Happy Hauntings

Gotta start making those Halloween cards.  This is the category that I am always rushing through every year. 

I've adopted the sketh shown on the Try Stampin' on Tuesday blog to make my card.  The sketch is clean and simple, love it!

My card is, of course, clean and simple too.  I've used the new Moonlight Workshop on the Go.  The kit has everything I need, perfect for a crop!

I'll be showing another Halloween card soon.  Happy Hauntings!

Inspired by a very cute top

Inspired by a very cute top, I followed the rules of the color challenge to prepare my card.   The color combo provided by Color Throwdown is summer-y:

Don't you agree that you want to go shopping now?

I've used the sketch provided by Clean and Simple Stamping blog:

Some oldies are used, they are all goodies.  I miss this stamp set - the flowers are beautiful and I love playing rock and roll stamping with this set:

Thanks for stopping by!

Heartfelt Wishes

I was very happy when I saw this doily on the Artiste cartridge handbook.  It is the very first button!  Who doesn't like doily?  It is fabulous, elegant, versatile and so popular right now.  I just can't resist using more of it in my cards and layouts.

I saw this sketch on Mojo Monday and I immediately saw a doily in my card:

Then I saw that Heart 2 Heart challenge asks us to make a sympathy card.  The color combo came to my head almost immediately.  I then put together my sympathy card like this:

Even though I love the doily from the Artiste cartridge, I must also give credit to her big sister Art Philosophy cartridge because the Bamboo bracket square and the Twilight Rectangle were cut by it.  The stamp set used is Baroque Borders, the Stamp of the Month of this month.  I've added some Sparkles Flourishes to replace the little banner to finish the card.  I'm quite happy with this end product, hope you like it too.

Happy crafting!

Happy Halloween

I know I have been making a lot of Christmas cards to let's switch gears to Fall cards.  I've combined the sketch given to us by iSpy Sketches

with the color combo provided by Dynamic Duos

to make my card:

The cat was cut by Close to My Heart Artiste cartridge, which makes things so easy.  This card takes perhaps 5 minutes to make, and is one of those cards that you want to mass produce for kids' parties!

Materials used:
1.  Goldrush cardstock
2.  Moonlight paper packet
3.  Cricut Artiste cartridge
4.  Say it in Style stamp set
5.  Black Exclusive Ink Stamp Pad

Random stamping

It's time to show you how versatile clear stamps can be.  I've chosen the color scheme provided by CR84FN to demonstrate random stamping:

I think the closest colors in the Close to My Heart palette are Smokey Plum, Twilight and Olive. 

To make this card, I've randomly stamped the images on a Colonial White cardstock.  Personally I like to leave some empty space, but had I chosen to fill in the space, it would look more like patterned paper.

Do I have a trick to make it look natural?  Yes!

You want to choose three images of different sizes - big, medium and small, preferably of different shapes as well.  Here the Olive florish is a contrasting shape comparing to the medallions.  Then you want to pick one color for each shape.  Here, I stick to the color scheme provided by the challenge.  You want to stamp one image at a time, and that image wants to create a triangle.  If you look closely you'll see the purple medallions form a triangle while the green florishes form another.  The most important thing is, of course, CLEAR stamps!  I love how easy it is to see exactly where I stamp.  You see the little grey circle in the purple medallions?  I can't imagine using a stamp positioning tool every time I stamp it.  I really can't, I may want to give up this fun technique if I have to use the tool.

This technique is fun and easy.  You'll create your own patterned paper that is truly unique.  Try it out!

A card for a teacher

Even though summer is not over, the feeling of Back to School is already pressing - back to school sales is everywhere.

Why not make a card for a teacher?

I'm using a sketch from The Pink Elephant:

The Paper Players is also challenging us with "Back to School":

So I've come up with a card using the new Scholastic paper:

I'm also using this card for the following challenges:
Paper Pretties - Thank you cards
Crazy 4 Challenges - a card for a teacher

Thinking of You

Just want to share a quick CAS card combing the color challenge presented by The Play Date Cafe:

and the sketch challenge by Unscripted Sketches:

I have wanted to play along with The Play Date Cafe for a long time!  So glad that I get a chance to try their color combo finally!  Thanks to this challenge I've tried a combo that I would never have thought of - Cherry - Mint Julep - Jade.  But when you put them together, they do look nice! 

Happy crafting!