Time Out Challenges Reminder!

Hi friends!

I'm here to remind you of our current challenge at TIME OUT where we are CASEing this fantastic card by Michele:

Michele is one of my favorite bloggers and also a regular player at TIME OUT. I really love her style! If you don't know her blog I card Everyone, you know what to do next! :) 

I CASEd pretty much all the elements in Michele's card... I only changed the colors and layout. My hidden sentiment is very hidden, oops... But I guess you can somehow read it! :) Should maybe have added black layers under the top one instead of white. Oh well! The sentiment die is by Ellen Hutson (thank you TO DT friend Jill for sending me this last year!) and the stamped sentiment is by Happy Little Stampers, our sponsor. The stencil I used comes from Simon Says Stamp.

All our challenge details and lots of DT inspiration can be found HERE. Our guest designer this time is Bobby -also a regular at TO and one of my favorite card makers in blog land! Just love Bobby's eye for detail! Play along and you could be chosen as guest designer as well... Happy crafting!

I'd like to join:

CASology: Sharp (my masked circle has very "sharp", crisp and clean edges against the white background!) 

June CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers!

Hello friends!

It's time for a new monthly CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers. Sadly this will be my last challenge in this team but I want to thank Kylie and my HLS teamies for inspiration and wish everyone all the best for the future! 

Our theme for the month of June is smooshing. This inking technique can look stunning but can be a bit tricky too! There's several tutorials on this in youtube if you are not familiar with this technique. The HLS CAS design team has made fab samples for you, don't miss any of them, click HERE!

I used two colors of distress inks for my smooshing. I did it several times but kept on being unhappy with the washed out colors so I ended up sponging those same ink colors on top of the smooshing through a stencil by STAMPlorations. This look I liked and I love how this turned out in the end! I stamped a sentiment from HLS Simply Said Stamp Set and added a couple of small sequins to embellish the card.

Thanks for popping by and I hope to see you playing along at Happy Little Stampers! 

I'd like to join:

CAS on Sunday: Repetition image

Simon Says Monday Challenge: We are going around in circles

City Crafter: Out of this world 

(I think my patterned smooshed bg could be either a galaxy or a starry sky!) 

STAMPlorations June CAS Challenge:

May Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for May Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers. Our challenges are always Anything Christmas Goes but there is an optional twist on offer too. This time we are looking for cards with masking and I went for the twist myself. I masked a simple snowbank and inked a sky using 3 shades of distress inks. I then stamped "snow" with white pigment ink and Marianne Design splatter stamp. The sentiment is Finnish for Merry Christmas. This card is pretty much a re-make of a Christmas card I did some weeks ago but I loved the look -just went with different colors, different sentiment stamp and non-one layer this time. :) There's many wonderful samples in the HLS DT blog, don't miss any of them, click HERE. Thanks for popping by!

I'd like to enter

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Hint of Pink

ABC Christmas Challenges: K= Keep it Simple

Christmas Cards All Year Round: Precipitation

TIME OUT Challenge Reminder

Hello friends!

Today I'm here to remind you of our current challenge at TIME OUT:

Flowers with the Optional Twist of Kissing

Are you familiar with the kissing technique? In this technique you use a solid stamp + a detailed stamp for forming one image -you transfer the detail to the solid stamp by "kissing" the inked solid stamp with the inked detailed stamp before stamping your design on the paper. In my card I've used solid flower and leaves stamps from PTI and altered them with kissing them onto a Kaisergraft grungy grid- style stamp before stamping on paper. I absolutely love how different these flowers look after the kissing! You can barely believe it's the same, clean-lined, solid PTI stamp! 

My card is a simple one layer. I've masked a curve and inked it lightly with grey ink before stamping the images. The sentiment comes from Happy Little Stampers, who are sponsoring our challenge with a 15£ voucher to their store, randomly drawn for one "twister". Go ahead and do some kissing then, right! :)

Click HERE for more inspiration from our DT members.  

I'd like to enter CASology: Flow

The wavy curve adds flow... And so does the stamped, continuous, pattern!

I'm also entering the Paper Players: Tic Tac Toe, my 2nd entry

(pink, flowers, leaves)

Addicted to CAS: Grunge

(I've grunged up my flowers with the grungy grid-stamp!) 

City Crafter Challenge : You Can Do It (Make your own bg)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: A hint of Pink

May CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Hi friends!

We are in May already... Summer holidays are just behind the corner! :)

The May CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers is rain.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

In my card I'm using a sentiment from HLS Rainy Days stamp set. I've heat embossed it with white powder on my grey, textured card base. All the card stock I used in this card has some sort of texture for adding interest to this super simple design. 

Now I hope you'll head on to Happy Little Stampers and have a look at the wonderful DT samples. After that it's your turn to make a CAS card related to rain! Happy crafting! 

April Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Hello friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the April Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers. Our Christmas challenges are always "anything Christmas goes" but with an optional theme and this time the optional theme is embossing. My sentiment (HLS Everyday Sentiments Stamp Set), deer image and stars (magazine freebie) are all heat embossed. I used pale gold card on top of my white card base and used white and liquid platinum (Ranger) powders for heat embossing. Tiny rhinestones finish up the card. This card is quite pretty IRL but was a pain to photograph! 

Please head on over to the challenge blog for more DT inspiration!

April CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Hello friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the April CAS challenge at Happy Little Stampers. Our theme is "Blend". I made a very simple CAS card playing with HLS Simply Said stamp set, patterned paper and inks. I blended inks to my paper pieced balloons for depth and also blended some blue ink for sky. 

Please head on over to the challenge blog for more DT inspiration! 

I'd like to join:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

CAS-ual Fridays: No dies allowed

Nonni's and Sandie's Kit, Sandie's Materials (Post 1)

Hello friends!

Sandie from London Days and I are back sharing cards we've made using same materials (combined with own stash of course). So fun and inspiring to swap materials! This is what Sandie included in her fantastic kit:

Stamped, die cut Happy Little Stampers butterfly

Heat Embossed, die cut Happy Little Stampers butterfly

Heat Embossed Uniko butterflies

Heat Embossed Uniko hummingbird 

Die cut Concord and 9th butterfly

Die Cut fun foam sentiments by STAMPlorations and W+9

Stamped sentiments by the Ton

Faux-stitched die cut panels and frame by L'il Inker

Glitter cardstock

Different colored fun foam for die cutting

We are sharing two cards today and two cards on Friday. 

Yellow Butterfly Card

From the Kit:

Stamped and die cut Happy Little Stampers butterfly (I colored it with Copics + added white ge pen and Wink of Stella)

Yellow, glittery fun foam (I used it for die cutting my sentiment)

Own Ingredients:

Die cut tag (Sugar Pea Designs)

STAMPlorations Smile-die

One enamel dot as embellishment 

Card base

I'd like to enter my Yellow Butterfly card to:

Happy Little Stampers: Anything Goes with dies

Less Is More: Use a Frame 

I'm using the same framed tag die that I used in my GD card... Love this fun die! So happy to be guest designing at LIM, such an honor!

AAA Cards: Diecuts (already my 3rd entry!) 

Thanks to Monika's suggestion, I'm also adding this to CUTplorations March challenge at STAMPlorations!

Then, my second card!  

Pink Butterfly Card

From the kit: 

Heat embossed, die cut Happy Little Stampers butterfly 

Stamped Sentiment by The Ton

Own ingredients: 

Distress inks for smooshing and watercoloring

Sequins

White and black card stock

Can't really say if I think this card looks fun and artsy or just simply messy... :) That's always with smooshing... You can't predict the outcome! However the sentiment made me want to make something really "crafty", hence the watercoloring (I think I'll stick with my Copics by the way, watercoloring is s-c-a-r-y...) and playing with inks. I chose girly pinks, I thought it suited the theme too! :) 

I'd like to enter my Pink Butterfly card to:

Happy Little Stampers: March Anything Goes with dies

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Things with Wings

Thanks for popping by and please come back on Friday to see more cards made with Sandie's kit! 

March CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Hi friends!

I'm here tonight (or today, depends where you live!) with my DT card for Happy Little Stampers March CAS challenge. Our theme is "dies". I hope to see you playing along! Our DT has fab samples for you HERE, don't miss any of the cards!

I used pre-made die cuts that I had made ready already earlier, sometimes it's good to put that stash in good use! Actually I think the cloud is a gift from my friend Sandie if I remember right. I made the sky with a Marianne Design bg stamp + blending ink behind the die cuts to "ground them". My sentiment stamps (heat embossed with Ranger liquid platinum powder, my fave!) are available at Happy Little Stampers, the set is called Simply Said and you can have a look at it HERE. 

I've been loving the clear sequins lately, I know I'm super behind in this trend but I do understand why people use them so much... They don't look so distracting as colorful sequins which I find hard to use... And they add beautiful sparkle to your card. The set I bought for myself for X mas has 4 different sizes of sequins which makes it even easier to use! If I remember right it's a mix from Pretty Pink Posh, I got it from SSS. 

Thanks for popping by and I hope to see you joining us! 

Playing with Dies for Challenges!

Hi friends!

I had house guests all weekend but managed to squeeze in a little bit of crafting before bedtime yesterday! Bedtime was sort of late because of the card making though... Was super sleepy at work today! :)

Anyway, I was inspired by this week's Less Is More: Alphabeth. After seeing the challenge topic I immediately thought of these designer papers I had... And the Happy Little Stampers sentiment I decided to use fits the challenge pretty well too I think! I played with my Pretty Pink Posh die that I hadn't used before -when I bought this die I though it would be great for using designer paper in a CAS way. The flower die is by Penny Black. I winked it but this is photographed in grey Finnish winter day light so you can't see the shine. :)

I'm also entering:

The Heart Desires Challenge: photo inspiration

(flowers + baby blue and baby pink)

I've saved this cute inspiration photo on my computer and finally I was playing with colors that worked! My first time entering here!

http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.fi 

Try something New (new die + designer paper in a CAS way) 

Happy Little Stampers: Anything Goes with Dies

Thanks for popping by! 

TIME OUT Challenge Reminder

Hi guys!

I'm here to remind you of our current TIME OUT Challenge where we are CASEing Ksenija's card:

As you can see I was so inspired I made two CAS card designs, really loved the inspiration Ksenija provided for us!

The sentiment stamps in both of my cards comes from Happy Little Stampers. Happy Little Stampers

 is sponsoring this challenge with a 15 $ voucher for their shop for the winner. Do not hesitate to play along!

In my first card I've used a stencil by STAMPlorations. I just purchased this in December and have been using it several times already! I love the graphic look of this card. If you click Ksenija's card larger you can see that she did some tone on tone stamping on her card base and this really drew my eye. I also love the way she stamped her leaves on an angle and followed this layout in both of my card. The big leaves on my second card are made with a SSS stencil. The stamped flowers are from an old PTI set and I just stamped them pretty randomly. The ribbon tries to mimic the red strip Ksenija heat embossed on the corner of her white panel in the card. 

Now I hope you'll head on over to have a look of the inspiration our talented GD Marjan and the TO design team has provided for you in our blog HERE. Then it's your turn to take TIME OUT and craft!

The challenges I'm entering:

card 1

STAMPlorations January CAS Challenge

card 2 

Mix It Up #27 Anything Goes

Your Next Stamp Challenge #56 (colors)

The Paper Players use a flower

Thanks for popping by!