Pretty Pink Poppies

 Hello All,

Today I will be playing along with Cupcake Inspirations, Shopping Our Stash, Watercooler Wednesday, and Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenges! Here is my card for today, enjoy!

This card has a patterned paper base that was white with embossed areas. I thought it might resist like any heat embossed image you do by hand. And of course, I was correct. Not a huge stretch I know, but I was curious. I am inspired to use more patterned paper. I have a boat ton of it and need to slim down. That is until I see a paper pad I cannot live without. 😏

The poppies are from Altenew- Craft-a-Flower series. The entire design is feminine with shades of coral and mauve. I think the geometric brushed background is what gives it a modern feel.

The sentiment is from a retired SU set. I stamped on a dark, almost black, brown and heat embossed it the color of coral; not the traditional white I usually use.

Challenges Entered:

Cupcake Inspirations: #518- Mother's Day or Feminine Card

Shopping Our Stash: #444 - I Made This For You, Mom!

Addicted to Stamps and More!: Challenge #404- Any Occasion

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: WWC315- All Things Feminine

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy.

All the best,

Flowers in Vases

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For today I will be playing along with The Card Concept, Shopping our Stash, Watercooler Wednesday, and Addicted to Stamps and More! challenges. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

The vases remind me of a dish pattern my mother-in-law likes to collect. It is called Liberty Blue. It also reminds me of a pattern primarily on fabric called toile. Both have ornate floral, pastoral, or historic scenery. I wanted to depict those elements on my card. 

I stamped a retired SU stamp of florals on the background in graphite gray. This is the same floral pattern I used on the vases. I thought it depicted the toile fabric.

The flowers are from the My Monthly Hero Arts kit, January 2019. Nothing fancy to die-cut the flowers and brush on some color. I think it adds balance to all that is going on with the design. The strip sentiment mimics the same color as the background.

Challenges Entered:

The Card Concept: #154- Happy Mothers Day

Shopping Our Stash: #444 - I Made This For You, Mom!

Addicted to Stamps and More!: Challenge #404- Any Occasion

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: WWC315- All Things Feminine

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy.

All the best,

Keep Swimming!

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Let's try this a sixth time! You know what they say, 'sixth time's a charm'. UGH! For those of you who aren't aware I have tried numerous times to write this paragraph but Blogger isn't saving my work. So I put the paragraph in another program and saved it as a picture.  

Anyway, for today I will be playing along with Watercooler Wednesday, Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge, and yes, CASology. I will playfully plead my case later in this post. So, here is my card for today, enjoy! 

This a water die I got a couple of months ago. It comes with four dies which I layered to create the pool. I am going to bring my argument that indeed this is a CAS card. Why? Well, let's look at your guidelines. I will paste them here

1. One main image- The main image is the pool with the girl. I think it could count as one image because the subject goes together.
2. Lots of open space, uncluttered- YES! Lots of open space with one simple sentiment.
3. Limited layers & embellishments- Okay this is where it gets sticky. It does have layers but they are concentrated into one image, the pool does have a monochromatic color scheme and the outer layer is also the center of the pool thus eliminating a layer. 
4. Quick & easy to recreate: 10-15 minutes to create. Easy peasy. 

Mind you I do this in good fun and humor. Please don't take offense but I think I have made my case. Or should I say CAS? 

Simple sentiment for a simple card. It makes for a fantastic encouragement card. 

The center of the pool and the edging are both a very dark blue. It is hard to see in photos but in real life I promise it is blue 😉. The jumping girl is a die from Hero Arts July 2019 kit. Remember 2019?

Challenges Entered:

CASology: Week 371- Pool

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge: TTTC075

I am using Water, Blue, Pool

  

When I was pregnant with my daughter I used always say this to her in my head. I always get a giggle when I see this stamp while my daughter, now 14, just rolls her eyes! heheee..

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

In the Garden

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For today I will be playing along with Wednesday Creative Inspirations- In the Garden! I will also be playing along with NBUS, and Watercooler Wednesday. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

This a pic of the card laying flat. The sentiment is inside the card and gives plenty of room for a handwritten message inside behind all the 'clouds'.

This clearly demonstrates how the card is designed. The clouds surrounding the garden act as a good color buffer and, again, leaves lots of room for a written note.

I distressed the white clouds with Stormy Sky DI and colored the garden using Copic markers. The garden is a digi stamp from Power Poppy. All I did was print it out on regular computer paper (forgot to heavier CS in the printer), and colored it. The printer paper worked great with Copics! It has less of a tendency to bleed around the object you are coloring. I then adhered it to heavier CS and fussy cut around the garden.

The butterfly was printed twice and colored twice. The second butterfly was printed on CS scrap, colored, and then cut out. I adhered the butterfly by the body making the wings free to 'fly'.

Challenges Entered:

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: WWC282- Anything Goes

NBUS Challenge: Challenge #16

Wednesday Creative Inspirations: July Challenge - In The Garden!

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

Celebrate!

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Today I will be playing along with Watercooler Wednesday and CAS(E) this Sketch. The U.S. just celebrated our Independence Day and thought this card would be appropriate. I left the sentiment ambiguous so I could be used for either a birthday, holiday party (well, not yet anyway), or anytime card. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

The background of fireworks was created about two months ago. I wanted to play around with foil and enjoyed how it turned out. This is the image that inspired the subject of the card. The Statue of Liberty is from Stamppeddler. It is part of a larger image but I liked the shading (as I do with all their products) and thought cutting out the statue would give the illusion of the fireworks reflecting on the statue.

This card seems easy and it probably would have been but I wanted to get the sketch exact. I brought it into Photoshop Elements, cropped it to size, and printed it out. I then cut the sketch out and traced it on my CS and cut it out- creating a window.

The red swish was originally white CS but it looked stark with no personality. I carefully added some liquid glue on the strip and added red glitter. I thought it gave the design pop. It also made my decision on the sentiment color.

Challenges Entered:

CAS(E) this Sketch: CTS#380

Watercooler Wednesday: Challenge WWC280- ATG w/masculine twist

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

 

Toolbox

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For today I will be playing along with If You Give a Crafter a Cookie, Watercooler Wednesdays,  Cardz 4 Guys, and Tuesday Throwdown. Here is my card for today, enjoy!!!

I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought it would be perfect for my husband on Father's Day. The 'drawers' are so creative!

Layers of tools, bits, and parts plus a 'best dad ever' message seem to be the essence of my husband. I bought him a sign that says 'don't even LOOK at these tools!'. I thought it was funny because it is ME that is always rummaging around his tool bench.

On the back of the cardbox is a stamp from Stamppeddler that features a well-organized pegboard. This is a partial image from a larger stamp (shown below). Perfect fit for my toolbox theme.

The entire image of the stamp.
Stamppeddler is selling this background stamp and bundling it with four charms!
AND free shipping.

These are the flaps on each side of the toolbox. It is hard to see but a background on the 'I love you' sentiment is light stamped with a 'blah, blah, blah' image. We say I love you to our teenagers every day and some days I think all they hear is blah, blah, blah. That is why we tell them this multiple times a day.

Challenges Entered:

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie: #143 

Tuesday Throwdown: #459- For a Special Guy

Cardz 4 Guys: Challenge #246: Fathers Day

Watercooler Wednesday: WWC275 - Karen's Challenge: All About Occasions

  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

All the best,

Magnolias and Moms

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For today I will be playing along with Watercooler Wednesday Challenge, Color Throwdown, and Freshly Made Sketches. So here is my card for today, enjoy!

My mother, sister, and I used to live on Magnolia Dr. in New Jersey.
The entire street was lined with magnolias and during springtime it was beautiful!
Two weeks after however, all the petals have fallen and rotted on the street. I guess there is a Ying/Yang to everything. The important thing is I remember the beautiful treelined street and I hope my mom will get the innuendo of what this card is saying. 

The stamp set I used is from Altenew. The branch was diecut but somehow didn't look right. I realized the flowers were outlined in black and my diecut was not. The outline of the branch brought the entire composition together.

The flowers were colored using SU ink on watercolor paper.
I then took an aqua pen to blend the color out. 

Challenges Entered:

Color Throwdown: ctd591

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: ATG

Freshly Made Sketches: FMS433
flipped the sketch 180 degrees

  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

All the best,