CAS Card Making: Day 1

I recently signed up for my very first online course - the Clean And Simple Card Making course....and so far I've loved every minute of it!
Kristina Werner shared a very clean and simple layout - and this is my card that was inspired by hers.  I used SU Razzle Dazzle for the edging - but made a little woopsy in the top lefthand corner where I managed to over lap the stamping - woopsy!  My card and ink is Regal Rose and I have white embossed the sentiment.

 
Instead of using my dodgy white gel pen, (which was promptly thrown in the rubbish bin when it refused to work one too many times!) I used some Polymark White Sparkling Dimensional Fabric Paint....it worked so I didn't question it!

I hope to continue to be inspired by the wonderful world of clean and simple and have something else to share with you soon!

Just Add Ink #96

Hello!!! It's a VERY special week at Just Add Ink this week - it's "Just CASE Tania" week!  How exciting & special!  I'm honoured to be the very first Design Team member to feature in our new addition to our challenges!

The idea is to CASE or be inspired by something that I've made in the past - well, you can't exactly CASE something that I've made in the future, so good thing I typed "past" there hey?!

I had a very difficult time trying to decide what I'd CASE of myself, because most things I've made I've already wished I changed something here or there....but in the end I chose to CASE my very first Just Add Ink Design Team card!

I settled the colours down a tad, I think my colour-palette has changed somewhat since then!

1) Here I've used Pretty In Pink and Melon Mambo.

2) I've white embossed one of my all-time favourite stamp sets, (which I won at one of the Regionals I attended!) and used a sponge dauber to rub the ink over.

3) I then used a baby wipe to wipe over the top of the embossing to wipe off excess ink that had stuck to the embossing....and I think I was a little heavy handed with the baby wipe cos it kinda made the ink go a bit splotchy and dotty - but I decided that that was the look I was going for anyway!  ;)

4) Again, I followed Joanne Leddy's awesome photo tutorial on how to make this beautiful flower, (and thanks to a very special friend who posted me some punchies so I could make some as I still haven't got all the flower punches I desire!).  This flower is made with Whisper White cardstock, Silver Glimmer Mist and a SU bling-brad, well that's what I call them!

5) I've mounted the embossed cardstock on Basic Black and popped them up on SU Dimensionals.  I found some really lovely black sequined ribbon and added that.  And done!

Thanks for coming over to have a look and read....I really look forward, especially this week, to seeing what others create!  How exciting!

Helping Hudson Layout #1

OMG it's been far far too long since I have entered another challenge besides Just Add Ink, but I couldn't resist the fabulous Helping Hudson blog - what a fabulous bunch of people. Hudson is just adorable and deserves to be a happy little boy and I'm so happy to be able help even if its just in a small way of donating to enter some challenges!!!

The 1st challenge is the sketch here to the right. I so knew what I wanted to do as soon as I saw this layout - go Razzle Dazzle (soooooooo happy it's coming back!!!) Anyways....thanks for coming for a lookey! Tell me what you think


cardstock: certainly celery, whisper white, basic black
ink: basic black
stamps: razzle dazzle - agh! can't remember the sentiment set!

I made it for me?

I made this card for no reason - just felt like it! Maybe I made it for myself - who knows - cos its such a lovely sentiment and I say this to myself all the time anyway!

stamps: razzle dazzle, words of wisdom, great friend
ink: going grey, basic black, pale plum and baja breeze
card: pale plum, whisper white
dimensionals, sponge daubers, little bling things and silver ribbon

Just-Add-Ink Colour Challenge 1 Colour Challenge

This is my 1st contribution as a member of the Just-Add-Ink Design Team! Check out this fantastic blog here, if you haven't already!

The colour challenge was to use the following colours:
So Saffron, Taken With Teal, Rose Red, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White.
I love these colours! So fresh looking I reckon! I sort of felt inspired by an piece of Indonesian fabric that I had seen somewhere recently and I am really happy with the result!

I love all embossing but Emboss Resist is another fantastic way to make things "pop"! I used Sponge Daubers to colour each strip making sure there were plenty of dark and lighter patches and then made sure I had wiped off any ink that was on top of the embossing to keep it crisp and white.

Stamps: Razzle Dazzle & Best Yet
Ink: Versamark, So Saffron, Taken With Teal, Rose Red & Chocolate Chip
Card: So Saffron, Taken With Teal, Rose Red, Chocolate Chip & Whisper White
Designer Label Punch, Horizontal Slit Punch, Sponge Daubers, White Embossing Powder, Stampin' Dimensionals & Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon

Razzle Dazzle in Baja Breeze & Pink Pirouette!

Need I say, another "Grandpa" card!!! LOL
Gee, I'm wishing I bought more of the DPS "Parisian Breeze"...I'm going through it like nothing it but its sooooo pretty! Teamed up with Pink Pirouette makes a strikingly pretty combo I reckon!
I have made a "shadow" with the Razzle Dazzle stamp by using Going Grey just next to the Baja Breeze. It really changes the look and gives it a dimension.

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Going Grey, Baja Breeze and Pink Pirouette
DPS: Parisian Breeze
Stamps: Razzle Dazzle and On Your Birthday
Word Window Punch, Scallop Edge Punch, Cystal Effects, Flower Fusion Too and non-SU Pearl & black ribbon.

PS. Can anyone help? I want to change the way my comments are done - so they are "embedded below post" but its saying that embedding cannot be used while "post pages is disabled".
I'm not sure where to go to enable post pages????? Can anyone help?

Razzle Dazzle in Black & White!

My 1st card with this months fav little stamp - RAZZLE DAZZLE!!! Don't you just love the name. Don't you feel like doing "glitter hands" when you say it!?
Once again, the "Wonderful" is embossed...can't help myself!