paper. I die-cut it using a stitched rectangle die and I sprayed it with some water and gradually added three colours of distress ink (chipped sapphire, peacock feathers and mermaid blue), I dried it and added splashes of each colour.

I wasn't sure what to do with it next and after a rummage through my stamps I came across the Technique Tuesday Favorite Human set, which I am embarrassed to say I have had for over a year and never used!

I decided that I didn't want to detract from my pretty watercoloured patch, so I just stamped and fussy cut one of the robots and added a little bit of blue spectrum noir sparkle pen.

The sentiment made me laugh, as Hubby and I are both a bit nerdy, so I might just give this to him for no good reason!

I added some hearts from the set to compliment the sentiment.

I love how this came out and I'm a sure I'll never create a watercolour as pretty as this one again, so I decided to enter it into this week's Addicted to Stamps challenge as well.

Have a great weekend, mine is going to be spent watching the World Cup, crafting and working out.

Cx

CAS on Friday...Thank You...

Hey,

I recently found the CAS on Friday challenge and my first entry made top 3 :)

The current challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe and you know I love these...

I chose the first vertical row - Thank you / Circle / Pink.

I used a new fancy circle die - my Momma basically brought all the freebies from my craft magazine subscription with her and this was one of those.

I die-cut it in a plain pink cardstock. I die-cut the Thank You (by Spellbinders) using a scrap that came from the first ever 12x12 pad that JT owned, her sister bought it for her and she gave me a piece of this beautiful pink paper and this was the last piece of it (sob).

I added 2 tiny gems for a bit more interest.

I'm super happy with my super CAS card. Also there is not a single bit of stamping!! 

Cx

CAS on a Friday..On a Monday...

Hey,

Hope you had a good weekend, I had a fun time.

It's an exciting week for me, Hubby returns home and then two days later my Momma arrives. SWEET!!

I saw the latest challenge 'Make a card with embossing' over at CAS on Friday and I wanted to play along.

It was the perfect excuse to use new Monsters from Create a Smile (Monster Party), that I coloured yesterday morning for The Daily Marker 30 day Colouring.

I used a fave Sizzix big spots embossing folder, I have had it years!! I chose a bright yellow piece of paper, I thought my monster would pop against it.

I then die-cut the embossed piece using dies from The Works in the UK, I bought them last year, but I have only used them once!

I added a sentiment from the Monster set and boom! finished card and of course a googly eye!

It was so easy and fun I made another one ;)

Cx