I've been on a Clean & Simple kick lately ... this one only uses one color of ink (Versafine Clair Monarch).
The Bouquet is Essentials by Ellen Mondo Wildflowers and sentiment is from Essentials by Ellen Lovely by Julie. I should have used a smaller sentiment cover a bit less of the bouquet, but I still love the finished design using this week's CAS(E) this Sketch!
The challenge at The Paper Players is a Clean & Simple Summer Beverage ... and to me, nothing says Summer quite like an iced cold margarita with salt on the rim. Our favorite Mexican restaurant makes them with fresh squeezed orange and lime juice ... so so good with chips & salsa.
I broke out Cathy Zielske's Happy Hour Set with Verdant Green Ink ... because I have so many friends I would love to have a Happy Hour with (my *white* space for my CAS design is Gina K. Designs luscious Jelly Bean Green cardstock).
I pulled in yellow inspired by the beautiful photo at the Inspired by Challenge (Swapping the Lemons for Limes).
and the clean & simple layout is from the TGIF Challenge.
The new Impression Obsession Challenge is all about Drinks ... you would think I would have some drinks in my stash ... a coffee mug, champagne glass, beer mug ... something?? But no. Clearly I need to win, so I can go shopping.
So I had to get creative and make a Halloween Card with the only Impression Obsession Drink Sentiment I have from the Monster Mash Stamp set.
I paired it with this fun little set of Die Cut Monsters using this week's CAS(E) this Sketch!
This week at Jingle Belles we're celebrating Santa Claus ... St. Nick ... the Jolly old Guy himself ... or you might choose to feature Mrs. Claus, the Elves, Reindeer or even our favorite, a Yeti ... anyone who might be living at the North Pole.
I wanted to use some never before used Santa from my stash. I had never paper pieced this cute little Santa Die from the Sizzix Side Order Collection ... it included the tiny embossing folder & the noel word die cut, so I combined them all with some wood grain cardstock.
Cute ... fun ... masculine ... and mailable.
The theme for the Unity Stamp Company Challenge for June is Animals.
My list of boy birthday cards I need in June is rather long, so I went with the Stamp & Sentiment from Holy Cow in brown ink on a Kraft Card Base.
I used the Sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches, so I added some polka dots using a partial stamp from Unity Stamp Company's Hello Beautiful.
The theme at Just Us Girls this week is Retro ... defined as imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.
I went back to 2001 for the style & fashion of Elle Woods from Legally Blonde (using The Ink Road I Object Stamp Set).
I also wanted to see if I could make the stamps work for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch! I started with Elle as the right vertical element and built my design from there.
I combined PINK (of course) and black ink for my layout. And with "What? Like it's Hard?" and Bruiser Woods I'm joining the Funny Challenge at Happy Little Stampers.
Today I'm combining this week's CAS(E) this Sketch with the Color Challenge from Impression Obsession.
I die cut the Impression Obsession City Landscape from two shades of blue and layered them on a yellow card base.
Next I used My MISTI to stamp the sentiment from Impression Obsession Words for Art. Already looking forward to my next NYC trip.
Since I own more Washi Tape than a person should be allowed to have, I wanted to join the Wishi Washi Challenge at Poppy Stamps.
The theme is to use Washi Tape and/or a Wish Theme ... I went with both. I used a scrap of White Cardstock and lined-up multiple pieces of Little B Silver Starry Night Washi Tape to create a solid background.
Next I die cut the Poppy Stamps Heart Confetti Collage out of a piece of wood grain cardstock over my washi background ... and since you often wish upon a star, I added a sentiment sticker.
Love the effect for a perfect birthday card for the Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday Challenge.
It's one of my favorite times of the year ... the Spring & Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.
Since my largest collection of Coffee Stamps are from STAMPlorations, I used their May CAS Card Challenge as my inspiration with the optional Twist Color of Lilac. And STAMPlorations is having a Coffee Lovers Spring Sale where all Coffee stamps are 20% off.
I stamped the Coffee Cup and Sentiment from STAMPlorations Coffee Happy onto a rectangle cut out with the smallest CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Die.
I die cut the CUTplorations Oh Frap! Phrase Die twice - once from a lovely Gel Press Print I made at Lauren's during Art Camp and a second time from black cardstock to use as a shadow. I used a piece of the same Gel Press Print (which has some wonderful gold metallic paint for sparkle) for the card background.
The May Challenge at Paper Smooches is all about Flowers.
I had fun stamping & coloring the new flowers from Paper Smooches Rosy Posy.
I stamped, colored, and then used my MISTI to stamp again for more definition. I cut out the bouquet with the Paper Smooches Rosy Posy Wise Dies (so I am also linking-up at the Dies R Us Flower Challenge).
Sentiment is Paper Smooches Blissful Banners. I finished with a tiny lady bug from the Rose Posy Set perched on the Banner.
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