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Thanks Art Teacher

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #73 – sketch.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #73

And here is my take:

by karen @ carefree creations - Thanks Art Teacher

The end of the school year is fast approaching (only 3 more weekends – eek!), so I am trying to get started on my thank you cards for all the teachers. This is for the art teacher.

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).

Thanks Teacher
Stamps: Positive Strokes, Just a Note, Smarty Pants (PS); Little Labels (PTI);
Ink/Cardstock: White, Dark Chocolate, Berry Sorbet, Winter Wisteria, Summer Sunrise, Hawaiian Shores (PTI);
Other: Little Labels die (PTI);

Flower Box for Mother’s Day

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by karen @ carefree creations - Flower Box

These box in a card projects have been showing up everywhere and I just had to try one! I used Sandi MacIver’s tutorial. Though I did make my flaps a tiny bit shorter (I scored the flaps at 2 1/2 instead of 2 3/4).

This was actually harder than I thought it would be, but for a first try, I think it turned out pretty good.

Oh and I am now out of Lucky Limeade paper – if anyone has some they’d be willing to sell, please let me know – this is one of my favorite colors!!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Mother’s Day
Stamps: Day Dreamer, Tag Its #2 sentiment, Tag Its #5 frame (PTI);
Ink/Cardstock: Blueberry Sky, White (PTI); Real Red, Lucky Limeade, Blushing Bride (SU);
Other: Day Dreamer dies (PTI); Lorelai Leaf die & Gentle Leaf die (Memory Box); old pattern paper (SU);
Technique: Card in a Box;

Stand Under the Stars

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #72 – colors.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #72

And here is my take:

by karen @ carefree creations - Stand Under the Stars

These stamp sets may have been out for a year, I only recently bought them. And this card is the reason. That sentiment is awesome and I decided I just had to have it.

I CASEd Pinefeather’s card – just changed up the sentiment and colors.

The background was made using a recent PTI Make-it-Monday tutorial: Water Splats. I used regular white cardstock and sponged on the ink then finished it up with water drops.

Originally I just stamped the star chart image with white ink but as it dried it pretty much just disappeared so I re-stamped (as close to the original placement as I could get) and heat embossed with white powder.

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).

Stand Under the Stars
Stamps: Star Gazer, Star Gazer Additions (PTI);
Ink/Cardstock: White, Black (PTI); Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight, Bermuda Bay (SU);
Other: sponges; Versamark & white embossing powder;
Technique: Water Splats (PTI MIM#161); heat embossing;

May Stamp Camp Cards

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Wow, my youngest kiddo has been out of school for a couple days (teacher work-days) and that means I’m not up there volunteering and THAT means more time at the stamp table…and boy have I been stamping!

May is just around the corner and my mom asked me to make a couple cards for her to use at stamp camp. The camp is all about retiring products. I squeezed as many as I could onto these cards!

First up, Fabulous Florets:

by karen @ carefree creations - Fabulous Florets

I stamped the leafy greens a couple times onto the Vanilla panel. The two flowers are hand-cut. The sentiment frame is done using the Designer Frames embossing folder (another retiring product). After I embossed my scrap paper, I cut the frame out and adhered it with dimensionals.

My other card uses Zoo Review:

by karen @ carefree creations - Zoo Review

Another clean and simple card (surprise, lol). Mom wanted a masculine card for this set. The Crumb Cake panel is sitting right-justified on a Midnight Muse card base. The card base is stamped (sideways) with the Woodgrain background to give that little strip peeking out a bit of texture.

Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday Wishes
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Bring on the Cake;
Ink/Cardstock: Raspberry Ripple, Very Vanilla, Gumball Green, Primrose Petals, Chocolate Chip;
Other: Designer Frames embossing folder;
Wonderful Day
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Zoo Review, Bring on the Cake, Woodgrain;
Ink/Cardstock: Midnight Muse, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Summer Starfruit;

Embroidered Blog Hop

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Papertrey Ink April Blog Hop is all about embroidered inspiration!
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And here is my card:

by karen @ carefree creations - Mother's Day Stitches

Since I had just purchased the Solid Stitches & Swirls set, I knew I wanted to use that, and with Mother’s Day just around the corner the theme was set too. I chose bright happy colors.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Mother’s Day
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Stitches & Swirls, Solid Stitches & Swirls, Happy Day;
Ink/Cardstock: Black, White, Winter Wisteria, Berry Sorbet (PTI); Lucky Limeade (SU); Orange Fizz (MFT);
Other: Happy Day die (PTI); White embossing powder (Hero Arts);
Technique: heat embossing;

Fine Feathers

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #71 – sketch.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #71

And here is my take:

by karen @ carefree creations - Fine Feathers

If you follow my blog, you’ll know this card is actually my second attempt. For this card I wanted a more simple card – both in design and color. I decided the blocks in the background could be stamped images and the colors would be more calming.

Since the longest feather was also quite skinny, I decided to make my card a 4 1/4″ square card.

FYI – this feather set is being retired by StampinUp – as is the sentiment and embossed frame!

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).

Thinking of You
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Fine Feathers, Sweet Essentials;
Ink/Cardstock: Soft Sky, Naturals White, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso;
Other: Designer Frames embossing folder;

Belated Birthday

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by karen @ carefree creations - Belated Birthday

So this here is a sneaky peek at tomorrow’s challenge…shhhh! My blog doesn’t have but a few followers, so I feel pretty safe in posting this.

You might be wondering why I’m posting this card instead of using it for tomorrow’s challenge post. It is because – to ME – this is not CAS…and tomorrow’s challenge is a clean-and-simple (CAS) challenge. I know to some folks this card, with its limited layers and simple design would indeed be considered CAS – and that is fine! – but for me, this is not CAS (I think it is the busy pattern paper).

But, I do like the card! It is fun and festive – something I definitely wanted to convey since it is belated.

And I used a stamp set whose images have yet to see ink (we’ll just pretend that we don’t know I got this set back in 2008, shall we?).

I did try a bit of a technique – the name of which is totally escaping me – on the background. The concept is that you emboss two pieces of paper together so they become embedded and appear seemless.

Just 4 more weeks of school!! Then I’m done with volunteering and PTA and maybe I can get back to doing some stamping! … at least until August 😉

Thanks for taking a peek!

Belated Birthday
Stamps: Stylish Sentiments: Birthday (PTI);
Ink/Cardstock: Pure Poppy, White, Dark Chocolate, Berry Sorbet (PTI); Cocoa (Momento);
Other: Lime Twist pattern paper (MME); Square Lattice embossing folder (SU); Mat Stack 6 die (PTI);

Shades of Grey

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #70 – colors.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #70

And here is my take:

by karen @ carefree creations - Shades of Grey

This was my first attempt at using embossing paste and a stencil. I definitely need to work on technique! I’m not sure how I got so much paste squished under the stencil, I did tape it down quite well. I suppose practice will help.

To do the gradated colors, I started with plain white paste and added re-inker drops.

Stamping on the paste also made a bit of a mess – it bled too much (but that was probably my fault as I was using lots of pressure to get between the paste – in hindsight I should have just used a marker to fill in). Live and learn!

I do like the concept of 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).

Happy Birthday
Stamps: Wet Paint (Papertrey Ink);
Ink/Cardstock: White (PTI); Basic Black, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, (SU);
Other: Gradated Blocks stencil (Simon Says); Embossing Paste (Dreamweaver);
Technique: stencil and embossing paste;

Sweet Strawberry Wishes

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #69 – sketch.

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #69

And here is my take:

by karen @ carefree creations - Sweet Birthday

I decided to make my card a window card. And, score, this is a one layer card!

To make the windows, I used a square die from the Make a Wish die set.

Here is the inside:

by karen @ carefree creations - inside

I like this because I have a hard time writing on such a wide canvas, now it feels more comfy.

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).

Have a Sweet Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Strawberry Patch, Strawberry Patch Sentiments;
Ink/Cardstock: White, Pure Poppy, Black (PTI); Gumball Green (SU);
Other: Make a Wish die;
Technique: window

Party Words

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It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #67 – sketch.

CAS Colours & Skethes Challenge #67

I’m on spring break – which means I have no idea what day it is! Apparently it is Thursday and I forgot to create a card for the latest CAS Colours & Sketch challenge – eek! Thankfully this is a great basic sketch and I was able to get a card done in no time!

And here is my take:

by karen @ carefree creations - Party Words

I have a bunch of male birthdays coming up in April, so I designed a card to use for one of them.

I’ve been wanting to buy the Hardwood background stamp from StampinUp (have you seen the awesome creations out there??). But I already have 2 border stamps that are similar, so I made myself use one of them to make sure that the results would make me happy so I could skip another purchase. I am quite happy with the result (I know I wouldn’t use the Hardwood on every card, so using a border stamp a few times to create a background is no hardship).

Of course, I didn’t line it up all that well and came up with an oops. But I just used a marker to fill in the gap and you can’t even tell! Check it:

oops - mind the gap

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).

Celebrate
Stamps: Sugar Rush, Word Salad, Group Hugs (Paper Smooches); Background Basics: Farm & Barn (PTI);
Ink/Cardstock: Soft Stone (PTI); Sahara Sand, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Marina Mist (SU); Black (Hero Arts);
Other: Word Bubbles dies (Paper Smooches);