More birthday wishes...

What a happy, crafty day!

There's something about creating that is so satisfying.  Plus I took the dog on an über-long walk, so he is happy, too...

One last card, for two different challenges:

The One-layer Simplicity Challenge theme for September is "It's Hip to be Square."

And Color Me...! has a monochromatic theme of Daffodil yellow plus neutral.

 I went with a square card, and used the giant birthday candles from The Stamps of Life to create a square frame.
The candles are a two-step stamp, using grey (neutral), and I coloured the flames with Copic markers.

Did some doodling to frame it all, and then decided the sentiment in the middle needed a little extra something, so I added some yellow Distress ink (Scattered Straw) over top, with a diagonal stencil from My Favorite Things.
Kinda bright and cheery, and ONLY ONE LAYER (shockers!).

Have a creative week,

Caroline

Seizing some Awesomeness...

Enjoying some crafty time, today, and playing with some new supplies.

Here's the design from Freshly Made Sketches this week. Lots of potential with this one!

I purchased this awesome set from My Favorite Things, along with the matching dies; SO cool! They will come in handy for sending "missing you" cards to my three geeky & cheeky boys this year (Amy Tsuruta, you NEED this set!).

Here's what I made:

 

And, another birthday card for Seize the Birthday, this time using the "toppings" option of B&W:

 

Candles4birthdays stamp set from The Stamps of Life.

I thought those polka-dot candles looked awesome in black & white. Like a vintage cartoon. Stamping the sentiment on vellum avoided hiding the flames.

 

Off to enjoy some time outside on this sunny day!

Happy crafting,

Caroline

Supplies:

Awesome card:

Cardstock in Thistle and White Daisy, gold dot washi tape, Smokey Plum ink: CTMH. 

Gold paper: Paper Wishes

Vellum: Michael's

Gold enamel dots: My Mind's Eye

Gold Stickles glitter glue: Ranger.

Happy Birthday card:

White Daisy card-stock, Black Archival ink: CTMH

Black textured card-stock: Wausau Paper

Copic markers: C1, C3, C5,C7; atyouSpica pen

Signo-Uniball silver pen

Vellum: Michael's

foam tape

Cutting Edge blog hop!

  Paulina of Pretty Pink Posh is doing it again:

Hosting an awesome blog-hop.

This time, the theme is using dies.

 I'm just back from two week's holiday, then a rushed few days getting all my "men" back to school. So I'm my card-making muscles are a little out of shape.

Thankfully, dies make a great impact without a lot of work.

I used several dies from Lil'Inker Designs:

• Stitched rectangle dies for the card border
• Thanks word die
• "seriously" word die.

I also used a border die from My Favorite Things.  I bought it second-hand, so not sure of the name. 

The card-stock is "Smoothie," a yummy colour from Close to My Heart. The matching washi tape, which forms the upper border, is also CTMH.  I cut the "Thanks" die from some white card-stock, coloured silver with  Ranger Distress Stain in brushed pewter. Gives a nice shimmer.  A few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and Calico Studio finish off this simple card.

Oops!

Almost forgot to include the photo of the inside:

 How awesome is that word-die from Lil'Inker? Seriously!

This card is destined for our neighbours, who hosted a seriously awesome barbeque this past weekend. Made me glad I'm not a vegetarian...

Head on over to the PPP blog, to see some of the great entries.  The link closes at 11:59 tonight.

Happy crafting,

Caroline

Atlantic Hearts warms things up...Sketch #23

Good Morning--it's October!

We are enjoying a couple of beautiful weeks of Indian summer, here in the Nation's capital.

However, this week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge, made me think of bundling up!

Maybe it was the poinsettia in the middle...

Anyway, I went with the wintry theme, creating a snowy background with the Swiss dots embossing folder, sanding the raised dots, then painting the bottom of the panel with white pigment ink, for a snow-drift effect.

I chose to interpret the fish-tail banner as a scarf, using the new Ruby Chevron ribbon from CTMH.

 The sentiment comes from Very Merry Christmas, a retired CTMH set. I stamped it on patterned paper, matted with Ruby, then tucked it into a Lacy Rectangle Frame from Paper Wishes.

The wonderful grey felt rose comes from the Frosted Assortment-CTMH. It is mounted on a die-cut snow-flake from My Favorite Things.

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Off you go to the Atlantic Hearts blog, where you can see more inspiration using this super sketch, from the design team. You have until Sunday night to create something of your own to share with us. 

Hope you play along!

Happy crafting,

Caroline

CTMH Supplies Used:

White Daisy, Slate, Ruby and Desert Sand card stock

Frosted patterned paper

Ruby Chevron ribbon

Very Merry Christmas stamp set: S1210

Desert Sand dye ink; White Daisy pigment ink

Frosted Assortment (rolled felt flower)

Other Supplies:

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Paper Wishes Lacy Rectangle Frames dies

My Favorite Things snowflake Die-namic