June 7

Happy Sunday!

Last week we showed you the top pins from the Girl Fridays. 

It certainly was a lot of fun to see which of their projects 

were getting pinned the most from their blogs.

Today, I'm going to show you some of the awesome projects 

designed by YOU 

that I found on Pinterest with #casfridays! 

These projects knocked my socks off!!

This card from Judy  using our Heart Note Fri-Die and Love Notes makes my heart super happy!

I adore the fun way Sindhura arranged our 4 Petal Fri-Dies

Oh gosh! This Bold Wishes beauty from Michelle at Pretty Periwinkles is awesome!!

and I simply adore this one from Lydia!

She used Houndstooth, Loving Thoughts and our Shuffle Fri-Dies.

As an added fun bonus to cap off our week o' fun, 

ALL of the stamps and Fri-Dies from today's post 

are on sale for the rest of this week on my website!

A farewell

It's Tuesday. 

If you've known me for any length of time, you know how much I dislike goodbyes.

 Goodbyes are final, goodbyes feel horrible, so we don't do goodbyes here.

We say farewell because it just feels much more open ended. :)

Today we say farewell to Girl Friday Piali. 

I've known this day was coming for a bit, but it feels like the time passed too quickly. 

I have loved having her on the team, and I know you have loved seeing her awesome creations.

She is super talented and I wish her the absolute best as she takes some time to enjoy summer vacation with her littles, and contemplates what might be next on her crafty agenda :)

Let's take a peek at a few of my favorites from Piali...

Heart Note Fri-Die and Love Notes

Heart Board Fri-Dies and Cupid's Arrows

Tech Talk and Houndstooth

Amazeballs

Mums the Word

Wonderful Words and Out Loud

This last one is extra super special.

It made Piali a cover girl!!

Oh gosh, I am going to miss her!

She has a couple of CAS-ual giveaways on her blog,

so be sure to stop by her blog and wish her well.

Maybe we can talk her into coming back one day :)

November 2

Happy Saturday!!

Have you seen our Fri-Die tag sets?

Oh my gosh, they are so much fun!

I played with a couple of them, and our Christmas sets to 

create a few pretty tags :)

First up is Funky Round Tag, 4 Petals and Merry Kiss-mas...

I just love how those pretty flowers layer together!

I cut a few in varying shades and them mixed them together to create my holly flowers.

Because the petals share cut lines, they have a lot of mobility

which means you can easily bend the individual petals up to give a 

really pretty 3D look.

I had some fun with glitter paper and the Fri-Dies!

This uses Oval Tag, 4 Petals and Snowflake Greetings.

I stamped a soft background of snowflakes then stamped the sentiment right over them.

The pretty funky oval shape frames the sentiment nicely, and I just love the sparkle from that glitter paper!

Here I used the same Oval Tag, the same 4 Petals die but switched stamp sets.

I stamped the Houndstooth right onto the funky oval shape to frame the sentiment from Christmas Carols.

This time I cut 2 sets of the 4 Petals and layered them all together to create more of a Poinsettia look.

Last but not least, I created a very simple tag using the Oval Tag set and Christmas Carols.

By simply adding a few of the 4 Petal flowers, it really dressed it up, and would look stunning on a present.

Each tag took me less than 10 minutes to complete and I am a slow crafter.

They were so much fun to mix and match to create different looks!

I can't wait to make more :)

That's it for today!

Have a fabulous weekend!!

October 3

Happy Thursday!

You are in for a real treat!

Girl Friday Virginia used some beautiful Christmas stamps, 

and some not at all Christmasy stamps 

to come up with this beauty...

Those super pretty ornaments are the fun chevron bombs from Ka-Boom!

Eeeek, right?!

She "strung" them onto the fun border strip from Woot Woot

and finished it all off with the pretty sentiment and darling flowers from Christmas Carols.

I just love her creativity!

I love what she did with the Houndstooth on this!

She embossed it first in gold (yum) and then applied the color by using an Emboss Resist technique and some masking. Then, to give it some contrast, she stamped the same strip in black.

The sequins really help set off the colorful Big Thanks sentiments :)

I'll betcha that if we all say pretty please, she might create a little tutorial on that cool technique!

Leave a comment right here saying Pretty Please, and we'll see what happens :)

Have a wonderful day!

September 25

Happy Wednesay.

I love Wednesdays because it means just 2 more sleeps til Friday!

Yay!

I've got 2 great cards from Girl Friday Kelly today.

She combined several sets and I really like how well they worked together.

I think the way she stacked the sentimens from 

Loving Thoughts, Rad and Frankly

looks positively awesome!!

Stamping over the cool Zigs & Zags adds a wonderful texture to it all!

Love, love, love the little pearls she placed all over the Houndstooth background!

Yummy to the max!

Stamping the smaller sentiment over the larger Frankly sentiment  really drives the point home.

Gorgeous card!

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