My CAS Card for Get Sketchy #51

Some of you may be wondering what a CAS card is. CAS stands for "clean and simple." I have to say that while I like clean lines on a card, very rarely do I keep it simple-I love embellishments too much! This week's Get Sketchy sketch, however, inspired me to create a CAS card. I love how it turned out!

I thnk that the key to making a great CAS card is choosing just the right embellishments because they are the focus of your card. When I saw this week's sketch, I immediately thought of buttons. I love DeNami's button collections-you can always find exactly what you want in those little bags! I had just the right sentiment to use with them, too, courtesy of my Lawn Fawn stamps.

Hope you can join us for this week's Get Sketchy Challenge! You can see the sketch HERE, along with this week's prize from Card Cafe. I seriously want this week's prize, lol! Adorable embellishments, I tell you, and if you check out the link you'll know that this Etsy shop's owner is a sweetheart, too. :)

Oh, I almost forgot! Don't forget to check out the Design Team Call at Get Sketchy! (It's posted in the left sidebar.) I can't believe it's already been 6 months and time for another set of designers. This term has just flown by!

New Wee Memories Challenge!

Welcome to the weekend! Wee Memories has a fun challenge for you this week: butterflies! For my card, I decided to use butterfly and flourish stamps from {ippity}'s Now & Always stamp set. I lkove this set-I have been playing with the different images all week long! I combined these stamps with some bright, fun prints from SEI and Lily Bee.

For the design of my card, I wanted to do something different. I have been making so many cards lately that I am getting a little bit bored with the A2 size cards. So to switch things up a bit I made a matchbook card. Plus, I was able to make a dent in the supply of eyelets that I have had for years! :) These from the Making Memories Watercolor Brights collection matched the green dotted paper from Lily Bee perfectly!

One of my favorite details on the card is the layered butterfly. I simply stamped the butterfly on three different papers, cut them out, and layered them, adhering only the centers together. Then I bent the wings of each layer up so you could see just of hint of each paper.

Will you join us this week for the Butterfly Challenge? We have a wonderful sponsor this week: The Gilded Bee! You can see her Etsy shop HERE. Check out the details of the challenge and the design teams' gorgeous cards HERE.

Little Scarecrow

Just a quick share tonight-a last minute entry for the Card Patterns #75 Sketch Challenge. For this card, I used DeNami's Scarecrow from the new releases. Isn't he just too cute?

I am also entering this in the Papertrey Paper Dolls Challenge #14. The challenge there has two parts: 1) use a color you don't normally use, and 2) use a technique that you haven't used for a while. The color that I chose to use was yellow-I never use yellow! It was only after choosing the yellow cardstock that I decided what the theme of my card would be. The technique that I haven't used for a while was to use the negative part of a punch. I actually used the negative of the pumpkin punch to dry emboss the orange border. I then shaded the pumpkins with orange and brown colored pencils to make them show up a bit more.

Another technique that I tried on this card was to make a watermark background using Versamark ink and DeNami's new Polka Dot Background. Because the cardstock was slightly coated, it didn't absorb the ink much. I wanted to see the polka dots a little more, so I shaded each polka dot slightly with a colored pencil. Not too carefully-I wanted it to look a little distressed.

And last but not least, it fits in with the color scheme for Color Throwdown #104. although my cardstocks were from Momenta, they are similar to the Color Throwdown colors of Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight, and Old Olive.

Thanks for stopping by again today-three posts in one day is a record for me! I just have so many projects accumulating and I need to share them, lol!

Welcome to Unity's "Friends with Flair" Blog Hop!

***This is my second post for today-please scroll down for this week's Get sketchy card!***

So excited to be participating in my first FWF Blog Hop! I used some of my new {ippity} stamps to make this pretty little card, along with some fun papers from SEI's Play Day collection. The flower is paper-pieced using my favorite flower from the "Now & Always" stamp set. The sentiment is also paper-pieced using the "Just Wanted to Say" set.

Not only do I love the flower on this card, but I also loved making this super-easy layered border. What a great way to show off your border punches! I simply punched three different border strips, inked the edges, then layered them. I used ivory cardstock, but I can't wait to try this using different patterned papers for a fun, whimsical look.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. Don't miss any of the beautiful cards featured on the Hop today-just click on the link below to return to the list of participating bloggers on the Unity blog! One has a special blinkie-and if you leave her a comment you just may win some fun Unity stamps!

Get Sketchy #50

Last night, I freaked out because I didn't realize it was Thursday-being home every day has seriously messed with my concept of time! This morning, though, I am so happy it's Friday. they don't say TGIF for nothing! :)

I have a cute little card to share for this week's Get Sketchy challenge. Our sponsor this week was EAD Designs. This cute Little Ree Riding Hood and sentiment are from them. So cute! I wanted to use the whole set-a wolf, Granny, house-but there's only so much room on a card, lol! So I might have to make a coordinating card set, lol!

Hope you like today's card-hope you can join us and play along! You can see this week's sketch and all of the DT's cards right HERE. This week's cards are some of my favorites-those EAD stickers are just adorable!

Please join me again at 10 AM EST for my first ever "Friends with Flair" blog hop for Unity Stamp Co!

OH-I HAVE A WINNER! Wednesday's blog candy winner is: VERA YATES! This selection was made very scientifically...I drew her name out of the hat, lol! Vera, I will email you for you addy. Congrats, and have fun with your new Momenta goodies!

DeNami Product Challenge: Glitter!

It's the 5th of the month, so that means that it's time for a challenge over on the DeNami Design blog! This month your challenge is to use glitter on your project!

First of all, I decided to make an easel card. I love these! I used papers from SEI's Play Day and Happy Day collections, and ribbon and buttons from DeNami Design. I also love the Mimi with Birthday Cake image! Call me crazy, but as I coloring Mimi, I was picturing the adorable Michele from the DeNami DT! Don't you think they look alike?

After coloring Mimi with colored pencils, I added Strawberry Freeze Sparklets Glitter to the cake. Even though I had colored the cake with a cream colored pencil, the pink glitter added just a hint of color but a lot of sparkle. The Quickie Glue Pen makes adding glitter to your images so easy. I love this glue pen and I use it for glitter, flocking, and paper-piecing.

So do you have some glitter that you've been saving for a special project? Show us what you can do with it! Head on over to the DeNami blog to see the challenge details and to see the amazing projects by the other members of the Design Team.

New Momenta Project and BLOG CANDY!!!

Here's a little sneak peek of my project featured on the Momenta blog today. I had so much fun making this project! Be sure to check it out today-it's a quick but cute project.

And it's been a while since I've had blog candy here-how about some Momenta cuties? I have four packages of layered puffy stickers for one lucky reader!

What you need to do:

1. Become a "Follower" of my blog.



2. Leave me a comment here telling me what kind of project you will make using these layered puffy stickers.



3. Leave a comment on today's Momenta blog post.

I will announce one random winner on Thursday!