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It's time for another challenge at CAS-ual Fridays!  This weeks theme is embossing.  I chose to do heat embossing because I don't do that nearly enough!  I also thought I would play along this week at Papertake Weekly Challenge because the theme is Dies to Die for!  If you've read my blog at all you know I LOVE my Silhouette and I used it to cut out the background for this card.  I embossed the sentiments(Papertrey Ink's Mega Mixed Messages)  using silver embossing powder to give it a little shimmer.  Then I added a few rhinestones, because who doesn't love a little bling!  Hope you enjoy!

DeNami Bloghop-Mini Cards

I am so excited to be a part of the DeNami Blog Hop this month!  If you are on track you should have come from Karen's blog.  If you got lost you can head back to the DeNami Blog.  And now on to the fun stuff!  I was first introduced to DeNami stamps a year ago at a craft show.  I asked Nami a million questions and she was so enthusiastic and helpful that I spent most of my time shopping at their booth!  After the show I went to the DeNami website and then the blog, the rest was history!  I didn't know that there was a whole online world with card challenges and blog hops and some of the most amazingly talented cardmakers out there!  Thanks to the designers at DeNami I have been inspired ever since!  Anyway, enough with the gushing, on to the card.  This little chickie was the first DeNami stamp I ever bought.  I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the heart background, a little bit of twine from The Twinery, some Stickles and voila!  I didn't stamp a sentiment because I thought I could use this card for a baby shower or a birthday card.  I love using little cards when my kids go to birthdays!  Stick it in a gift bag with the present and you're good to go!

This card is 3 1/2 x 3 1/2.  Because I use twine so often I wanted to try using notches to hold it into place.  I have never done this before.  I think I will be using this technique a lot!

I wanted to add a few Stickles to the flower and the dots to add a little sparkle.  In my opinion, you can never have enough bling!

Thanks for taking a look at my card.  Now you are off to the amazing Vera Wirianta Yate's blog. 

Grunge Birthday Card

My oldest kiddo turned 10 today!  I can't believe how time flies!  Since he is not into the "cutsie" cards anymore I decided to use the Grunge Me and Rock On stamp sets from Papertrey Ink.  These sets are so fun to use and I can imagine tons of possibilities for cards!  This is another card I dreamed about, I know crazy, but it turned out pretty much how I imagined it!

On the red cardstock I stamped the splattered paint in Versamark and used white chalk ink on the background.

I stamped some music notes on the inside of the card to add a little flair.

I thought that I would fussy cut the guitar and pop it up over the stamped version on the card.  When I stamped on the textured cardstock the ink didn't go into all of the crevices and I chose to go with that because I thought it looked more distressed.  I love happy accidents!

Lately I have been doing a lot of CAS cards so this was a bit of a departure from my norm but I had a lot of fun with it and I think I will be doing more of these in the future!

I would like to enter this card in these two challenges:

Simply Create: Distress  

Card Makin Mamas: Birthday

The Long and Short of it

Well it's time to play with CAS-ual Fridays again!  This weeks challenge was to create a card that was 4x9.  That is a really long card!  I have been wanting to create a scene with the palm tree from this Market Street stamp set and I thought this was a perfect opportunity.  I embossed the tree and used watercolor pencils to colour it in.  I then used my Silhouette to cut out the water border, added a few rhinestones and voila!  I love these challenges!  Hope you enjoy!

 

Meet Me Poolside

Today I am playing in The Playdate Cafe. This week's challenge is colorsplash, but we get to use the color of our choice!  I have been wanting to use the Chillaxin' stamp set from Market Street Stamps for awhile and this gave me the perfect opportunity.  This stamp set is so much fun and they stamp really well!  I think I will be using it a lot in the future!  Well I hope everyone gets to meet someone poolside and cool off in this hot weather.  Enjoy!

Hugs and Kisses

Well it is time for another CAS-ual Fridays challenge and this one is another good one.  The theme is Sweets and Treats.  When I was thinking about what to do I started thinking about Hershey kisses.  Then I started thinking about some sentiments that would go with it, which brought me to some Valentine's sentiments.  Valentine's sentiments don't have to only be used for Valentine's day, do they?  I started out by trying to use foil to make the wrapper but thought it would be a lot easier if I just bought some Hershey's kisses and used the real wrapper.  A few Hershey's kisses and a stamped sentiment later and I had a very sweet card.  Hope you enjoy!

 

Owl Card #2

 
I have been waiting for the opportunity to make another owl card since I made this one awhile ago.  Since I made the last owl card there have been some new variations of the cute little owl for the Silhouette.  I love this owl's eyelashes!  She is so cute!  When they posted the new challenge for this week over at CAS-ual Fridays I knew exactly what I wanted to do!  Shaped cards are so much fun to make and I don't do them nearly enough so I had a great time with this one!  I used Versamark on the heart using a stamp from TPC Studios and the twine is from The Twinery. I think I will be making lots of variations of this card!