It is time for another CASology challenge. Check out the latest challenge – Swoon!

Here is my take:

I wasn’t sure what direction I wanted to go with this cue, so I asked my family for advice. My kid said they picture an old woman clutching her pearls and fainting. That got me thinking of a hanky.

I die cut some linen vellum with a stitched and scalloped edge – to look like a hanky. I embossed a flower and leaves in the corner and colored them on the back using Copics. Some of the color stuck in the crevices of the linen vellum which unfortunately looks like adhesive, but I only put adhesive behind the pearl and down the stitching of just the center leaves.

Originally the layout was the vellum at the bottom of the card and the sentiment on the vellum, but the contrast was too much. My kid suggested putting the vellum at the top and leaving the sentiment at the bottom. It worked!

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Eeeek! I joined the CASology design team! My thanks go out to Melissa and the team!! Today is a new challenge – Late.

And here is my take:

When I first saw this cue card I had lots of ideas – one of my favorites was “pregnancy” but I just didn’t have supplies to do anything for it…dern! My helpful family said I could do a sympathy card (for the euphemism of “being late”), but I thought that might be a bit too sassy for a new team member. So I put my brain back in gear and realized my library books are due tomorrow.

Collages can be hard on a CAS card. I selected just a few images and stamped them close together/overlapping to make it seem like one image. And there is still plenty of white space. To help give some dimension, I fussy-cut the sentiment and popped it up with dimensional adhesive.

The scribble circle around “Past Due” is from the PTI It’s Official set. The image has an A+ within the loop. I cut my stamp apart then I was able to stretch the circle when placing it on the block so it would fit around the words which were in the same set.

I hope you join us at CASology – and, for more inspiration, check out the other design team members:

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