CAS(e) This Sketch is another challenge I enjoy playing so I pulled up the current sketch to make another needed birthday card.

I seem to use this color scheme a lot for birthdays.

I trimmed the card to be 4 x 5.5 inches.

Since this is a fairly simple card, I added some Spica glitter pen accents to the poppers and confetti. You can’t see it in the photo, but in person it does add a nice touch.

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The third VSN Mini challenge is a color wheel challenge – use colors that are opposite on the wheel!

I made two cards! Here is the first:

When you look at a color wheel, there are 3 basic opposite pairings: red/green, orange/blue, and yellow/purple. Anytime I pair red/green I think Christmas, so I went with it!

To create this (and the next) card, I drew a light line on the card and aligned the square blocks. I eyeballed the space between the blocks.

Here is the second card, using a yellow/purple combo:

I chose a few different stamps from the set, but tried for ones that all included thick lines. I knew I wanted the sentiment to be the purple color, so I stamped the images alternating colors, starting with yellow.

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I found another CAS challenge!! This one is CAS on Sunday. Their challenge this week is Round & Round.

I made a one-layer card!

I knew I wanted to use a non-white color for my base, so I chose Sweet Blush. Before I picked my other colors, I took a scrap piece of Sweet Blush and stamped some colors on it to see how they would show up. I was surprised that they didn’t really change all that much.

The starburst images and the sentiment are embossed with silver. I added one large rhinestone to the center of the large flower because it needed something.

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I really wanted to spend all weekend getting inky, but I had an offer I couldn’t say no to (involving my other hobby – reading). But I squeezed in a bit of time this evening and came up with a card for a few challenges.

I didn’t get a chance to finish the second week of the Clean & Simple class at Online Card Classes, so I’m catching up now. This card is a one-layer card. I used off-set stamping to help give dimension and grouping and lines to draw the eye.

I used a layout from Papertrey’s current Anniversary festivities (sketch #5).

In addition, the current CAS-ual Friday challenge is to be inspired by a love song (cfc89). The song I used was “I just called to say I love you”. I know, my card says “hello” not “love you” – but there is a telephone and a heart on it!

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It is after 8pm, so the title may not be funny in the morning, but right now I’m feelin’ kinda clever 😉

So anywho…lesson 2 at Clean & Simple Cards (Online Card Classes) is about one layer cards. I don’t normally get into masking and other techniques (I take forever to do a simple stamped card, if you add any complexity and it may take me a week to complete). However! Debby Hughes provided a cool card where she used a die to deboss and it added some depth and interest to the card.

As I was going through my stamp index, I saw this flip-flop set and this idea immediately came to me.

The idea being the embossed flip-flops are the past footprints (maybe that is obvious??) and the ink splatters are sand granules.

I like the idea, but I think I could have done better in execution – and patience. I used Jennifer’s ink splatter idea, but lost patience in waiting for it to dry (I smooshed scratch paper down to soak up the extra water and just made ugly blobs instead – learn from my mistake!!). To try to cover that up I used an ink spritzing tool to add additional color spots.

Also I think I could have placed the flip-flops (both stamped and embossed) a little better for balance. BUT I’m pretty much a “done is done” gal.

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Today’s lesson at Online Card Classes was about one layer cards. Ack! I always have a hard time with these types of cards!

For this card I decided to take on an idea I’ve had in my head for while. I love this stamp set and when I first saw it I knew I wanted to do a gradient coloring. I chose gold because Maile has been rocking the gold lately and I chose coral because I recently pinned an inspiration that was gold and coral (and coral is just not-pink enough that I really like the color).

I lined up my card base on my grid paper and made sure I stamped everything straight. Again, I can’t say enough how well a juicy Versamark pad goes to good embossing. After embossing I colored in the sections with my Copics (R01, R02, and R05).

And those lovely markers allowed me to play along with CAS-ual Friday challenge too!

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