Patterned Papered Dreams

CFC96: Tricky Bunny

Happy Easter, friends! It's time for a new CAS-ual Fridays challenge and, of course, this week we'd love to see your clean and simple Easter or Spring creations... but they can't be cards ;) Think tags, banners, treat containers, gift bags. There are so many possibilities!

 

 

Timeless Twine is sponsoring the challenge this week. All the details can be found on the challenge blog.

 My Easter creation is a set of cupcake toppers.

 

I die cut the bunnies with the Cameo and the circles and scalloped circles with the Big Shot. See the tails? I finally justified having so many colors of Liquid Pearls, ha! And of course, a bit of twine finishes the toppers.

 You can have a look here at the super cute Easter projects created by the Girl Fridays.

Thanks for visiting and happy weekend!

Bunny toppers: Cardstock: white/Canson, teal, yellow, green/DCWV; Patterned paper: Doodlebug; Dies: circle/Spellbinders, scalloped circle/PTI, bunnies/Silhouette; Other: assorted liquid pearls/Ranger, assorted twine/The Twinery.

Papertrey March Blog Hop

Hello! Today I'm joining the PTI Blog Hop. This time it's all about sequins. They're popping up everywhere! I'll keep this short so you can keep hopping :)

For this card I started with an Ikat background and a vellum stripe. Then I die cut the letters a few times  from the Modern Alphabet dies, stacked all the die cuts and adhered black flat sequins to the letters.

A tip: cut the top layer for the letters from scor-tape adhered to cardstock. It works great for adhering the sequins and there will be no "glue globs" showing through the sequins little holes.

Thanks for stopping by and happy hopping!

Sequined Hi card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps: Irresistibly Ikat/PTI; Ink: Strawberry, Steel Blue/Impress; Dies: Modern Alphabet/PTI; Other: vellum, sequins.

CFC95: No Stamps

Eeeek! Yeah, you read that right! We have a new challenge for you this week at CAS-ual Fridays and it's no other than creating a clean & simple project without any stamping on it. Now, that's a real challenge!

SRM stickers is sponsoring us this week (details here) and they generously sent some of their wonderful stickers for the Girl Fridays too. Sadly, living in Bolivia my package will be arriving probably next Christmas, so I had to manage without stickers. Can't wait to play with them, though, and I'll be sure to post some projects when they arrive :)

Well, what does a girl when she can't stamp? Obvious! She die cuts like crazy!

And here's the result. A sunburst card cut with the Cameo and letters cut with the Big Shot from patterned paper and mounted on craft foam for dimension, which is much easier than cutting a gazillion little pieces of foam tape to pop up the letters. Just die cut the letters from craft foam and adhere the patterned paper ones on top. Easy :)

The Girl Fridays will simply amaze you here with their no stamping creations.

Happy weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Hello card: Cardstock: all Canson; Patterned paper/American Crafts; Dies: sunburst card/Silhouette, letters/Lifestyle Crafts; Other: Craft foam.

ric #32

Hi everyone! My new crafting desk just arrived, and having a clean, uncluttered surface seems to be what I needed to get my mojo running. That and this gorgeous pic from the current Runway Inspired Challenge.

 

Fuchsia, black and silver glitter where my starting point and finally my new Mini Blooms set was put to good use. The sentiment is from one of the new Hero Arts/Studio Calico sets.

The card is pretty self-explanatory, so I'm leaving it here.

Thanks for visiting!

Awesome card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamps: Mini Blooms/PTI, Snippets: Miss You So Much/Hero Arts; Ink: fuchsia/Impress, black/Versafine; Accents: silver glitter.

A study in emerald

Hello! I just received the most amazing box of stamps courtesy of the wonderful guys from Hero Arts (check their publication incentive here!) and managed to find a little time to play around with some of the new goodies. My starting point was this week's Tuesday Trigger.

I grabbed my inspiration from the colors (green, gold and a dash of blue).

I love the modern feel of that woodgrain background! After stamping it, I heat embossed the banner and sentiment with gold embossing powder and finished with a strip of gold cardstock and a few scattered rhinestones colored with a navy Copic marker.

Don't know about you, but I'm never sure about the placement of scattered stuff in cards. Love when others do it, but I always feel I've placed them incorrectly. Rhinestones, sequins, you name it. Do you have any rule for this? If so, please share ;)

Thanks for visiting and have a fantastic day!

A note to say hello card: Cardstock: white, gold/Canson, pool/Hero Arts; Stamps: woodgrain background, banner and sentiment/Hero Arts; Ink: Hero Arts, Versamark; Embossing powder/Ranger; Other; rhinestones, Copic marker.

CFC94: Chipboard

Hello there! It's time for a new CAS-ual Fridays Challenge and this time we'd love to see some chipboard in your clean and simple creations. Let's put that chipboard stash to good use!

 

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps is sponsoring us this week. Yeah! Head on to the blog to find out about the awesome prize up for grabs.

Ok, so let's talk chipboard... I used it to die cut some cute balloons, and finished them with microbeads. They add such a great texture! The background was made with some reverse masking and the sentiment is from this CFS set. Who said you can't use Christmas stamps all year round? :)

 

Here's a closer look at the microbeads. I'm specially loving the gold ones!

That's it from me! Check all the wonderful cards the Girl Fridays have created with chipboard to inspire you this week.

Thanks for visiting and happy, happy weekend!

Celebrate card: Cardstock/Canson; Stamp: Casual Fridays; Ink: Tumbled Glass/Distress Ink, Versamagic; Embossing powder: gold/Ranger; Die: balloon/PTI; Microbeads/American Crafts; Other: twine.

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

Hello and happy Thursday! Today I'm on the CFS blog with some of the cards I made with their latest release.

Living in Bolivia is fantastic, but the postal sistem not so much and it took like forever for the stamps to reach me! But they're finally here in all their gorgeousness! I would love if you could take a minute to stop by the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog to see what I made. Oh, and you can shop for CFS stamps here.

Thanks so much and have a fantastic day!

Playing around...

... with some of my Mama Elephant sets. I really love their designs and wanted to play along with the current ME challenge.

 

 

It's a sketch one, and here are my two takes on it:

 

 

In this card I turned the sketch upside down and used the masking and reverse masking techniques to create a sun and clouds. The rising sun is stamped with the Basic Borders set and the sentiment is from Smitten.

Now, a tag.

 

 

This time I used the original sketch to make an "urban lover" tag. This would be fun to pack a gift for a urbanite friend ;) I used the skyline from Believe in Magic and the banner sentiment from Smitten. The arrows are from Trifecta.

Thanks for stopping by!

CFC93: Color blocking

Hi there! Time for a new CAS-ual Fridays Challenge. Are you ready for some color blocking?

 

This week it's about CAS creations where color blocks are the star of the show. Use ink, cardstock, paper, tape... whatever you'd like :) CurCatdstock.com is sponsoring us this week, all details here.

 

I chose to play with bright cardstock, and started by die cutting squares and assembling them to a piece of cardstock. Then, I heat embossed this pretty CFS flower and this Mama Elephant sentiment, and adhered the pannel with foam tape.

You'll find some amazing color blocking inspiration from the Girl Fridays at the challenge blog. Have a great weekend and thatks for stopping by!

Color blocking card: Cardstock: black/Canson, red, pink, turquoise/American Crafts; Stamps: flower/CFS, sentiment/Mama Elephant; Ink/Versamark; Embossing powder/Ranger; Die/PTI.

Twine, green and chevrons

Hello there! Hope your week is going great. Did you know The Twinery has their own new challenge? I love both their twine and their amazing customer service, so today I wanted to play along. Here are all the details.

 

We're asked to use chevron, green and of course, their baker's twine. And here's my take:

 

For me the trick to make a perfect twine word is to use a die cut word as my template. In this case I used a lucky die from Papertrey Ink. I die cut the word from white cardstock, adhere it to the card and adhered the The Twinery's Peapod twine following the die cut. 

There was a bit too much white space, so I threw in a glitter shamrock, a sequin and a black gem for good measure ;)

Thanks for visiting!

So Lucky card: Cardstock/ Canson; Stamps: chevrons/Impress, sentiment/PTI; Ink: Limeade/Impress, black/Versafine; Twine/The Twinery; Dies: lucky/PTI, shamrock/My favorite Things; Rhinestone/Basic Grey; Other: glitter cardstock, sequin.