I Heart You...CAS

Happy Sunday!

I have made quite a few Valentine's Day cards for the local grocery CoOps and wanted to show a few of them today.  This first one is a CAS card and it qualifies for the Time Out challenge with the Valentine's day theme and optional twist of hearts...the little buttons I had in my stash and the Versamark heart.  I stamped a Pistachio Pudding card front with SU Smokey Slate for the SU floral stems and also the sentiment from Technique Tuesday.  The sentiment is stamped over a PTI heart that was inked with Versamark.  Simple, right?

I will be back showing some more cards later today...

Thanks for stopping in!

Chriss

Have a great Sunday!

Fall celebration time

Happy Friday! 
I am taking time out today during my daughter's visit (she had a friend's wedding rehearsal and lunch to go to)
to create a card for the current challenges over at Time Out  SSS "finishing touch" and One Layer Simplicity Challenge.
I knew that I wanted to include the optional apple "twist" for the Time Out challenge and I wanted to also keep my card to one layer.  Oh, I do miss apple picking...
                                    I started by stamping the SU

bucket and water coloured with a TH Distressed Wood DI and then stamped my apples and water coloured them also with TH Picked Raspberry and Firebrick red.  The grass is from PTI's Garden Variety set.  All of the stamps that I had for Autumn birthdays were too large in scale for the card, so I decided to use this older SU sentiment as I like the

font for this card.  Sticking to my one layer only idea, I used a Memory Box die to cut a cloud and set that aside after outlining the edge with a SU marker.  I then decided that I wanted some rays of sunlight and happy blue sky to be shining down on the bucket scene.  My attempt at rays is not a good one...but it is a hand made card...right ;)  I sponged the yellow and blue inks using Washi Tape for my borders.  After the spongeing, I inlaid my cloud.  Thinking it might need one more little finishing touch, and I will submit to the SSS Monday challenge "finishing touch", I added another water coloured apple on the grass beside the bucket that I fussy cut from several other clusters of apples that I stamped and WC for future use.  This may not qualify any more for the OLS challenge...oh dear, should have left well alone :)
Have a great Friday!  hugs, chriss

CASEing Anita

 Hi there!  Have you seen the date on the calendar...where has the Summer gone to?
I have been busy in the craft room, mostly organizing, you know, that on going evolution.  I sure hope that this present cycle continues strong as I feel very good about what I am accomplishing!  I do have a card for you today 
(I have allowed myself some creative time to play :)) and it is a CASE of Anita's with a twist.  It is for the current Time Out challenge and I like the result.  What a pleasure it is to CASE this gal!  I must say that this was my third attempt...  As you can see, my twist involves a colour change.  During my reorganizing, I found some textured card stock from SU that I had hoarded.  I have since cut it up and it is now time to use...
I loved Anita's soft blues and greens and the white embossed pattern that she water coloured.  I didn't have anything quite the right scale or openness, so I had to think...I used a more narrow border stamp from SU and stamped twice with Versamark ink and then white embossed.  I used an Inktense pencil (bark colour) and a SU Cameo Coral re-inker, just about full strength.  I like the bark colour Inktense with this textured Groovy Guava CS.  I also wanted to triple layer my sentiment die, just like Anita, so I took a close up of that too.  I used a Memory Box die.  It is the Thank You die, but the actual Thank part has an s on it, so another bonus for me as I am really looking at my craft room "stuff".
I am of course offering this up for the Time Out challenge and also dipping into the Simon Say Stamp Monday Challenge "Anything Goes" and another try for the 
Stamplorations "Stamps and Dies".

Thanks ever so much for your visit!
Hugs, Chriss