Happy Easter! Inspiration Blog Hop

Welcome to the Easter Inspiration Blog Hop by The Inspiration Crew. This hop is just for fun.
We’re posting projects we made using products we like and hope they will give you some inspiration for your own Easter craft projects.

I used a Great Impressions bunny stamp and a Michael's sentiment stamped in soft grey and coloured with pastel copics.

Here are the rest of the ladies who are participating - I hope you'll hop along and see all the inspiration they've got for you!

Donna Bowman 

Rachel Kleinman

Geri Greening

Jennifer Cuthbertson

Veronica Zalis

Muse 61 - Happy Birthday!

A very CAS card for this week's Muse challenge, where the lovely Jacquie is our Guest Muse this week!

Here's her card:

I used the same colours (although in different proportions) and combined the rows of embossed stars with the fun vertical 'twizzle' elements (well, what would you call them?!)  to come up with my star 'explosion'. I used some new inks I picked up in a half-price sale from Clear and Simple Stamps. I love the Envy (lighter) green and the Glamazon Green! The sentiment is an old one from Michael's and the stars are from Verve.

I hope you'll get a chance to play along this week - the deadline is Monday morning at 8 am EDT. If you can't make a card, don't forget you can still vote - from Monday at 8 until Tuesday at 8. Results will be posted at noon on Tuesday! Hope to see you there!

FFC28 - The Light of the World (2)

As much as I like the shaker card I made last week for the current Festive Friday challenge, you know I'm a CAS girl at heart, so I gave it another shot. I have to give credit to my sister Meredyth, with whom I was discussing this inspiration photo the other day.

Her brilliant (ha, pun intended!) idea was to focus on the soft glow of the candle. I created my glow by lightly sponging my yellow dauber (with just the ink that was in it - I didn't add any more) in a circular motion, leaving the centre white. I used Early Espresso ink and cardstock as a nod to the pinecones and used my Market Street Stamps creche and the same Stamps of Life sentiment as last week.

There's still some time to play along with us - you've got until Wednesday to link up - I hope we'll see you there!

The Card Concept Challenge 7 - Butterfly

This time, The Card Concept Challenge is to use a butterfly theme.

I love the retro feel of the font of this Ink Essentials sentiment. There's just something cheerful about it. (am I the only one who gets feelings from fonts? I'm fascinated with type and its ability to reinforce the message of the words it represents, but that's a whole other story).

I paired my perky sentiment with a DeNami butterfly that had a similar feel - swoopy and happy. I coloured it with copics and then filled it in with stickles for sparkle.

When you have so much white space, I find that high contrast and bling or sparkle in your small focal points really helps to add interest.

I hope you'll get butterflies and play along!

Don't forget the rules!

Use the Challenge to create a card.
Choose one of the design team "styles" to create your card. Click HERE for the different styles summary.
Explain in your post which style you used.
Link up your blog post here, not your whole blog.
Comment on the card ahead of you and behind you in the linky. Everyone loves comments!


This challenge will end on Monday, April 14 at 3:00 pm EDT.

Happy Birthday!

This is the card I made for my sister's birthday today. Yet another Wet Paint card.

I used Raspberry Fizz ink and created a panel with a curve (using a Grand Calibur Circle Nestability). I stacked the panel with 3 layers of Raspberry Fizz cardstock and then coated the raspberry in stickles so all around the panel there's a glimpse of sparkly pink. I finished it off with 3 'diamonds' which represent April's birthstone!

CASology 89 - Joke!

This is my second post today. For my OLS/CTS post, please scroll down.

This week's CASology Cue Card is Joke!



This card is not a joke, but it was inspired by a joke. I thought about a  knock, knock! joke. That made me think of a door, which made me think of a house, which made me think of my sister and brother-in-law who are moving.

This card uses a classic layout (image centred over sentiment) and a classic black-and-white colour scheme. These things both lend themselves to CAS cards. But if your focal point is small, it can feel lost in all that white space. I created a 'frame' by layering the smaller white panel onto the white card base. This barely-visible frame adds definition to the card, but it's not distracting.

So there you go. 3 stamps, 2 colours, 2 pieces of cardstock. That's all you need! No joke!

Now it's your turn - go check out what the rest of the DT came up with!

Gillian Ross

Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kimberly Wiener
 Maureen Merritt
May Park
Meghan McMillan
Melissa Chipperfield
Tracey McNeely

and this week's Guest Designer: Gay

One-Layer Simplicity Challenge #4, CTS70 - Road Trip

It's the first of the month and that means a new One-Layer Simplicity Challenge! I'm the hostess with the mostess this month and our challenge is ROAD TRIP!

The challenge is to make a travel-themed card - it can be about the destination or it can be about the journey  - whichever you choose!

I used my Yellow Owl NY taxi, a Stampin' Up sentiment and an AMuse cityline. I also used the current CAS(E) This Sketch challenge for my layout:



And it just goes to show that you can make pretty much any sketch into a one-layer card!

You've got until the 24th to play along with our Road Trip challenge - hope to see you there!