SCS – CAS challenge » fresh & fun

The last Hope You can Count on Challenge last month was hosted by Lydia. She challenged us to disguise our style. For me that meant creating a one layer CAS card….because those are the hardest for me to make. I combined it with Monday’s CAS challenge, which was a color challenge: Chocolate, Ivory and Red.

I embossed the card front of my 4 1/4″ x 11″ Neenah Solar White cardstock card base with Stampin’ Up!’s Framed Tulip Embossing Folder. An image from Unity’s Confessions: I Luv Unity stamp set was stamped in Rich Cocoa Memento ink once in directly on the card, once on MME Lime & Twist Life is a Party Patterned Paper. The flower stems on the card base were colored with Copic Markers G21 and G24. The flower heads on the patterned paper were colored with R08, R27, R39, cut out and adhered to the card base.

A reverse mask was cut for the card and the center was airbrushed with Copic Marker E31. A sentiment from I Love Unity was inked first with Antique Linen Distress ink, then the word unity was inked again with Rich Cocoa Memento ink before it was stamped at the bottom of the flower image.

Want2Scrap Rhinestones and parts of a Finesse Swirl were used to finish off the card. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Have a wonderful day!

We are back home in Ohio. Ohio greeted us with a horrible rain storm and of course….gray skies. It was WONDERFUL to lay at the white beach at Destin, staring at turquoise water and blue skies. I miss living there a lot! Hopefully Oklahoma City will be nicer to us then the Ohio weather is. I miss seeing blue skies every day. Two more month…

I created a card this morning for yesterday’s Clean and Simple Rule of Third challenge as well as today’s Color challenge Certainly Bashful Breezes.

I started by stamping the thank you sentiment and double butterfly image from Crafty Secrets Sew Special in Rich Cocoa Memento ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock, that had been cut and embossed with a Classic Circle Nestabilities die. The image was colored with Copic Markers (Butterflies: YR21, 1/5th YR31, YG21, YG23, 2/3rd BG72, BG72, BG75 Background: B0000, B000). The layer was stitched on a piece of Canyon Brown cardstock, cut and embossed with one of the new Floral Motif Spellbinders dies.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Solar White cardstock folded in half. The bottom corners were rounded with my Corner Chomper.

A 1 3/4″ x 4″ piece of Early Bird Cosmo Cricket Paper strip was stitched to a 4″ square of the same paper pack. The bottom corners were rounded and May Arts Organdy ribbon was tied around the strip before the layers were adhered to the card base.

The image layer was adhered to the card with dimensionals. Stardust Stickles over the the butterflies and a Recollections Pearl swirl finish off the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!
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