This card probably looks familiar.... you've seen one a lot like it on a post just a few weeks ago. You can see that HERE. I cute a lot of extra flowers and leaves when I did that first card so I kept them and have used them on this card as well.... and I've made another card using the flowers that you'll see at some point...
I just love these Stampin' Up! Pierced Blooms dies...
A brand new clean and simple challenge with AAACards starts today... and we've got a new idea for you! We're calling this one, the inchie. EVERYTHING you put on this clean and simple card must fit within one inch. As always we have an optional twist as well... this time it's to keep your card black and white. You up for the challenge? If yes, link up your cards HERE for your chance to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge! Our guest designer for Game #185 is Hannelie. Be sure to check out her fabulous blog!
I had a few ideas for my card... but this is what I settled on...
In designing this card, I realized I have very few stamps that fit in a one inch area! I cut my black cardstock to 3/4" square, embossed the little snail in white and then stamped the Wish Big right under the black square. I love the contrast of the Wish Big sentiment with such a little image.
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For someone who loves patterned paper, I sure haven't used it much in the past years. It doesn't lend to my usual clean and simple style. So I am trying to use it more often. I'm so glad I found Call Me Crafty Al's Sheetload of Cards idea.... she posts a new template every month where you can make a "sheetload" of cards but she also provides the measurements so that you can make just one card. As I don't often feel the need to have a bunch of cards the same, I am doing the one card ideas.
Hello March!! I am excited that it is March... the days are getting longer, spring is in the air and we are all that much closer to sandal weather! We've had a pretty good winter here in Calgary, but I'm over it and ready for spring!
It's time for another challenge with the team at CASology... our cue for this challenge is LUCK! We want to see your lucky cards. Share your cards with us HERE for your chance to be asked to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge! Be sure to check out what the rest of the design team has done with this cue word at the CASology Blog.
Vicki D is the host for the next Addicted to CAS challenge! For the next two weeks, please share with your clean and simple cards using the code word ANIMAL for your chance to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge. Today, we have Jen Mitchell joining as our guest designer.
I hope you've all had a chance to watch the video of my craft room that I posted yesterday. Remember to leave a comment and to visit the rest of the blogs in the CASology Hop for your chance to win a gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp!
A few weeks ago I ordered a bunch of Spectrum Noir Tri Blend markers... I love that the light, medium and dark shades are all in one pen. I thought I'd love the bullet tip, but I've gotten so used to the brush tip on my Tombows and my Copics that I actually find it difficult to colour with the bullet tip. And while I ordered a set of like 24 pens, I find I don't quite have the colours I want. I'm not ruling them out yet, but so far my Copics are winning this race.
I talked about these markers, because I used them to colour this image. I am NOT great at colouring. I have mentioned it before. I don't have the patience to do it right. I have the knowledge as I took a Copic course at CHA (now Creativation) many years ago, but I guess I just don't "get it". I don't translate a light source very well is part of the problem. And again, I don't have the patience either.
All that being said, sometimes you just need to colour an image and it's good to have good tools on hand to do so.
It's time for another clean and simple challenge with the group at AAACards! I hope you're all having as much fun with our bi-weekly prompts as we are! As always, share your cards with us HERE for your chance to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!
I find myself sending more cards to family and friends "just because" in the last several months. It's been difficult not having my sister come to visit, not spending time with friends in person. I have video chatted so much in the last 11 months and am thankful for that option, but it is only an OK substitute for being with my people in person.
This is a card I will send to someone, just because. A little piece of sunshine for in their mailbox. I sure look forward to delivering those hugs in person!
Welcome to a new challenge with the wonderfully clean and simple team at CASology! We are a clean and simple loving group of card makers who share a cue every two weeks and encourage people to play along with us! You don't usually do clean and simple cards? Well how about challenging yourself and giving it a shot?!
For the next two weeks, we want to see your cards with a FOX theme... head to the CASology blog to see how the rest of the design team interpreted the cue... I know some will make you giggle (cuz they made me giggle!).
I was gifted this adorable Trinity Stamps stamp set by my friend Ardyth... I am not all that wonderful at colouring (I honestly don't have the patience to learn how to do it better) but I think I did OK with this one...
Hello friends... I'm back with another post for Scrap 'n Stamp Canada. Since the pandemic started, we've been encouraging people to make and send cards to family and friends... and to help with the creativity, we have a different idea for each day. Today, the word is SQUARE. My first thought was to make a square card, but then I thought about all of that patterned paper I own and I decided to put together a card with squares!
Hi Everyone! I'm trying hard to find a rhythm to posting on my blog. With working full time and trying to do things other than make cards (TV, reading, crochet, games with my family) I certainly don't have enough cards to be able to post daily. There are some days that are dictated since I'm on a handful of design teams... but that alone isn't enough. I spent some time on the weekend putting together my February calendar of posts.
Or maybe I need to spend a few days creating my heart out to create a surplus of cards so I can post daily. We can dream, but it ain't going to happen LOL!
Here I am, playing with patterned paper again... I'm trying *really* hard to use what I have.... and I may or may not have recently gotten more! I love patterned paper, but I don't use it very often! You'll see me playing with it more because I really truly am trying!
Happy Friday crafty friends! It's the first Friday of February, which means that the design team Scrap 'n Stamp Canada is HOPPING! Our theme for February is "Puppy Love"....
Be sure to visit each blog in the hop and leave a comment to increase your chances of winning a $50 gift certificate to Scrap 'n Stamp!
I had fun with this one... still sort of clean and simple but with a little more detail than you're used to seeing from me.
Now it's time for you to hop along to see what the rest of the Scrap 'n Stamp design team has created for this fun hop! Like I said, make sure to leave comments on each post along the way to increase your chances of winning a $50 gift certificate from Scrap 'n Stamp!
Nancy <-- you are here!
It's Tuesday, so it must be time for another challenge with the team at CASology! As you can see from the cue card, we want to see your clean and simple creations using the word "envelope" as your cue. Share your card with us for your chance to be a guest designer for an upcoming challenge!
I am constantly amazed at how fast time goes by.... here we are at the end of January already! I don't mind when the cold winter months fly by, but it sure does suck with the spring and summer ones fly too!
I did a ombre look on these letters with a blending brush and ink and I'm really happy with how they look.
I think I am struggling with getting my non-Christmas mojo back. I've made some cards but none of them (so far) have been cards I love. They are OK, but they all looked different in my head than how they showed up in reality.
It's time for me to build up my birthday card stash again... and to use up some of these wonderful patterned papers I have in my stash! My sister and my friend Bonnie and I got together on Zoom last weekend and I managed to get a few cards done. I always struggle with getting back in to the swing of non-Christmas cards...
I was inspired by a card I saw on Instagram by @icardink.... I made the one on the left first and both Bruce (my hubby) and my good friend Bonnie said I needed to have something behind the snowflakes. They both prefer the card on the right, but I still prefer the card on the left!
When I saw these Photoplay Christmas gnome stamps and dies, I just had to have them... and then I promptly ignored them until late in to my card making season. I love the simplicity of this card.... and that gnome is just so stinkin' cute!
Entered in to the challenge at Color Hues
I am SO very excited to share with you that I've been chosen to join the design team at Addicted to CAS! Yup, another clean and simple card challenge blog! You will see posts from me every two weeks about these new challenges and I hope to see you playing along!
The challenge has been on a break since the summer so this is the first post in a while... but the design team is ready to play!
Happy New Year, Craft Friends!!! I hope you have had a wonderful holiday season, despite restrictions and whatever else might be going on in your part of the world. 2021 will start the same as 2020 left off, but I think we are all hopeful for how the year will play out.
All I know for sure is that I plan on being crafty! Maybe not as much as in 2020, but as much as I can! I look forward to going to crops again, crafting with friends... I've really missed that. Zoom craft days are OK but never quite the same as being in the same room.
It is the first Friday of the month so the gals from the Scrap 'n Stamp Design Team are here with our first Blog Hop of 2021! We have all been playing with the Slimline Die System from Picket Fence Studios. I have made slimline cards in the past, I'm talking many years ago, but they aren't always my favourite to create. The idea of them has taken off in the last several months and many of the big companies have come out with products that make the process (and measurements) a little easier. I will definitely try to make some more now that I have this great die set!
Please be sure to leave a comment on each stop on the hop (listed below) for your chance to win your own Picket Fence Slimline Die Cutting System from Scrap 'n Stamp Canada!!! In addition, place an order to celebrate the new year and use the code "finally 2021" for 21% off your regularly priced items!!
I paired this die set with some stamps and dies by My Favorite Things... and came up with this card....
