I was on a roll last night with my stamping, so I went ahead and worked on this week’s CAS challenge (cas81) – which was a color challenge.

I love this color combo – it is so refreshing. I went very simple with this card. I also used some stamps that haven’t had love (maybe ever). I am so happy that someone finally came out with kraft colored ink! My Hawaiian Shores doesn’t always stamp the right color, but I found a tip to ink up with Versamark first – I think that helped!

Man this photo needs some clorox though – I have such a hard time photographing white cards.

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It is time for a new CAS Design Team on SCS. The theme for this round of searching is High School (ugh!). The first challenge is “teacher’s pet” – open to any kind of interpretation.

This card was pretty fun to make. The “pattern paper” is not – I made it. The blackboard is PTI’s Smokey Shadow cardstock with MyABCs StampinUp wheel inked in white, then I hand wrote the letters (after a few practice runs, lol). I did the letters with white pencil to get the chalky look. The cool thing is if I really blundered I could erase!

I may have to make a few more of these to hand out to all the girl’s teachers this year!

One of my favorite stampers is Susan (aka LateBlossom on SCS – blog). She is a fabulous clean-and-simple stamper. She has a one-layer challenge every Wednesday. I love those challenges, but one-layer is hard for me. I’ve done just about all of them – but have only shared a couple of them.

This past Wednesday, her challenge was scene stamps (olw16). I have a few scene stamps and contemplated making a whole big scene, but in the end I opted for this simple stamp by Our Craft Lounge and coloring it with sunset colors.

My hubby is going on a trip later this week and I’ll tuck this in his suitcase before he goes.

I’m starting my Halloween cards (hopefully you won’t be sick of them by the time I’m done posting – I’ll try to post some non-Halloween cards to break it up). I loved this StampinUp set when I first saw it, but man, I found working with it to be somewhat difficult. Thankfully I found an awesome sketch from PageMaps (June 2010) that helped me lay this one out and I love it!

I colored the image with markers and cut them out. The ribbon is a fine fabric sorta thing. The SU Holiday Mini will have some cool black lace that would really work well on this card.

I think I am finally getting the hang of my sewing machine. While these lines are perfect straight, they are definitely much better than my usual!

This week’s Clean & Simple challenge on SCS was a sketch (cas80) based on a card by stampingout.

The green apple is actually a combo of colors. I started with a Green Galore apple but it was too bright. I over-stamped it with Pear Pizzaz (which on its own was too drab). I like how it turned out. This is definitely a big reason I love clear stamps!

After looking at the card for a bit, I decided to add the button. I’m not sure I like it, but it is there to stay.

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The latest challenge at Embellish Magazine Blog is a Cute & Clean style. I can do clean and I love cute, heck even the colors for the challenge were awesome.

The shading on the sentiment was done by coloring a bit with the Versamark marker.

My niece is heading back to college this week. I thought this card would be a good way to let her know that we’re thinking about her.

Last night I had extra energy so I decided to stamp. I was very inspired by a recent posting at A Creative Mint (Neon Pink). I loved the tiny touches of pink with everything else being black, white, and grey.

I decided I would use the Argyle set from PTI for my splash of pink. The grey buck in the picture had me looking for a majestic animal – which apparently I don’t own, lol. I went with attitude instead. This cat is actually from a halloween set, but without the sentiment, it can be used for any ole reason. I have a few bold alphabets, but I didn’t feel like lining up letters, so I went with the boldest sentiment set I have. I added the final touch of pink with a rhinestone where the collar would be.

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I know they shouldn’t, but dandelion’s make me happy! I love blowing those little poofs everywhere and watching the wind carry them far and wide.

This week’s CAS challenge on SCS (cas79) was a theme challenge – garden. I pulled out my favorite dandelion set and my (latest) favorite color and made a very happy card.

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I have too many stamps! Yes, I said it. I really need to do some purging. I think I haven’t yet because I unmount my stamps (completely – down to bare rubber) and I don’t know if that will keep people from wanting them – and I don’t want to deal with something like ebay. Anyway, I’m trying to use some of my older sets to help me decide what should go.

This card is made with two old Stampin Up sets – Simply Sweet (vases) and Alphabet Soup. I think I got Alphabet Soup free (because I can’t believe I spent money on it, it really isn’t my style). I got Simply Sweet when it retired. I really love border-like stamps but always have a hard time using them.

The layout is using the SCS Dirty Dozen July sketch. I thought it would be a perfect way to use the row of vases. Now if I could have colored the water better (i.e., chosen a better color) I would be much happier. Oh well.

The PTI Senior Design Team challenge this month was to use the old Spiral Bouquet set. I bought that set when it came out and have used it a few times – but not in a long time, so I thought I would play along.

I stamped the solid flowers directly on the card base. Then I used the spiral images over top and heat embossed glitter powder. For something different (at least from my normal), I used the Mat Stack 2 die for the sentiment.

I tried my hand at ruffled ribbon and um, it is harder than it looks, lol. I’m hoping it is just because my ribbon is so wide. I think I’ll have to try again with thinner stuff.