This is my other card for the CAS DT Search. The challenge was to use pop-up dots to add dimension and height. I used dimensionals to keep the wings of the butterfly up.

I made it to the next round of the CAS DT search! There are two challenges this time. One challenge is to make a card with a moveable part. To me interactive cards always end up not CAS, so I was a little stumped at first, but then this very simple idea came to me! I stamped the arms on another piece of paper, cut them out and added a brad. Lifted the layer with dimensionals and now I have a simple card with movement!

The best part is this is a stamp set that I *had* to have (a few years ago) and never inked up! Gotta love that!

I got a chance to play with my new sets today! I am in love with this set! I’ve been wanting a good rainbow image and clouds. The die cuts make working with this set so easy.

I colored the rainbow and balloon with Copics. I’m still not sure I know what I’m doing, but I do like working with them. I’m not sure I like the highlights on the balloon – I’m thinking since nothing else in the scene has highlights or shadows I shouldn’t have created them in the balloon. That’s what happens when you create on the fly!

This month’s PTI Blog Hop is about felt. I’ve had this idea in my head since they released the egg die, but until May’s release I didn’t have enough colors of felt. Thankfully my box of PTI goodies arrived yesterday and I was able to pull this off (though we won’t talk about how many cards I ruined trying to accomplish the frame embossing!).

This week’s Clean & Simple challenge on SCS is all about summer (cas68). Usually summer means sleeping in for me and more tv time for the girls. Not exactly something that you need a card for One thing I miss from back home are the giant sunflowers mom has in her garden. Sunflowers are my favorite flower.

This card was pretty simple – just a few die cuts and a sentiment. The label is actually a Canvas Cut from StampinUp that I grabbed from their clearance rack for just a few bucks (what a deal!!). The flower center is a giant brad that I added dots to using my Galaxy Marker.

Jen, the hostess of the CAS challenge on SCS, is looking for the next design team. The challenge (Sum2010CAS1) was to have a person as your focal image. I only have a few people type images – most of them Bellas. The theme for this design call is amusement park. As soon as I saw my HuggyBella image I thought it looked a lot like a photo they take when you go to an amusement park.

The other requirement for the card was to use fun/funky ribbon. This ribbon is about as funky as my current collection gets – and I thought the colors in it would be good for the image. I had to keep the card simple, which actually wasn’t too hard since the Bella image is so big.

I wasn’t sure what to do for a sentiment, but this one also fit the amusement park theme quite well. It was too long to just stamp directly on the background, so I did this fun flag – even using a paintbrush handle to add curves. Again, this calls in the amusement park feel.

Thanks for taking a peek!

I needed a card to send with the goodies for my latest round of DSS contest winners. I went simple because I needed four cards. I chose this stamp set because I had already embossed the Kiwi background and I needed something that would “go” (my original idea being to complicated to do four cards).

The rhinestone started out clear, but I colored it with a Copic. I am really starting to enjoy using these markers!

I recently joined a blog group on the PTI board. We chose the name Papertrey Pixies (I love that name). Unlike other groups we are doing monthly challenges (about all I can handle, lol). May is the first challenge and Teresa came up with a great one – create your own pattern paper (PTPC1). I love doing this! I was feeling in a bright-and-sunshiney mood today, so I went with another rainbow bouquet.

I love PTI but I am super excited that StampinUp will begin to sell a kraft colored ink. To get the kraft for this card I used CTMH’s Desert Sand and off-stamped, then used the 2nd generation impression. It is almost a perfect match!

I created this card for a past Clean & Simple Sketch (ftl86). This is a great sketch.

I chose to go the winter route because I wanted to use an image that wasn’t already over-used with this sketch (flowers, butterflies, etc.). I thought about a few options, but when I thought snowflakes this card popped right in. I love this Christmas Tree set.

This week’s challenge on the CAS forum on SCS is Shabby Chic (cas67). I would never think to pair clean and simple with shabby chic! I’ve always felt shabby chic is accomplished by lots of fru-fru and layers.

Shabby Chic is definitely not my style, but it was still fun to put together a little fru-fru. I think it needs something, I’m just not sure what. I think I need to add embossing to the background for texture, but I didn’t want a strong texture, so I wasn’t sure what to use. Feel free to leave suggestions!

The chipboard heart is so much pretty IRL. I took a plain chipboard shape, gave it a base coat of cream pigment ink and heat set. Then I covered that with Twink H20 (Golden Sand – which matches the kraft CS really well) and finished it up with a sprinkling of glitter. The piece reminds me of a sugar cookie which is sorta how I view shabby chic (a pain to put together nicely, but so worth it in the end).