You're My Person

There's a new challenge up at Time Out, and this time we are challenged to be AFFECTIONATE. 'Tis the season, yes? We are generously sponsored by CAS-ual Fridays Stamps.

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Our Guest Designer is Mugda of Craftomania. Mugda is a wonderful papercraft artist, and winner of Time Out #150 with THIS wonderful card. She loves to try new things, has a wonderful knack for design and color. Please go visit her BLOG. You are sure to be inspired.

To create my card, I cut the hearts from red and silver foil cardstock, and white glitter cardstock using CAS-ual Fridays Heart Board Fri-Dies. I inlaid them into a white linen panel of cardstock and die cut the edges with  Lawn Fawn Scalloped Rectangle. The sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays Cupid's Arrows is heat embossed on black cardstock and cut from the arrow die from CAS-ual Fridays Heart Board Fri-Dies.

Please hop on over to the Time Out Blog to see the wonderful creations that Mugda and our Design Team came up with. Come play with us!

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Festive Friday

Using hearts, arrows and silver.

Watercooler Wednesday #256 - All about Occasions

Valentine's Day

SSS Monday Challenge - All Loved UP

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Joy

Time Out Challenge #153 began last week with a really fun theme. I am here to remind you that there is still time to play. The challenge is to create a project inspired by an item in your wardrobe! It can be a dress, a top, a scarf, a handbag, any item goes! It can be something current, or something you remember from the past. As an optional twist, you can add embossing (heat or dry) or texture to your project.

Our Guest Designer is Lise Mariann who is a very talented designer and who has made two fantastic cards for this challenge. Please visit her blog and check out her awesome art work!

Poppy Stamps is our generous sponsor for this challenge.

As I was putting Christmas things away and pondering what my card would be like, I decided to use this wonderful scarf (above) as my inspiration before retiring it until next December. I die cut our generous sponsor's Poinsettia Circle Frame from a green watercolored panel and "paper pieced" it with another watercolored panel and gold foil cardstock. I watercolored the holly berries with Zigs, and added white dots with a gel pen.

I loved my idea, though I must say the whole process of making this card frustrated me to no end. I decided to post it anyway, but if you look closely, you can see some dried glue blobs on the black card base, and that makes me crazy. I made a previous attempt and used Nuvo drops for the berries. There were lots of pointy blobs and a multitude of swear words uttered. It was one of those creations that took me an insane amount  of time and I wanted to cry several times, but we learn a lot from failures, so here it is. I hope your project is much more fun and satisfying. LOL.

Please hop on over to the Time Out Blog to see the wonderful creations that our Design Team came up with. I really love the idea of taking inspiration from a wardrobe piece, and my teammates have done a fantasdtic job. Come play with us!

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:

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CAS On Friday #171 - Winter

Hello

Time for a new challenge at Less Is More! 

Our January sponsor is Skull And Cross Buns

We're joined as Guest Designer by our fantastic winner from November 2019, Jen Mitchell of I Create. She has created a stunning card for us. You can see it on the Less Is More Challenge Blog HERE.

For my card, I used the Hibuscus stencil from Designs By Ryn and colored it with a variety of Distress Oxide Inks. I added a setmtiment from Altenew's Flower Arrangement Stamp Set to finish the card. Very simple!

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 and for a 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:

Perfectly CAS - One Layer

SimonSaysStamp - Use A Stencil

The Sea

Happy New Year! Happy New Decade! Happy new challenge at Less Is More!! 

 

(We're ringing out the old and ringing in the new - 

2019 Pantone colour was Living Coral, 2020 Pantone colour is True Blue)

Our January sponsor is Skull And Cross Buns

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is our Cotober 2019 winner: 

Conil of Which Craft.

For my card, I used the Ocean Scene Builder stencil from Honey Bee Stamps to create a row of coral in the challenge colors. I added a sentiment banner with a sentiment from a Crafty Secrets stamp set that I have had forever. I popped it up and placed it across the row of coral. Very simple!

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 and for a 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:

AAA Cards - Along The Edge

Watercooler Wednesday #252 - Anything Goes

Love

Happy New Year!!!! What better a way to start a new year and a new decade than with a new challenge at Time Out!! Time Out Challenge #152 is a photo inspiration challenge that is full of LOVE. And how appropriate because what the world (desperately) needs now is love, sweet love...

Our sponsor is Funky Fossils Designs. Challenge winner will receive a £15 gift code (British Sterling) to use at the Funky Fossils Shop.

I went for a pretty literal interpretation here as I so often do with photo inspirations... I foiled one of the hearts from Funky Fossils Four Hearts stencil with Deco Foil Pink Melon foil. It looks black in my photo, but it is a lovely shade of pink IRL. I used Tim Holtz's Bricked layered stencil with Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink for the background. My LOVE banner was made with Thin Fish Tail banner dies from Pink and Main, Cole's ABC dies from Lawn Fawn and some baker's twine.

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

I'm also playing at:

Die Cut Divas - New Things

My new Pink and Main Fish Tail Banner Dies

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New

My new Pink and Main Fish Tail Banner Dies