Day 4 of the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps April 2020 Release

Happy Hump Day!!! It is Wednesday for all you people whose days are getting all clumped together. I rarely know what day it is myself but as I am posting ahead of time, I need to know the date!!

Today I am posting two of my FAVORITE projects that I created for the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps April 2020 Release. They are so different from each other too!!

My first card I used the brand new Blossom Bubble Stencil and paired it with a sentiment from last month's Terrific Flowers Stamp Set for a clean and simple card.

This brought me back to high school days when I first started making cards. I used to use stencils and acrylic paint to create scenes on card fronts. Instead of using paint, I made a scene with the Blossom Bubble Stencil and dye ink. I started off by masking the card front with an open circle in the center. I placed the Blossom Bubble Stencil over the circle and stenciled two flowers using three different pink Distress Inks.

I them used a small dauber to stencil the flower centers with yellow.

I masked off the flowers with post it tape and used green to stencil in the stems and the leaves. I changed up where I wanted the leaves from the stencil-which is something I LOVE about using stencils to create a card!!!

I removed the Blossom stencil and shaded in around the inside edges of the circle mask in a teal color, as well as heat embossed a sentiment in gold from the Terrific Flowers Stamp Set.

I am not sure if you can see from the photos but I dry embossed a frame around the outside of the white card panel. My last step was to adhere it to an A2, top folded card base. This card was SO EASY and so fun to make!!

My next card I used the new Bold Flowers Stencil, a sentiment from Pretty Posies stamp set and the Sweet Friend's Fri-die to create my card.

I created the background by pairing the new Bold Blossom Flower Stencil with Ultramarine Color Burst on watercolor paper.

The Color Burst is a powder I sprinkled in between the stencil and then misted water over the top. There was so much color on top of the stencil that I then dipped the panel into that, creating what you see. I even had enough to make a second panel that I put away for a different time.

I let the panel dry and mounted it onto an A2 card base. I then adhered the "friend" die cut to the front. I used a shimmer pen over the black sentiment and then covered it with Glossy Accents.

I stamped a sentiment from the Pretty Posies stamp set in black. I adhered the sentiment strip under the "friend" die cut when the Glossy Accents dried.

My last step was to adhere some sequins that matched the background around the sentiment block.

I cannot tell you how pleased I am with this card!! I had never really used the Color Burst before and I have a couple bottles up on a shelf. I will definitely be trying this again with some other stencils.

These new products are available NOW in the CAS-ual Fridays Stamp Store. Please use my code NORASENTME to get an extra 15% off your total order.

To see some more amazing projects with these new stencils, hop on over to the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog to see what the other members of the design team created!!

I thank you for taking the time to stop by today. I will be back tomorrow with another fun card I created for this release!! Have a FABULOUS day!!

Day 3 of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps April 2020 Release-Coffee Beans Stencil and Coffee'isms Stamp Set

Happy Tuesday everyone!! I hope you are all staying healthy. 

I am popping in with another project that showcasing the NEW release form CAS-ual Fridays Stamps. Today I used the new Coffee Beans Stencil and the Coffee'isms Stamp Set to create a fun coffee themed card.

I started off by stenciling the coffee beans onto a piece of white cardstock. 

I cut a half inch off the top and added it to a brown card base.

I then stamped the sentiment using the Coffee'isms Stamp Set. 

I masked off pieces so that I could stamp part of the sentiment in red and part of it in brown.

I adhered the sentiment to the card front using foam adhesive. 

The card needed something else so I die cut a red coffee cup using the CAS-Fridays Coffee Cup Fri-dies. I was so mad because after I die cut this cup, I lost the die somewhere on my desk!! I still have not been able to locate the darn thing. 

I adhered the red coffee cup underneath the sentiment block. This is one of my FAVORITE projects that I created for this whole release and I don't even like coffee!!

These new products are available in the CAS-ual Fridays Stamp Store NOW. Use my code NORASENTME to get 15% off your total order!!

I encourage you to hop on over to CAS-ual Fridays Blog to see some other fabulous projects the design team cooked up.

I thank you for taking the time to stop by and will be back again tomorrow with another project using the new CAS-Fridays release!!

Day 2 of CAS-ual Fridays April 2020 Release-Jacks Stencil and Jacks Chipboard

Happy Monday everyone!!

I am popping in with a project I created using some new products from the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps April 2020 Release. I used the new Jacks Stencil and Jacks Chipboard to create a birthday card.

I started off my card by blending orange, green and yellow ink through the Jack's Stencil. I then used a die to cut down the panel into a square. I adhered the square to an A2 sized card base that I had done some orange ink blending on.

I masked off a sentiment using the previously released Happy Birthday stamp set and stamped it onto a green strip of cardstock.  I am a huge fan of masking because I often use only partial areas of sentiments and it is a way to stretch your stamps. I adhered the strip using foam adhesive over the stenciled square.

My last step was to adhere three pieces of glittered Jacks Chipboard onto the front of the card. I had covered these pieces in orange, green and yellow Stickles, letting them dry completely before adding them. Adding glitter glue is another way to amp up the look of the chipboard.

These new products are available NOW in the NEW section of the CAS-ual Fridays Stamp Store. Use my code NORASENTME to get an extra 15% off your total order.

Please hop on over to the CAS-ual Fridays Blog to see some more FABULOUS projects that the design team created for this release.

I thank you for taking the time to stop by and will be back tomorrow with another fun project!!

Day 1 CAS-ual Fridays Stamps April 2020 Release-Rainbow Bridge Stamp Set, Pawsome Stencil and Pawprints Chipboard

Hello everyone!! Happy Sunday!!

Today I am excited to bring you some cards I created using some of the NEW products from the CAS-ual Fridays April 2020 release. It has been so fun to play with everything during these unprecedented times. I know that some people have had no mojo due to all the sad stuff going on but for some reason, mine has flowing. I think it is because creating is an outlet for my anxiety.

For my first card, I used the new Rainbow Bridge stamp set to create my card.

I did a lot of repeat stamping on this card front. I took the heart from the stamp set and stamped it in different colors all over the white cardstock.

I then took the larger footprint and stamped that in between the hearts.

I heat embossed a sentiment from the stamp set on a vellum panel and layered that over the top of my stamped images.

My last step was to add some red twine. So simple and a great card to send to any pet owner.

My next card I used the new Pawsome Stencil and Pawprints Chipboard  on my card.

I masked off the Pawsome Stencil and stenciled the three paw prints in red from the top right onto a kraft card base. Next I stamped a sentiment in black from the Rainbow Bridge stamp set.

I attached the kraft panel to a black card base to match the color of the sentiment. I then added three hearts from the Pawprints Chipboard that I had inked up in red. This chipboard takes ink really nicely and is a simple way to change the color to match whatever you want. It is darker red than my paw prints but that is what I was looking for.

My last step was to cover the chipboard with shimmer from a shimmer pen and top off with a coat of Glossy Accents.

All these new products, as well as the rest of the release is presently in the NEW section of the CAS-ual Fridays stamp store!! Please use my code NORASENTME to get 15% off your total order.

To see some more great projects using these fun, new products, hop on over to the CAS-ual Fridays Blog to see what the design team cooked up.

I appreciate you taking the time to stop by today. I hope you have a FABULOUS day. Stay healthy!!

Thank You with CAS-Fridays

Hi everyone!! I hope you all are staying healthy. I feel like a broken record saying this but I feel I have to. It is the reason for all this social distancing and I am hoping it is working!!

Today I am over on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog with a thank you card.

To see the whole card and a pictorial step-by-step, please hop on over to the BLOG to see what I created.

I thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

Even More Challenges!

Happy Monday everyone! I hope that you are all staying healthy at that those of you that celebrate Easter had a nice holiday yesterday. Warning-there are a lot of photos in this post!!

It is rainy here in CT with winds gusts of more than 60 miles per hour. Just praying that our power does not go out!! I usually try to go for a walk but since the weather was not cooperating, today I actually went down and did the elliptical machine. We have had this since my 41st birthday? Not sure but I hardly ever use it. It is harder to pedal than the ones at the gym so I would rather use those! I also did some weights. Hopefully I will be pleasantly sore tomorrow.

Today I am getting some cards for some challenges that I am getting in under the gun. I have "vacation" from school this week so I have time to blog them at the last minute.

The first card I created for Freshly Made Sketches #430.

I used WPlus9 "Fresh Cut Florals", Simon Says Stamp "Thanks and Encouragement Word Mix," and my new Altenew "Fine Frames Diamonds" die set.

The florals were from a pile on my desk that has been there forever. It has been fun challenging myself to do this. I always stamp "extras" when I am doing a project and have SO MANY to choose from!!

I have also been trying to stamp sentiments to have on hand and I had fun looking through them to pull for this card.

The challenges I am entering this card into are:

Freshly Made Sketches #430

Happy Little Stampers: Anything Goes With Dies (I was inspired by the pink flowers)

Inspired by Challenges #119: Spring is Here (I used Frame Dies)

NBUS Challenge (I used my Altenew Frames for the first time)

 

For  my second card, I started out being inspired by two challenges. The first was the Color Throwdown Challenge #588. I usually have a difficult time doing color challenges but I paired it with this weeks CASE this Sketch Challenge #367 for a simple card design. 

I started off my card by using Distress Ink to paint my four lines on a piece of watercolor paper.

I rarely do this kind of technique because I am LAZY and hate to wait for things to dry!! Yes, I could use a heat gun but don't like the way the paper warps when I do that. When the stripes were dry, I die cut the image with an MFT Blueprints 13 die.

The branch is from Paper Smooches and I die cut that from watercolor paper, using Twisted Citron Distress Ink to give it some color.

The sentiment from Altenew's free "Best Sentiments" set that has been sitting in my NBUS pile of things to use. I think I will be inking this stamp up a few times to have in my stash.

The next card I was inspired by the Flower Challenge #43: Spring/Autumn,  Inkspirational Challenge #210: Spring, and the Time Out Challenges #159-Quote Inspiration.

I made this card to go in a set for my Aunt's birthday this week.

This card was SO FUN to make!! I stenciled the background and then splattered with a couple colors of Distress Mist.

The large flower and large leaves were stamped using some Altenew dye ink combinations. The smaller flowers I colored with Copic markers. All are from Aletenew's "Beautiful Day" stamp set. This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE stamp sets.

The frame is from Pink Fresh Studio. I cut it in half and used it on another card that I will post later this week. 

I know this card would not be everyone's cup of tea with the background but I LOVED how it came out!!!

On another note, since we couldn't spend Easter with our family we did a Zoom call instead.

My father had a few difficulties at first but it was fun to do. I have been doing virtual happy hour with some of my girlfriends on Saturdays and this has kept me SANE!! Also figured I would post a photo of my pup. He is declining even with all his meds he is on.

He has been refraining from snuggling as of late. I think it is because it is hard to get comfortable on the couch.

That is all from me today. I hope I didn't bore you all!! I thank you for taking the time to stop by. Stay safe and healthy. I think of all of you wonderful cardmakers that I call my friends and love you to pieces!!!