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CFC72: Toot your own horn!

Hi friends! I hope your week was a good one! Mine was a bit busy, so you know, TGIF :) And as you know, Friday also means a new CAS-ual Fridays Challenge. Yay!

The idea for this week is super fun: make a clean and simple project inpired by your blog banner. Oh, and if you don't have a blog, it's ok to get inspired by any blog banner you like from around the internet. There's a huge ammount of them to choose ;)

Our fantastic sponsor for this week is A Muse Studio, and they are giving away a fantastic prize package! You can find all the details on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog.

Here's the card I made inspired by my blog banner:

 

I had a lot of fun adding glitter and experimenting with embossing powder adhered to scor-tape (it results in an interesting crackled look).

I hope you can join us this week. Why not checking the rest of the DT creations here to get started? And don't forget the daily inspiration provided in the CAS-ual Fridays Facebook page too!

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson, Coredinations; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ink: (pear tart) Memento, (tomato red) Fresh Ink, Versamark; Embossing powder: Ranger; Dies: (polaroid, stars) PTI, (wonky scallops) Sizzix; Twine: The Twinery; Gingham ribbon.

Holiday Cards & More winner!

Hello! First of all, thanks so much for participating in the Twelve Blogs of Christmas Blog Hop and for the lovely comments! And now of course we need a winner...

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Love the nontraditional wreath idea :)

Posted by: Bethany V | 09/22/2012 at 02:59 AM

Congrats, Bethany! Please email me your shipping details at lorecl (at) hotmail (dot) com and I'll forward them to the lovely people at Paper Crafts Magazine so they can send you a copy of this must have issue!

I'll be back tomorrow with a new CAS-ual Fridays challenge. Have a lovely day!

Paper Crafts presents: Holiday Cards & More 12 Blogs of Christmas

Hello and welcome to the Holiday Cards & More 12 Blogs of Christmas Blog Hop! This blog hop is the cherry on top for the promotional week of one of the most beloved Paper Crafts special issues, the one and only devoted to all things Christmas! You can't miss it, and here is were you can get a copy.

I always love creating for this issue because as I've said before, it's like having Christmas twice a year ;)

Today, on each of the 12 Blogs of Christmas you will find a card created using one of the simple sentiments from this issue. It's my first time using a digital sentiment!

 I wanted to make an unconventional Christmas wreath. It started by printing the sentiment on red cardstock. Then I die cut it with a circle die, and used a woodgrain plate for debossing. To highlight the sentiment, I used a white gel pen to fill in some of the areas and doodle a frame. Isn't that handwritten font lovely?

Next was die cutting the big scalloped image from patterned paper (Lily Bee's Handmade collection) and adding some Hero Arts rhinestones. The card is finished with a chevron bow, and because the focal point is so big and saturated color wise, I decided to leave the card base plain white.

Now it's time to keep on hopping! Your next stop is no other than my very admired, stamper extraordinaire and CAS queen Cristina Kowalczyc!

But before, the lovely Paper Crafts Magazine lets me give away a copy of Holiday Cards & More to one lucky commenter, so go ahead and leave me a comment before next Tuesday telling me what makes you happy about Christmas and I'll pick a winner! And don't forget to stop by the Paper Crafts Connection once you're done hopping, because there may be some prizes up for grabs there too ;)

Thanks so much for hopping along! Oh, and here's the whole blog hop list:

1.      1. Chan Vuong

2.  2. Angeline Yong Jeet Leen

3.  3. Heather Campbell

4.  4. Kalyn Kepner

5.  5. Lorena Cantó Lavería <----- You're here

6.  6. Cristina Kowalczyc

7.  7. Amy Wanford

8.  8. Vanessa Menhorn

9.  9. Latisha Yoast

10.    10. Jocelyn Olson

11  11. Meredith MacRitchie

12  12. Clare Prezzia

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CFC71: Fall Fun!

Hi and welcome to this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge! This week it's time to welcome Fall in clean and simple style, so it would be fantastic if you joined us with a CAS creation inspired by Fall! You can be inspired by colors, textures, Thanksgiving... lots of choices, really!

Our sponsor for this week is Great Impressions Stamps, and they are generously giving a $25 gift certificate to the winner. You can check their awesome designs here. They are so cute! Thanks, Great Impressions!

Here's my Thanksgiving card.

I used my favorite debossing plate to make the card base and inked the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink. To make the focal panel, I started by stamping the leaves with two different inks on a cardstock rectangle. Then I used an Xacto and a ruler to trim it partially, and scissors to cut out part of the leaves so they would hang off the pannel.

I hope you'll play with us this week and don't forget there's a daily dose of inspiration in the CAS-ual Fridays Facebook page, along with the wonderful creations the Girl Fridays have for you on the Challenge blog.

Thanks so much for visiting and have an awesome weekend!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: (Harvest, Fig) Fresh Ink, (Antique Linen) Distress Ink; Debossing plate: (woodgrain) PTI; Twine: May Arts.

CFC70: Black&White plus One

Hi and welcome to a super duper brand new CAS-ual Fridays challenge! Remember how a couple weeks ago I shared a bit about creating cards with black, white and a pop of color? Well, this week all of the Girl Fridays have lots of inspiration for you on this subject, because that's our challenge for this week!

We'd love to see your clean and simple projects using black, white and another color of your choice. There's an awesome prize from our sponsor, Neat and Tangled. It's a new stamp company and they have some super cute designs! Check more about them in the challenge blog :)

This time I chose to use red as my pop of color and I went a bit crazy with circle shapes.

I embossed the card base with a circles folder, then die cut a circle and stamped it with that cool circles line. Do you know what I did next? Right! I stamped another circle with a message inside. The heart is covered with my latest favorite toy, microbeads! How fun and cute is that teeny tiny stuff? And of course, the washi tape that finishes the card has some spots ;)

I couldn't help but taking a close pic of the microbeads...

Now it's your time to play! Check the CAS-ual Fridays blog and Facebook page for lots of inspiration :)

Thanks for visiting and have a fab weekend!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: (circle sentiment) Hero Arts, (circles strip) PTI; Ink: (tomato red) Fresh Ink, (black) Versafine; Embossing folder: Lifestyle Crafts; Dies: (circles) Spellbinders; Microbeads: American Crafts.

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Morning! Before heading for the office I have a card for the current Runway Inspired Challenge. The inspiration comes from this Iceberg design that reminds me a lot of Mondrian's paintings:

So I took the masculine approach, the colors and straight lines and run with them :)

Keeping it short today. Thanks for visiting!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson, American Crafts, Coredinations; Stamps: PTI (herringbone, hello); Ink: Versafine (black), Memento (Tangelo); Die: (alphabet) Lifestyle Crafts.

 

CFC69: Embossing

Hello friends! Time for a new CAS-ual Fridays Challenge! This week it's all about one of my favorite techniques: embossing. We'd love to see clean and simple projects that include some form of embossing. It can be dry embossing, heat embossing and of course both of them combined too :)

This is the first Friday of the month, which means that the winner not only gets a fantastic GC from our sponsor Simon Says Stamp, but also a spot as a Guest Designer with us! You can find all the details on the CAS-ual Fridays blog.

As you can see, I went for heat embossing on my inspiration card.

 

Last month I just added to my collection a few new colors of Zing embossing powders and I just couldn't wait to use them. The one I used is called Mustard and it's gorgeous! I masked half of the card and stamped it with this Hero Arts background. After heat embossing I added the orange with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink and filled in the smaller squares with a Dove blender pen and Peeled Paint Distress Ink.

The sentiment is PTI and the card was finished with twine and a little button.

You can visit the challenge blog to see all the awesome inspiration the rest of the Girl Fridays have for you there, and don't forget to visit our Facebook page for yet more daily gorgeous creations.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill; Stamps: Hero Arts, PTI; Ink: Versamark, (Hint of Pesto) Versamagic, (Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade) Distress Ink; Embossing powder: (mustard) American Crafts; Twine: May Arts; Button: PTI