CAS Let it Snow

Good morning!  I hope this finds you off to a good start for the week. The season may be fall, but we have had some unusually cold weather last week with snow at the 8000 ft level.  Lucky for me I am only at 3200 ft elevation and we only had the cold and not the snow.  I am so not ready for the white stuff.  I do like              stamping snowflakes though and have tons of them in my stash.  

I am working on my CAS skills.  I actually completed this card in less than 30 minutes.....a new CAS record for me. :)  I started with some Gina K. Designs kraft cardstock (this is the best kraft cs on the market IMHO) and embossed it with the Snowflakes CB EF at the top and very bottom of the card, leaving a little ditch for my sentiment.  The sentiment is from Verve's Holiday Phrases set and the snowflake is from Penny Black.  The date on the side of the snowflake is 2001 and I bet that I have had it since then.....it has been well loved!  The stamping and distressing were done with the new seasonal Gathered Twigs Distress ink.  The red print is from the Memory Box Distressed Dot collection.  We all love our bling so I finished my card off with a few red gems.  Who doesn't love a little sparkle?

Todays card is for two challenges:  The Outlawz Sunday CAS1009 challenge which was to use your favorite stamp(s) and the CR84FN40 challenge which is to use: red, brown and kraft.  Isn't their graphic beautiful?
 

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Let It Snow

I must be dreaming of a little cooler weather, although we have had pretty decent weather here in my part of California.  I just want  to give a little shout out to those who have not been so blessed by old Mother Nature.  I hope things will get better soon. If only we could tip the US just a bit and allow the flooding to run toward Texas some and give them a little relief from the horribly hot and now firey summer. 

I don't think I have ever played along with the Sketch For You ToTry (SFYTT) sketch challenge (although,  I check it out every month).  I decided it was about high time I gave Jen's awesome sketches a try so I jumped in with both feet and combined it with the yummy colors from the CR84FN37 challenge. 

As you can see, I took some creative liberties with the sketch.  The truth be told, I will usually print the sketch or take Mr. Lappy into the studio with  me, but not this time.  I was sure my oh so photograpic memory (not) would get me by.  Hmmm, maybe I should re-think that approach.  :)

Not alot of uber cool techniques going on with this card, however  I did use the beautiful Memory Box Bianca snowflake die to create a ghost effect on the kraft background by laying the die randomly on the card and tapping it here and there with Tea Dye distress ink.  I wasn't looking forward to adding bits and pieces of foam tape to the back of thes snowflake so I just sandwiched it between two turquoise buttons.  The smaller is the one you can see and underneath is one a bit bigger.  I did pull the twine between both of the buttons hoping this will hold the snowflake in place.  So far, so good.  The sentiment is from the Verve Holiday Phrases set.  Love the simple font Julee used in this little set. 

One last note, I added a "For Sale" page to my blog.  You can find it at the top left of my blog and I would love for you to check out my list.  I will be adding things often as I wade through my studio.

See you soon,

Scraptastic Butterfly

Happy Wednesday!

Whew, it is finally heating up here in Central CA!  We will be in the low 100's all week.  We have been pretty lucky so far this year as we usually reach the higher temps much earlier in the summer season.  Lucky for me, I have lots of fans in my house because when I got in from work last night, the air had been running all day............but the house was hotter than heck.  Yep, the central air seems to be on the fritz and I am waiting for the repairman to show up at anytime.  I am keeping my fingers crossed that it is just the thermostat and it will be an easy fix.  In the meantime, I decided to do a little stamping.

I love the CR84FN color challenges and especially like that they are running two weeks long right now.  I would love it if they stayed that way, as it gives me a bit more time to get the challenge done before the next one comes along.  The current challenge (CR84FN36) is to use the following colors:

At first, I thought these colors were going to be a bit tricky for me to work with as I don't use alot of yellow (especially as a main focus) as a general rule.  I really like this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch 131 so I decided to pair the two up and this is what I came up with.  This card measures 4 3/4" square.  I inked up the adorable Cocoa Bean Butterfly from Memory Box in Scattered Straw Distress ink and stamped it onto a piece of cream cardstock several times and then again onto a scrap which I cut out and layered up with some foam tape.  The Penny Black sentiment (one of my favs) is inked up in Memento Rich Cocoa and stamped over the butterflies.  The kraft base card was embossed with a leafy embossing folder and then edged with a bit of Tea Dye Distress ink.  All of the cardstock used was from my scrap pile. :)

stamping hugs,

CSS Treasure Box Blog Hop

Hello!  Today I am teaming up with my friends from the Gina K. Designs Center Stage Alumni as we open up our Treasure Box with you all.  We have decided to pull out our GKD sets and use the sentiments and quotes as the focal image for our projects.  

You should have arrived here from Miesje Flach's awesome blog, if not you can go back to StampTV and start from the beginning. 

I chose to use a quote from the Hang in There set that was illustrated by Theresa Momber.  In addition to this quote, there are several adorable wildlife creatures that are sure to put a smile on your face.  I started with a Green Apple card base and then ran in through the Cuttlebug with a Sizzix embossing folder.  I layered a piece of print paper from October Afternoon to a piece of Sweet Corn cardstock.  The quote is stamped in Tuxedo Black ink onto a cream panel and edged with some Antique Linen distress ink.  The card was finished off with some ribbon and Prima flowers.

Make sure to leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (June 28th), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs who will get a stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95!

Play along with us.....create a card or project using this inspiration image and then post it to the StampTV Forum on the blog hop thread - we'd love to see what you create!!!


Now I am going to send you on to Lori McAree's blog so you can check out her amazing creation. 

I am also entering this card in the CR84FN32 challenge which was to use the colors yellow, aqua and green
See you soon,

Thanks

Hello, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed Mother's Day as much as I did.  I had a nice visit with my Mom and my sister.  My sister made a yummy lemon blueberry cake. It was sooooo good! 

The card I am sharing is one I made a couple of weeks ago and never managed to get it posted.  The colors were inspired from the CR84FN24 challenge which were to use:  Light Blue, Aqua and Cream.  The layout was taken from Clean and Simple FTL137.  

Well, I will leave you now as I haven't stamped much in the last couple of weeks and I need to head to the studio and get creating.  Thank you to all of you who visit and help to cheer me on with this amazing craft, hobby, obsession of mine.  I appreciate each and every one of you.

Think Pink!

Good Morning!

Today I am sharing another card that I created with the sweet Spring Basket set from Gina K. Designs.  I choose to use this weeks CR84FN17 color challenge (did you see, I made their top 3 last week--squealing with joy) as my color inspiration and Monday's STVSKSP15 sketch challenge from StampTV.

I took a little creative liberty with the sketch and turned the squares on end.  I colored the beautiful daisy spray with Copics and then punched three 1" squares and layered them to some light pink, bright pink and chartreuse graduated squares.  The light pink panel was embossed with my very favorite Textile Texture Cuttlebug folder. Ribbon and bling were added to finish off the card.

Recipe:

Stamps:  Spring Basket-Gina K. Designs

Paper:  PL Passionate Pink-GKD, Lt. Pink-Stash, White-Neenah Solor White

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Extras:  Ribbon, Rhinestones, Sakura Glitter pen

Flowers for You

Hello and happy Wednesday!  I hope the weather is behaving where you are because it isn't behaving like I would like it to here.  Rain and snow are on the way again.  Enough already!   I have a Spring inspired card to share with you today.  If only Spring would hurry up and get here. 

I am so excited to share today's card with you.  Several weeks ago I received an e-mail from the very talented Melanie Muenchinger asking me if I would like to guest design for her.  Of course, I got right back to here and said HECK YA!  I love Melanie's floral sets and this one is another hit! The set I have been blessed to work with is called Spring Basket and is available now at Gina K. Designs. The sentiment is from Melanie's A Year of Flowers set.  The sketch was created by the talented Suzanne Dean for one of the GKD Release Party challenges.  Of course, I am a couple of days late for the challenge, but that is how I roll these days!  I chose to work with the colors for this week's CR84FN16 Color Challenge.  The challenge this week was to use Light Pink, Medium Violet and Gray.  It is so hard to see in this pic, but the print paper behind the beautiful basket of flowers is some old, old light gray/white diamond pattern paper that I found while recently trying to "organize" my paper stash.  I glittered up the flowers with some Spica glitter pens, added some pink twine and called it good. 

For those of you who have been sending your thoughts and prayers for my Mom, I am pleased to say she is doing well after her surgery last Friday.  I am off to visit with her today. :)

Recipe:

Stamps:  Spring Basket, A Year of Flowers-GKD

Paper:  all from my stash-----yippee!

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Extras:  Twine, Copics, Spicas, Rhinestones, Flourishes

Hugs,