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Pastel Botanicals

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #88 – colours.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #88

And here is my take:

Pastel Botanicals - by karen @ carefree creations

Such sweet colors for this challenge. I admit, the first thing I thought of was a baby card…but I don’t need one of those. Instead I went with a birthday theme.

With the yellow and green colors being pastel, I knew the brown would be the focal, so I kept that reserved for the sentiment. I chose to use the colors to create a background.

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Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

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A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Happy Birthday
Stamps: Botanicals 1 & 2 (Paper Smooches);
Ink/Cardstock: Cream (PTI); So Saffron, Pistachio Pudding, Baked Brown Sugar (SU);
Other: Birthday Words die (Paper Smooches);

Silver & Poppies

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #87 – sketch.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #87

And here is my take:

Plum Poppies - by karen @ carefree creations

This is such a classic sketch, I decided to make my card fairly classic too.

I started by wrapping my card base with silver satin ribbon – it is secured with regular tape under the poppy panel. The poppy panel is outlined with a silver pen and the sentiment is silver embossed.

I watercolored the poppies; they are a bit darker in person.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

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A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Birthday Wishes
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Pleasant Poppies, Four You;
Ink/Cardstock Colors: Island Indigo, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla, Black; Versamark ink;
Other: silver pen, silver embossing, silver ribbon;
Technique: watercoloring;

Patriotic Hello

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #86 – colors.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #86

And here is my take:

Patriotic Hello - by karen @ carefree creations

My nephew is at West Point for college. He has been there since the first week of July and isn’t allowed online or any outside interaction except mailed notes/cards. So this one is for him!

I was going to try to do some negative/positive die-cutting wizardry, but that didn’t work out so well, lol. Instead, I die cut the ‘hello’ from the circle, then I die cut ‘hello’ from both blue and cream. I layered the cream onto the blue and fit it into the circle. I did the layering because I wanted the tiny bit of shadow to help the letters outside of the circle stand out.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

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A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Hello
Stamps: Star Prints, Let Freedom Ring, Super Stars (PTI);
Ink/Cardstock: Scarlet Jewel, Cream (PTI); Night of Navy (SU);
Other: circle die (Spellbinders); hello die (My Favorite Things);

My Sunshine

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #85 – double.

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And here is my take:

My Sunshine - by karen @ carefree creations

I started a card for this challenge and it morphed into this because I loved the concept enough I had to figure out how to make it work.

It may not be too obvious at first glace, the Smoky Slate color is the “silver lining” to the clouds. I die-cut the clouds from both white and gray and adhered them together a just a slight off-set.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

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A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

My Sunshine
Stamps: Textile Rectangle (My Favorite Stamps); Hello Sunshine (PTI);
Ink/Cardstock: White (PTI); Crushed Curry, Lost Lagoon, Smoky Slate (SU);
Other: Cloud dies (MFT);

Too Much Happy

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #84 – sketch.

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And here is my take:

Too Much Happy - by karen @ carefree creations

I chose to do a small square card (4 1/4″). I knew I wanted to have my sentiment in the circle so I started by finding a sentiment that would fit.

I built the card from there – since the sentiment was “happy”, I chose happy colors and a butterfly motif.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

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A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

too much happy
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Yippee-Skippee!, Papillon Potpourri, Handcarved;
Ink/Cardstock: Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz, White, Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Black; Versamark;
Other: Elegant Butterfly punch, Bitty Butterfly punch, Circles Collection framelits;

Big Thanks

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #83 – colors.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #83

And here is my take:

Big Thanks - by karen @ carefree creations

Of course these colors make me think flowers so I pulled a new-to-me set: Painted Flowers (these are so gorgeous).

I made this card a couple weeks ago because I had company coming and wanted to make sure I got my challenge card done. That same day I tried the layered die-cut idea on a card – but used all the same color. When I designed this card I figured I’d try again, but with different color cardstock – this one is white, perfect plum, and the bottom layer is elegant eggplant.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

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A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Thanks
Stamps: Painted Flowers (Altenew);
Ink/Cardstock: White (PTI); Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum, Mossy Meadow (SU);
Other: Big Thanks die (SimonSaysStamps);
Technique: layered die-cuts;

Mr & Mrs

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #82 – sketch.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #82

And here is my take:

Mr & Mrs - by karen @ carefree creations

Oh boy! I thought this was going to be a challenging sketch, but I had a couple ideas within a few minutes of looking through my stamp index. I am quite happy with how this turned out – and I kept it clean & simple!

One way I kept it CAS was to keep the colors down. Since it was lots of white on white, I embossed the background so that flat-white layers would stand out. I also used lots of dimensional adhesive! For the banner/flags I only adhered the ends (under the &) with tape, leaving the fish-tail ends to be free to pop-up some.

I normally don’t like to mess around with the layout of sentiments because I don’t want it to be hard to read. But I think by keeping the two sentiments (Mr & Mrs and forever & always) in two different colors, I managed to separate them. I do wish I had swapped the colors so the “focus” of the sentiment would be “forever & always”…that way I could do this as an anniversary card or wedding card – to me, this card is really best for a wedding since the “mr & mrs” is what is boldest.

Yes, very happy with how this turned out!

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

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I’m also going to submit this for the PaperSmooches Anything Goes Challenge 🙂

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A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Mr & Mrs
Stamps: We Connect (Paper Smooches);
Ink/Cardstock: White, Pure Poppy, Soft Stone (PTI); Black (Brilliance);
Other: Decorative Dots embossing (SU); Ampersands die (Paper Smooches); Heart Prints die (PTI);

Awesome

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #81 – colors.

CAS Colours & Sketches #81

And here is my take:

Awesome Thanks - by karen @ carefree creations

I decided to do a StampinUp only card for this challenge. I haven’t used Mosaic Madness in a very long time and I thought it would work well for these colors.

Originally, the tiles were going to be in a random “falling” array, but I don’t do random well, so these ended up lining up and making a pattern – I like it nonetheless 🙂 especially as I see space invaders in it, lol.

Now that I’m done I wish I had used a different sentiment (I’m not overly fond of the “grunge” look); this card should have had a bit more elegant font…oh well – next time.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Awesome
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Yippee Skippee, Mosaic Madness;
Ink/Cardstock: Crumb Cake, White, Basic Grey, Strawberry Slush;
Other: Elegant Lines embossing folder, Mosaic punch;

Drinks on the Beach

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #80 – sketch.

CAS Colours & Skethes Challenge #80

And here is my take:

Drinks on the Beach - by karen @ carefree creations

This is my final challenge this month. I thought it would be fun to get away from rectangles! Of course, since it is my challenge I used the same shape for my card that I used when creating the challenge graphic – but you can use any shape! I hope you join us!

I haven’t played with my StampinUp supplies in awhile, so I thought I’d make an SU only card for this challenge. The only die that I have that would be big enough for a card is the Labels Framelits. Even then I didn’t use the largest size!

I kept the card design simple and just added a little white outline to help finish the card.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Cheers!
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Happy Hour;
Ink/Cardstock: Soft Sky, Crumb Cake, Indigo Island, various markers;
Other: Label framelits; white gel pen;

Reason to Smile

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #79 – colors.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #79

And here is my take:

Reason to Smile - by karen @ carefree creations

These sherbert-y colors are so wonderful. I wanted to do a summer popsicle card, but I don’t have any popsicle stamps (OK, I have one, but it is too small for what I wanted to do). So I had to find another idea.

I looked through my inspiration file and came up with a dozen or so ideas. While trying to make one idea work, I designed this card instead (yeah, that’s how my brain works).

To complete the sentiment panel, I started by die-cutting the Phrase Play die from white paper. Then I backed the “you are my…” part with black paper. My original plan was to just leave that part of the sentiment so that it looked sorta-graphic (with out the letter middles), but I don’t know if it is just me or because it is a scripty font, but I decided I needed those little middle bits (thankfully I kept all the little pieces when I did the die-cutting). I popped the words back into place and use them to position the middle pieces.

The sub-sentiment (“reason to smile”) is stamped on the card base. I used a light pencil mark around the sentiment panel to make sure I didn’t get any flowers stamped so that they would show in that space.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Lizy
Louise
Patricia

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Reason to Smile
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Mini Blooms, Bigger Blooms, Phrase Play #1;
Ink/Cardstock: White, Black (PTI); Winter Wisteria, Coastal Cabana, Crisp Cantaloupe (SU);
Other: Phrase Play #1 die;