CASEing Michele!

I've found a new blog and it's filled with inspiration!! Tracey, In My Creative Opinion, who is one of the 12 Kits members, mentioned the blog in a post so I went to visit. I instantly fell in love with all the fabulous creations and yesterday took the time to explore further. Michele Ferguson, I Card Everyone, has a wonderful CAS style and I found so much inspiration. In the card below she used a PTI set, that I have but had never even opened. for a stunning white and silver design. Below is a photo of her card.

And below is the CASE I did. Unfortunately I have a terrible time photographing metallics! It is much lighter and sparkly IRL. I used Memory Box's Contempo Circles die and patterned paper from S.E.I. The sentiment and bird are from PTI's Trendy Trees. The landscape is embossed with silver.

I'm so looking forward to making many visits Michelle's blog as I am now a follower! I am also entering this in Darnell's 3rd NBUS Challenge and in Virginia's View Challenge #11, Clean Slate.

Don't faint but I just posted two days in a row! Thanks for coming by again,

Sharron

Congrats, Kara

One of my favorite places to visit for inspiration is Kara's (KandRDesigns) Friday Inspiration File. And she is celebrating her 200th week of posts with a challenge. Click here to find out the details. You can select any pin in any of the files for inspiration and create a project. I needed a masculine sympathy card and had been really struggling finding something special when I came across this card by Jill Foster in Kara's file.

I used a tree stamp from PTI's Through the Trees and embossed it with gold embossing powder on some watercolor paper. Sorry the glittery gold doesn't show up well. Koi watercolors were used for the subtle background. The sentiment is from Altenew's Ori Kami and is one of my favorites for sympathy cards. The layer of green cardstock is WPlus9's Green Acres.

I enjoyed my review of Kara's files so much, even though I didn't make a dent in visiting all the wonderful inspiration projects. I have started a list of some I want to CASE. This will really help me get back into the stamping routine that I have been missing so much in 2014! Thanks, Kara!!

Thanks for letting me share,

Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: December with Cathy!

It's time for our December reveal as another amazing year is drawing to a close! Thanks to all of you who have followed our blog and let us share our projects. This month's hostess is Cathy, The Empty Nest Crafter, and the theme is "Baby, It's a New Year". This was an appropriate theme for Cathy as her first grandbaby was just recently born--an exciting event she has been looking forward to for quite a while. Her kit included such wonderful papers and so many die cuts (see photo below). Everything was so much fun and easy to use! Thank you so much, Cathy!!

PHOTO BY KARA

We do have some sad news this month though! This will be Renee's last month with the 12 Kits group so she can spend more time with her family. The group wouldn't even exist if it weren't for her and she has been such an inspiration to all of us. She is going to be greatly missed! Hope she can pop by occasionally and perhaps be a guest designer.

All supplies were included in Cathy's kit except for a couple of pieces of felt. I want to keep my post short so you can visit everyone else. Just click HERE to go to the 12 Kits blog where you will find links to all the blogs.

Wishing you all the very best in the year ahead!! Don't forget to come back and visit us on the last day of January!

Sharron

A Very Merry Christmas to All!!

Just wanted to share a few of my Christmas projects and to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I am so glad I ordered PTI's Tinsel and Tags set this year. It has been so much fun! I made a dozen globes  to use on Christmas gifts and still have a few more that are stamped and ready to put together. All are the same except I used two different sentiments.

I had requested this My Favorite Things Jingle All the Way set a while back from a favorite Kansas City stamping store. I had several other tags that I had been working on but when it arrived in the mail, I instantly fell in love with these adorable little Santas. I know it's not very practical to do tags that require a lot of coloring but I couldn't help myself. I've made a LOT of these! The 'a gift for you' sentiment came from Tinsel and Tags.

Except for hubby's gift and also his birthday present (BD is the 27th!), I think I'm actually ready for the holidays. The baking is even done!!

If you are celebrating Christmas, Hanakkah, or Kwanza this month, may December bring you peace. Wishing everyone a wonderful season,

Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: November with Kim

Hi everyone! For those of you in the States, hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It's the last day of the month and time for the 12 Kits of Occasions group to reveal this month's creations. The theme is "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" and what could be more appropriate. Have you gotten your decorations out and started your shopping? Did anyone jump into the rush of Black Friday? Definitely not me!!

Our wonderful and very talented hostess this month was Kim, Cupcakes, Cards and Kim. And below is a photo of all the goodies we each received. Our kits were stuffed full of fabulous stamped images and sentiments, wonderful die cuts and plenty of great embellishments. Thank you so much, Kim--I loved your kit!!

PHOTO BY KARA

Kim included several Santa images. This was such an easy card to make and one of my favorites. Kim even included that fantastic stamped envelope. I used my die cut 'Merry' on another card but had the same die set so I cut out a dark green version for this 'Merry Christmas'.

Below is the inside of the card.

Another great Santa! I was tempted to add some color but decided to stay with the black and white image and add this gorgeous die cut done in silver.

I thought the inside should be coordinated on this card too!

I added embossed snowflakes to go with this sweet bunny. All the snowflakes were brushed with clear Wink of Stella but that unfortunately doesn't show in the photo. Love the large framed die cut!

This next card was so easy. The papers are the front and back of a single sheet. Perfect design to use the jingle bells Kim included!

There were a couple of sheets of black cardstock so I thought black would make a great background for the sweet owl. I added a birch tree die cut using a Taylored Expressions die and a Mama Elephant sentiment that went with the 'Merry' in my kit.

Hope you find some inspiration for your holiday cards from all of the 12 Kits designs. That is if you haven't gotten everything done already!!! Just click HERE to connect with the 12 Kits blog where you can find links to all the other designers' blogs. A list of all the materials included in Kim's kit can be found at the top of the page.

Enjoy the hop1 And thanks so very much for dropping by,

Sharron

The 25 Days of Christmas Tags, Day 11

The 12 Kits are joining Tracey today with tags for her 25 Days of Christmas Tags! Have you been visiting her blog? There is so much inspiration with tags featured every day. There will also be prizes so be sure to leave comments on Tracey's blog plus on all the participants blogs as well.

 

I bought this wonderful Bo Bunny paper pad called Woodland Winter quite a while ago. Wish there was more of this particular design. Doesn't it make a fantastic background! I used one of the Anytime Tags dies from Lil' Inker. Stamps are from Mama Elephant's Winter Wonderland. Actually a quick tag--the only slow part was fussy cutting the deer. Sentiment was embossed with white embossing powder and a star (hidden behind some ribbon) was embossed in silver.  Some Wink of Stella added a little sparkle to the snow in front.

Be sure to visit Tracey's blog every day for many more tags and endless inspiration for your Christmas creating!!!

Enjoy,

Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: October--"I Fall to Pieces" with Jessica

We're back to our regular schedule this month and our wonderfully talented hostess is Jessica, The Paper Parade. Our theme is anything related to fall, Thanksgiving and thank you. I'm needing a bunch of thank you cards so I decided to do all of my cards with 'thank you' sentiments. The collage photo below was done this month by Tracey. Look at all the awesome colors! I just love this time of year. 

Jessica's kit was just stuffed full of wonderful stamped images, patterned papers, embellishments and dies. I was especially excited about the images from Avery Elle's Red & Goldie. It's been on my wish list since it was released. So I loved having a chance to use the adorable little images! Thanks so much, Jessica--your kit was fantastic. 

PHOTO BY TRACEY

MORE ADORABLE IMAGES ARE FROM LAWN FAWN, LIKE THIS SWEET FOX.

I USED A STENCIL AND MODELING PASTE FOR THE HEARTS, THEN COLORED THEM WITH A DISTRESS INK MARKER.

THIS WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT SHAKER CARD BUT I DID THE QUICK AND EASY VERSION!

STAMPED SENTIMENT & DIE CUT ARE FROM WPLUS9.

THIS STAMPED IMAGE HAD THE 'THANKS' IN WHITE BUT I DECIDED TO COLOR IT WITH A COPIC MARKER. IT CAME OUT GREAT AND LOOKS LIKE IT HAS A VELVET FINISH. SORRY IT DOESN'T SHOW WELL IN THE PHOTO. THE ADDED LEAVES ARE STITCHED LEAVES FROM LAWN FAWN, COLORED WITH DISTRESS MARKERS

Well, that's it for my cards this month. Sorry to be late posting but I have been so swamped for the past two weeks! To find links to all the other blogs, just click HERE to connect to the 12 Kits blog. A complete list of supplies can be found at the top of the post, under Monthly Kit Supplies.

Thanks so much for taking time to visit my blog!

Smiles,

Sharron