CASE Me a Christmas Card (Surprise!)

Normally at this time of year, I would be really excited to be helping Michelle Lupton kick off her annual Case me a Christmas Card feature. This year, Michelle's decided to take a break, and when she gave me that news I was so disappointed. Michelle is such an inspiring and lovely person and crafter and I look forward to this every year, and it turns out I'm not the only one!  So A bunch of us got together and decided to throw Michelle a surprise party, filled with lots of friends casing Michelle's cards. And the best part? You can join in too, if you want! Details in my video below:

Happy Birthday in Pinks

Welcome to this week's LIMES inspiration post!

I chose this card as my inspiration from the gallery of this week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper!

LIST: Colours (pink, white), Techniques (die cutting, stamping), Elements (die cut geometric background over white embossed dots, ribbon, scalloped circle sentiment, baby theme)

INCLUDE: pink, white, die cutting, stamping, pink geometric pattern with white dots, circle sentiment

MODIFY: reversed colours, die cut dots, birthday, not baby, 2 brighter pinks, 

EXCLUDE: ribbon, scallop

SPIN: gold splatter, square card

I love geometric backgrounds (especially this geo circle pattern) because they are so versatile - my inspiration is pretty pink with dainty dots and scallops, perfect for a baby girl. I punched up the colours, made my dots bigger (and die cuts rather than embossed), and added a high-contrast sentiment with gems for a birthday card perfect for my nephew's fiancee's birthday card. 

GeoFloral Thanks

Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, vickydee!

I chose this card as my inspiration:

LIST: Colours (pastel pink, yellow, orange, green, blue, white) Techniques: (colouring, die cutting, stamping) Elements: geo/floral patterned paper, stamped friends image and sentiment, rectangle focal point, gingham ribbon with pearl, scalloped edge

INCLUDE: pastel rainbow, colouring, die cutting, stamping, pearls

MODIFY: die cut background fills card, one 'friend' with flowers, pink frame on end of stamped sentiment strip

EXCLUDE: scallop, ribbon, gingham, 

SPIN: square card

I created this background with a new coverplate. It's a 3x4 grid, but it was easy to adapt to 3x3 with some sharp scissors. I blended ink on each petal on both endes, to create the look of dimension. I inlaid each petal and centre before removing the die cut frame to use on another card. 

I cut and coloured my Waffle Flower 'friend with flowers' image with Copic colours that match the CP inks (for a FREE chart of my best Copic matches to all of Catherine's ink colours, click here).

When I was finished, I had lots of left over pieces from the coverplate die cuts so I made two more cards: