Category: CAS

Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #17

Today, I’m playing along with the Share Joy Challenge #17 at Taylored Expressions.

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I used the sketch to create a cheery friendship / hello card featuring one of the chickens from the just-released Happy Hens Stamp & Die Combo released this week.

Jean Manis Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #17

I stamped, Copic-colored and cut the chicken placing him (her?) on a scalloped rectangle on which I’d heat-embossed the punny sentiment. I used Doodlebug Design patterned paper for the top tag and dry-embossed the tag in the back. I finished the card with red-and-white twine.

Jean Manis Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #17

Be sure to head over to the Share Joy Challenge Blog to see more inspiration and to link up your entry!

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Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #16

I’m playing along with Share Joy Challenge #16 at Taylored Expressions.

I used the sketch and created a CAS Valentine’s card:

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I stamped the cat image from the Stitch by Stitch set by coloring the stamp with Memento markers. I cut the image with one of the circle dies in the Stitched Circle Stacklets set. I heat embossed a sentiment from Love Makes the World Go Round and cut it with one of the Stitched Banner Stacklets dies.

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I dry-embossed a rectangle cut with the largest die in the Stitched Rectangle Stacklets set with the Swiss Hearts embossing folder and adhered that to the card base. I used a couple of the Stitched Square Stacklets dies to create the Earl Grey triangle I placed behind the cat (I don’t know that I’ve ever used a triangle die cut on a card before!). This card came together quickly with the various Stacklets die sets!

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Avery Elle How You Doin’?

Although Christmas may now be behind us, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t still winter-themed cards to be made! Today I’m sharing a friendship card featuring the bear and rabbit on a sled image from the Avery Elle Snow Much Fun stamp set which I framed with Pretty Pink Posh’s Decorative Tag 1.

AEHowYouDoinI stamped, cut and Copic-colored the bear and rabbit, adding them to the PPP frame. (I cut a snowbank with Dotted Borders and with the PPP inner frame.)

I heat-embossed a sentiment from Simply Said: Hello and cut it with a banner die. I added a dry-embossed rectangle and a strip of patterned paper to the card base. (I’m using a pattern from one of my many Christmas-themed patterned paper pads.)

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Good Tidings – Die Cut Christmas Scene

Today I’m sharing a Christmas scene using die cuts.

I cut the Poppystamps Elegant Stair Frame from the white cardstock and attached it to the card base, which I’d covered with patterned paper. I created the sentiment on my computer using a sentiment set from Ali Edwards. I decorated the tree with ornaments I cut with the Cabrini Ornament die from red, silver and gold cardstock. To finish off the card, I added a cat cut with an Impression Obsession die set.

Merry Christmas!

Penny Black Simplicity – CAS Holiday Woodland Scene

Today, I’m sharing a CAS holiday, woodland scene created with Penny Black stamps and dies.

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To begin, I covered the card base with paper from the 80-013 Holiday Trimmings pad. I stamped a tree from the 30-261 Nature’s Friend set onto white cardstock and cut it with a circle die cut, and then I trimmed off the right-hand side and bottom. I added a deer, cut with the smaller die in the 51-069 Together set, to the circle panel with foam adhesive. The heat-embossed sentiment from the 30-257 Joy Filled set was cut with the banner die from the 51-055 Shades set.

I also have a holiday card on the Penny Black Simplicity site. I hope you’ll head on over and take a look.

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