It is time for a new CASology challenge. Check out the latest challenge – September!

Here is my take:

I love autumn. It is probably my favorite season (flannel shirts, crunchy leaves, toasty fires….I mean come on!). Sadly, those things don’t really get into full swing until late September….but I now have a reason to celebrate September 1 – Animal Crossing. I am *addicted* to this game and starting Sept 1 the game begins its transition to autumn (in the northern hemisphere anyway). Bring on the maple leaves, mushrooms, acorns, and pinecones (and finally some new DIYs ;)!!

This card is my ode to the upcoming season!

It is pretty straight forward stamping & diecutting. To keep lots of white space I clustered and layered my elements. And just to give it some interest, I positioned it on the right.

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It is time for a new CASology challenge. Check out the latest challenge – Zodiac!

Here is my take:

I love astrology – for the fun of it…I know it shouldn’t rule decision making. So that is the message of my card….have fun, but follow your own star – do your own thing.

To make this card, I embossed the zodiac circle with a glitter embossing powder. The swoosh was hand-drawn and cut out. The star is cut from shiny gold paper…hard to get that to show.

I did take a photo of the glitter embossing:

Check back next week when I’ll have more inspiration from this challenge (hint: I’m a Leo ;)!

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There is still time to play along with the CASology challenge – TEA!

I thought I’d post some more inspiration for you:

When I was designing for this challenge I pulled together all of my tea-based images. I hadn’t used this set in forever and I was really feeling that sentiment. I just had to pair it all with this awesome Jane Austen pattern paper!

You have another week to get your card made – hope you join us!

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It is time for a new CASology challenge. Check out the latest challenge – Tea!

Here is my take:

My cards have been feeling a bit formulaic to me lately, so I wanted a different design. I decided to make my own pattern paper and use just a bit for a CAS design.

Check back next week when I’ll have more inspiration from this challenge!

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It is time for a new CASology challenge. Check out the latest challenge – Tall!

Here is my take:

When you are 5-foot-nothing, most things are tall 🙂

My first thought though was of the Eiffel Tower.

Check back next week when I’ll have more inspiration from this challenge – something a bit closer to home!

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There is still time to play along with the CASology challenge – Sweetheart!

I thought I’d post some more inspiration for you:

I don’t have too many “love” based sets. This is one I got because it was different. When I was laying out the design I realized I needed something to keep this one-layer card from being too boring. My mind saw the match and wanted to make it seem like the match set the paper on fire.

Of course then I decided why make it seem like it was on fire when I could just set my paper on fire! Don’t worry, I had adult supervision 🙂 I don’t have any matches, so I used toothpicks. I didn’t want the fire to look like it started on the edge but at the match location. I poked a hole the paper where the match head would be, and stuck the burning toothpick through – leaning it towards the top to force the burn in that direction. I will say, neither the toothpick nor the paper really made a flame, they both sorta simmered and I went through a few toothpicks to get the desired burn. So happy with how it turned out!

I added “flames” using colored vellum (which was die cut using flamingo wings!!). The matchstick head was hand cut from dark grey cardstock – and I did that mostly to hide the adhesive I needed to stick the vellum pieces together and to the card base.

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