CAS - Right as Rain

CAS Winter Comfort Card

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS winter-themed card featuring dies from Spellbinders and Fun Stampers Journey. I wanted to convey a sense of comfort with the teapot and hearts set against a window, which I cut with the Fun Stampers Journey Window View die set.

The teapot was cut with one of the dies in the Spellbinders Tea Pots by Sharyn Sowell die set; the hearts are included in the Spellbinders Gingerbread Boy Garland Tag set. I used Echo Park patterned paper from my stash along with a sentiment from My Favorite Things Cup of Tea.

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Simon Says Stamp – You Bring Sunshine

Hello! We have had wild windstorms here in the Pacific Northwest, including one that knocked out power for the day. With gray skies overhead, I created a CAS colorful friendship card.

I combined the Folk Dance die with a sentiment in the Choose Joy set. I created a panel that I adhered to the back of the die-cut card front from a rainbow of Distress Ink Oxide colors.

Hope your day is filled with sunshine (literally and/or metaphorically)!

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Fun Stampers Journey – You Are Loved

Hello! I am sharing a CAS winter-themed Valentine (or friendship card) featuring the Fun Stampers Journey It’s Cold Outside and Sending My Love stamp sets. Both stamp sets have coordinating dies.

I used rectangle dies to create the card frame. I stamped the cute critters from It’s Cold Outside and colored them with Copic markers and colored pencils and cut them with their coordinating dies. I stamped the sentiment from Sending My Love on Pool Play cardstock, which I placed behind the frame. I stamped hearts from the same set with Candy Apple ink, which I cut with their coordinating die and added to the background with foam adhesive.

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CAS Die-Cut Winter Thank You

Hello! I am sharing a winter-themed, CAS (and quick and easy) Thank You card. I needed to get this card made quickly as a thank you for holiday gifts.

I cut the letters with Lawn Cuts alphabet dies and placed them onto the colored squares, cut with one of the smaller square dies in a Spellbinders Nestabilities set. I used Echo Park patterned paper for the background. My first take used two patterned papers, one for the background and for the frame (larger than the design I ended up using) around the letters. While the patterned papers looked good together, the pattern around the letters made the card too busy and took the emphasis away from the sentiment. I pulled the card apart and found a background paper that carried the winter theme on its own and cut the frame from white cardstock.

I created an almost identical card previously on which I popped the letters up with foam adhesive. It is a good route to take for some dimension, but it takes a little more time.

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Spellbinders January 2019 Small Die of the Month

Hello! Wow, it is hard to believe that it is 2019! Happy New Year! Today, I am delighted to be sharing two friendship/Valentine-themed projects created with the January Small Die of the Month “First Crush” from Spellbinders. This die set is just precious! Let’s take a look!

On my first card, I created a boy and a girl with the dies in the January Small Die of the Month set.

I added the assembled children to a card base on to which I had adhered a heart cut with one of the Nestabilities Heart Dies from the Follow Your Heart paper. (I used the same patterned paper for the boy’s shirt and the girl’s dress.) The children are popped up with foam adhesive. I added the balloon after I had the children attached.

On the second card, I created a girl in the same manner as on my first card. To fill out the space, I cut three balloons, over which I added the LOVE letters, cut with a die in the Miss You Swirl set.

Both cards are 5″ x 7″. I wanted to give plenty of room for the assembled children.

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