Birthday Fishes

 Just a quick post to share a fun Masculine Birthday card. 

Since the stamp design is 'sketchy', I decided to colour the fishes in the same style. Sooo easy! 

Stamps: Dina Wakely Scribbly Fishes; Kaisercraft sentiment

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A Christmas Gift

 Here's a card inspired by the photo inspiration at Less is More Challenge...

A very CAS card using mostly dies.  I used a MFT die to emboss the frame and I've forgotten the brand for the gift and bow.

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CAS Colours & Sketches #4 Colour Challenge

 Hi there Crafty Friends! It's time for July challenges at CAS Colours & Sketches and we have Holly as our host this month. She has given us a wonderful colour combo for our first challenge.

I used a new (to me) die from Paper Rose Studio,  Distress Oxide Inks and Karin Markers. 

I'm really happy withe the smooshed and splattered colours.  

I hope you'll pop on over to our blog to see the wonderful creations from our Design Team and be inspired to join us in the challenge.

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CAS MIX UP (JUNE REMINDER)

  Hi again.  Just popping in to remind you about this month's CAS Mix Up Challenge.  It's a Watercolour challenge this month and Viv, our host, has chosen 'FLIGHT' as our prompt. Please be sure to keep your card design Clean and Simple.

I masked off a border on the watercolor paper and then painted a wash with Distress Oxides. 

When dry, I removed the mask and stamped the bird and sentiment. The bird was coloured with Zigs and a aquabrush. 

Stamps: Stamplorations (The Bees Knees) Birds, Hero Arts Birds (sentiment)

You can find more inspiration over on the CAS Mix Up Blog and we hope you'll be inspired to join the challenge.

I'm also sharing my card at the following:-

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CAS Colours & Sketches #424

  Hello there! It's time for another colour challenge  at CAS Colours & Sketches.  Shannon our host, has chosen a very pretty colour combo for us!

I recently purchase a few embossing folders and  I'm quite smitten💕.

I stamped the flowers with with Karin Markers and blended with Zigs and Aquabrush. The butterfly was stamped with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide and clear embossed.  I inked the edges of the embossed panel with the pink ink.

Stamps: Stampin Up Flowering Blooms, Butterfly Brilliance; SSS Sketched Flowers

Embossing Folder: SU Greenery

I hope you'll pop on over the CAS Colours & Sketches Blog to see the wonderful creations from our Design Team and be inspired to join us in the challenge.

I'm also sharing my card at the following:- 

Beautiful Blooms

Flowers

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CAS Colours & Sketches #423

   It's time for a Sketch Challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. I really love the sketch Shannon, our host, has created for us. 

I was in a Mixed Media mood, so I got out my inks, sponges and stamps to make this card. I made masks by tearing paper strips and ten sponged the Distress Oxide Speckled Egg. I then stamped the diamond pattern with the same ink. When dry, I stamped some script randomly with gold ink and added some Perfect Pearls. Next I stamped the butterflies, adding the PP again and then fussy cut. 

 All the stamps are oldies from Kaisercraft, except the sentiment, which is from Altenew.

I sponged the based card with the ink to match. 

I hope you'll check out the CC&S blog to see what the rest of the design team and our  Guest Designer have created.  We hope you'll be inspired to make your own card, which needs to be linked to  the challenge post by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday. 

I'm sharing my card at the following challenges:-

Mixed Media

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CAS Flower & Beach Scene

 Hey there! My arm/shoulder are still giving me grief, so it's a brief post.

I used 3 different Gina K stamp sets and embossed the border with anold Memory Box die. 

I coloured with Karin Markers.

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I used Distress Oxide Inks for the was and added some texture to the sand with Delicata Gold and a Kaisercraft stamp. I coloured the Gull with Karin Markers.

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Water-colour 

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CAS MIX UP (JUNE 21)

Hello there Crafty Friends! This month at CAS Mix Up we have a Water-colour themed challenge. Viv is our host and the prompt is 'FLIGHT'. That should give you plenty of scope.  Please be sure to keep your card designs Clean and Simple.

I just love these cute PPP Hummers and I used a new floral stamp set I purchased from Amazon. I'm not sure of the designer. 

All the images were stamped in black, clear embossed and coloured with Zigs. The birds were kindly gifted to me by Darnell!

The frame die is from Penny Black.

We have the lovely Joyce (Cards-by-the-Sea) as our Guest Designer this month and you can see her card  and more inspiration at our blog.

I'm also sharing my card at the following challenge:-

Watercolour

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CAS Colours & Sketches #422

  Hello there! It's time to welcome Shannon as our host for June at CAS Colours & Sketches. We have a really gorgeous colour combo to play with this week...

I decided to use my Prisma Pencils to colour the images and attempted to blend with Gamsol. 

I definitely need to practise this technique.  I was happy with the subtlety of the snail:)

Stamps: Altenew Indoor Garden, Garden grow & Dotted Bloom

Embossing Folder: Stampin Up Subtle

I hope you'll pop on over to our blog to see the wonderful creations from our Design Team and be inspired to join us in the challenge.

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CAS COLOURS & SKETCHES #420

 Hi there. It's time for another Colour themed challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge.

I stamped the 'rainbow' with Altenew inks. The Panda was stamped on co-ordinating card, shaded with Zig Markers and fussy cut.

Stamps: Taylored Expressions Somewhere Over the Rainbow, The Ton Stamps Panda Can't Even

I hope you'll pop on over to our blog to see the wonderful creations from our Design Team and be inspired to join us in the challenge.

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CAS Mix Up April '21

   Hello there. It's April already and it's time for a new CAS Mix Up Challenge!

This month is a Mixed Media themed challenge. Linda is our host and the prompt is 'Paper Piecing'. There are some links to video tutorials on the CAS MIX UP blog. Please be sure to keep your card designs Clean and Simple and include one other Mixed Media element.

Inused the very popular Concord & 9th Hello Lovely stamp and various patterned papers. 

I stamped the image 3 times and fussy cut each layer. I actually left out the smaller parts of the image, because it would have been impossible to fussy cut and it also made my card more CAS. 

The sentiment stamp is from CASual Friday Stamps. I added some sequins for my extra element. 

Tip: Cut right on the line and use a black marker to colour the edges

We have the talented Bonnie from Paper Crafter at Large as our Guest Designer this month and you can see her card  and more inspiration at our blog.

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CAS Dog Birthday

 Hi there. I just managed to make a card for Less is More Challenge, in between all my DT stuff. 

I made a mask and then sponged and stencilled the background with Distress Oxide Inks. 

I used a die to emboss a frame.  Next I stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut the dog. 

To finish I stamped the sentiment. 

Stamps: Stamplorations (The Bees Knees) Pets; Sentiment is a magazine freebie.

Die: Spellbinders

Stencil: Kaisercraft

I'm sharing my card at the following challenges:-

Anything Goes 

I have used the Die to emboss instead of cutting

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