After the flood

Hello, crafting friends!

 

Happy Saturday and welcome to a new challenge at Addicted to CAS! Nancy has chosen the code word for this coming fortnight:

 

Everyone likes the colours of the rainbow don't they! I've based my card on the actual rainbow. In the story of Noah in the Bible, it appears after a cataclysmic flood and is a sign of God's promise that the world will never again be destroyed by flood.

 

My rainbow was made by tracing around the tops of The Greetery's Nesting Arch dies. I coloured it with coloured pencils and partially covered it with storm cloud cut from a snippet of grey card with one of Lawn Fawn's Puffy Cloud border dies. I added a sentiment from MFT's All Occasion Sentiments, stamped in red ink on an offcut of vellum, heat embossed with clear embossing powder and trimmed with sharp paper snips. The card was finished with bright enamel dots to pick out some of the rainbow colours.

 

Okay, so now it's your turn! Do hop over to the Addicted to CAS challenge blog and check out all the fabulous cards my team mates have made to inspire you. You'll find the Linky Tool at the end of the post and you can use it to share your own creation. Don't forget we are a clean and simple challenge so do make sure you include plenty of clear space when you design your card. We can't wait to see what you make!

 

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up with Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge, where Anything Using Dies Goes; Also the Snippets Playground, where we go to share cards using our snippets and there are amazing prizes to be won too!

AND IN OTHER NEWS

My eldest son is staying with us at the moment. He wandered in the other day and my husband asked how he was. "Just ticking along?" he enquired. My son assured him that he was ticking along nicely thank you. This exchange made me laugh. "You're like a little clock aren't you," I teased. "What do you mean?" asked my son. "Only right twice a day?!"

Sending hugs,

Goodbye high flyer

Hello, crafting friends!

 

It's Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Addicted to CAS, brought to you this fortnight by  Ceal. Here's the code word she has chosen:

 

Very thought provoking! In our house we have the saying 'Free as a bird in the sky' so I made it the theme for this card. Perhaps it could be for someone who might be flying the nest or who might be leaving the workplace for greater things!

I started with a thick card base, sponging one corner with cloudy sky using a stencil made from one of Lawn Fawn's Puffy Cloud Border dies. To this background, I glued the words 'fly high' cut from coral card using The Greetery's Slim Alphabet Dies. There was a nice little space that I filled with the 'we'll miss you' sentiment from an old Clearly Besotted set. The swallow is an X Cut die. I cut him out of white card and coloured him with alcohol markers. 

 

Okay, so now it's your turn! My team mates have come up with some amazing cards using this code word, so do hop over to the Addicted to CAS challenge blog to check them out. We'd love to see your interpretation too! You can share your entry with us by using the Linky Tool at the bottom of the post on the challenge blog. Don't forget to keep your cards nice and clean and simple with plenty of white space!

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up at Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge where Anything Die Cut Goes.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

All my human babies flew the nest a long time ago, although one has since returned which is nice :) My  fluffy baby will definitely not be leaving home as she lives the good life here! Sometimes I sense that she would prefer an extra meal or two a day and if I wouldn't mind diverting the river so that it runs through our garden for handy swims - oh and if I could just let her out onto the street in the mornings so that she could say hello to all the neighbours as they're getting reading for work/school, that would be good too. On the whole though, we're not such a bad family!

Sending hugs,

Hugs and puppy snuggles

Hello, crafting friends!

 

What a couple of weeks it has been! But February is here now and I'm happy because I've had a chance to get busy with some snippets:

 

I often ink around the edges of the front of my card bases and this one was one I changed my mind about. The little dog was in my snippets box too. It's from a wonderful Anita Jeram image (see a card made with it HERE) but I really messed up the background of my first try. I saved the dog by snipping it out of the quilt and put it in the snippets box to use on another project. All the other bits are tiny snippets of designer paper and card.

 

I trimmed the white card down with a stitched rectangle die by Heffy Doodle. This was attached to the ink-edged card base and topped with the green floral paper and the wooden plank piece. Eva prefers to be on the hard floor (when she isn't taking up all the space on a sofa!) but I gave my little pup a soft place to sleep by trimming the coral piece of paper with a cloud border die.

 

The letters were cut with The Greetery's Slim Alphabet dies but I found they got lost against the green floral. Luckily I hadn't glued everything down yet!

 

 

The solution was to wrap a snippet of vellum round the floral paper, securing it behind, and glue the sentiment over the top. I finished off with a few enamel shapes.

CHALLENGES

I kept my colours to the palette in the Color My Heart Color Dare challenge #531 (choosing the top row Papaya/Peach/Sage and adding in Honey Butter and Toffee) so will link up there; I'm also joining in with The Alphabet Challenge where Debbie has chosen V for Vellum; and of course I'll be heading over to The Snippets Playground with my homework and to play 'Pinch, Punch, First Day of the Month' with any unsuspecting playmates!!

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Its been a Golden Girl day today! I took them to a favourite place that has a stream running though it AND a river at the bottom AND a melted ice rink!!

 

And no, in case youre wondering, there can NEVER be enough water for a Golden Retriever to career about in!!

Sending hugs,

Never lose hope

Hello, crafting friends!

 

I recently added some arch nesting dies from The Greetery to my craft stash and the first thing I thought of when I opened the pack was a rainbow! So I tried it out...

 

... and this was the result! It's a very Die Cut kind of a card. I cut the tops of the arches out of coloured card from my snippets folders. The rainbow was assembled and glued to a card base. Next I cut two card panels to size with a Heffy Doodle stitched rectangle die and trimmed the tops with a cloud border die from Lawn Fawn.

 

The cloud topped panels were overlapped and attached to the card front, allowing the rainbow to peek out of the top. I finished with a lovely sentiment from WaffleFlower, stamped in purple, and embellished with coloured enamel dots.

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up at the Time Out Challenge where I was inspired by the quote by Maya Angelou 'Try to be the rainbow in someone's cloud.' I'm also joining in with Happy Little Stampers Die challenge where Anything Goes. It's the first outing for the arch dies so I'm playing along at Darnell's NBUS challenge where we share projects made with our Never Before Used Schtuff.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Here is a photo of someone who never loses hope. She has been taught that begging is very common behaviour that never gets rewarded, but that if she is very, very quiet and good lying near the table, she may get a morsel from the clearer upper when everyone has left the table!

 

This is her face when I have suggested a walk but have gone back into  the house for the umpteenth time because I have forgotten things! She is, frankly, a little bit disappointed in me.

Sending hugs,

Home is where the heart is

Hello, crafting friends!

 

It's Thursday and time for another Tic Toe Toe challenge board bursting with inspiration! The board is in the capable hands of Joanne this week and it came at a great time for me :)

 

I chose the top row Heart/House/Die Cut and made a card for my youngest son who, having graduated, has moved into a new house with a group of good friends he was lucky enough to meet in his first few weeks of uni. 

 

The medallion was made by layering up stitched circles in various colours, the central one edged with a Lawn Fawn cloud border die. The resulting background was topped with a die cut house from X Cut which was cut twice more from snippets of coloured card so that I could inlayy the windows and the little heart.

I cut a panel with a stitched rectangle die from Heffy Doodle and stamped a sentiment from The Greetery's PreText Sentiments and WPlus9's New Home, leaving enough space to glue the medallion between them. To link the green part to the bold black words, I used a fascia image stamp from New Home - and then capered about feeling very pleased with myself!!

So, now it's your turn to get creative with Joanne's board - so many options! Do hop over to the Tic Tac Toe challenge site and admire the sample the team has made to inspire you. When you are ready to share your own creation, you can use the Linky Tool you'll find at the bottom of the post. We can't wait to see what you make!

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up at Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies challenge; I'm also joining in at the Die Cuts and/or Stencils challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

 

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Perhaps I should send my son a nice rug for his new home. How about this one I found just lying around the house...

 

Oh, wait!

Sending hugs,

Flying high in an ombre sky

Hello, crafting friends!

Welcome to the brand new challenge at Addicted to CAS! Barb is our hostess for the next two weeks and she has come up with a theme I think you'll love as much as I do:

It's such a great trend isn't it!

I started my card with a die cut square of card stock which was cut into three using one of Lawn Fawn's Puffy Cloudy border dies. I used blue ink and water to colour each section, decreasing the intensity of the colour each time. When they pieces were dry, I flattened them with my high tech flattener (a pile of books!) and used double sided tape to keep them in their square shape and to attach them to a square card base.

The swallow is a mini Xcut die. I cut it twice, coloured one of them with alcohol markers and glued them together. I set my swallow swooping upwards in my sky and added a sentiment from Uniko's Simply Said Blocks.

And now it's your turn! I know you'll want to see all the fabulous samples my teamies have made to inspire you - and we have the wonderfully talented Trina as our special guest. You can see everything on the Addicted to CAS blog and you'll be able to link up your own creation there too. Don't forget to keep it clean and simple!

CHALLENGES

The Tic Tac Toe challenge has a great board this week - I've chosen the top row: Wings, Sky, Squyare; I'm also linking up with Happy Little Stampers Dies challenge where Anything Goes; and Watercooler Wednesday where it's Cathy's turn to host the popular Occasions challenge.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I made this card for my daughter's wonderful partner who has just landed a great new job! I am such a proud Other Mother (which is what I get called!) Just off to pop some champagne corks!!

Sending hugs,