happy birthday CAS

hello everyone, I made another CAS card late yesterday and I tell you I couldn't believe how quick I made it ... I know CAS are generally quick cards to make but sometimes your ideas for it don't come to fruition so you have to reevaluate (sometimes more than once!) and so it is a CAS card that has taken ages! ... anyway this one came together nicely and was made in around 10mins! ... a record!

I used some flower dies from Marianne Design creatables and I scrunched, bent and fiddled around with them a bit so they are very 3D ... I am happy with the result ...
 
The dotted lines is a background stamp from AnnaBelle Stamps and I stamped one line, stamped the title and stamped the final bottom line.
I have followed the sketch from Card Positioning Systems and I am also submitting it for Top Tip Tuesday and Kaboodle Doodles CAS challenges.
materials - Bazzill juneberry card, AC white card; Paper Inklings 'family' paper; Stampin' Up purely pomegranate ink; Marianne Designs funky flower dies; Kaisercraft silver rhinestones; Ranger white opal liquid pearls.
Thanks for looking ... and hey the weekend is just around the corner!!!

happy birthday

Good morning everyone, finished off a card last night for the challenge over at Hero Arts blog - I managed to combine all 3 challenges in this one card!  first it is the colours (pool, orange, yellow, green & chocolate), then it is a birthday card and finally it is an interactive card (I made a tab slider card - I love those!).

here is the 2nd title revealed ... (you pull the tab up to reveal the message)
 
I used Hero Arts 'sending smiles messages' stamps which has great titles with co-ordinating 2nd titles and also little images of which I used the flower near the title and also a small circle stamp to create a border ...
 
The colours of this card are wonderful - I have used Jillibean Soup 'apple cheddar soup' and I have to say that I think orange is my new yellow!  So this colourful card fits perfectly for the photo inspiration challenges from both Through the Craftroom Door and Jay Gees Nook Blog.
Through the Craftroom Door photo ...
 
Jay Gees Nook Blog  photo ....
 
as you can see orange is the common colour.
materials - AC coffee, straw cardstock, Bazzill apricot cardstock; Jillibean Soup 'apple cheddar soup' papers; Hero Arts 'sending smiles messages' stamp; Staz On timber brown ink; Marvy pens; Carl corner punch; Ranger ruby red liquid pearls.
Thanks for looking.

you colour my world

Here is another card for this afternoon - another CAS but this time I was really inspired by this months challenge over at Scrapbook Boutique ...

aren't they just scrumptous enough to eat more than 3? :)
I found in my pile of stuff a laser cut chipboard title - originally it was for a 12 x 12 scrapbook page so I decided to trim it down to fit on a card and inspired by the rainbow I used my Spellbinders standard circle large nestabilities and ink to make my own rainbow.  Here is my card ...
 
I am really happy with the way the colours from different stamp companies came together to create a bright rainbow ... here is a close up ...
 
Since this is a CAS card I am submitting it for the challenges over at Kaboodle Doodles and Top Tip Tuesday and also for Cupcake Crafts whose challenge is to make a birthday card with no design papers.
materials - Bazzill black cardstock, white cardstock; Remember When 'you colour my world' lasercut chipboard; white acrylic paint; Brilliance moonlight white ink, Versa Color canary, lime, indigo, violet inks, Color Palatte autumn orange, magenta, summer blue inks, Staz On jet black ink; Signo white gel pen; AnnaBelle Stamps 'party animals 1' stamps (happy birthday title); Spellbinders standard circles large nesties; MFT flat bottom clouds dies.
Thanks for looking.

You are berry special

What a miserable day it is here in Melbourne, Australia!  It is damp and cold but perfect weather for cardmaking!  I made this card very early this morning (I am still on NZ time so I tend to wake and get up around 4.30am ... Neil is not impressed!)
I followed the Paper Smooches Sparks 'designer drafts' challenge, a colour challenge from Party Time Tuesdays and a Clean and Simple challenge from both Kaboodle Doodles and Top Tip Tuesday.

I really only have one word for this card .... and that is 'blueberries' :)
 
I stamped my most of my blueberries on purple cardstock and one (so it stands out from the rest) on a different shade of purple, here is a close up ...
 
I am taking a shine lately to CAS style cards :)
materials - Bazzill forget me not and jubilee cardstock, AC white and mint cardstock, generic purple cardstock, Paper Smooches 'fruitastic' stamps; Staz On jet black ink, Versa Color violet ink; Green paper cord.
Thanks for looking.

sunshine and smiles

Hi ya - I am back in Australia and comfortably settled into my craft room for the winter!  Yesterday we went up to Colac to pick up Kouta our little pouch and he went absolutely ballistic when he saw me ... I was very surprised at his response to me ... after 4 weeks he must have missed me!
Anyway the month of May has several birthdays in my family and this is a birthday card for my sister in law ...

I have followed the sketch from Card Patterns #165, included a bird for CAS-ual Fridays and Paper Sundaes 'things with wings' and also included stitching (faux!) for AnnaBelle Stamps Blog.
materials - Bazzill apricot cardstock; Jillibean Soup 'apple cheddar soup' papers; Autumn Leaves bird stamp, Hero Arts 'sending smiles message' stamp set, Sassafras Lass 'stitched borders'; MFT branch with leaves and little open scalloped edge dies; Staz On timber brown ink, Color Box chestnut roan chalk; Stitched grossgrain brown; flowers; crystal brad; Carl corner punch.
Thanks for looking.

Just for You basket

Hi all, how was your day today?  I love to make shaped cards and I recently discovered that my circle dies can make great basket cards.  The challenge over at AnnaBelle Stamps this week was 'say it in kraft, lemon & white'. 
Since I only brang over here to NZ my 'ballerina rose' stamp set from AnnaBelle Stamps I had to use that.  this time I used the larger flower duo and the leaves from the rose branch.  Here is my card ...

to make the baskets I die cut 2 of the largest circles and use the next die down in size as a template for my handle.  I cut away a semi circle from each large circle and then trimmed the bottoms so that the card sits flat.
I then cut kraft, buttercup and white strips of card and wove them together, attached to the main card base and trimmed the outside.  Here is the inside of the card ...
 
as you can see I have a love for liquid pearls and just love dotting away at edges!!!
materials - Bazzill kraft card, AC buttercup card, white card; Basice Grey 'hello luscious' papers; AnnaBelle Stamps 'ballerina rose', Inky Antics 'millie mouse' stamps (title); Staz On timber brown ink; Ranger white opal and buttercup liquid pearls.
Thanks for looking.

Mum ... you bloom

It is a raining today so what better way to spend the day but to sit down and make a card!  It seems to be 'mothers day' challenge week this week so I made one for mum next year! I had already made one so thinking ahead towards 2013!
This card has been made following the weekly sketch from Mojo Mondays and for the mothers day challenges over at Party Time Tuesday, Kaboodle Doodles, Through the Craftroom Door and Paper Sundaes.

The blooms are from Kaisercraft mini paper blooms and the leaves have been stamped, coloured and fussy cut using AnnaBelle Stamps 'ballerina rose' stamps.  Here is a close up of the blooms ...


I find blooms like this quite chunky and really make the card a bit lumpy so what I do is inset them by securing the patterned paper to the card with mounting tape, cutting out a frame from the patterned paper and attaching the blooms to the card base so the surrounding mounted patterned paper actually protects the blooms a bit ... probably best to give this card to mum rather than post it!
materials - white cardstock; Kaisercraft 'silly season' papers; AnnaBelle Stamps 'ballerina rose' stamps; Staz On timber brown ink, Versa Color lime and bamboo inks; Spellbinders standard circles large and labels 18 nestabilities; Kaisercraft cranberry and aubergine mini paper blooms; Crayola colouring pencils; organza trim; Carolee Creations tiny black alphabet sticker; Ranger white opal liquid pearls; mounting tape; silicone sealant.
Thanks for looking.