Shabby Chic...

I have never ever made a shabby chic style card in my life! It was fun to try it out for this week's CAS challenge on SCS. I really put my PTI tea dye ink to work on this one...


Supplies:

Paper: SU vanilla, blush blossom
Ink: PTI tea dye (chamomile & chai), Palette hybrid burnt umber
Stamps: A muse (congratulations)
Accessories: EK success dotted scallop punch, sizzix tag dye, flower (Stamping Bella), Pearl (K & Co), Ribbon (SU), pop dots

I punched a piece of very vanilla with the dotted scallop punch, then scrunched up the paper until I could peel it into two pieces (faux suede technique). I layed down some sticky strip and attached the faux suede pieces in a ruffle shape. I highlighted the ruffles with the tea dye ink. The ribbon was tied to hide the edge of the ruffle. I just love this label die shape and it seemed perfect for a shabby chic card. The font on this sentiment also seemed shabby chic-ish. I finished the card off with a gorgeous flower embellishment that I have been hoarding. Everything on this card got distressed both on the edges (I just used my fingernail) and with the tea dye ink. Hope you like it...and hope you can play along this week!

A second choice card...

I am posting a card that I made for CAS60 on SCS - a sketch based on my fellow-DT member Carly's card. I ended up using another card for that challenge but I still like this one...


Supplies:
Paper: SU (barely banana, sage shadow, basic grey, very vanilla)
Stamps: a muse (it's your day, simple wishes), PTI (Green Thumb)
Ink: Palette hybrid charcoal
Accessories: liquid pearls, pop dots, circle nestibilities, MS scallop punch, ribbon (SU)

I stamped 3 baskets on the circles and embellished the flower centres with liquid pearls. I added the scalloped edge and ribbon to ground the circles. The thing that took the longest was placing the flowers. I played around with that for 1/2 an hour!!

I have a few other cards like this that didn't end up being my first choice for the challenges that I will try to post over the next few weeks. Thanks for stopping by!

A day for Umbrellas...

Susan's One Layer Challenge this week is to use ribbon. She said only one piece of ribbon; I said "these ribbons are so skinny, I need to use 3 of them"!! It's a rainy, miserable day today, so umbrellas were the perfect stamp to reach for for this card.



Supplies:
Paper: PTI white
Ink: Palette hybrid noir
Stamps: A muse
Accessories: ribbon (May Arts), MM paper piercer, copics

I stamped the umbrellas using my SAMJ, grounded them with 3 ribbons, added some piercing and a sentiment. For the sake of simplicity, I resisted the urge to add some raindrops. Hope you like it...and hope you try out Susan's latest challenge.

From a sketch...

Kelly made this lovely card which is the sketch inspiration for the 66th CAS challenge on SCS. I also had this month's A muse Lounge Challenge in mind when I made my card.


Stamps: A muse (backpack, school time)
Ink: Palette hybrid noir & moulin rouge
Paper: A muse (school lined cardstock), SU (very vanilla)
Accessories: copics, pop dots, corner chomper

I stamped the backpacks repeatedly on a strip of paper, then coloured them with my copics in bright primary colours. The alphabet line from A muse's School Time clear set made a perfect border underneath the main image. I hand cut a heart because I did not have a punch or a die in the exact shape/size appropriate for this card (GASP!!). I stamped the sentiment from the same clear set and sponged the edges of the heart in red. I decided to chomp off the corners of my card at the last minute as I seemed to fit with the roundness of the heart.

Hope you like it! It is just about time for teachers' thank you cards...hope you feel inspired to join these challenges and make some of your own!

Note of Thanks...

The latest A muse Lounge challenge is "2, 4, 6, 8 who do we appreciate?"
I swear, Jennie is one of the most creative challenge hostesses on the planet! This was perfectly timed as I needed to make a thank you card and gift for my son's music teacher. He's been going to this wonderful group music lesson since he was 2. Monday is his last day as he is starting kindergarten and can't go anymore, 'cause the class is during the day. Anyways, onto what I made!

I actually started out my making the notecard set. I absolutely love A muse's 4 bar notecards...they make it easy to create a quick set of cards! I got these pink ones by winning one of the Lounge challenges...

I pierced a line across the bottom of the card, perched the song bird on the line, added the sentiment below, the music notes and coloured the bird with sparkly at you spica glitter pens (turquoise and purple). I boxed them up and added a pretty ribbon to match. Pretty quick gift!


Supplies:
Paper: A muse notecards
Ink: palette hybrid burnt umber
Stamps:A muse (song bird, just a note), PTI (birds of a feather)
Accessories: Atyou spica glitter pens, paper piercer, ribbon (Michael's)

When I made the card, I used the same concept of the bird on the line. I stamped off big bl once then stamped it on a scrap, cut around it and distressed the edge a bit with my nail. I matted it in some woodgrain paper. The rectangle was looking kind of bare, so I stamped the clouds in the top left, then paper pieced them with white to make them look more real. I like how the one hangs over the edge! That wasn't planned to begin with...

Supplies: Paper: PTI white, A muse (woodgrain)
Ink: palette hybrid burnt umber, SU (soft sky, bashful blue)
Stamps: A muse (clouds, song bird, just a note, big bl), PTI (birds of a feather)
Accessories: pop dots, paper piercer

Thanks for coming by...be sure to head over to the Lounge and play in the challenge, there are prizes to be had!!!

Punctuation...

LateBlossom has started to post One Layer Card Challenges on Wednesday! What is a Clean and Simple gal to do but play along!! This week it's all about punctuation. Susan posted some pretty gorgeous and clever samples...here is my card:


Stamps: SU (supersize symbols), A muse (thank you for everything)
Ink: Versamagic (aquatic splash, ocean depth)
Paper: SU (Kraft)
Accessories: SAMJ, liquid pearls, glimmer mist

Can you guess which symbol I used? I pulled out a never-inked SU set, Supersize Symbols for this one and used the quotation marks to make a border. They were stamped along a line and then stamped upside down again to make the pattern. I added some liquid pearls at the point where the quotation marks joined each other to cover up the slightly inconsistent spacing between them (what would I do without my Stampamajig???). I added the sentiment on top and spritzed the whole card with Tattered angels glimmer mist. I overdid it a bit with the mist and the card dried pretty wonky. It was pretty wonky still after a night under a big book...

Oh well...it was a super fun challenge...I look forward to more of Susan's challenges! Thanks for stopping by.

Birthday time...

Jen, aka Miss Boo, the Splitcoaststampers CAS challenge hostess is celebrating her 40th birthday, and this card is for her...


Supplies:

Paper: SU (very vanilla), BG (offbeat), A muse (shimmer pink)
Ink: none!!
Stamps: none!!
Accessories: Cricut & Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge, A muse twinkle stickers, copics, dymo labeler, pop dots, rub on tape from daisy d's

In her honour, this week's challenge is to make a birthday card using the colour orange, her favourite. I started out with a totally different design, but it ended up too masculine. I will have to show you that one another day!

For this card, I pulled out my Cricut and used the crown image from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge as my focal point. In keeping with my mission to use up supplies I have been hoarding, I pulled out a rub on tape runner from daisy d's that had a funky black pattern to use as an accent. It was really easy to use and lined up well along a ruler for a straight line. I found the orange paper in my stack of basic grey 6x6 pads. I LOVE them. This one is from the offbeat collection. I finished the card of with a sentiment made with my dymo labeler and my A muse twinkle stickers which are appearing on EVERY card I make lately! Hope you like it. Make sure you wish Jen a Happy Birthday by making a card for this challenge!!