January 22, 2016

MFTWSC #264

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A card for the current My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge.
I don't know how many sweethearts you have, but I always end up with way more than I need.
With hubby, kids, one request from my son for his girlfriend and my parents I will be making a few more. As soon as I saw the sketch I knew that I wanted to use the Love word die for the strip across the bottom of the card.  No stamping this time just paper and die cuts.



I cut the love word die out from the front of my white card panel and then lined the inside of the card with red cardstock. I die cut a small white Zig Zag STAX circle and adhered it with foam tape. The small heart was die cut from a scrap of patterned paper and adhered the the circle with adhesive. Super CAS.


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Enjoy your weekend!



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The Paper Players CAS Valentine

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Happy Friday!

Popping in today with a card for the Paper Players Clean and Simple Valentine challenge.
It was so fun to make a card just 'because'. You always expect to make resolutions when the new year begins and for me, in the past, those resolutions get broken pretty quickly. Instead of  resolutions this year I am following Ali Edward's lead and chose 'one little word'. In retrospect if I were to look back at 2015 and pick a word it would have been 'chaos', don't get me wrong it was a great year but so so many things were happening at one time. This year the word I chose is 'balance', I chose that word because I need to take a step back and keep things in balance. Reduce stress, don't take on more than I can handle, look after my health, get more rest and primarily enjoy life. Wish me luck with this one.

I started by sponging some Spun Sugar Distress ink onto a watercolour panel, then I flicked some water droplets onto it and left it to dry. I  had a sheet of watercolour paper on my desk that I had used to play with my Gansai watercolours. I die cut my hearts and sentiment from the panel for my card. That is the fun thing about playing with your inks and watercolours, you can always use whatever you have done for something else.


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I hope you have a wonderful weekend and that you stay warm and safe from Jonas. My hubby is in North Carolina and they have declared a state of emergency. He is in Charlotte where it is expected to be hit with ice or snow or both. No worries, he grew up in Canada. ♥
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January 21, 2016

Reverse Confetti SFYTT #32

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January 19, 2016

CCC #181

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It's time for this weeks new Cue Card at CASology.
This week our cue is:



One of the world's most amazing transparent free swimming marine animals is a jellyfish. Yes it is an animal (I checked).  They have unique umbrella shaped bell with trailing stinging tentacles they use to capture their prey. What is cool about them is that they are for the most part clear, there are some varieties that are beautiful colours but they are always transparent.  Okay enough of a biology lesson, let's get to the card...

My interpretation this week for clear is jellyfish. Cute ones, not ones that might sting you in the water at the beach. I watercoloured my panel to create the water and then attached Copic coloured jellyfish with foam tape. I added a few clear sequins for bubbles under the water. An easy to create bithday card.

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Head over to CASology to see what the rest of the Design Team created this week. Hope to see you play along with us.



Guest Designer: Natalia


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