In My Creative Opinion

June 23, 2014

My True Love

Happy Summer!

I just can't believe that it is the last week of June!

Beautiful weather has finally found us and next week it is time for celebrations, Canada and my Mom's birthday on July 1st, Independence Day on July 4th and my daughter's 17th birthday on the 6th!

My husband is coming home on Thursday for a week. As much as he is enjoying his job I think he has been feeling a bit homesick lately. Probably because there has been so much going on with the kids and he is feeling a bit out of the loop. Leaving everything in my {very capable} hands!

So to let him know that I still need him I made this card just as a reminder!

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June 20, 2014

CCMC #25 and STS #22

Happy Friday!
Can you believe that there is only one week left of June?
Where does the time go?

Summertime is always full of celebrations--weddings, anniversaries and new babies!
I just got Simon Says Stamps new set We're Expecting. I adore the bird images in this set.

I made a new baby card for a girl using the large outline bird along with the sketch from Seize the Sketch and the colours from the Colour Me Challenge!

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June 19, 2014

RIC #62

A card for Runway Inspired Challenge #62!
Isn't this a gorgeous dress? I wish I was tall enough to pull this one off.

Inspired by the navy blue and pops of white I used a flourish to try and create movement from bottom right to top left as it is on the dress.

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June 18, 2014

CAS(E) this Sketch #80

Playing with the Life is Beautiful Stamps and dies.

Fun to layer the vellum over the white stamped image, not so fun with trying to get a good photo. I bet you can't even spot the Wink of Stella on the edge of the butterfly wings? So just imagine, it is lovely in real life!

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CASology Blog Candy Winner!

I used Random.org to select the winner for the Blog Candy I offered up for the 100th Cue Card challenge at CASology.

Comment #6 was the winner:

Shelly said...

Left my comment on CASology! And what I love about your style...is your not afraid of having too much white! LOVE THAT. ;)

June 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM

Congratulations Shelly, email me with your information so i can get your stamps out to you!

June 17, 2014

CCC #100 - Happy 100th Cue Card CASology!

Can you believe the CAS challenge blog that started in July 2012 is now hitting it's 100th Cue Card?
We are having some fun celebrations this week with giveaways and the contest, which is now closed, of guessing this week's 100th cue for a guest design spot for the month of July!

So I wonder if you guessed right or maybe thought of our cue word but didn't make it your final answer? You had the get the cue word bang on, no other variations. So without further ado this week's cue word is:

I did a bit of generation stamping for my card, offsetting the images and the sentiment to give my card the feeling of airiness and white space. I traced some of the details on the balloon with my Wink of Stella clear brush. However my card is a bit more grungy that I usually do, but it shows you that you can combine grunge and CAS and a touch of glitter!

1. One main image--balloons

2. Lots of open space

3. Limited layers & embellishments--none

4. Quick & easy to recreate

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.