CAS-ual Friday Challenge #11: Sweets and Treats

There are oodles of yummy cards on this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge blog. Go check these out for some 'sweet' inspiration! For this card I decided to use the candies from PTI's Background Basics: Christmas and a sentiment from Verve's Thankful Accents. Just stamping and diecuts but I did clear emboss the single candy on the sentiment circle!

Smiles,
Sharron

Supplies
Stamps: Background Basics: Christmas (PTI), Thankful Accents (Verve)
Cardstock: New Leaf, Raspberry Fizz, Royal Velvet, Stamper's Select White (all PTI)
Additional: Open Scallop EK Success Border Punch; Limitless Layers Dies 1 3/4" (PTI); Divine Twine; Clear Embossing Powder (Ranger); Memento Inks (Bamboo Leaves, Rose Red, Sweet Plum)

Embellish Color Challenge (Light Blue, Dark Blue, Red, Brown); PTI Peeps Challenge

Today's card is for two challenges. The current Embellish challenge with a nautical theme and a PTI Peeps challenge, hosted by Cammie back in June, where we were to make a masculine card. I bought this wonderful set by Wilson Designs some time ago and had only inked one stamp. So glad to get it out again and play. The waves were made with a circle punch and the twine trim has a sailor's knot. I started out with just the waves and then realized that an extra layer of paper to create a horizon worked better. I fussy cut the sailboat and the life preserver and added a little light blue with a Copic marker to hopefully help blend in with the sky. Love this stamp set!

Every day here is over 100 degrees--even got up to 111! Lots of time is devoted to just keeping our flowers alive. They look terrible so I'm just hoping they all make it through the summer.

So glad you were able to visit--come back soon!

Sharron

Supplies

Stamps: Nauti-Cool (Wilson Designs)

Cardstock: Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky, Stamper's Select White (PTI) + a piece of brown (source unknown)

Additional: Circle Punch, Divine Twine, Copics

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #7: Birthday Wishes

The CAS-ual Fridays Challenge this week is to use color blocks. I had a birthday card I was waiting to make and fortunately my PTI order came in the mail yesterday! I was even more excited about receiving this order than usual. Of course, any PTI box is a treat! But this one has several sets I am so anxious to use. And in addition, my anniversary set came--so cool. After seeing so many great samples on blogs, I wanted so much to try out my own. One of the sets I ordered was Mehndi Medallion and I LOVE them! The designs are fabulous! I have only used this large one but it stamps so well. I used heliotrope ink and embossed with clear. 

Color blocks are fun--first there is just playing around with colors to decide what to use. I didn't want to do something exactly symmetrical so the one accent stripe is a little shorter and I put the sentiment on the opposite corner.

This is an extra busy week so I may not get to try out all my new goodies. :(!! But I'll have time to visit blogs and get inspired!

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Have a great day,

Sharron

Supplies

Stamps: Mehndi Medallion (PTI), Teeny Trees (Waltzingmouse)

Cardstock: Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse, Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White (all PTI); Purple-unknown color (Bazzill)

Additional: Inks: Heliotrope (Colorbox), Tuxedo Black (Memento): Clear Embossing Powder (Ranger), Rhinestone

My First Waltzingmouse Waltz Entry!

Actually I had started on this card before I noticed this month's Waltzingmouse Waltz theme. It is a birthday card for our grandson but it would work just as well for a Fourth of July celebration card. Happy Birthday, USA! Here is a link to Claire's blog where you can get more info and see lots of red, white and blue beauties. How sweet of her to choose an Americana theme for this month!

I had this tissue paper with the happy birthday sentiments and had planned to use it for a recent MIM challenge at PTI. I've never used tissue on cardstock before and love the easy, fun effect. I already had my stars cut out so with a tag die, a button and some twine it came together so quickly. I am trying out more CAS designs and have really been enjoying the results.

It's so hard to believe it is almost the 4th of July! OMG, it makes me think I should be working on Christmas projects!!

Thanks for stopping by........

Sharron

Supplies

Stamps: Sewing Box: Hugs (Waltzingmouse Stamps)

Cardstock: Enchanted Evening, Pure Poppy, Stamper's Select White (PTI)

Patterned Paper: Bitty Dots (PTI)

Additional: Tag #4 Die (PTI), Tissue Paper (Hallmark), Divine Twine, Button, Embroidery Thread

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #6: Just BEE-Cause!

I chose to use Gems-Dies-Flowers

'Playing tic-tac-toe'----these CFC challenges are so much fun. Today I used two PTI sets-Honey Bees and Garden Variety. This patterned paper reminds me of honeycombs. And with inspiration from the current MIM challenge at PTI, I was reminded how effective the rock and roll technique using two inks can be. I cut out the watering pitcher and then inked the stamp first with gray and then rolled it in black. The bees I did the same way--gray first, then a little brown. That is a little tricky with such a small image! I used a prismacolor pencil to add more brown on the thorax. For the abdomen I colored with a yellow Copic and added black lines. I know, I sometimes get a little hung up on details!!

You can check the rest of the CFC entries here. 

Hope you're having a great week! We have been spending a lot of time in the garden. Between the 100 degree temperatures and then a hail storm our daylilies look worse than they ever have. We're finally getting lots of blooms but the foliage looks awful so they are seen best from a distance!

Smiles,

Sharron

Supplies

Stamps: Honey Bees, Garden Variety (PTI)

Cardstock: Aqua Mist, Lemon Tart (both PTI); Textured Gray (Bazzill)

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye

Dies: Nestabilites Circles, Garden Variety (PTI)

Additional: Corner Punch, Rain Dots, Antique Linen Distressed Inks (Ranger), Memento Inks, Copics

PDCC #84: Hello Friend; Papertrey Peeps May Challenge

Flowers for the May Peeps Challenge (submitted by our talented Terri) work for the current Play Date Cafe Challenge too! At first I struggled a bit with this color combo. So in the end I decided flowers might work best. These are from Beautiful Blooms II by PTI. The images were a little smaller than the dies so I did some trimming and also touched up the edges with a Copic marker so less white would show. A combo of leaves, a little lace and one of those sweet Tiny Tags and it came together pretty well. 

I am still behind on getting the Peeps Challenges done so hope to get more done soon. And you can still enter either of these challenges on the links above. But the PDCC ends tonight so be sure to hurry!

Thanks for dropping by,

Sharron

Supplies

Stamps: Beautiful Blooms II, Tiny Tags (PTI)

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, New Leaf, Lavender Moon (all PTI)

Dies: Branch with Leaves (Sizzix); Tiny Tags, Beautiful Blooms II #2 (PTI)

Additional: Leafy Branch Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Pearls, Brad (Basic Grey), Lace (JoAnn's), Copics, Rose Bud and Bamboo Leaves Ink (Memento), Spring Pansy Ink (Versamagic)

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #5

Happy Sunday! The birds are splashing in the pond and the daylilies are starting to bloom. It certainly feels like summer. Of course, the 100 degree temperatures are a sure sign too. I just hope this won't continue all summer!

I wanted to try a new challenge. I love following my stamping friend Renee's blog (It's a Patchwork Life). And she's has been entering CAS-ual Friday challenges and doing a fabulous job. I just love CAS and see so many great examples out in blogland so thought I would do my own.

We are to use this sketch:

This card ended up being so easy I almost feel guilty!

The curved sentiment from All Booked Up was an easy choice. I thought this would make a fun masculine card that could be given with the gift of a book or a gift card to a bookstore. I also liked this Graphic 4 plaid paper. And since I had to make a card for hubby's golfing buddy's retirement party, I used it again to make this card.

I have gotten such good use from this Riley stamp! I have made at least a half dozen cards for various people who play golf. 

Hope you have a great week and if it's as warm where you are as it is here, try to stay cool!!

Sharron

Supplies (for both cards)

Stamps: All Booked Up, On My Couch (sentiment)-both PTI; Riley Playing Golf from Riley and Co.

Paper: Kraft, Pure Poppy, True Black, Vintage Cream Cardstocks from PTI; Patterned Paper from Graphic 45

Additional: Copics, Black Rhinestones, Martha Stewart Baker's Twine, EK Success Border Punch, Nestabilities, Circle Punches, Flag Charm