CAS #110

Yay! Monday! Love weekday. Atleast there is somewhere to go on weekdays. After 2 weeks of  staying at home nursing the rest of the family with cold and flu, I want to go out and breath fresh air. I was the only one at home who escaped flu and cold. But atleast all are recovering and feeling better now!  

Anyway, I made a card using CAS sketch #110 on the weekend. 

Here is the sketch for you.

Here is my take on the sketch....

Hehe! another Christmas card! For those of you who are visiting my blog for the first time, I have to say that I got a bit panicky about mass producing christmas cards last week. And I had a few posts of only christmas cards. You can check them out here and here and here.

In this sketch I loved the center long panel. I enjoyed stamping on the panel as you can see. Decided to use the sentiment stamp as a background and used the ornament as the focal point. Lots of bling for the festivity and ta da... its done.lol! Just excited thats all!

Thanks for an awesome sketch week after week. I missed a few but now I am back again.

Have a great week! I am definitely going out today and having fun today...

See ya soon... 

Cheers!

JAI #37

A nice Sunday. I was surfing the web today and found this card by Dawn  Olchefske on SCS. Such a gorgeous card. I love how Dawn used the clear block and got the shadow frame. Very clever.She has a video on how she made it on her blog.

I wanted to give it a go and used JAI #37 color challenge to do mine. Here are the colors of the challenge.

Here is my take...

I don't have SU's Always Artichoke ink or paper with me. But I had the marker pen. I painted my clear block with Always Artichoke maker pen to get the shadow frame. But that did not work out. All it did was to give a very rustic effect on the Confetti Cream cardstock. I decided to use the effect anyway. All the background stamping are second generation and third generation stamping using Always Artichoke marker pen, Pumpkin Pie,Old Olive, Rose Red inks and SU's Extreme Element stamp set and PTI's Leaf Prints stamp set. The edges are distressed and inked  using the same colors. 

The leaves are cut using PTI's  Leaf Print dies and stamped using PTI's Leaf Print Stamps with Always Artichoke marker pen  and Pumpkin Pie ink. The flower is made using Butterfly punch punched out of Confetti White cardstock, which are inked using Rose Red and Pumpkin Pie inks, layered and secured with an antique brad.The sentiment is from PTI's Embellishements stamp set.

Not what I expected it to be when I started making it. I wanted to keep it simple but I got carried away while making it. I did not get the shadow frame effect using the clear block. But loved the rustic effect it created. I like the card a lot. Its so different. No patternpaper used. Just inks and stamps with white and cream paper. Thanks Dawn Olchefske for the inspiration and thanks JAI for the colors.

Have a great weekend!

Cheers!

More Christmas cards...

I have more Christmas card today.  I have gone for different colors. 

I love this layout. Simple and easy for mass producing. Here are the cards.

I love PTI's Scarlet Jewel color and I stamped them SU's En Francis stamp with SU Bravo Burgundy ink and inked the edges with the same. Love SU's Elegant Lines embossing folder on PTI's Spring Moss cardstock. The ornament stamps are from Kaisercraft stamped using SU's Bravo Burgundy ink on PTI's Mat stack 3 diecut. What do you think? I like them. I am planning to make more using this layout but with different colors, different embossing folders and different stamps. I am happy now that I have found a layout/sketch. Now I have to start cutting and stamping and assembling them :)

Now I am not panicky anymore about making Christmas cards. What a relief! Maybe I can participate in challenges. Happy Cardmaking Day!
Will be back soon with more....
Cheers!

Christmas cards.....

I have a huge number of Christmas cards to make. I am sure all of you do too! Just got a bit panicky because, when I tried to make the card, I just could not get it right! My mojo for christmas cards left me! So I have decided to give up participating in challenges for a little while and focus on making Christmas cards. I have started making them. Here are the first couple of Christmas cards I made for this year.

I am not so very happy with them. Love the background part of the card but the focal panel is what I am not happy about.  But some of my friends liked it. And that gave me some confidence. So I made another set Hehe! Here are they...

I feel better about these ones. I am getting there, I think! Then I made these three...

I love these these. Just love the layers of stamped images and the ornament with the rhinestones look so much beautiful and festive. In total I have about 200 cards to make. Its a good start don't you think! I just need a few sketches to mass produce Christmas cards. When I find them, I need is make prototypes and then mass produce cards...

OK! I have to go now. My daughter is preparing to go for a sleepover at her friend's house. I have to make sure she has taken all she needs. I will miss her tonight at home. It will be a lot quieter. But I am sure she will have a lot of fun with her friend and just can't stop talking about it tomorrow morning. mmmm! lol!

Alright, see ya soon...

Cheers!

Embellish Challenge

This is my first time to participate in Embellish challenge. I liked the colors and background stamping of the challenge. Moreover I had some time to do this afternoon. So I made a card for the challenge. 

Here is the challenge:

Here is the card I made for the challenge.

I have used PTI's damask background stamp using Basic Gray ink from SU for the background. Distressed the edges and sponged gray ink on the edges too. Its such a beautiful color combination. Love it and thanks for the challenge.

Have a great long weekend! 

Cheers!