Cas cards

I started playing with the flowers of the Alexandra Renke Welcome Butterfly set ... and I ended up with four cards! I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I stamped 2 sets of the flower with leaf, and the 2 individual flowers. The flowers had two tones of inks : started with the pale pink, then dabbed on a darker shade to the centre. I like the curve of the flowers and leaf and thought it would look good along a frame. I wanted to keep it light so used 2 of the Alexandra Renke Oval Angular…

Happy STAMPtember®!! Today is the day that Simon Says Stamp releases their wonderful new STAMPtember® products, and I am so very excited to start sharing this release, with some beautiful flower dies from this new release, the Etched Crocus Stems!... I am really in love with the new flower dies, they are simply beautiful and so wonderfully designed, the detail in them makes them come to life on paper! The crocus even go a bit further in their detail, as the die cut petals give extra depth…

Hi everyone, The CAS Mix Up Challenge this month is celebrating its 5th birthday, and I cannot miss this opportunity to join the fun! Congratulations, Loll, Bonnie, and the entire team! I love this challenge because I can learn and try a new technique every month and the Design Team's sample cards are always inspiring. A huge thanks to the current and past members of the Design Team! Bonnie is hosting this milestone month, and her theme is Print Making with Die-cuts. I think Bonnie…

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Happy Monday ........ Welcome to glorious June! And welcome to the new look CAS MIX UP CHALLENGE! For all you CAS challenge fans out there we've made things a little easier for you. Three of the CAS Challenges have all come together ......... that's the original CAS Mix Up, CAS Stencil and CAS Watercolour have all joined forces and are now the new CAS Mix Up. We've still got the same designers creating fabulous inspiration pieces each month, and there will still be a regular Mixed Media…

Shayne Eddie's CAS card. Love the subtle embossed hearts

Integrating dies into my clean-and-simple (CAS) style is proving harder than I had thought it would be. Oh, how I love a challenge, and thanks to my friend Eva and her gift of a Cuttlebug, it's a challenge I accept! As I'm feeling my way forward with this, I thought it might be helpful to me--and hopefully to you, too--if we organized a series of posts discussing the issues of CAS design with dies. My plan is to share my successful CAS-die designs and discuss why each works. If it feels…

Loll and Bonnie must put in hours of work to make their Challenge Blogs so informative, interesting, stimulating, challenging and downright fun! The Watercolour challenge this time is to use Cool Colours and I am simply delighted to have been invited to be a Guest Designer for this challenge CAS Watercolour Challenge For my card I began by stamping a My Favorite Things background stamp with Versamark and embossing in Silver. I then spritzed it with water and added some sprinkles of Brusho…

Hello crafty friends. It's time for a new challenge at CAS Mix Up Our sweet and very talented Joanna is our host this month. I Used Inchies, Stamping, Washi Tape, Punches and Die Cutting The bird art is from Alexandra Renke Washi tape. I pressed a strip onto a snippet of white cardstock and punched with my 1" square punch. The bird pieces were mounted on punched 1 1/4" squares and affixed to the card front. Some die cut leaves add a bit of texture. This was quick and easy. I love this Washi…

Lets add some WOW to your clean & simple cards? I have 5 fabulous ideas as well as a BONUS technique to share with you today!

Any day is a good day for visiting my friend Marcia - we took our weatherman at his word and planned the only sunny day of last week to get together! Man am I glad we did - [pardon my French] it all went to hell in a hand basket the day after! Enough about the weather - I have SO much to share today and I know Marcia will, too - so let's get into it! First up - I'm giving you all the bird[s]! The darling PTI Feathered Friends mini 19 to be exact... Here perched on a 'wire' over Marcia's new…

Today's clean & simple sympathy card required a bit of prep work. I began by selecting three shades of yellow ink; Mango Melody, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, plus dark brown, Early Espresso

CAS leaf card by dacpam - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers This gives me SO many ideas!

Take the Gold!

I have had an interesting die in my stash for a while - the Vertical Line Collage by Memory Box. It's just lines - but I got it specificall...

I Card Everyone : CAS[E] this Sketch #331

Played about a bit with some offcuts, a few pieces of linen textured card and some dies. Result was a batch of CAS cards which always go down well as ' buy and keep them 'cos you'll never know when I'll need one'! Sharing on this post two cards very similar and some inky fingers.... actually I managed to keep myself very clean for a change as normally once the inks are out I have a mad desire to go all grungy and start slapping paint and ink on canvas but the mojo wouldn't switch on to…