CCC #86

We have a new Cue Card for you ready at CASology for this week.

This one had me scratching my head at first, but then I thought to me my roots are my Mom. She has been there for me since the very beginning and she is still where I go when I need advice.  I used the pigment and dye ink layering technique for my flower. I did this to add some depth to my CAS design using one smaller focal image. It is really lovely in person as you can see the white pigment flourish on the card and you can see it carry into the flower.

Head on over to CASology today to learn what the 'cue card' means to you, how you can play along and see the all the cards created by the Design Team to inspire you.

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely (that's me)

Jen Wills

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Judy Marino

Maureen Merritt

Meghan McMillan

Gillian Ross

Kimberly Weiner
Joyce Mehrberg
May Sukyong Park

Guest Designer:  Claire

I can't wait to see what ROOTS means to you!

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colourQ #232

Happy Tuesday and time for this week's colour palette at the colourQ!
There is something a little bit different this week, can you spot it?

I always forget to use newsprint. I think it is because I am a clean and simple designer and think that newsprint would be messy.  For my newsprint this week I used it to create a dimensional star.





I created the dimensional star by die cutting 5 stars in white and one in newsprint, or in my case bookprint. My bookprint is from a romantic poetry collection that I studied in university, it is a William Blake piece. The bookprint is very thin and because I used my Xyron to get full glue coverage on the pieces I needed to apply the glue before die cutting. I did this by gluing a larger piece of the bookprint and adhered it too a white piece of cardstock before die cutting the star.

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Seize the Birthday

Happy Saturday!

Today we are heading up to Sudbury again to see Ben and to go look at some apartments for next year! Are you kidding me? I was just getting used to him driving when he headed to University but now living of his own? I think it may be the allure of a full sized fridge!  Regardless it should be a fun day. Hope it is a nice day for traveling.

A post needs a card, so a birthday card for fun. I was itching too try out my new Text Block Birthday die from Papertrey Ink. I love that you can put a birthday card together in just a couple of minutes using the die and some patterned paper.

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Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Perfectly Peach Reminder

There is still time to join us for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Perfectly Peach!  You have until March 10th at 8:00 AM CST to be inspired and share your project!

All of the details are here.

We have a fabulous new sponsor, Peachy Keen Stamps!  The LEAD of this challenge will receive a gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps!

Here is my second take on the challenge:

Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Perfectly Peach and play along with us!

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Stamps & Dies For Sale

Spring Cleaning

Full listing on my Stamps for Sale Page

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Papertrey Ink

Harlequin Cover Plate Die and stamp set $15 - SOLD

Peace Be Still stamp set and dies $15

Winterberry stamp and dies $15

Half & Half Dies $18

Half & Half stamps $18

*Together $30

Mega Mat Stack 1  $8

Circles Cover Plate $12 - PENDING

Bloom Builders 1 dies $12

Mat Stack #3 $5

Bloom Builders #3 die $7

Bountiful Banners $12

Friendship Jar Toppers Dies $5

Friendship Jar & Lid die  $5

Friendship Jar Stamps $15

Friendship Jar Autumn $15

Friendship Jar Holiday $15

*All Friendship Jar Dies and Stamps Together $45 - SOLD

Confetti Garland Borders (brand new) $4

Bits & Buttons $3

To You From Me (brand new) $12

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The Card Concept #5 - Colours

Time for another challenge at The Card Concept.  This time we have colours for your inspiration.

You might think that you can't use spray ink on a clean and simple design. If you think about the basic components of CAS design.

 1.  One main image
2.  Lots of open space (uncluttered)
3.  Limited layers & embellishments
4.  Quick & easy to recreate

My card meets all those requirements. There is sometimes confusion with open/white space.  It doesn't always have to be white, just limit it to one colour.   In the case of my design I sprayed the ink on the white base, that now becomes the open/white space. Truth be told this actually started out as a one-layer design, but the ink warped the paper, so I cut the panel slightly smaller than the new card base.

I hope you play along with us again this challenge. 

We had 172 participants with challenge #4, let's see if we can beat that this time.  

Thanks for visiting.

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CCC #85

Time for this week's new Cue Card at CASology, this one is sure to make you think of warmer days.

Head on over to CASology today to learn what the 'cue card' means to you, how you can play along and see the all the cards created by the Design Team to inspire you.

Melissa Chipperfield

Tracey McNeely (that's me)

Jen Wills

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Judy Marino

Maureen Merritt

Meghan McMillan

Gillian Ross

Kimberly Weiner
Joyce Mehrberg
May Sukyong Park

Guest Designer:  Jasleen

I can't wait to see what CARNIVAL means to you!

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