Trying some CAS styling

I've been very attracted lately to the clean and simple styling on a number of blogs. I'm entranced by blogs such as  Moxie Fab World which are full of wonderful inspiration. I love the use of white space and the focus on design rather than embellishment.  Now don't get me wrong I also love to layer with all manner of flowers, bling, papers, ribbons, etc - I have a craft room overflowing with stash which will testify to that.  However, I thought I would really like to give this technique a try. The card below was inspired by the Case Study challenge blog which of course is exactly what this blog is about - to CASE someone in a CAS style. Case Study is owned by the extremely talented Chupa whose work I have admired for a long time.

A bit about the card - the background paper is Kaisercraft from the Lake house range, the flower is from Stampin Up's Every Moment - coloured with copics, the sentiment is from Hero Arts/Basic Greys Plumeria Collection, the embossing folder is Craft Concepts Hexagon Illusion.  As always thank you to anyone who stumbles across this blog and takes the time to check it out.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges

Case Study Challenge Blog - #139

Southern Girls Challenge - #68 You can say that again

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Simon Says - " Happy Mail"

Sister Act Card Challenge - #5 Anything goes

One Stop Craft Challenge - #227 Flower Power

Lia Stampz - #40 Friendship

All at sea over lighthouses

I love images of lighthouses.  I'm not sure why I have this fetish, but it is evident in the number of lighthouse stamps I have - both digital and in rubber. The image on the card below is one of the range of Michael Powell images from Urban Stamps.  I love his detailed stamps but they do pose a challenge when colouring with copics and trying to get some shading.  In this case I have trimmed the stamped image back to remove the background cityscape. The copics I have used are R22, 24, 27& 29 & B000, 00, 02, 05& 24 on the boats and lighthouse and some shading with the cool greys.  The stonework uses some of the warm greys and E25, 31, 33, 35, 47 &71.  The two ships wheel charms are actually from and old pair of earrings. I'm not sure of the origin of the papers but they were not branded.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges

Cupcake Craft Challenges - All at sea

Delicious Doodles Challenge - Something for the boys

Moving Along with the Times - One for the guys

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Bugaboo Stamps Catch the Bug Challenge blog - Anything Goes

Embossing with white

The Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge #155 at Marks Finest Papers and Stamps Blog is white embossing.  My Card uses two stamps from the Marks Finest Papers "Island Life" set. Both the sentiment and the lighthouse are embossed in white and the lighthouse is coloured with water colour pencils - though in this case no water was used. The card was finished with a reef knot tied from plain cotton twine - simple!  The kraft card is a little buckled as we have been having unseasonably wet weather and the card loves to soak up the moisture in the air.  It also made the embossing a little painful too as the powder wants to stick where you don't want it to.  Thanks for looking, cheers Linda

Doggie Love

I thought this digi from Doodle Dragon Studio was just so cute. He is coloured with copics and I added some glitter pen and glossy accents to his adorable drool.  He reminds me of our boy Spider who springs a leak at the mouth anytime there it a hint of food.  I didn't have an appropriate sentiment to go with the pooch, so I made something up in word, printed out and cut with a heart die. I wanted to keep it pretty clean and simple so just added a bit of sparkley twine and a cute doggie footprints embossing as a background inked with some red ink.

 

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges

 

Speedy TV simple Salutations Challenge #26 - Make a card using a dog

 

Clearly I Stamp Clearly Inspired Challenge #66 - Puppy Love

 

Fairy Tale Challenge # 58 - Animals and pets

 

Crafty Creations Challenges - Anything Goes

 

Little Scrap Pieces - Anything Goes

 

 

 

 

Birthday Card

I have made this birthday card for a friends young daughter's birthday.  The background papers are Kaisercraft (blue) and Grace Taylor (yellow polka dots).  The image is an Elisabeth bell stamp - "Lemon Pepper" in rubber by Whimsy.  Pepper has been coloured in with copics (sorry didn't take note of the colours - was sitting in front of the TV trying to multitask - poorly obviously).   The image was cut out with the largest of the spellbinders floral ovals (s4-356).  Don't know the source of lace and the pink ribbon - it was just sitting in my jars. The happy birthday from Kaszazz is stamped on the Spellbinders ribbon banner - the centre of which has been cut out, layered and popped up. Normally I'm not a huge fan of yellow but I think this worked out cute and girly.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamps Challenge Blog  - use dies and or punches

Oozak Challenge Blog  - Challenge #7 Diecuts

By the Cute and Girly Challenges - Birthdays.  By the way they are celebrating their 3rd birthday check out the great hop and prizes.

Southern Girls Challenge - Challenge #55 Tie a ribbon around it.

Bearly Mine Challenges - Anything goes

The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Birthday Cards

Card Mania Challenges - Happy Birthday

Wings

This card arose from playing with the Marks Finest Papers Tree Greeting stamp set I won on their blog hop.  The tree stamp was coloured with Marvy Markers and lightly spritz with water.  The background paper is Kaisercraft from their Timeless Classics paper pad. The purple paper is from Basic Grey and was punched with X-cuts Border Sparkler. The sentiment is from Crafty Secrets and cut with an Mpress die.  The chipie bird is kaisercraft and swiped roughly with Stampin Up's basic grey ink.  The purple Bazzil and unknown white card were cut with the Spellbinders circles. The ribbon I'm not sure of the source (other than my jar of orange ribbons).

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges

Mark's Finest Paper Speedy TV simple salutations challenge 14 Tweet Bird

Creative Card Crew Birds

Polka Doodles Wings and Things

Top Tip Tuesday Things with Wings

Bizzy Becs Store Blog Things with Wings

Distressing Experiments

Don't worry I'm not talking about vivisection!  At my local card class at Woodford Cards and Craft we were playing with using the Ranger Ink Refresher to distress card.  Spray it on, rub it in, scrunch it up, dry it off, colour it up and then iron out.  The end result is a textured card, with great distressed coloured effect, but the best of all it remains supple and almost feels like suede leather.  I loved the result so much I had to buy a bottle to play with, however the scientific enquiring mind I really wanted to know what it was and how it worked. So I felt it- slightly slimey when wet, drying with almost a slight stickiness; so I sniffed it - not much smell at all; so I tasted it (well they do say it is non toxic - but don't do this at home kiddies) and it all fell into place - it contains glycerine!  Hubby was in the papermaking industry for years and glycerine is used to soften and reduce shrinkage in paper. So I made some mixtures of glycerine and water - 1st too wet (ie too much water) paper ended up with holes as I scrunched it. 2nd too much glycerine a bit too thick and kept that sticky kind of feel. 3rd mixture worked like a charm.

The background of the following card was made with this distressing technique.   The butterfly image is Vintage Cherish from Kaisercraft.  The image was stamped 4 times and layered (though this isn't obvious from the photo).  The image is ink distressed and coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Inks (broked china, tumbled glass, brushed corduroy & frayed burlap) then coated with Jelly Roll glitter pen and finally Glossy accents.  The satin ribbon was also coloured with distress ink.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges

Tutorial Time on SpeedyTV Challenge 18  This challenge was all about distressing following a tutorial on ink and physical distressing (like tearing) by Pam Stang.

Bunny Zoe's Crafts is also having a distressing challenge. Now that's not to say that anyone is in an unhappy state of of mind but the challenge is again all about distressing

Simon Says Stamp blog Celebrates World Card Making Day! Where they want everyone to show what cards they are working on.

Bizzy Becs Store.Blog Challenge for october which is "Things with Wings"

Vintage Elusions Challenge Blog with the theme of Wings/Anything goes