CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #557 colours

 hello stampers!

Joanne is our host for this month at CAS Colours & Sketches and she has chosen muted colours that look so elegant together.

The background was stamped just in the corner and clear heat embossed. The die cuts were cut, inked and adhered. I think it makes for a simpler design using the big sentiment, but really adds a wow factor.

Thanks so much for stopping by - we'd love to see your card in our gallery.

• dies: Hunky Dory ornate heart, Gummiapan hearty twig, love
• stamps: Kaisercraft script
• inks: victorian velvet, frayed burlap distress oxides

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #556 sketch

  hello crafters!

The latest challenge is a great sketch for you at CAS colours and sketches designed by Nancy. She wants you to use a mini slimline card size for the design. If you like you can flip it vertical or use a mirror image.

I used a 6" x 3" card base, and cut black and white strips to highlight the thirds. I wanted to use this bunny (for the first time) which I got in the Gummiapan advent calendar. I just can't take him seriously lol so I had to do a sassy sentiment :) I die cut him from ink smooshed card, as well as the numerous stars. 

The hat was die cut from black card then a tiny strip of holographic silver star paper was adhered. Even though I could have gone a little crazy I held back to keep it nice and CAS ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: all Gummiapan
• sentiment: Tim Holtz small talk sticker

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #555 colours

 hello crafters!

Nancy is our host for this month at CAS Colours & Sketches and she has chosen some gorgeous colours for us as inspiration. I thought they reminded me of the first flowers of spring - perfect!

The background was stamped with a random lines stamp and also with tiny dots. The flowers were die cut from ink smooshed card in pink and in green card for the outline, then the flower outline was roughly laid over some of the inserts. The sentiment was stamped, clear heat embossed and die cut, then mounted on foam squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by - we'd love to see your card in our gallery.

• dies: Alexandra Renke artist flower set 06, Gummiapan tickets
• stamps: Lavinia mini dots, Penny Black grown with love
• inks: candied apple, seedless preserves, crushed olive, squeezed lemonade distress oxides

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #554 sketch

 hello stampers!

Suzy has designed a great sketch for the latest challenge at CAS colours and sketches. The design lends itself perfectly to CAS cards. The sketch can be flipped or made into a landscape card if you prefer. I decided to take it up a notch and made a shaker card!

I began by die cutting a circle in the front panel, then I die cut the happy birthday circle and adhered it over the top. The card base was stamped in the circle area, some acetate adhered to the card panel, some tiny hearts put in and then the card panel was adhered with foam tape to make the shaker. The smaller circle was adhered with little die cut presents and a couple of the tiny hearts then popped up on foam tape.

Such fun making a shaker card - I should do it more often. And these weighty fimo hearts shake really well :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Gummiapan happy birthday circle, presents, Hero Arts infinity circles
• stamps: Gummiapan make a wish, bring on the cake
• inks: tumbled glass distress oxide

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #553 colours

hello stampers!

Suzy is hosting this month and she's got the latest challenge ready at CAS Colours & Sketches. This time it's a colours challenge and she has put together such happy colours.

The background was stencilled lightly, then stamped with the tiniest 'special delivery' stamp in the same colour. The mailbox, envelopes and hearts were die cut and ink blended.The sentiment was stamped and die cut into a circle.

I'm also joining in with a new to me challenge Inspire.Create.Challenge where they have a clean & simple challenge this fortnight - what luck!

Thanks so much for stopping by - we'd love to see your card in our gallery.

   

• dies: Hero Arts infinity circles, Gummiapan mailbox, envelopes, hearts
• stamps: Gummiapan special delivery, MFT hand stamped
• stencil: Darkroom Door brick wall
• inks: evergreen bough, candied apple, picked raspberry, pumice stone distress oxide inks

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #552 sketch

 hello crafters!

I'm happy to present our sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches for January. The design reminded me of the beach so I went with a seaside theme. You can flip the design if you prefer, but I kept it a landscape orientation.

I used several colours of ink smooshing to create the water, then stencilled the waves ever so gently with white ink. The corner was torn to create the sea froth and it was adhered to a kraft card panel. The little shells and sea animals were die cut from ink smooshed card, some were given a little more ink blended colour. The sentiment was simply stamped with Versafine and clear heat embossed - amazing how dark it becomes on the kraft card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Gummiapan sea shells, crab, starfish
• stamps: Paper Rose tiny forest (sentiment)
• stencil: Scrapmatts ST9074
• inks: salty ocean, salvaged patina, peacock feathers, barn door, squeezed lemonade, abandoned coral, vintage photo, blueprint sketch distress oxides, Hero Arts unicorn

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #551 colours

 hello crafters and welcome to a new year of CC&S challenges!

I'm hosting for January and we're starting with a colours challenge. These colours reminded me of falling leaves, so I did an autumn themed card.

The background was lightly ink blended. The leaf pile die was cut from kraft card, inked randomly then had some little leaf die cuts adhered over the top. I just love the little falling leaf dies with their curly travel - so sweet! 

Thanks so much for stopping by - we'd love to see your card in our gallery.

• dies: Paper Rose birdie, all others Gummiapan dies
• stamps: Gummiapan
• inks: antique linen, peeled paint, carved pumpkin, ground espresso distress oxide inks

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #550 seasonal

 hello crafters!

This happens to be our 550th challenge. Woohoo! What a terrific way to round out the year! We're proud of the milestone but we couldn't have done it without you, our family of crafters. So thank you to all who joined in, read our blogs, or felt inspired by our challenges - join us in celebrating for the last challenge this year.

This is our last challenge for this year at CAS colours and sketches and as is tradition, Patricia has asked you to take one of our 2024 challenges and make it seasonal.

I chose to use challenge #548 which has such lovely traditional christmas colours. The background was stencilled using a texture paste. The smaller die cut tree was adhered. The larger tree was stacked 3 times, and adhered with foam squares. The sentiment was die cut from silver card, stacked twice and adhered with the tree.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

We wish you all the best for the holiday season and look forward to seeing you back again in 2025!

   


• dies: Gummiapan pine trees, merry christmas circle, Paper Rose birdie
• stencil: Aall and Create lotza dotz

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #549 sketch

  hello crafters!

This month's sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches was designed by Patricia.  This one is perfect for a CAS layout with all the elements at the top of the landscape panel. You can flip the design if you prefer, or make it vertical. So many possibilities! I chose to make it a square card.

I used black card as the base, and die cut lots of little stars from ink smooshed card. A strip of vellum was stamped with the sentiments, clear heat embossed and wrapped around the front panel, over the stars. The 21 was die cut, stacked and adhered. The star outlines worked really well to stick the vellum down so it didn't bulge. The front panel was adhered using foam squares. This one is for my son who turns 21 just after christmas. Eeek!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Alexandra Renke stars, Kaisercraft numbers
• stamps: Gummiapan sentiments

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #548 colours

   hello stampers!

It's our colours challenge for November at CAS colours and sketches, and Patricia has paired these very christmassy colours together.  In all the hubbub of christmas preparations, I think it's nice to have a calming touch of minimalism. Join us with a CAS card!

The larger square was ink blended and die cut.  The smaller square was die cut from coloured card. The sentiment was inked and clear heat embossed for shine. The pine sprig was die cut, ink blended then die cut again to fit into the smallest square shape.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Hero Arts infinity squares, Couture Creations pine branch 
• stamps: Altenew warm blessings
• inks: evergreen bough, antique linen distress oxides

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #547 sketch

 hello crafters!

This month's sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches was designed by Laura.  I love the simplicity of this design which lends itself to so many options! 

For some reason my brain went to birds sitting on a wire, so that's what I did. I switched the orientation horizontally, and used an ink smooshed panel for the background. The birds were die cut from another inked panel. The wires were really thin strips of black card and the sentiment die cut from white card. Quite a simple card to put together, in the end!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: SSS whittle birds, MFT bitty banner alpha
• inks: mowed lawn, salvaged patina distress oxides

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #546 colours

hello stampers!

It's our first challenge for October at CAS colours and sketches, and Laura has put these gorgeous colours together.  I can definitely feel an autumn vibe!

I used orange to blend the background, then adhered the vines, die cut from ink smooshed card. The dragonfly was cut twice from navy design paper, and adhered with its wings left loose. The circle was die cut from ink smooshed card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

I'm also posting this one on Timeout challenges where the challenge this week is an autumn themed one. I love the quote by Van Gogh, and realised I had a stamp with a similar quote from Camus. What luck!

 



• dies: SSS whirl dragonfly, Gummiapan twigs, MFT infinity circles
• stamps: Gummiapan sentiment
• inks: carved pumpkin, vintage photo distress oxides

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #545 sketch

 hello crafters!

The new sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches was designed by Nancy.  Such a great design lends itself to so many possibilities - time to get crafting!

I thought I would cut out the horizontal strip, making the die cut word part of the gap. The panel was lightly ink blended, then the trees and the merry were die cut with coloured die cuts inserted in the space. The tiny houses were die cut from stamped card, with contrasting window and door colours. I like how the soft colours still evoke a christmas vibe.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Gummiapan tall trees, tiny houses, Newtons Nook holiday greetings
• stamps: Darkroom Door woodgrain texture stamp, MFT bitty holiday wishes
• inks: vintage photo, wild honey, lost shadow, evergreen bough, candied apple, squeezed lemonade distress oxides

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #544 colours

 hello stampers!

It's our colour challenge for September at CAS colours and sketches, and these colours were cleverly put together by Nancy.  Not usually colours I would combine but they actually play together nicely!

I used card in the 3 colours to die cut some eucalyptus sprigs, then clear heat embossed them, and added a little touch of white gelly roll pen for interest. I love how the clear heat embossing gives the dark colours some shine but gosh it's hard to photograph well. 

The background was stamped and the same sentiment stamped, die cut and clear heat embossed.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Alexandra Renke frame rectangle, square frame, MFT skinny strips, Gummiapan eucalyptus leaves
• stamps: Penny Black grown with love
• inks: pumice stone distress oxide

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #543 sketch

hello crafters!

The new sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches was designed by Deborah, and makes an awesome sketch for CAS cards!  Remember you can use any shape, as long as there are 3 in a column.

I used a gorgeous snowflake die. Cut 3 times from black card, cut 3 times from white card, inset the die cuts into the black card cutout then backed it with metallic blue paper.  The sentiment was die cut from metallic blue paper and white card and mounted on the panel. The metallic blue paper is really pretty but hard to photograph!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Gummiapan snowflake, SSS thanks

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #542 colours

 hello stampers!

The new month is upon us, and this time the colours challenge at CAS colours and sketches was proposed by Deborah. Such an interesting group of colours which inspired me to do a simple baby card. 

I used all die cuts for the elements, with the sentiment stamped, then die cut and adhered with foam squares. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: MFT itty bitty strips, Altenew burlap texture die, Gummiapan flowers, Poppystamps whittle birds, Alexandra Renke buds set 02 
• stamps: Gummiapan sentiment

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #541 sketch

   hello crafters!

The new sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches was designed by Suzy, and she has asked for a frame as part of the design.  I ended up flipping the design vertically and horizontally.

The background panel was die cut along the lower edge, and I used a similar die cut for the frame. This was die cut again on some ink smooshed card to create the frame insert. The flowers were die cut from ink smooshed card which also had some copper wax smoothed on it, then arranged with some twine to hold them together.  The sentiment was stamped on the same card, then die cut and adhered with foam squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Alexandra Renke frame rectangle, slide frame vertical, artist flower set 06, edge cutting set
• stamps: Gummiapan happy birthday
• inks: speckled egg, kitsch flamingo, shaded lilac, black soot distress oxides

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #540 colours

   hello crafters!

The new colours challenge at CAS colours and sketches is ready and these gorgeous spring colours were put together by Suzy. 

I did lots of die cutting with little dies to create this little scene - my favourite activity! Such a fun one to put together.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Memory Box intricate mini butterflies, Alexandra Renke word circle, slide frame vertical, MFT in focus florals, Gummiapan tickets
• stamps: Honey Bee Stamps bitty buzzwords

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #539 sketch

  hello crafters!

The new sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches was designed by Shannon and is for a slimline card size. I chose a mini slimline measuring 6" x 3".

I thought I'd add to my stash of xmas cards which made me think of stars instead of circles! The stars were die cut from gold mirror card. The pine branches were die cut from green card and the pine cone was ink blended in brown, then arranged to create the banner shape. The sentiment was gold heat embossed and die cut with a rectangular stitched die.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Paper Rose stitched rectangles, Couture Creations pine branch, Alexandra Renke stars
• stamps: Gummiapan merry christmas
• inks: ground espresso distress oxide

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #538 colours

  hello stampers!

It's June already so here we go with our colour challenge at CAS colours and sketches. These pretty pastel colours were put together by Shannon and I thought they played so well together.

The background was stamped using a dauber to ink up the stamp to get a scratchy look. The flowers were die cut then coloured. The vase was die cut from white, and also from vellum to get the glass look insert. The sentiment was stamped then die cut and adhered with foam squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the gallery!

• dies: Globleland vase, dandelions, Gummiapan sentiment banner
• stamp: Globleland numbers
• inks: mustard seed, mowed lawn, shaded lilac, kitsch flamingo distress oxides