Time to Party! - Happy Birthday CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!

Welcome back!  I've got some more birthday fun for you today!

I started by making a fun multicolored background using the Bubbly Stencil!  I chose the three colors I wanted to use in my card and started with the lightest.  I laid the stencil over the top of a white panel and blended some yellow through it.  I wiped off the stencil and turned it and applied green through it and then did the same with some blue.

Next I stamped and embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Happy Birthday Stamps and fussy cut it out.  I cut some circles using the pinked and smooth circle dies from the Pinked Slimline dies and cut them in coordinating cardstock colors.  I popped the circles onto the base and then popped up the fussy cut Happy Birthday sentiment over the top of them.

Finally I stamped a sentiment from the Sassy Celebration set onto a banner from the Pinked Slimline set and popped that up over the top.

I finished it off and added it to two bases of green and white and added a few sequins for fun.

That's me for today!  Big Happy Birthday to Michele and CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!

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It's Time to Party-Stretching your Supplies

Hello everyone!! It is Nora here on the blog today with a Halloween card that I created with non-Halloween supplies!

I started off my card by spraying Distress Stain in green and purple Distress Mica Stain on a white panel measuring 4" by 5 1/4."

I wrapped some orange twine around the panel and adhered it to an A2 5 1/2" by 4 14"  white card base. I then adhered three squares that I had die cut out of scraps of pattern paper.

I set the card aside to work on my pumpkins. I used the Pinked Slimline small circle to die cut circles out of orange scraps of pattern paper. 

I then used the Swirls Stencil to mark faces on the pumpkins. I used enamel drops to fill the faces in. I did make a mistake on one pumpkin BUT I fixed it by just drawing the enamel out to make "lashes." 

While the dots dried, I die cut "stems" using the Heart Note Dies.  I just die cut specific pieces of the notes to use that I thought looked like stems. I adhered the "stems" onto the top of my pumpkins when the enamel dried. I used foam adhesive to adhere the three pumpkins to the black squares that were on the card front.

My last step was to find a sentiment. I didn't have one that said "Happy Halloween" so I decided to use the "it's time to party!" sentiment from Sassy Celebrations stamp set. It was the PERFECT size for my card. I stamped it with black ink onto a white paper strip. I used foam adhesive to adhere it to my card front, over the twine. I then tied a bow.

My card was complete and I personally LOVE how it came out. I will be sending it, with a box of goodies, to one of my cousins for Halloween.

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I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by today. Be sure to come back this week to see some more fabulous creations by the Design Team.

Have a FABULOUS day!!

CAS-ual Fridays Supplies I used for my card:

Time To Celebrate!

Hello!  I hope you are able to enjoy some fun this holiday weekend!  I'm spending time with family and thought I'd make a red, white and blue card to honor the 4th.  I thought the Jacks Stencil would make a perfect background for this one!

I placed the Jacks stencil over a die cut panel and blended in some Festive Berries Distress Ink to just a section of the panel.

I wiped off the stencil and then blended some Tumbled Glass in other areas careful to leave a bit of white space.

I wiped off the stencil again and then used a spatula to apply some Glitz Glitter Gel through the entire stencil.

Voila!  So pretty, right??  I set this aside to dry.

While the background was drying, I stamped the Celebrate from the Sassy Celebration stamp set onto white cardstock using Catherine Pooler Suede Shoes ink.  Before removing it from my Misti, I stamped it again with some Versamark and heat embossed it with Wow Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.  Then I did the same with the rest of the sentiment in Samba.  I fussy cut the Celebrate and trimmed the rest down into a rectangle and added a blue layer to outline it.

Next I cut the glass from the Champagne Flute from white glitter paper and the star from the Slimline Pinked set from blue foiled paper.

When the stenciled layer was dry, I arranged everything using various thicknesses of foam tape and adhesive and layered it onto a blue and red base.

That's me for today!  I hope you enjoyed it and that you'll come again soon for some more CAS-ual Fridays Inspiration!

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Celebrate with a Margarita

Happy Tuesday everyone!!! Nora here from A Creative Touch. I cannot believe that it is JUNE!!!

Today I am on the blog with a card that I created with the margarita glass from the Salty stamp set and a sentiment from the Sassy Celebrations set. 

I started off this card by stamping the margarita glass with midnight ink onto a piece of kraft cardstock. 

I colored in the drink with colored pencils and used Gamsol to blend the pencil. 

Next I used a white gel pen to emphasize certain areas of my strawberry margarita.

I then added Stickles glitter glue over the sugar crystals and Glossy Accents to again emphasize areas 

on the glass.

While the margarita was drying, I stamped the "celebrate" in with pink Distress Oxide onto a scrap of white cardstock. I heat embossed over it with WOW! Clear Gloss Super Fine Embossing Powder. I then fussy cut the sentiment out.

Now that all my pieces were complete, it was time to put the card together. 

To begin, I adhered a scrap of pattern paper on the edge of a white, A2, top folding card base. 

I cut a half inch off my kraft card front and adhered it over the white card base. 

I used foam adhesive to adhere my sentiment toward the bottom of the drink and my card was complete. I have a particular friend I intend to send this card to.

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Supplies I used from CAS-ual Fridays:

Mini Slimline Card using the Pinked Slimline Dies

Hello everyone, it’s Michelle here today sharing a mini Slimline card I made using the Pinked Slimline dies.   You don’t necessarily have to make a tall slimline card with these dies and I show you how below.

I started with a piece of card stock measuring 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and die cut using the pinked die.  I placed it right along the top as you can see below.

Then I placed it back in the die, lining it up so the straight edge only will cut.

No need to run the whole piece through, just the top bit.

And here’s a photo of the finished piece.

I did the same with the next layer but shortened the length slightly.

I made a balloon stencil using the round die and sponged some Catherine Pooler inks to make three balloons. I used a ruler to draw a line for the strings.  I die cut the hooray from the Hooray dies in pink and black and adhered them together offsetting them slightly to give a shadow effect.  I stamped the sentiment from the Sassy Celebration stamp set.

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