CASE Study 173 - Donna Mikasa

It's so nice to see Donna Mikasa as the January muse on CASE Study Challenge Blog and I love her CAS card which was so fun to make. This card is for a little girl whose birthday is coming up. Here is my card and Donna's card below that. Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients

Neenah Solar White, Hero Arts CL497, CL 574, CL492, Green Hills, Passion Flower, Bubble Gum, Orange Soda and Pool, Memento Luxe Dandelion, Ranger Archival Jet Black and rhinestones from Kaisercraft.

CAS(E) this Sketch #58

The sketch for CTS#58 has been beckoning me for a while now. I thought I better do a card before it closes tonight. I was very excited when this little beauty arrived a week ago and could not wait to try it out. I've got an order for a wedding card and will definitely use this set again. I only managed to get the stamps but not the dies, so I had to revert to fussy cutting! Thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Neenah solar white, WPlus9 Fresh Cut Florals, Hero Arts CL661, 

Hero Arts Inks - Bubble Gum, Green Hills, Passion Flower, Pool

PTI Inks - Winter Wisteria, Plum Pudding

Memento Luxe - Sweet Plum, Dandelion

Ranger Archival Jet Black - my that's a lot of inks!!

Enamel dots from MME, stickles.

Baby Blues

I've got two baby cards to share, both for two families in two different countries. So I thought I would do them both the same. I used my favourite old-time trick of trimming off the front of the card and adhering patterned paper to the inside of the card, I haven't done this in a while. I also let the banner overhang the edge slightly. The 'New' in these cards are for the Newborns of course! Thanks for dropping by.

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Blues

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - Anything Goes 

Addicted to CAS - Die Cuts

Ingredients:

Neenah card stock, PTI Tag Sale die, Paper Smooches Onesie die, Simon Says Stamp banner die, Hero Arts Typewriter letters, Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler, Hero Arts Navy ink, My Minds Eyes Meadow 6x6, Ribbon and hemp from Hemptique.

Happy Birthday Sam!

I have a few male birthday cards to make this month, here is one of them, based on the current Retro Sketch #96 , the colours from ColourQ #222 for a party at CASology and Anything Goes at Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge! Thanks for dropping by!

 A Close up of the die cut letters

Ingredients
Neenah solar white, black and gold card stock, vellum, patterned card from Simon Says Stamp Holiday kit, Paper Smooches Digits stamp, Simon Says Stamp banner die, Lil Inkers Stitched circles die, MFT DieNamics tall alphabet dies, gold brads, gold EP, Versamark.

Feathers!

I finally relented and jumped on the bandwagon with the feathers trend. I loved this stamp set ever since I first saw it. It has taken me a while to purchase it as I was trying to get the dies at the same time as the stamps, but anyhow, I've got the stamps without the dies. Here is my first card with these lovely feathers!

When I was packing away all the Christmas decorations and cards this evening, I put all the handmade ones aside and took a photo. I was so lucky to be the recipient of these lovely cards from (Top L clockwise) Jenny, Lyndal, Chupa, Lara and Michelle. Thank you ladies, I really appreciate them!

Challenges

Color Throwdown - CTD273

STAMPlorations January Challenge - Feathers

A Blog Named Hero - One and Four challenge ( One Blue and 4 Grey feathers)

CASology - Week 76 Party

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New (New Stamps)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Blues

Ingredients
Neenah Solar White, WPlus9 Fanciful Feathers, Hero Arts CL661, Hero Arts Midtone Inks Wet Cement, Soft Granite and Pool, Ranger Archival Jet Black and True Hemp from Hemtique.

Angled Background

I wanted to combine the PTI Make It Monday Angled Background with the current Retro sketch challenges. This card is for my long time Primary school friend's wedding anniversary. I had the Glitz Yours Truly papers out for a publication call and decided to use the left over strips to do this card. Here is my card and thank you for dropping by!

Ingredients:

Neenah Solar White, Glitz Design Yours Truly 6x6, heavy vellum, PTI Bloom Dies, PTI Think Big Favourites #24, Versamark, Gold EP, Gold Brad and hemp from Hemptique.

CASE Study 172

It's so nice to do non Christmas card! This is my first one after over a month of Christmas card making!!  I based this technique on one of PTI's Make It Mondays videos on watercolour embossing, but it never made it before the challenge closed! I also added some sponging to it to emphasise the white embossed image. This card is based on a CASE Study photo below. Hope you had a great new year and thanks for dropping by!

Ingredients

Neenah Solar White, PTI Folk Art Stamp set, Versamark, Ranger Archival Jet Black, White EP, Distress Ink Pads - Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry and Salty Ocean, Enamel dots from MME