Wishing You Oceans Of Joy

Time for a new challenge at Addicted To CAS where the Code Word is BUBBLE. I am the Hostess With The Mostest! Our wonderful Guest Designer is the incredibly talented Joyce Mehrberg. Joyce is a wonderful card artist, a long-time blogging friend of mine, and a Design Teammate at Time Out as well. I would love to have a visit and a cuppa with her. Her art is wonderful and her heart is dear. Please take a stroll through her blog and leave her some love. You are sure to be inspired.

To make my card, I used Hero Arts Color Layering Seahorse stamps and dies. The bubbles are from the Sea Bubbles Set from Designs By Ryn. I LOVE that bubble stamp and it was the inspiration for my choice of code word for this challenge. 

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

The Library Challenge #38 - Gift From The Sea

Alphabet Challenge - J is for Joy or Joy Fold card

Watercooler Wednesday #232 - Anything Goes

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

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

Salty But Sweet

The Library Challenge #12 - The Little Mermaid

I really love mermaids, and so when I saw The Library Challenge #12, I was excited to play. I chose to make a shaker card using the following supplies:

Honey Bee Stamps Ocean Borders and Ocean Shell Sequin Mix.

Essentials By Ellen Inner Mermaid by Julie Ebersole stamps and dies.

Distress Oxide Inks. Versafine Majestic Blue Ink.

Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Duo 3 dies

Lawn Fawn Scalloped Rectangle Stackable dies.

Avery Elle stamp and die storage pockets.

Fuse Tool.

I'm also playing at :

The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Summer Vacation

SimonSaysStamp Wedensday Challenge - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge

There And Back Again

I came upon this new challenge which I think is just fantastic!! The Library Challenge - for crafters who love books. Well, that certainly is me. I love to read,  I'm a children's librarian in a Pre-K through 8 school, and have worked in the book industry for most of my career. This is right up my alley!!!

The inspiration for the current challenge is The Hobbit. You can take your inspiration from:

The cover

or

The title

or

The story.

I took mine from the cover. If you look beneath the mountains in the cover art, there is a row of trees with black trunks. That is what I focused on. The "sentiment" is the subtitle, or alternate title to the book. I made it by combining words from different stamp sets, embossed them in white on black paper, and then I cut them out and popped up on foam tape.

I love this challenge idea, and I hope to be able to play often. Thank you Marina, for coming up with this awesome idea!!!