CAS(E) this Sketch #394

I grabbed the latest sketch from CAS(E) #394 and made two almost single 

layer cards this afternoon, one for a birthday and the other for Christmas. 

Birthday Card

Card Menu: PTI card stock, Vicki Boutin Let's Wander pattern paper,

Concord & 9th Simple Serif Alphabet, Dymo tape sentiment

Christmas Card

Card Menu:
Hero Arts Small Surprise Packages stamps (retired), Heidi Swapp washi tape, Dymo tape sentiment, Michaels Cozy Lodge paper pad (old), Tombow markers

Stop by the CAS(E) website and be inspired by the design team entries!

Birthday duo

Today's post includes two birthday cards using many products and colors. 

 

Card #1: The panel was first white embossed with an older Hero Arts Friends background stamp. Four different Distress Oxide inks were blended over the embossed letters. A SSS Wonky Rectangles die trimmed the panel which was glued to a deep rose card front. Two PTI Leaf Prints leaves and a two-layered PTI Leaf Silhouette leaf were grouped together with a string bow in the upper third of the card. A longer SSS sentiment strip phrase was cut apart and stacked below the leaves. This card was recently entered on Virginia's Show and Share challenge via Instagram.

Card #2 uses seven of the new Concord & 9 inks with the smile sentiment cut from an eighth Cn9 colored card stock. The design die cuts are from PTI's Fresh Bouquet and Words to Live by: Smile sets along with a small ink-blended SSS Sentiment strip. The card front was stamped with the PTI Cover Up: Grid stamp. A trio of old Hero Arts circle shadow stamps add extra spots of color and clear rainstones complete the card. Must say that this was a fun card to create!! I'll link this to this week's SSSW Challenge: Anything Goes.

Deck the Halls

One more September post with the excellent sketch provided by Donna Mikasa on the CAS(E) this Sketch challenge which ends in a few hours! Nothing like waiting until the last minute or two. 

Card Menu: Altenew Holiday Bow and PTI Bells & Boughs

PTI Soft Stone card stock, Silver Stickles, Wink 'O Stella

Be sure to stop by CAS(E) for lots of wonderful entries!

Blessed

Good morning! Here's my card today made after many minutes of gluing fine lines of the navy outline and filling in the details with blue and turquoise leaves. Due to an accidental ink spot on the background the entire project was splattered with more color! Ha ha for CAS - not.

 

The NBUS Leafy Envelope (PFS) was die cut from watercolor paper and all the pieces fell out.  I gently ink blended HA Navy ink over the outline and glued it to a white panel. Next the large leaves sections were colored with copic markers and inlaid in the appropriate spots. The other leaves were left unfilled but colored again with copics.  I masked the envelope area and splattered ink around the area. The panel was placed on an aqua-turquoise card front. My friend Greta kindly shared the PTI Blessed die cuts a while ago and this statement touched my heart. In this pandemic time I've been blessed by old friends and new acquaintances found on card blogs sending "thinking of you" and "hello" cards. Thank you all.

Card linked to Color Hues TCH #2 , SSSW: No Stamps Allowed, and NBUS

Today would have been my dad's 94th birthday. We surprised him on his final birthday 40 years ago so that he could meet his youngest grandson, six months old then. Little did we know he would die from a stroke five months later. I was loved and blessed by him.

September SSS Card Kit Group

With all of the smoke in the air keeping us inside, I finally opened the SSS September card kit box this week.  So far I've made five cards. I usually prefer plain backgrounds for my cards but with all the pretty pattern papers included in the kit, I put aside my preferences. FYI, the fires are mostly in the mountains and river canyons in Oregon but not in Portland.

The first two cards feature the wonderful sentiment die included with the kit. I used green vellum for the shadow sentiment on the first card and yellow vellum laid over white card stock on the second. I fussy cut a yellow flower and popped it up as a center for the orange flower. The entire panel was trimmed with a SSS Wonky Rectangles die.

The sunglasses card reminds me of a postcard you might send to someone saying "wish you were here".  The panel edges were finished with a SSS Stitched Rectangle die. The card front was textured with a PTI linen impression cover plate before the panel was added. 

Both of these cards will be linked to the SSSW Challenge: No Stamps Allowed. 

The next two cards share the same background paper with the positive and negative images of a PTI United States die. The first card used a sentiment from the kit embossed in gold and hearts stamped in aqua. It's companion card has a sentiment from PTI's These United States and an extra "Let's Explore" poster from the kit added.

I'm linking this card to NBUS #18. I had not used this kit until this week plus I had never used the USA die or its sentiment.

My fifth card again uses a background pattern paper from the kit in shades of navy, blue and cream. The kit provided the fussy cut clouds, heart balloon and sentiment. This card's colors were chosen for the new challenge, Color Hues TCH #2.

Thanks for your visit today! See you around the internet!

Moody Blues of all shades

We've been enjoying the lazy days of summer which in the pacific northwest can be heavenly. With the lure to be outside I have not been disciplined enough to write blog posts and thus have accumulated many cards not yet posted. So, today I'm sharing three different cards with a variety of products each with a major emphasis on blue shades. 

Card #1

After ink blending several blue Concord & 9 inks in an ombre progression, I stamped the Pink Fresh Studio hexagon outline. Then I used the hexagon florals and stamped inside each space using the same Cn9 order. I die cut the corresponding hexagon from navy card stock and glued it over the stamped outline. A gold love cut from a gold adhesive sheet was added along with the extra popped up sentiment.  The card was sent to good friends in Washington state who celebrate their 58th anniversary today.                                                           

Card Menu: PFS Pop Out Hexagons stamp & die, SSS Sentiment Strips, love die (a gift from a stamping friend), Concord & 9 inks

Card #2

A cousin celebrates her birthday tomorrow. She mothers 103 orchid plants through out her home, patio and greenhouse. Not having an orchid stamp, I used a watercolored panel to die cut the fabulous Altenew Fantasy Floral 3D rose and leaves from it. Next I loosely painted Altenew metallic watercolors on a die cut panel with additional streaks and splatters of gold watercolors. The gold leaf sprig was added to bolster the rose group. The bloom reminds me of my Chicago Peace rose bush at our former home.

Card Menu: Altenew Fantasy Floral 3D and Leaf Canopy dies and Beautiful Day sentiment, Altenew metallic watercolor pan set, The Greetery Nordic Frames die

Card #3

The final card was inspired by the current Fusion Card challenge. The picture's colors, water pattern, leaves and dragonfly were my inspiration.  I randomly ink blended the various DIs and die cut the panel. Then stamped the leaves with Brilliant Moonlight White ink over the blended panel. A variety of DOs were blended on another panel before stamping the dragonfly and embossing with sparkly powder. It was fussy cut and popped up with foam adhesive tape over the white leaves. 

Card Menu: PTI Palm Prints, The Greetery Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You, SSS Stitched Rectangles, a very old wood American Art Stamps dragonfly

All three cards will be linked to this week's SSSW Challenge: Anything Goes. The second card linked to Virginia's Show & Share challenge. The third card will be linked to the Fusion Card challenge. 

Peace & Joy

It's been months since I last made a Christmas card and here it is, August! I better renew my efforts as this year the cards need to be mailed immediately after Thanksgiving due to our January move. I saw the latest CAS(E) this Sketch and knew that it would work well for mass production. Using the Misti I positioned a holly sprig to stamp in one corner and then rotated the card front to stamp the opposite corner per the sketch. A simple sentiment stamped in gold was added on two cards and the other two used cranberry ink. The single berries were die cut from red glitter paper. The design is mostly one layer to keep mailing expenses down.

Card Menu: PTI Mistletoe & Holly, 'Tis the Season Sentiments