Birthday Wishes - CAS on Friday Challenge #183

Welcome to another CAS on Friday challenge!

This is challenge #183 and it's a SKETCH. Here's what Janneke came up with for us:

And here's my card. I've gone with a well-used and well-loved colour combination of Bermuda bay, melon mambo and crushed curry.

Materials used:

• stamps - Dandelion Wishes (Clearly Besotted), Tiny Words Birthday (Simon Says Stamp)
• card - whisper white, melon mambo, Bermuda bay patterned paper, crushed curry patterned paper
• other - stitched square die, Big Shot, rhinestones, banner punch, craft foam, white embossing powder, heat tool

We'd love for you to join in the challenge and show us what you can make of the sketch. Meanwhile, please head over to the CASOF blog to see what my team members have envisaged for you, and don't forget we all appreciate some comment love!

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kez

Well Wishes Dandelion

I wonder what the story is behind a weed becoming the symbol for wishing someone better health? Maybe it's a sort of 'blow the nasty weeds away and leave only healthy flowers' kind of thing? Who knows? If you do, feel free to enlighten us!

Anyhow, I felt the need to get out a set I haven't used in quite a while - okay, honestly? I wanted to use my distress oxides and wonderful new blending brushes! But I also felt this stamp set would suit the background beautifully, so...yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Once I'd stamped my sentiment I overstamped with Versamark and clear embossed it - this makes the colour go a bit darker, which is the effect I was after.

Materials used:

• stamps - Dandelion Wishes
• card - whisper white, dapper denim
• distress oxides - fossilised amber, faded jeans
• other - water spritzer, blending brushes, Stamparatus, clear embossing powder, white embossing powder, heat tool, craft foam, embossing buddy, Versamark pen, stitched rectangle die, Big Shot

How do you like this colour combo? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kez

Floral Fantasies

Many things excite we crafters but there's not a lot that compares with a brand new catalogue full of shiny, gleaming new SCHTUFF! Yeah, baby.

So I've been having a play with lots of new schtuff and here are the cards we made in class yesterday - which, coincidentally, all feature flowers.

First up is new set Dandelion wishes and new colour Balmy Blue. This was cased from Monica Gale, who I think used the Bokeh stamp but as I haven't got that, I did the Bokeh the old fashioned way. I stamped the flower and sentiment with black craft ink and clear embossed (you could also stamp with Versamark and use black embossing powder, but I didn't have any at the time. I've fixed that now.) so I could sponge over the top. Post it notes were used to mask a portion of my white card, I sponged with balmy blue then with whisper white using my Bokeh template. Don't have a Bokeh template? Just punch a mixture of circle punches on a piece of firm acetate and voila!

Materials used:

• stamps - Dandelion Wishes
• card - smoky slate, balmy blue, whisper white
• other - post it notes, sponges, circle punches, clear embossing powder, heat tool, Stamparatus

Our second card is another 'get well soon' type, this time using new set Healing Hugs, which is one of the new DisINKtive type stamp sets. These are deeply etched at different levels into the rubber, creating depth without having to 2-step. This one was inspired by a creation by Lynn Hoyt.

Materials used:

• stamps - Healing Hugs
• card - grey granite, lovely lipstick, whisper white
• other - embossing paste, Pattern Party decorative masks, palette knife, Dimensionals

And lastly another case, this time from one of the Artisan Design Team members but I don't remember who! When I find their name, I'll come back and add it. They had used a different sentiment and also sponged an ombre effect in the background, but I chose to just use plain card. Varied Vases is the new stamp set (which I borrowed from my friend Robyn, along with the matching punch) and two returning colours are featured - coastal cabana and poppy parade, along with new colour grey granite. I'm rather liking this new colour, it's a great mix between grey and brown.

Materials used:

• stamps - Varied Vases
• card - grey granite, coastal cabana, basic black, whisper white, Delightfully Detailed laser-cut DSP
• other - embossing buddy, white embossing powder, heat tool, Stamparatus, Dimensionals, Big Shot, pinewood planks embossing folder, water spritzer, vase builder punch

All the fussy cutting on this one should keep my ladies busy - and quiet! LOL! 

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kez