CAS Thinking of You

Supplies: Stamps: Silhouette Sentiments  Paper: early espresso, ivory, k and company dp  Ink: early espresso, Tim Holtz tattered rose distress ink  Accessories: SU designer frame embossing folder, satin ribbon, foam blending tool, eclipse tape, self adhesive pearls

 

This is the second sample I made for the CAS challenge this week: using a partial image.  I chose to use a partial image inside my SU designer frame embossing folder.  To do this I first created a mask using my eclipse tape.  I punched out an extra large oval, placed it on the card where I wanted the frame, and used my stamp a ma jig to stamp my image and sentiment.  Then I inked up my foam blending tool with tattered rose and distressed the inside of the oval.  When I had the focal image to my liking I removed the mask, and it was time to emboss the frame.  I placed the embossing folder over my image and embossed the frame, you can see the my mat stack here.  Then I added more distress ink to the rest of the top of the card, added the dp and ribbon, and I was done.

 

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Birthday Wishes

Supplies: Stamps: Amuse Paper: Basic Grey, white and blue cs  Ink: Colorbox: robin's egg  Accessories: American Crafts ribbon, scallop oval punch, oval punch, desginer frame embossing folder, garden flower embossing folder, gems, chalks

Where did the week go??  It seems like I just posted this card on SCS for our CAS challenge, and it has taken me until now to get the details  posted here!  I guess life got busy. 

I wanted to share how I did the embossing on this card.  I want to say that I used tips from the following websites to get my results: Created By You and Stamp and Scrap with Frenchie: Link 1 and Link 2. I have a Cuttlebug so I had to experiment with different sandwiches to make this technique work.

This is the sandwich I used:

A, C, Folder, chipboard

The chipboard measurements:

For the chipboard pieces I glued two pieces of chipboard together and the thickness worked for me.  Depending on your Cuttlebug you may have to adjust this.

For embossing the frame without leaving the marks of the folder:

2 1/8x 2 3/4

For embossing inside the frame 1 15/16 x 1 6/16

For the oval, I punched out two extra large ovals and glued them together.

So to do the double embossed image:
First emboss the designer frame using the 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inch chipboard mat.

Then chose your embossing folder that you want inside of the frame. 

Place it over the embossed frame and line it up so you can see the image in the frame through your embossing folder.

Take 1 15/16 x 1 6/16 piece of chipboard and place it over where you want the embossing.  (This was the part that took a few tries for me.  Initially I centered the chipboard over the embossed frame opening.  When I did that the embossing went on the already embossed frame.  So I moved my chipboard closer to the right hand corner (because there was blank space there on the embossing folder I used.)  By doing this it gave enough pressure to emboss the image inside of the frame.  This part will depend on the image you chose for the center of your frame.  If there is a lot of detail you may have to make a smaller piece of chipboard.

I hope all of this made sense.  I may add some pictures later to help.

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First Christmas Card of the Season!

Supplies: Stamps: Beautiful Season  Paper: GKD ivory  Ink: tuxedo black Accessories: colored pencils, gamasol, sheer ribbon

Well...I painted my scrap room...lime green!  The color is called jalepeno jelly! :)  I am having a love/hate relationship with the color right now.  Although after a couple of days it is turning more into a love relationship!  It is bright but so fun!  I'm working on curtains and a new computer desk to finish it off.  I'll have to post some pictures when it is done. 

I had to get things put together enough to make my CAS sample for the week.  This week the inspiration is one of the cards from my gallery.  I changed it up and added some ribbon and raised my sentiment. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great week!

Oops I Forgot....

Supplies: Stamps: Happiest of Birthdays  Paper: Bazzill ocean breeze, crumb cake, white  Ink: crumb cake  Accessories: fancy fan letterpress, lace ribbon border punch, foam blending tool, scallop border punch, dmc floss, Tim Holtz paper distressing tool

...your birthday!  This week's CAS challenge is to make a belated birthday card.  I definately could use a few of these!  I also made this card using the FTL151 sketch, and a couple of Dare To Get Dirty challenges for fan club members over at SCS! 

I had fun distressing on this card!  It's not something I do too often, but when I get going it is hard to stop!  I started inking up the embossed layer, and then I got out my distressing tool and distressed the edge of my embossed layer.  Then I thought I'd distress the banner!  Then I thought I better put the tool away! :) 

It's been a busy week, I didn't have much time for cardmaking.  My summer is coming to an end faster than I want it to, and I am trying to get all of the "projects" done that I had wanted to. We'll see if I get some cardmaking in this week.  I want to paint my crafty room....we'll see! :)

CAS Tag Style

Supplies: Stamps: vintage labels  Paper: white, gkd yellow, medium tempting tanzanite colormates  Ink: memento tuxedo black  Accessories: victoria cb embossing folder, cb tag embossing die cut, baker's twine, white satin ribbon

Another week of CAS fun is upon us.  This week the challenge is to use tags on your card.  You can see my yellow tag on this one, does the yellow stand out too much??!!  Part of me wants to remake it, die cutting the tag in white and adding a blue border?!  Sometimes it is hard for me to get out of my comfort zone!   I like the yellow and blue color combo which aren't colors I usually use, so I better just step away from the card! :)  Hope you can join us in the challenge over at SCS, I would love to see your creations!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a fantastic week!

Still Lovin' This Designer Frame

Supplies: Stamps: perfect punches Paper: white, pear pizzazz, light yellow bazzill, jillibean patterned paper  Ink: early espresso  Accessories: early espresso taffeta ribbon, classic scallop and plain oval nestabilities, extra large oval punch, textured impressions designer frames

I just had to try this embossed frame with the oval nestabilities, and I have to say I am pleased with the results.  I cut out the frame with the plain oval and then matted it with the scallop oval.  Then I remembered that I had the perfect punches set and it had the happy birthday sentiment that works with the extra large oval punch.  So I had my focal point done.  I had the fall to layout sketch on my desk and decided to work with it.  I used 3 strands of ribbon in place of the panel behind the focal image, and I used scallops as a mat rather than a border.  What a fun sketch!

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Thank You

Supplies: Stamps: triple treat flower, posy punch, petite pairs Paper: crumb cake and white Ink: riding hood red, pink pirouette, pear pizzazz, early espresso  Accessories: fancy flower punch, 5 petal flower punch, 1/2 inch circle punch, pear pizzazz ribbon, rhinestone

How cute is this new flower?!  I love that you can use punches to create all of the layers, I don't have a lot of patience when I have to cut out a stamped image.  The size of this square card is 4.25x4.25.  Thanks for stopping by!