Thank you gift

I made these CAS card set for my sister-in-law.

Listed products are from Stampin Up

Stamps: Just Believe 

Punches: Word Window, Dotted Scalloped Ribbon Border

Inks: Espresso, Baja Breeze

Ribbon: Baja Breeze seam binding

I am also giving her a thank you cum birthday cum desk calendar card.  It's an easel card. See?

Stamps: En Francais, French Foliage

Punches/Die: Scallop Edge Border, Dotted Scalloped Ribbon Border, Beautiful Butterflies, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder

Inks: Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Crumb Cake

I hope she likes them all.

CFC #31 - Special Birthday Card

I haven't been here for soooo long! It feels good to be back.

I had to make a special card so searched out my favourite challenges for inspiration.  This one's from CAS-ual Friday CFC31 - use a misting technique.  It's an easel card with the happy birthday actually inside the card.  The front is fairly simple and misted with a home-made glimmer mist using water and perfect pearls. Shimmery card is hard to photograph - as many of you know - so I tried to a few angles and hopefully, this one captures it well enough.

As an easel card, I had to also decorate the inside a little.  In fact, this is a little desk calendar so my friend will get my well wishes every day of the year. Pretty cool huh?

All products except the calendar and Perfect Pearls are from Stampin Up

cardstock: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive (love this combo very much)
inks: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Versamark
stamps: Baroque Motifs, Cottage Garden, Bliss (on butterfly), Bring on the cake
punch: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border
SU die/folder: Beautiful Butterflies. Manhattan flower
embossing powder: clear, white
embellies: pearls, buttons

Phew! That's a lot of products.  Still, I think the card is still fairly clean and simple.  And the misted shimmer lifts it up ever so slightly. What do you think?

OLW 66 - one layer wonder

Another challenge I haven't done for a while is OLW and this week (OLW66), Susan's challenge is fascinating. That is, we were to go to Janelle's blog and find inspiration there. Ha! The wealth. The treasure. The variety! You have been warned.

I actually ended up with 2.  Here they are:

Card 2

Card 1

The deets (all Stampin Up)

Card 1
stamps: Sweet Summer (SAB set), Short & Sweet
Inks: Black, Regal Rose, Marina Mist + markers: Regal Rose, Certainly Celery
Punch: 1 3/4" scallop for the clouds

Card 2
stamps: Boho Backgrounds (retired), Bring on the cake
inks: Regal Rose, Rich Razzleberry, Pink Pirrouette + markers: Cherry Cobbler (centre of main image)

Card 2 was inspired by this:

It's not a one-layer card. Just look at the bottom of the card.  I think the punched edge with the underlay is really cool.

I tried to re-create that using a mask (recognise the  fancy favour die cut?) and brayered (yes, used a brayer!) on the ligher pink before stamping on the background stamp.

For the main image, I stamped first in Regal Rose then sponged the edges with the darker Rich Razzleberry and the middle (covered mostly by the rhinestone) with the Cherry Cobbler marker.

I also scored the 3 lines and added the pearls.  I skipped the twine - wouldn't look right on my one layer wonder. :-)

All up, I did a pretty good job methinks. ha ha.

cheers all.

CFC #21 + LIM #34 - CAS thinking of you

It's been a while since my last entry into CAS-ual Fridays and even longer for Simply Less is More.  It's been soooo busy around here and I have been busy with my other blog - on education.  Apologies to my followers. ;-/

This week I'm doing a joint one inspired by the sketch for LIMmettes (challenge 34) and the colour inspiration over at CAS-ual Fridays (challenge 21).

The card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 " square.

All products from Stampin Up

Cardstock: white, baja breeze, chocolate chip

ink: Marina Mist, not quite navy, chocolate chip

stamps: Artistic Etchings, Teeny  Tiny Sentiments (best sentiment set ever)

I think I've lost my touch in terms of crafting and craft-blogging. ha ha.  Feeling rather awkward!

I hope you like this.

cheers,

Malyn

CFC 15 - Sketch Challenge

It's been a while since I entered a challenge.  I think doing a scrapbook project did me in - 40 layouts in 2 weeks!  Anyway, slowly getting back my mojo.

CASual Friday Challenge 15 is a sketch challenge - and what a good one it is too.  Do go and check it out. ;)  Here's my entry.  With netball season over, I've got to make loads of thank you cards for my girls' team coaches, managers, etc.

Very much inspired by this week's card by DT gal, Julie Day.  Hers is an OLC while I used some designer paper.  but the stamp is the same - Stampin Up Just Believe set.

This sketch is so fab and easy and really works.  Just what a girl needs for making a stack. :-)

For an extra touch while still in keeping with CAS guidelines - a bit of twine, a small flower and the tiniest pearl.

Did all of them in an hour, maybe less even.  You know what it's like - time flies when you're stamping!

Cheers all and thanks for stopping by.