So Glad You Were Born

 

I am super excited to be here today and also for the next three challenges as the Surprise Party Guest at Seize the Birthday! I am so pleased and honored to have been invited!!! Today's Challenge #253 is Anything Goes Birthday as usual with the optional topping of "Winged Things". You can choose to incorporate the topping or not, your card just has to have a birthday theme. I chose to use the topping for my card.

I so love the Hero Arts Dragonfly Fancy Die. I love the size of it and the detail in it, so I made it the  winged star of my creation. I created a panel of strips in shades of purple, including a couple cut from purple glitter card stock. I added a white heat embossed sentiment strip and my card was complete.

Please head on over to the Seize The Birthday Challenge Blog and see what the Design Team and Surprise Party Guest Elizabeth Stewart of Paper Sweetness (Overall winner to Challenge #252) have created for your inspiration. Come play with us and build up the birthday card stash!

I'm also playing at:

CAS On Friday #248 - Insects

AAA Birthday - Anything Goes

Double D Happy Birthday Challenge 

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Hero Arts Dragonfly Fancy Die SSS CZ Design Simple Sentiments 02
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Various strips of solid purple card stock
Ink	VersaMark
Embellishments
Other	Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Paper Trimmer ScorPal Score Board Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting and  Embossing Machine MISTI Stamping Tool Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M foam tape Altenew Double Sided Adhesive Sheets Brutus Monroe Alabaster White EP WOW Dual Speed Heat Tool

Happy Christmas

 

A new challenge starts today at Can You Handle The Pressure? where the theme is always Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder and an optional twist. Heat embossing is welcome, but not required. An Embossing Folder must be used. For this challenge, the twist is "Christmas".

I just love my mini slimline Christmas card. All supplies listed below.

Please head over to the Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge? blog to check out the Design Team inspiration projects. You are sure to be impressed (pun intended)! Then dive into your embossing folder collection and join us with or without the twist! Just be sure to use an embossing folder on your creation!

Supplies used:

Paper: Neenah Solar white 80# and 110# card stock, SU Real Red, Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Card Stock.

Ink: Lumberjack Plaid, Candied Apple and Fired Brick Distress Oxides

Stamps: None

Other: Glimmer Hot Foil System; Spellbinders Glitter Wishes hot foil plates; Pinkfresh Studio Mini Slimline Essentials Bundle; Spellbinders Scenic Poinsettias 3D Embossing Folder; Waffleflower Layered Poinsettia Die, Honeybee  Stamps Warm Pearl Stickers.

Im also playing at:

The Flower Challenge #75 - Christmas

CAS On Friday #256 - Embossing (heat or dry)

Most Magical Time Of The Year #3 - Florals

Krafty Chicks #641 - Christmas 

Happy 11th Birthday Less Is More!

The Less Is More Design and Admin team is back with a new year of challenges. As we begin a new year, we celebrate the 11th birthday of our challenge with LIM Challenge #458. Way back when the challenge started, I was making cards with lots of layers and embellishments, and CAS was a new and not-so-easy discipline for me to master. Fast forward, I became a member of the Less Is More Design Team on January 5 2019! I was so excited then, and am excited now that despite some concerns that the challenge was going to end, we are starting up again. Thank you so much to our former and our new leadership. I am so glad we are moving forward.

So quite appropriately for our first challenge of 2022, the theme is "Birthdays".

I have been trying to master the art of hot foiling with a Glimmer Machine, and I am making some progress. I just got this wonderful Birthday Candle Background Glimmer Hot Foil Plate & Die Set  from Spellbinders, and it was the perfect choice for this occasion. I used this fabulous rainbow foil and die cut the candles after foiling. In the picture below my card, you can see the affect of the foil when you turn it in the light. It's hard to photograph head on. I popped up each candle with foam tape and adhered them to white linen card stock, then adhered that panel backed with foam to a white card base. I stamped a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Simple Sentiments 02, and my card was complete.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple which we define as designs that include large areas of CLEAR AND CLEAN space with NO PATTERN, NO INK and NO TEXTURE See challenge guidelines on the Less Is More Blog.

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I'm also playing at:

Seize the Birthday #231 - Sparkle & Shine

Watercooler Wednesday #334 - Occasions

CAS on Friday #224 - Male

Celebrate New Beginnings

Less Is More Challenge #445 begins today. We are challenged to make a Clean and Simple card that features the colors pale blue and yellow.

I love this color combination, and immediately know that I wanted to use this floral image. I channeled my inner Izzy Scrap, and decided to make my card square. I stamped and clear embossed the floral image, colored it with Zigs, and die cut it. I lightly stenciled the left side of the card, stamped and clear embossed the sentiment, and popped the die cut floral piece with foam tape. I will use it as a retirement card for a dear friend who is starting a new chapter. I wish her every happiness, good health  and great adventures.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple. See challenge guidelines on the Less Is More Blog.

Supplies:
Stamps ~ Pinkfresh Studio Heart & Soul; Pinkfresh Studio - Mt Favorite Things To Say
Ink ~ VersaFine Onyx Black; Catherine Pooler It's A Boy

Accessories ~ Pinkfresh Studio Heart & Soul Die; Funky Fossil Knitted Background Stencil; Wow clear embossing powder

I am also playing at:

CAS On Friday #207 - Flowers

Little Red Wagon #605 - Make It CAS

The Flower Challenge #57 - CAS

As You Like It - Show Us Your Style: CAS or Fully Fancy and Why

My favorite style is CAS, but I have grown into it. I used to love lots of layers and embellishments, but now I appreciate the "less is more" mentality. It's a big challenge to me to make a big artistic statement with a clean and simple design.

Hello

It's time for a new challenge at Addicted To CAS. Our Code Word for ATCAS Challenge #184 is FLOWER. Bobby is our hostess!

We have a wonderful Guest Designer with us for this challenge - Ma-Mi.  Treat yourself to a stroll through her blog for some wonderful inspiration.

To create my card, I stamped and die cut a flower and 2 leave images from Altenew's Flower Arrangement stamps and dies. I adhered the leaves to the card base, and popped the flower up. I added a sentiment from the same set, and my card was complete.  

Please head on over to the ATCAS Challenge Blog, take a look at the wonderful inspiration pieces the Design Team has created for your inspiration, and make something to share in the gallery. Challenge winner will be offered a Guest Designer spot for a future challenge. Happy crafting!

Please remember that this is a CAS challenge. Here is a definition to remind you:

I am also playing at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use Dies and/or Punches

Watercooler Wednesday #270 - Anything Goes With A Feminine Twist

Allsorts Challenge #571 - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon #548 - Flowers

Retro Rubber Stamps #134 - Spring Flowers

Altenew Flower Arrangement stamps and dies are from 2018

Use Your Stuff #397 - Flowers and/or Butterflies

Stamping Sensations - May - Say It With Flowers

Moving Along With The Times #118 - Flowers

CAS On Friday #179 - Use Your Favorite Flower Stamp

Frosty

Hello and Happy New Year!!

It's a new year, and a ner decade, and time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS. Our Code Word for ATCAS Challenge #176 is FROSTY, and I am the hostess!

Our Guest Designer is the amazingly talented Julie Beech of Crafted By Jules. Julie is such a great designer and a lovely person. Take a stroll through her blog for a heap of wonderful inspiration - you will be so glad you did.

For my card, I chose this red rubber, wood mounted stamp from deep, deep in my stash (Hero Arts, I think). The funny thing about it is that it is a snowman sitting on a frosted cupcake - hence the "frosty". Just cracks me up somehow. I have a weird sense of humor... So had to use it for this code word that I chose. I stamped the image on the card base, then stamped it again, colored it with Copics, and fussy cut it out. I then mounted with with foam tape to give it some dimension. I added some shadowing beneath the image,a nd some glitter pen snow. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

Please head on over to the ATCAS Challenge Blog, take a look at the wonderful inspiration pieces Julie and the Design Team have created for your inspiration, and make something to share in the gallery. Challenge winner will be offered a Guest Designer spot for a future challenge. Happy crafting!

Please remember that this is a CAS challenge. Here is a definition to remind you:

I'm also playing at:

CAS On Friday #171 - Winter

Thank You

Time for a new challenge at Time Out. This time it is an IBW (Inspired By Words) challenge. The inspiration for Time Out Chalenge #147 is "Dream Big, Be Grateful, Give Love, Laugh Lots". 

We are sponsored by Uniko.

Challenge winner will receive a gift voucher for the Uniko Store.

I used 2 Uniko stamp sets for my card: Background Blocks Mid Century Modern and All Occasion Sentiments #3. I embossed the background image with the wonderfully sparkly WOW/Honey Bee Stamps Bee Kind EP, mounted it on a black panel and popped it up on my card base. I added the sentiment and that was it. I love that Mid Century Modern image - there seems to be a resurgence of interest in that interior design style these days. I also really love the font in the sentiment.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenge #147 and see what the marvelous DT has created to inspire you. Come play with us!

I'm also playing at:

CAS On Friday  #166 - Big Sentiment Or Word

 ATSAM #364 - CAS

Wish Upon A Starfish

It's time for a new challenge at Less Is More. This time the theme is a color challenge: Tangerine, Aqua and White. Just remember that there must be lots of clean white space on your card. 

Our wonderful sponsor for the month of August is Funky Fossil Designs. The shops' owner, Sarah Gray, is a wonderful artist and former Desigh Team Member of Less Is More! Check out Sarah's Folksy shop for a wonderful selection of stencils, cards and gifts. Your creative juices are sure to flow. Play with us for a chance to win some fabulous stencils from Sara's store.

For my card, I stenciled the starfish with Carved Pumpkin DO Ink on a piece of 80# Neeneah Solar White cardstock and cut it out with Avery Elle's Wonky Stitches large rectangle die. I heat embossed the mermaid's tail from Jilie Ebersole's Inner Mermaid set on a snippet of cardstock that had been treated with a very light application of Alcohol Inks, and popped that up on the stecniled panel. The sentiment is from Hero Arts Mer-Mazing Messages set.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog, See what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations and have chance to win. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple.

To be eligible for showCASe and PRIZE WINNER choices you will need to carefully follow the guidance on our GLOSSARY OF TERMS and our HOW TO PLAY pages. Your design should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non patterned / non textured space. All challenge details are on the Less Is More blog. Good Luck!

I'm also playing at:

The Library Challenge #38 - Gift From The Sea

Inspired By #83 - The Sea.

Watercooler Wednesday #232 - Anything Goes

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

CAS on Friday #162 - Use A Stencil