CASology 18 - ORANGE!

 This week's CASology Cue Card is Orange!

I went very literal and put a sweet slice of orange on my one layer card. I used a layer of yellow Stickles to make it look shiny and juicy and added a simple Neat and Tangled Stamps sentiment, from the Sweet Home set. The orange is from an old Stampin' Up set, stamped in Only Orange, a retired Stampin' Up colour.

Now it's your turn - What does orange say to you?

Drop by and see what the other members of the design team have for you:

Jen Wills

Melissa Chipperfield

Rosemary Dennis 

Tracey McNeely 

and this week's Guest Designer: Jean

IC361, FS300 and OLW112

Two cards today. First:

For this week's Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge from Artful Home, inspired by this wall art:

and for this week's Featured Stamper challenge, inspired by this card by Jen Mitchell:

I used a Stamps of Life die to make the butterfly.



My second card is for also for the Inspiration Challenge:

I was inspired by this paperweight at Artful Home:

and also this design from my Inspiration board on Pinterest:

and, oops, I did it again - a one layered card inspired by a song, so I guess it's good for OLW112! lol!

I used an Impress 'JOY' stamp, unknown 'to the world' and I masked and sponged the rings.

CTS4, OLW112 Reminder - Keep Singing!

For this week's CAS(E) This Sketch:

And also to remind you of this week's One Layer Wednesday challenge - Song in my Heart! (We Three Kings of Orient Are).

MASKerade has had its best week EVER in terms of pageviews, wins and special mentions (thank you!!), and I can't believe that only EIGHT of you (thank you, ladies!) have a song in your heart! I know many of you have Birthday cards to make (that's a song, you know!) and Christmas cards to make (lots of songs there!). Come on, it'll be fun!

(Stampin' Up "Wise Guys" (as they are affectionately known), unknown clear sentiment and star)

Three CAS Challenges

Three CAS challenges today!

The inspiration for the treatment of the Michael's sentiment was inspired by this photo on my Inspiration Board on Pinterest:

I thought the off the edge words were interesting.

Put it all together, and this is what I got! I used the new Papertrey set Super Stripes. The stripes are almost 7" long, so that you can stamp diagonally across the front of a 5.5x4.25 card. Here's the question, though - does anyone have an acrylic block that long? I don't - I just stamped away, with the 'tail' of the stamp hanging off the edge of the block. Actually, I suppose you could use a Cuttlebug B or C plate as a block - I'd love to hear if you have any other ideas!

Tuesday Trigger: Ready for Red

It's been a while since I played along with Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger. This week's challenge is called "Ready for Red". After two months of increasing amounts of orange (as beautiful as it was), I'm ready for red, too! One of the great things about living where I live is that we truly have four seasons and the colours (and clothes) for each. There's always change around the corner!

After all the the wonderful things that happened yesterday,  (773 views on Maskerade, winner of CTS3, Lydia posted my flower card from yesterday as the Splitcoaststampers Facebook Cover photo plus Stephanie Barnard, owner of The Stamps of Life commented on my chevron cards!) I was just humming with energy and this week's trigger really triggered me!

I knew that I had a little scrap of my red velvet paper left (it took me longer to find the scrap than to make the whole card! lol!).

I'm happy with this clean, graphic Christmas card, in this year's trendy Christmas colours (at least according to what I saw on my walk past Crate and Barrel last week!). The velvet bow adds that special Christmassy touch!

Off to a good start!

What a day it's been so far, and it's only 9:15!

First, yesterday, MASKerade had 773 views - that's about 320 more than the previous record!

Next, this morning, this card was chosen as the winner for CAS(E) this Sketch 3!

I'm smiling all over my face!

I love every single thing about blogging - making cards, seeing the cards you make, reading your comments to me, leaving comments for you - I can't thank you all enough for your kind words and support! This community is just so wonderful!

(Keep scrolling down to see my cards for today!)

Chevrons in the Spotlight

Chevrons have been a big stamping trend this year. Almost every stamp company has a chevron stamp set  and we've seen them used a lot. Usually they're used as a background element, but I wondered if they could become the focal image.

These two cards are the result of my experiment. Both cards use The Stamps Of Life Chevrons2Stamp set. Arranged in a particular way and enhanced with simple shapes, they become bold, geometric pictures.

Special thanks to Debby Hughes (Limedoodle): this card helped me see the trees in the forest!