Day 1 of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Holiday Release: Big Hope Fri-Die

Hello everyone!! I hope that you are all enjoying your weekend. It has been quiet here on the blog. I have been away for the last two weekends and have done nothing in my craft room.

Today is the first day of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Holiday release.

Today I am showcasing the Big Hope Fri-Die. I created a card all in purple.

I started off by adding a patterned paper strip to a light purple card front.

I then added five circles across the front and adhered a heart using foam adhesive that I punched out of glitter paper.

My last step was to adhere the new Big Hope Fri-die to the front of the card.

Be sure to stop by the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog to see some other fabulous creations by the design team. All new products are now in the NEW section of the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Store. Use my code NORASENTME to get 15% off your entire purchase!!

I thank you for stopping by and be sure to pop back in tomorrow for a card using the new CAS-ual Fridays Dashing Stamps and Snow Fri-dies. Have a fabulous day!!

A Blog Hop with CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Happy Friday everyone!! I bet you are ready for the weekend!! I know I am.

Today I am here with a card that I created for a blog hop. CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog are pairing up to feature some coffee cards. Below is the card that I created for this hop.

I used the CAS-Fridays Peace, Love and Coffee stamp set to create this card.

I stamped and masked the coffee cups, using the rainbow as my color scheme for the cups.

I then used some Ground Expresso Distress Ink for the brown blending around the cups. It is supposed to be coffee running out of the top cup!!

I added some coffee beans and some hearts, as well as the sentiment, all from the same stamp set-easy peasy!!

Do you like prizes? Leave comments along the way to enter into a random drawing to be one of three winners!!

I thank you for stopping by!!! Have a FABULOUS weekend!!

An InLinkz Link-up

A CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Christmas Card

Happy Monday everyone!! I hope you all had a GREAT weekend!!

Today I am on the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog with a Christmas card I created using two products that are retiring. Here is a sneak peek of my card.

When the Modern Petals stamp set and Noel Fri-Dies are sold out, they are GONE!!!

Hop on over to the CAS-ual Friday Stamps to find out how I created this modern colored Christmas card.

Supplies:

(all linked supplies are affiliate links and are used with no extra cost to you.)

Stamps- CAS-ual Fridays Stamps *Modern Petals
Dies- CAS-ual Fridays Stamps *Noel Fri-dies
Paper-*Neenah Solar White
Ink-MFT Poppy, Simon Says Stamp Sunkist and Versamark Ink
Other-Ranger Distress Spray-*Picket Fences and *Candied Apple, *Diamond Stickles, *Sizzix Big Shot Machine, Pretty Pink Posh Clear Sequins, *Wagner Heat Tool, *MISTI, *Ranger Ink Tim Holtz Mini Round Ink Blending Tool, *Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder

Some Cards I Created for WCMD and Some Completed Challenges

Happy Monday!!

I am fortunate to have this day off due to Columbus Day. I have been running around all day trying to get errands done and had fun going to the new Trader Joes that opened up near us. Anyone have one of these around them? What is your favorite food from there?

Totally needed the day today too. Last week was busy and work was not so fun.

It started well with going to see Jodi Picoult at a lecture put on by the Mark Twain House. She spoke about her new book that came out last week. Really interesting lecture and she looks so much younger then her age!!

The week ended with going to see A Star is Born. What a FABULOUS movie!! Bradley Cooper can sing and Lady GaGa? WOW!!! I wish she would just use her voice and not do all the synthesizing stuff with her songs. I could listen to her for hours the way she sang in most of this movie.

Okay, now on to a few of the cards I created this weekend for World Card Making Day on Saturday. I guess I was "supposed" to make mostly holiday cards but didn't make any! Instead, I joined in on a couple challenges.

First, I created a birthday card for my niece using the the sketch from the Fab Friday Blog.

I chose to use the MFT Birthday Chicks stamp and die set for my card.

After I put it together, I added some shimmer on the balloons and on the little chick's hat. Below is the Fab Friday Sketch #147 that inspired this card.

The next two cards I used a Jennifer McGuire technique to create. They are NOT perfect but they were so fun and I definitely want to try this again.

I spread ink on the embossing folder and then ran white cardstock through my Big Shot to get the yellow in between the flowers. As you can see, the ink did not spread all over like it could but I liked the effect so I did not re-ink the folder.

I then die cut a rectangle out of the ink embossed cardstock and added it to a white card front that I had embossed using the same folder.

I added a simple sentiment (Tiny Words) and butterfly die cut (Stitching Butterflies) from Simon Says Stamp. I LOVE how this came out!!

I am entering this into the Just Us Girls Challenge #461-Sympathy.

It is kind of funny but I LOVE to make Sympathy cards...just not to send them.

My last card I used the yellow part that I cut out of above card to create yet another sympathy card. This one was a bit less work.

I stamped the sentiment using a MFT's Deepest Sympathy stamp set and added the little sentiment from Simon Says Stamp's Tiny Words set.

I hesitated to use the same yellow for the large sentiment but decided to keep it.

I wish the floss was not as bright as it is. I might take it off and ink it with a bit of brown to dull it.

That is all from me today. I thank you for stopping by!! Have a FABULOUS day!!

A Halloween Hello for Freshly Made Sketches #357

Happy Friday!! I hope you are all having a fabulous day!!

Today I am popping in to post a card I created for Freshly Made Sketches #357.

The images used are from the My Favorite Things original Witch Way Candy? stamp set. I stamped and masked the images onto a page from an old book.

I then used Prismacolor pencils to color the witch and the cat. I actually am not happy with the way it came out. I couldn't shade the pencils that well on this type of paper.

Here is the sketch that I used as inspiration for my card.

The patterned paper is from a defunct company Little Yellow Bicycle. The orange cardstock is Bazzill Papaya. Instead of the sentiment strip going all the way down to the bottom, I chose to cut the bottom on an angle. This card will be sent to my daughter at college with the candy jars from yesterday's post and a bunch of Halloween decorations.

On another note, here is a card I created combining My Favorite Things Penguins in Paradise, Mama Elephant's Swinging Borders and a  Celebrate sentiment by Waffle Flower.

All the coloring I did with Copic markers and then covered in Diamond Stickles. If you look closely behind the sentiment, I did make a bit of a mess with the Copics. However, I am still going to use this but will give this to family.

That is all from me today. I will be participating in World Cardmaking Day tomorrow. I don't know where there are any challenges anymore but I will be making some cards.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

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