CAS one layer

Hey everyone - hope you're having a great weekend!! I'm playing along with two challenges today - CAS(E) this Sketch (#378 by Donna Mikasa) and Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge 11 over on the Hero Arts Blog. Here's Donna's awesome sketch (btw, she's a former Hero Hostess too - just waaay more talented than I!):

You can see Donna's amazing card with it HERE. While I was pondering the sketch yesterday and what I could do with it, Hero Arts announced its 11th Stay Crafty Challenge - it's to do a one layer card. Arrrrgh - not something at which I excel. Well, they do call it a challenge, right?! Decided to combine these challenges and here's my card:

Supplies: Paper - Anchor Paper soft grey linen cardstock

Stamps - Hero Arts CL535 Carte Postale (retired) &

CM128 Color Layering Water Lilies (sentiment)

Inks - Weathered Wood Distress;

Hero Arts Ultra Pink & Navy

Other - red, navy & grey pencils; white gel pen; Stickles

I started by stamping the postage stamp, masked it and stamped the post card, then the sentiment. Added some details to the postage stamp, including a light border with a navy pencil and some grey shading on the left side, and called it done. Not bad for a style I don't do well.... Hey, I noticed after my stamping that the Carte Postale set is from 2011, the year I was a Hero Hostess! Fun times indeed!! Thanks again to Hero Arts for selecting me back then and for being so good to me since!!

Thanks to the crew, especially Donna, at CAS(E) this Sketch and to Hero Arts for more fun challenges!! Thanks to you for visiting and happy crafting!!

Another Valentine for CAS(E) this Sketch #355

I mentioned yesterday that I started another Valentine. Well, it went the way of CAS(E) this Sketch - can't get enough of the retro sketch they're using for challenge #355! I flipped the sketch to horizontal and used the envelope die from the January 2020 Hero Arts My Monthly Hero (MMH) kit as my rectangle element.

Supplies: Paper - DCWV pink A2 card; Momenta Watercolor;
Paper Studio Glitter & Vellum; scrap of pp (maybe Lawn Fawn);
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White
Stamps - Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Background (with die)
Dies - Hero Arts January MMH (envelope);
Penny Black All My Hearts
Other - Michael's gems, foam tape

I'm really enjoying the Penny Black hearts - perfect for Valentines! And I thought they looked cute popping out of the vellum envelope.

Just a quick post today since I really need to work on chorus music - we're learning 3 new songs and the first is supposed to be practically ready to perform. Well, I have to review it a bit more! Thanks for stopping and have a fabulous day!!

Using January My Monthly Hero for CAS(E) this Sketch #355

I was inspired by my friend Lin's (Sending Hugs) post here to break out my January My Monthly Hero Kit from Hero Arts. Unfortunately it's sold out but maybe they'll bring some of the elements into the store in future. Here's what the kit contained:

So much crafty goodness! Lin did amazing work with the flower dies so I didn't want to go that route to start. Instead I picked up some of the stamps and a butterfly die to create another card for CAS(E) this Sketch #355 (using a retro sketch #171).

My first card uses a kraft card I had laying around:

Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio kraft A2 card;
Authentique Pleasant Collection 6x6
Stamps - Hero Arts January 2020 My Monthly Hero kit (plus butterfly die);
Your Next Stamp Mini Flower Ink Splatter
Ink - Memento Desert Sand & Rose Bud
Distress Oxide inks - Ground Espresso & Vintage Photo

I decided to use the text stamp from the kit as my rectangle element. It lightened as it dried so I added some distress oxide ink along the edges for some definition. Added the bitty flower splatter in a rose ink for some color and chose to cut the butterfly from patterned paper. I had cut one from yellow and shaded with Copics - hated it, literally, and pitched it! The pp had some browns and a bit of rose so I liked how it looked. Note the speckling on the card is part of the texture; it lightened at the top in the photo due to a light I had in that corner.... The kraft was ok but I thought white would be better. I had a little more crafty time left so decided to use the sketch for a Valentine on a white card. Here's that one:

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb); 

Momenta Watercolor (pink); Paper Studio glitter

Stamps - Hero Arts January 2020 My Monthly Hero kit;

Your Next Stamp Mini Heart Ink Splatter

Dies - Penny Black All My Hearts

Inks - Memento Rose Bud & Rhubarb Stalk;

Distress Oxide Spun Sugar

I still had the heart dies out that I used on my Twofer cards so decided to use that instead of the butterfly on card one. I found another splatter stamp - my fave with the little hearts! Love it so much I stamped the entire thing for the top splatter element, plus it covered up a little brown mark I got on my paper and hid with a dab of white paint! Gotta be clever with those cover-ups!!

Anyway, I got a start on my Valentines and already began another using the January MMH kit - yay! Thanks for stopping and have a wonderful day!!

Scramble and CAS(E) this Sketch 355

Some of us old Hero Arts Flickr group members still play in Scrambles (90 minute challenges) with a private Facebook group. If you're an HA person, on Facebook and know Cindy, contact her to be added to the group. Cindy just posted a new challenge, hence my second blog post today. I wanted to play along right away and one of the elements was to use the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch #355. I've visited this site various times but only played in one other challenge (see my card for #207 here) - can't believe it was almost 3 years ago!! So I'll add to that challenge too. Here's my take:

Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio Holiday (green) formed to A2 card;

Momenta Watercolor patterned papers; white and chartreuse by unk

Stamps - Hero Arts Canvas Background (retired); 

Your Next Stamp Mini Ink Splatter;

Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Background (with coordinating die)

Dies - Taylored Expressions Layer it - Rustic Floral

Ink - Peeled Paint, Pine Needles & Salty Ocean Distress Oxide; Memento Tuxedo Black

I still use the old way of stamping a cling background on a formed card - stamp inked and left face up, laying the card atop. However, I lay the stamp on a stamping tool and close the lid onto the card back, pressing the card into the stamp. Saves taping the card into the tool and placing the background stamp on the lid where it might fall off, depending on how old it is.... Really gets a nice impression too!

Here's the sketch:

The funny thing, I was so focused on the sketch that I didn't even think about the fact that our Scrambles must include a Hero Arts item! Luckily I had decided my card base was blah and added the stamped background!! I really like the mini stamps from Your Next Stamp and bought a bunch. These little splatters added the perfect touch. This card took less than an hour, even with photographing and uploading.

I needed a card for a chorus friend who's dying of cancer. So sad - she's battled it for 2 years and was just told she has 6-8 weeks left of life. Very hard for us all at chorus!

Anyway, thanks for stopping and if you missed my earlier post, just click older post. I posted a card for Day One homework for the Online Coloring Challenge Road Trip class ... (yes, I'm behind).

Another CAS Christmas card

Back again with another CAS Christmas card for this week's Merry Monday. This time I went ahead and used the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch where I've visited but never played before. I had time this week and decided to jump into that pool too! Here's my card:

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Solar White and a scrap of black
 Dies - My Favorite Things Die-Namics Blueprints 21

Inks - Hero Arts Intense Black, My Monthly Hero October 2015, Distress Embossing Ink
Stamps - My Monthly Hero October 2015, CL796 Peace Poinsettias, CL983 Holiday Messages and Frames
Other: Ranger Seafoam White Embossing Powder, Copic Markers

The large poinsettia was stamped in black and colored in Copics; the other stamped flowers are the color-layering type which had no outline. I felt they looked odd without it, given the large flower with an outline, so I added one with a black marker. Hope they don't look too weird!! Anyway - I felt the flowers needed something to tie them together so I started adding some blue shading. Well, my Copic blender pen ran dry and my B00 was none too juicy - this was not going the way I'd hoped! So I tried smooshing some regular old alcohol around the blue - was satisfied that it was usable at least! Another Christmas card done! 

 

Thanks for stopping by!!