Bare Naked CAS

This week and every week at AAA Cards, CAS is always the game.  This week's challenge is to make a CAS card that is VERY clean and VERY simple! Plenty of white space.  One layer if you can. There's a prize this week for the top 3,  AND a guest designer spot for the winner, so please go on over to AAA Cards Game #35, and link up your bare naked CAS creation! If you like what you see, please spread  the word!

This is my take. The images and sentiment are from PTI.  The bamboo is embossed for a nice pop on this one layer card.  The embossing affect is not really visible in this picture, but in "real life", it really makes a difference in interest and texture. Thank you, as always, for coming by.  Have a beautiful day.

Who Loves You?

There is a big 4th Anniversary celebration over at Paper Smooches.  Kim posted a special challenge today. You can read all about it HERE.  The challenge is to make a Valentine or love-themed card.  Tis the season...  So here is the card I made for one of my twin sons.  My boys are 15, but they still love to get  handmade cards that are tailored just for them.  This one is perfect for Jon.  I used Hooties stamps and dies,  a Quotable die for the sentiment, and a Clouds die for my sky.  The hearts are done with a heidi swap stencil and white embossing paste that is colored with distress ink. 

I love Paper Smooches products, and Kim's customer service is second to none.  Happy Anniversary Kim!  Here's to many more!

Thanks for coming by for a look.

Over The Edge Valentine

 

 

The current challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to

Create a Clean And Simple project with some sort of element that extends past the edge.

 

I am also submitting this card for this week's Mod Squad Challenge,

which is to use hearts and glitter.

 

Hearts and glitter - check! The ribbon goes over the top edge. The large heart die cut and the PTI Happy One Liner die cut go over the edge of the stamped and embossed tag. There is vellum inside the negative cutout of the heart, but it's hard to see on this picture. And oh how I love the glitter paper from which "Happy" is cut.

 

Back at school today - more snow coming from the west in the coming days. Making lots of soup and lots of Valentines. Love it.

 

Thank you for coming by today!

Love You Forever

I am screaming in with less than an hour to go for submission of this card for a new challenge - Muse. The concept is a little different. Here are the details from the Muse blog:

This challenge is open to anyone. The only thing you need to do to become a member is make a card and submit it to one of our challenges. It would be great if you also placed the Muse member badge in the sidebar of your blog but this is not mandatory. It's also not mandatory to become a Guest Designer if you were to be invited in the future.

Here are the simple rules:

• Use what you have in your stash, don't purchase anything new for your Muse cards.
• Explain your interpretation of the Muse inspiration card in your post and link back to Muse. 
• Provide supportive comments to at least 3 of your fellow member’s submissions. 
• Vote for one of your fellow member's submissions that you find inspiring.

The focus of my interpretation was white embossing on white cardstock like the flowers and stems in the inspiration piece, and sponging with ink to add color.  I chose a hearts theme because it is the season, and I need a valentine for DH.  I also covered the card base with DP as above, and attasched my hearts and flourishes on a white panel. I love that look.

Thank you for stopping by today. I am looking forward to seeing the interpretations of this challenge over at Muse.