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CFC101: Stamp on patterned paper

It's CAS-ual Fridays time, folks! Have you ever stamped on patterned paper? I have to confess that I don't do it a lot, so this week's challenge was great to stretch myself and remember to try it more often.

 

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps is sponsoring this week, yay! All details about the prize here.

I combined three different sets and a few touches of gold to create my card: the branch is really a tree from this set, the tiny leaves are from this one and the sentiment, from this other set. I love how Michele's stamps can be combined so nicely :)

 

 

I hope you'll join the fun! Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!

Thinking about you card: Cardstock/Canson; Patterned paper/Studio Calico; Stamps/CFS; Ink: brown/Memento, Versamark; Embossing powder/Ranger; Die/Memory Box; Twine: The Twinery.

Just a note

Hi friends! Just wanted to let you know that after getting 200+very disgusting spam comments on older posts on the blog over the last two days, I've decided to enable comment moderation. No word verification though, I hate it as much as most of you :)

Thanks for understanding!

Pretty trigger

Hello and happy Sunday! Today I'm playing along with the Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World. The inspiration pic is so pretty!

I grabbed the inspiration from the squares, the soft colors and little flowers. Pretty obvious :) This is my favorite kind of card: all stamped

Thanks for visiting!

To you card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps: Mini Blooms/PTI; Ink: fuchsia, sugar, chocolate/Fresh Ink, tumbled glass/Distress Ink; Die: (used for masking) squares/PTI.

CFC100: Top 10 Tic-tac-toe

Hi friends! Today we are celebrating big! Not only this is the 100th challenge at CAS-ual Fridays, but also CFC's second birthday! I guess it's officially a toddler ;)

So in order to honor this fantastic achievement, we're celebrating with our top 10 challenges of all time! Michele put together a super fun board with our top 9 challenges, and the 10th one was tic-tac-toe itself. Choose a row and play with us! You have two weeks to play and there will be 10 prizes!!! Check all the details on the challenge blog.

I chose the square card-bling-text row. I have a soft spot for square cards!

Thanks for visiting! I hope you join us for this happy celebration :)

The best card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps: sentiment/CAS-ual Fridays, blooms, text/PTI; Ink: black/Versafine, Versamark; Embossing powder/Ranger; Die: butterfly/Memory Box; Other: rhinestones.

PTI April Blog Hop

Hey! A super quick post to join the PTI Blog Hop. This month it's about tilted designs, and I came up with this (oh, and I went gold-embossing crazy too. Sorry for the pic, I had to take it with my phone.

I used Maile's Bountiful Banners set, scor-tape to make the embossed gold frame and a bit of The Twinery gold twine.

Keeping it short so you can keep hopping. Thanks for stopping by :)

Wedding card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps/PTI; Ink/Versamark; Embossing powder/Ranger; Twine/The Twinery.

Hooked on watercoloring

Happy Wednesday, crafty friends! In the middle of the submissions craze I managed to create a little something for The Wonder of Watercolor challenge at the Moxie Fab World. The images are totally inspiring, check them and all the details here.

This is my card:

I heat embossed a beautiful lace border (WPlus9) and then went over it with Inktense pencils and a waterbrush. A sentiment and a simple black strip finish the card, because the image is so gorgeous and detailed that I thought this time less was more :)

Thanks for visiting!

Watercolored lace card: Cardstock/Hero Arts; Stamps: lace/WPlus9, sentiment/PTI; Ink: black/Versafine, Versamark; Embossing powder/Ranger; Pencils/Inktense by Derwent.

Happy Birthday, Michele!

Hello, hello! Today is a very special day! It's Mrs CAS-ual Fridays birthday and the Girl Fridays are blog-hoppin' to celebrate her special day. We have all created a card for her. My blog is number 6. You should have arrived from Jingle's blog. Otherwise, you can start from the beginning here.

So this is my card for you, Michele! Thanks for having me in the team and for being a wonderful person to work with! You rock, madam, and I hope you have a blast today :)

My card was inspired by the CAS-ual Fridays colors. They're so pretty! Of course, CFS stamps were used.

Enough chatter! Next stop is Lindsay's blog. And here's the complete list:

Leigh Ann

Sanketi

Alice

Kelly

Jingle

Lorena <----- You're here

Lindsay

Sylvia

Deb

Jocelyn

AJ

Pamela

Angie

{The Ink Squad girls from CAS-ual Fridays are also hosting a blog hop for Michele! Is she loved or what?! You can follow along with them too: Dana, Karen, Kelly, Laurie, Lynn, Michelle, Piali, and Virginia!}

Thanks for visiting!

CFC99: It's a Birthday Bash!

 

Hello friends! Today's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge is a very special one, and not only because it's number 99. We're celebrating big this week! It's Michele's birthday, so it's the perfect time to show us your birthday creations CAS style :)

 

Sure there has to be more to it, right? Yes there is! This challenge will run for two weeks (more time for creating, yay!) and there's an a.ma.zing prize por the winner. Check it on the challenge blog here.

Ok, if we're having a birthday we need some birthday stuff, right? Like a party hat...

 

 

My trusty Cameo came to the rescue again. After I die cut the party hat twice, I customized it with the tiny diamond stamp from Only You and a sentiment from Woot Woot!. Oh, yes, and sequins. As everyone knows, if we're celebrating, we just need sequins. Ok, I just made that up, but aren't they cute all lined up? 

 

Now it's time to play! Have a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for visiting :)

Party on hat: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays; Ink: assorted/Impress, black/Versafine; Die: (party hat) Silhouette; Other: sequins

CFC98: Glitter

 Hello friends! Welcome to a new CAS-ual Fridays challenge :) Are you ready to shine? (ok, bad joke...). This week we'd love to see clean and simple creations using glitter. Stickles are ok too.

 

Simon Says Stamp is sponsoring us this week. You can get a fantastic prize! Check the details here.

Last week I went crafty-shopping with a good friend and we found a gorgeous glittered craft foam. And unlike other foams like this I've seen before, ins this one the glitter stays where it's supposed to: on the foam, and not all over the place. And the colors were beautiful too! So I bought a few sheets. And here's the result:

 

My card uses the polka dot rows image from Only You heat embossed in clear and a partially stamped sentiment from Woot Woot! I completed the sentiment die cutting letters from said glitter craft foam and *gasp* I ventured the splatters road too. And I happen to like the result :)

 

 

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Make some noise card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps/CAS-ual Fridays Stamps; Ink: black/Versafine, Versamark; Dies: letters/PTI; Other: Glitter craft foam, Studio Calico mist.

CFC97: Chevrons and Flowers

Hello friends! Yay for Fridays and for new challenges! This week at CAS-ual Fridays we're looking for clean and simple creations where two different elements are combined: chevron and flowers. Isn't it a match made in heaven? :)

Ellen Hutson is the sponsor for this challenge. Want to know something more about the prize she's offering? Check it here!

This time I challenged myself and tried to use the required elements in other way than stamping. So the chevrons were embossed on the card base, and the flowers are in the form of patterned paper. I combined two different sentiments and heat embossed them in gold. Don't you love the gold trend? Well, I do!

 

And a close up

I hope you'll give a try to this fun challenge. Happy weekend and thanks for visiting!

Welcome Baby card: Cardstock/Canson; Patterned paper/Echo Park; Stamps: welcome/Avery Elle, baby/Technique Tuesday; Ink/Versamark; Embossing powder/Ranger; Embossing folder/Hero Arts; Other: wood bird/Studio Calico, twine/The Twinery.