Pink, Green, Blue & Chocolate CAS34

Hello my friends and happy Tuesday to you all.

This weeks CAS Challenge is a color challenge... to use pink, green, blue & chocolate (optional). Here is what I came up with...
I went with my With Sympathy stamp set, I haven't used this one in a while. Stamped the vine image in moss and incorporated the other colors for the challenge through the flowers. The tiny flower image was stamped directly onto the white cardstock. The larger flowers were stamped then cut out and attached with dimensional adhesive.

The sentiment was stamped onto a pink strip, punched holes on either side, strung the floss through, wrapped it around the card and tied it off into a bow.
Finished off the card with some Liquid Pearls in the center of the flowers.

It sure is a nice day in my neighbor hood today, the temperature has finally gone down (it's a cool 68 deg). They say its supposed to get cooler as the week progresses, yeah it finally feels like fall is actually here!

Glad you stopped by today! I do hope you enjoyed your visit.

Maile


The Earth Laughs In Flowers: (All PTI unless noted)

• Stamps: With Sympathy & Green Thumb (Sentiment)
• Ink: Spring Moss, Dark Chocolate, Spring Rain & Sweet Blush
• Cardstock: Spring Moss & White
• Accessories: Liquid Pearls (Ranger), DMC Embroidery Floss, Fiskers 1/8" Hole Punch

Celebrate CAS32

Happy Thursday to you all!

Today I wanted to share a card I created for the latest CAS Challenge: To create a wedding card... The damask image was stamped in Ocean Tides ink onto Aqua cardstock then embellished with liquid pearls.

To wrap the ribbon around the card, I first had to cut a slit in the fold of the card. Threaded the ribbon through and held it in place with a glue dot, then stitched the button on (through the ribbon and card base) for extra strength.

So today was supposed to be the day we leave for our camping trip, but unfortunately something has come up with my husbands work that has caused us to cancel our trip. Bummer!!! I was really looking forward to it. I am really trying not to be too bummed about it, the Lord must have other plans for us this weekend.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a great rest of the week and a fun weekend!

Maile

Celebrate: (All PTI unless noted)

• Stamps: Damask Design
• Ink: Ocean Tides
• Cardstock: White & Aqua Mist
• Accessories: White Vintage Button, Twine, Stitch GG Ocean Tides Ribbon & Ranger Liquid Pearls.

Third Time's The Charm

Hello all!

I'm back with a card to share with you today. For this card I had played around with some goodies I had received earlier from Lynette, you can see them here.To creat my focal image I stamped the flower stems then punched them out using my circle punch. Instead of adding buttons I used brads as my little flowers. Stamped some polka dots on the green panel in Versamark, stitch a row of white floss and added one last brad.

I am really happy with the way the sentiment came out, it just took me a few tries to get it right. :) I knew I wanted part of the sentiment to pop with white, so the first thing I tried was stamping the first part in green, then the "love" in craft white ink. That didn't stand out enough, so the next option was to heat emboss with white embossing powder. I tried this on a scrap piece of cardstock first to see if it would work and it turned out fine. But when I tried it on the final piece, it of course didn't turn out. So to cover up the mess I stamped "love" in green, on white cardstock, and punched it out with my small circle punch, popped it on with a dimensional, and it was perfect. I love it when mistakes lead you to the perfect solution, I mean... Why did I not think of that first?! Ha,ha!

I guess this card would also work for the latest CAS challenge, to Pop It Up. I think I'll stop by SCS an post it over there too.

I hope you enjoyed your visit with me today and have a wonderful Thursday!

Maile

All Thing Grow With Love: (All PTI unless noted)

• Stamps: Everyday Button Bits & Polka Dot Basics II
• Ink: Ripe Avocado & Versamark
• Cardstock: Raspberry Fizz, Ripe Avocado, Kraft & White
• Accessories: DMC Floss, SU Brads, Large & Small Circle Punchs, SU Top Note Dies & Corner Rounder