The Blessings Of Each Day

Spring has sprung at The Four Seasons Challenge. It is our first Spring themed challenge where this gorgeous mood board is there for your inspiration, but anything Spring goes. 

I took my inspiration from the shamrocks and went with a St. Paddy's Day creation. Take a look at the moodboard, and see what inspires you. The Design Team have created wonderful projects to inspire you as well. Check them out on the challenge blog HERE. Make yourself a cuppa, get crafty, and join us in the gallery. I can't wait to see what you create!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies/Stencils	Pretty Pink Posh Best Of Luck Stamps & Dies Reverse Confetti Big Stripes Cover Panel Simon Says Stamp Large Gnome Die A Colorful Life Designs Shamrock Spray Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Recollections 110# Black Cardstock
Ink	Various Green Distress Oxide Inks
Embellishments
Other	Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strips Reverse Lucky Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer Bearly Art Precision Glue Waffle Flower 1/16" Foam Strips

I'm also playing at:

Festive Friday #0154 - St. Patrick's Day

Green, Leprechaun, Clover/Shamrock

Double Trouble #161 - Pinch Proof

Partnering With Festive Friday

Use Green In your Project

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Dots and/or Stripes

 Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Inspiration Station March 2024 Challenge

Photo Inspiration - Looks like St. Paddy's Day to me!

Gather

 

The Four Seasons Challenge

Fall Season - November 2023

I am so thrilled to be here today as a new Design Team Member at The Four Seasons Challenge. As always, there is a mood board to get your creative juices flowing. but you can create anything you wish as long as it has a FALL theme. This is the third and last Fall Challenge of the year.

I wanted to use my new Curio Autumn Findings Dies from The Greetery. I decided to make a lovely Autumn wreath. Also the beautiful table setting on the mood board put me in mind of the "gather" hot foil plate & dir from Reverse Confetti, which had also not been used.

Head on over to the Challenge Blog and see the gorgeous inspiration the Design Team has come up with. Then get out your FALL supplies and join us! We can't wait to see what you create! 

Project Details
Stamps/Dies	Hero Arts Branch Wreath Fancy Die The Greetery Curio Autumn Findings Dies Reverse Confetti Gather Hot Foil Combo plate & die
Cardstock	80lb. Neenah Desert Storm SU Confetti Cream, Chocolate Chip, Soft Suede Snippets from scrap box
Ink
Embellishments
Other	Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer Bearly Art Precision Glue 3M foam tape Glimmer Hot Foil System

Trick Or Treat

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 "WREATHS".

I embossed my brown card base with a Darice Honeycomb EF. I die cut a piece of textured orange card stock with a Die-namics Fishtail Flag die. I stamped, colored and die cut ghosts, pumpkins and spider with Ghost Friends and Trick or Treat Friends from Pretty Pink Posh. I popped them up on the wreath die cut (Hero Arts, I think). The Trick or Treat die cut is from Papertrey Ink. The twine is from Lawn Fawn (I think).

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!

I'm also playing at:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

November Anything Halloween

This is Halloween November Challenge

Happy Birthday, Greg!

Browsing through Pinterest the other day, I saw THIS card by Donna Okoniewski, which really cracked me up. I was looking for some inspiration for my twin son Greg's birthday card, and this was it. I took the design right from the card I CASE'd, but changed it up by using a very different color scheme, a stenciled background for the card base, and stamped, heat embossed with sparkly black EP and die cut the spider webs. I also stamped the spiders, and added some stenciled clouds. Greg is a PhD student working with lots of technology, economics and data analytics. He has a wicked sense of humor. The simplicity and humor of this card made him laugh a lot, which was the desired effect! Also, I think it is pretty cool that you can see a face when you look at this card - 2 eyes and a mouth in the spiders, eyebrows in the webs above the two top spiders... Love ya, Greg.

Impression Obsession Web Stencil, Reverse Confetti Hello Bootiful Stamps & Dies, A Colorful Life Designs - Cloud Edger Stencil.

I'm playing at:

Seize The Birthday #250 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks #635 - All Occasions

Allsorts Challenge Week #700 - Any occasion

SimonSaysStamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Celebrate

 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 the celebration of our 100th challenge. Woot!!! Let's get this party started!. The challenge starts today and runs through January 17th.

I like to create a card for our challenge that goes with the celebration theme. This one was easy - a birthday celebration. I dug though my stash and pulled out some festive supplies and went to work on creating my card. The card base and cake stand are made with SU's brushed gold card stock that I have had forever. I embossed the cake stand with the first (gold) embossing powder that I bought about a gazillion years ago. I remember seeing a demo of heat embossing in a paper craft store and being in awe of the magic when the stamped image was heated. The background is Team Tie Die Patterned Paper from Honey Bee. The cake stand and cake images are from Reverse Confetti, and the streamers are from The Greetery. I finished it up with a few sequins and a Waffle Flower sentiment cut from black mirror card stock.

I used celebration, cake, gold, sequins and patterned papers 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

Bright & Brilliant

 

Big news at Less Is More. It's our 10th Anniversary! Can you believe it?? Challenge #436 is all about celebrating our anniversary with colors of chocolate.

Lots of scope - milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or add in another colour e.g. mint chocolate, chocolate caramel, chocolate strawberry cream etc, etc,  (But make sure that the main colour is chocolate with a 'hint' of any other color you use) You could even make your image a box of chocs or a bar of choc. Just get creative ;-)

We are joined by Mandi and Chrissie, co-founders of this awesome challenge. Be sure to stop by the Less Is More blog to read their stories and comments. There are many wonderful and generous sponsors to help us celebrate.

I am forever grateful for the gift of being part of this design team. When the challenge first started, I was not a CAS designer. I had so much to learn, and made many a blunder along the way. Fast forward 10 years, and CAS is now my preferred style, even though I dabble in others here and there. I am so pleased and proud to be a part of this team. What a wonderful group of crafters and lovely people.

The card I have inserted at the top of this post is not the original. I have amended this post to tell a story. The card below is the card that was originally at the top. Turns out that I confused the start date of this challenge and thought it was next week on February 13. I realized my mistake less than 24 hours before the challenge would go live and long after it was due on the Design Team Blog. I did not want to miss our big BD challenge, so I hurried to make a card as soon as possible. In my haste, I focused on Birthday and Chocolate, but not the fact that it is a COLOR challenge. I did not read the directions carefully. I am a teacher. I complain about students and parents doing this often, and here I did it myself!!! So though this is a chocolate cake, that is the only chocolate colored thing on it. I love the card, but had to make a new, more chocolate colored one! That is the one at the top of this post. I crack myself up sometimes...

To create my cards, I debuted my "never before used" Reverse Confetti stamps and dies for my chocolate birthday cake. I colored the one up top with Copics, and I watercolored the second. I used a sentiment from Winnie & Walter's Sentimental: Birthday, and the Birthday Circle stencil from Brutus Monroe on the second card. Vintage Sepia ink on the top, black on #2.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what Mandi & Chrissie and the Design Team have 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:

NBUS #23

You Are Killin' It

Think of bokeh, airbrushed backgrounds, etc

A new challenge is up at Less Is More where the challenge is Out Of Focus. Think of bokeh, airbrushed backgrounds, etc.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is our February winner - Helen of Helen's Craft Haven. Helen has a wonderful, eclectic card making style. She has made 2 fantastic cards to kick off our "Out Of Focus" challenge. Please head over to her blog and leave her some love.

For my card, I stamped an image from Stampin Up that is long retired - Extreme Guitar - over a background stenciled with Altenew's Warp Speed Stencil. The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti Oh My Goodness set.

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# 162 - Made In Minutes

Using optional twist of a stencil

Little Red Wagon #544 - Mix 'Em Up

Used products from Stampin' Up, Altenew, Reverse Confetti and Avery Elle Wonky Stitches die.

The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Kids Cards

Addicted To Stamps And More - Clean & Simple #384

Bwahaha!

Well, this is the most layered card I have made in ages, but I love it. My style has become so much more on the CAS side of things, but the current
Inspired By Table Runner Challenge

and THIS card by Her Royal Craftiness, Michele Ferguson, inspired me to take out my stash of Halloween papers and go to town. I used a variety of dies from Reverse Confetti, Lawn Fawn, Sizzix and Poppy Stamps to create this fun card. I love the inspiration! 

I'm also playing at:

Poppy Stamps PSC#61 - Enchanted

Always Fun Challenge #134 - Halloween

{PIN}spirational Challenge #250

Daring Cardmakers - Make It Spooky

Shopping Our Stash #407 - Halloween

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Fall/Autumn Colors

Monster Hugs

Time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS!
Challenge #169 - CREATURE 
Toni is our Hostess With The Mostest!

Our Guest Designer is Vicky Hayes of Crafting Clare's Paper Moments. Vicky is a very talented  card designer. Do yourself a favor and take a stroll through her blog for some wonderful inspiration. You will be so glad you did.

To make my card, I used the three little monsters (creatures) from Reverse Confetti's Monstrous Clear Stamp Set. I stamped them on watercolor paper, colored them with Zigs and cut them out with matching dies. I arranged them on a strip of SU DP that has been in my stash for years, and embossed the sentiment from the same stamp set.

Please head on over to the ATCAS Challenge Blog, take a look at the wonderful inspiration pieces Vicky 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:

Tuesday Throwdown #441 - Anything Goes

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Aloha Emily!

This is the back of my grand niece Emily in this adorable bathing suit (Land's End) last summer. The minute I saw it, I saw a card. It only took me a year to actually make, but I was inspired by the current CCCB challenge to finally do it. I can't wait to send it to her!

City Crafter Challenge Blog #421 - Pineapples

To create my card, I used Reverse Confetti's Big Stripes Cover Plate and Sugar Pea Designs Pineapple Paradise stamps.

I'm also playing at:

ATSAM #301 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use A Die Or Punch