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Less Is More #468 starts today. We are challenged to create a CAS card with embossing.

To create my card, I dry embossed a card base of 110# Neenah Solar White card stock with Anna Griffin's Regal Braid 1"x7" EF from Cricut Cuttlebug. I then die cut my sentiment from a sandwich of black mirror card stock, Stick It and fun foam using the Paper Smooches Love Word die. I glued the sentiment onto my card base and my card was complete. I needed a wedding card and this fits the bill perfectly. 

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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Freshly Made Sketches #542

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

May Peace Fill Your Soul

 It's time for a new challenge at Festive Friday where every challenge is an inspiration list based on a selected holiday/festivity from the traditional to the unusual. Challenge projects must include at least three items from the festivity inspiration list. Your project does not have to go with the challenge theme. You can just use 3 or more items from the inspo list for your creation.

Today's festivities are inspired by World Wetland Day, which takes place on February 2nd. The challenge runs from January 21st to January 31st.

I like to create a card for our challenge that goes with the theme. I must say that in terms of what's in my stash, this one had me stumped at first. I found one stamp set that could work, but I wasn't thrilled with it. So I Googled, of course. First I looked at wetlands images. I noticed lots of herons standing in marshes. Then I saw blue herons. Then I Googled "blue heron digital stamps". And I found this: Digital Stamp Design : Heron Bird Standing In Lake. Not only was it absolutely perfect, but it was a FREE download! (It's the little things). What luck! I downloaded it, printed it, and colored it with Copics. I then die cut it with Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangle dies and popped it up with foam on white linen cardstock. I added a sentiment that I love from a PTI set called Peaceful Garden, mounted the white panel on a black card base and my card was complete. I used birds, grasses, green. water, blue from the inspo list.

Come play with us! Remember that your project does not have to go with the challenge theme. You can just use 3 or more items from the inspo list for your creation!

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the  Festive Friday Challenge Design team.

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Melva Peters

Jaydee

Diane Evans

Joanne James

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Freshly Made Sketches #519

Watercooler Wednesday #333

Our Talks

I love this Our Talks tea cup image and sentiment from Unity Stamp Company. The CASology Cue is TEA, and I am screaming in at the last second with my card. The CASology Cue and the FMS Sketch were the perfect combination. I thought this image called for a vintage feel. I wanted to background to be lacy. I stenciled Picket Fence Studios Fancy Flourishes with  Antique Linen Distress Oxide Ink on a card base of Taylored Expressions Buttercream Choice Cardstock. I stamped the teacup with VersaFine Vintage Sepia ink on SU Confetti Cream cardstock and diecut the circle with an MFT Wonky Stitched Circle die. I heat embossed the sentiment on SU  Early Espresso cardstock and die cut the banner with an MFT Stitched Fishtail Flag die.

CASology Week #364 - Tea

Freshly Made Sketches #428

Celebrate Everything

Time Out Challenge #139 is up and running. This time, it is an "Inspired By Words" challenge with a quote from Oscar Wilde: "With freedom, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?"

This challenge is sponsored by the fabulous Catherine Pooler. Our winner, chosen by the design team, will receive a $25 coupon to the Catherine Pooler store. 

Claire, a regular player at Time Out, is our guest designer. Clair is an incredibly talented card artist whose coloring skills are amazing. Please treat yourself to a visit to her blog: Life on the Scrap Heap for heaps of inspiration. You'll be so glad you did.

Using Sponsor stamps Good Things and Canvas Grunge Background, I interpreted the quote as one of celebration, and how many reasons there always are to do so. 

Today is a huge day of celebration here in the US, which prompted me to use red, white and blue as my color palatte. I created a background with Distress Oxide inks that I inked directly to Catherine Pooler's Canvas Grunge Background stamp. I sprayed it with water and stamped it on Neeneh Solar White 80# paper. Once dry, I spattered it with a little Perfect Pearls mixed with water, then die cut a large star from the background to use as the stage for my quote. I stamped it with VersaFine Onyx Black inside the star, then embossed with clear EP on top of the black ink. I spattered a mixture of red Perfect Pearls and water on a panel die cut with a Lawn Fawn scalloped rectangle, added some twine at the top, popped the star up in the middle, and adhered it to an A2 card base cut from SU Marina Mist cardstock.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenges Blog to see what Claire and the rest of the Design Team have created for your inspiration. Play with us to share your creation, and a chance to win a prize from Catherine Pooler Designs. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

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Inkspirational #190 - 3 or 5 of Something

Five points on my star.

SSS Monday Challenge - Make Your Own Background

My star.

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Stars and/or Stripes

Freshly Made Sketches #395

Moving Along With The Times #101 - Stars And Stripes

Addicted To Stamps And More - Holiday

Always Fun #117 - Patriotic

Celebrate The Joys Of Christmas

Time Out Challenges has a whole new look and we are so excited to present it to you today with the start of Challenge #122. It's a Home Sweet Home Challenge where we present a photo inspiration to start your creative juices flowing. The photo is GORGEOUS and full of options from which to be inspired!

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Mughda of Craftomania. Mughda is passionate about crafting and incorporates quilling and other crafts into her wonderful cards. Please take a look at her blog. You are sure to be inspired!

Our sponsor is Altenew. 

A $20.00 gift voucher will be given to the challenge winner.

Here is a close up picture of the inspiration:

To make my card, I concentrated on those awesome red pillows. I die cut the SSS Alicia Snowflake in white glitter paper, inlaid it on red card stock and finished it off with an silver-embossed sentiment from Altenew's Build  Flower: Poinsettia on a black stitched banner.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenge Blog and check out the wonderful creations of the Design Team. Join us in the gallery for a chance to win.

I am also playing at :

Freshly Made Sketches #362

The Holly And Ivy Christmas Challenge #40 - Anything Goes

Addicted To Stamps and More - Holiday

The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up #47

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #4 - Anything Goes

Celebrate The Joys Of Christmas

My new Altenew Build A Flower: Poinsettia has been patiently awaiting my attention. Today we were blessed with our first snowfall here in New Jersey (Northeastern US). So lovely to have snow when everything is decorated for Christmas. I spent much of the day in my craft room and I finally broke out the poinsettia. I inked it twice in reds then greens. I put it together with a bit of gold glitter paper, a stencil-embossed background and a piece of patterned paper using Freshly Made Sketches #316 for my layout, and this card was born. 

FMS #316

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SSC167 - Winter Warmth

MCV90 - Any holiday card.

December CAS Mix Up

Stamping + dry embossing with stencil and die cutting. 

Joy To The World

December has arrived, and it's time for a new set of challenges at Happy Little Stampers. 

The December Christmas Challenge is Anything goes with an optional twist of stencil. 

I went for the twist in a new-to-me way. I used the Inked Stencil Dry Embossing technique that you can check out HERE. For the background, I inked the Hero Arts Festive Star and Bauble stencil with Delicata Golden Glitz ink and ran it through my Cuttlebug. The sentiment is done with Winnie & Walter's In A Word: Joy Cutaway and PTI Luxe Gold Adhesive paper along with part of a sentiment from Impression Obsession Clear Stamps Peace On Earth set.

The winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the Happy Little Stampers shop! Check out all the details HERE.

Please head on over to the Happy Little Stampers December Christmas Challenge and check out the gorgeous creations by the Design Team. Soak in some inspiration and create a holiday card and link it up in the gallery for a chance to win!

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ANY holiday card can be linked up.

Muse: Christmas Visions #90

Heavy Metal Holiday

Anything Goes

CAS Colours & Sketches #251

Happy Peepster

Happy Easter, Happy Spring! 

I am playing at the following chllneges:

I used Freshly Made Sketches #282 for my design.

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies April 2017 Challenge

The three stitched squares are die cut with SSS Stitched Squares dies, and the peeps are die cut with SSS My Kind Of Peep dies. 

Inkspirational #132 - Spring

Pastel plaids (MFT) and peeps.

Darnell's 2nd Annual April Fool's Boo-Boo Hop and NBUS Challenge #11

I bought SSS My Kind Of Peep stamps and dies last year and never used them until today. I am also posting this card

for Darnell's My Big Fat Card Boo Boo. This was my first pass at Freshly Made Sketch #282. I loved it, and then I went back to read the fine print of the challenge, and saw the part that said that it's an all square sketch!  Oooooooops!!!!! My original card was 4/25 x 5.5. I love the sketch and wanted to enter the challenge, so I started over and made the square card at the top of this post. This cracked me up. Gotta leave it to Darnell to provide a place to share our bloopers!

Peace On Earth

AAA Cards CAS Challenge #79

Game #79 is up at AAA Cards CAS Challenge where the theme is CHRISTMAS.

Our wonderful sponsor is Happy Little Stampers. The winner will receive a $15.00 credit to use at the Happy Little Stampers Store.

Our Guest Designer is Marianne of Marianne's Cards.

Here is my take:

This image and sentiment just about sums it up for me right now in this crazy world we live in. The image is a wood mounted stamp from Hero Arts, colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. The inlaid die cut "peace" is sentiment is from Winnie & Walter's The Big, the Bold and the Merry Cutaways, and the rest of the sentiment is from Winnie & Walter's The Big, the Bold and the Merry Stamps. 

Please head on over to the AAA Cards CAS Challenge Blog, and check out the wonderful inspiration of the Design Team. Leave them some love, make a Christmas creation of your own, link up and play with us. 

I am linking to the following challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #265

Anything Goes

Kylie Purtell and Friends 12 Days Of Christmas Cards Challenge.