CYCI#70 May I Give you Flowers...

Hi again!  This year, we've had our share of April showers.  And as you know, "April showers bring May flowers."  Well, today, so does Can You Case It!

 

That's right, this week we have a flower challenge!  I know that for most of you, "flower" and "challenge" aren't words that would usually go together.  For me, though, I have to be in the mood to make something flowery.  Well thank goodness for the new Stampin' Up sets and colors! 

 

 

 

Like those new colors?  Tip Top Taupe is the brownish-grayish, the reddish-pinkish Watermelon Wonder is my new favorite, and the leaves are the bright green Cucumber Crush.  The image is a 3-step stamp from the Floral Wings set, the striped paper is from the new Envelope paper set, and I created the border with the new Lace Ribbon (which comes in all of the new In Colors - totally sweet...like having a spool of colored doily!).  Just in case you're wondering, I added the dimension to the image by fussy cutting the flowers and popping them up on dimensionals.  It wasn't necessary, though... I made the card for this week's stamp-n-chat without the added layering, and it totally works.  I just wanted to overcomplicate it so I could show off on my blog.  Lol! 

 

Thanks for stopping in.  If you haven't been over to canyoucaseit.com yet, go and check out what the design team has created for you.  While you're there, I hope that there will be a creative seed planted in you which will end up growing an inspired idea and blooming into a May Flower project of your own which you will then pluck and share with us!  That wasn't toooo much of a stretch on the theme, was it?

 

See you in a few days!  Happy Stamping!!

CYCI #67 Golden Mother's Day!!

This week we have a special Mother's Day edition at CanYouCaseIt.com!

 

This Mother's Day is a fresh experience for me.  For those of you who are familiar with my stamping journey, you know that I am relatively new to this; this is my first Mother's Day since  I have become a Real stamper.  Growing up, I usually remembered to get my Mom a card and a gift, but sometimes (unfortunately) she would have to settle with just a phone call :-( Sorry, Mom. However, Mother's Days have been much more consistent since I have been married to a cardmaker. Lol!  Now I understand why...the blogosphere and social media sites are chock full of reminders of the upcoming holiday (Thankfully!!).  And now I am doing my part to remind YOU to appreciate your Mom or another important Mother-figure in your life.  I am grateful for this week's challenge because it encouraged me to make a card that is fitting to send to MY Mom.  Here it is:

 

 

 

 

 

It started with the flower... I sponged a sheet of vellum with a combination of Strawberry Slush, Blackberry Bliss, and Hello Honey.  Then I punched a number of flowers from the sheet using both the Fun Flower Punch and the Pansy Punch.  I crinkled up the flowers and stuck them together (slightly askew) with glue dots. I finished off the center of the flower with a Very Vintage Designer button.  The card base is Very Vanilla, and the card front is a piece of Irresistibly Yours DSP (oh, how I love you...) that I sponged with gold ink.  It's a wonderful affect and works well with the other designs in the paper pack; the photos don't do it justice!  I embossed the sentiment from the Four You set in gold on vanilla and embellished it with doily, then finished the card with a few swirlies of Gold Baker's Twine and assembled!  Ready to send! Or better yet, perhaps I'll have a chance to hand deliver!

 

So now it's your turn!  Visit us at CanYouCaseIt and share a pic of the card that you are making for Mother's Day.  We also have an awesome design team that will inspire you if you need a little nudge, so head on over there to check out their creations.  Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again later in the week! 

 

 



Fun Flower Punch

$16.95

Pansy Punch

$15.95

Very Vintage Designer Buttons

$5.95

Irresistibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper

$0.00

Four You Clear Stamp Set

$11.95

Tea Lace Paper Doilies

$2.95

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

$4.95

Metallic Gold Encore Pad

$9.95

Gold Baker's Twine

$3.50

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CYCI# 66 For the Troops!!!

Hi!  Welcome back.  This week, I have double duty; first up is the CanYouCaseIt.com challenge...today we bring you a Designer's Choice Challenge, meaning that I (and you) can make a card with no parameters, just whatever pops up into the creative crevices of our think tanks!

 

I chose to make a patriotic Father's Day card:

 

 

Thanks to my trusty Guy Greetings set for another great inspiration!  This time with the addition of some leftover Irresistibly Yours Sale-a-Bration DSP and the Star Punch to add some texture, I created a Naval themed Father's Day card...

 

Which brings me to my second objective:

 

 

I made this card as part of a group of Father's Day cards that will be sent for Operation Write Home, an organization that supports and encourages our nation's armed forces.  Please click the badge above to learn more!

 

Hope you check out both operationwritehome.org and canyoucaseit.com this week.  In fact, why not combine the two and support our troops for OWH and post your design to CYCI!  We would love to see what you come up with! 

 

That's all for now. Hope you are having a great day and I'll see you all next week :-)

 

 

 

CYCI# 65 Workin' Hard CAS

 Welcome back to another CanYouCaseIt.com Clean and Quick - 10 minutes or less Challenge.

This time we have the added challenge of limiting our card to 2 layers. Here's what I came up with....

Ok, so I know it doesn't look that simple, and it isn't entirely clean, (and I have a confession...it took a lot longer than 10 minutes to make) but I was sure to adhere to the 2 layer limit!! Lol. I guess I focused on that part of the challenge and figured that it would stay simple. Plus, I had a great idea for the card and really wanted to make it work :-)   Oh well... looking back on it, it really was a simple design. I used the Wood You Be Mine and Adventure Awaits stamp sets. I random stamped the wood slice in Early Espresso on Chocolate Chip CS then embossed the Adventure Awaits typography in the middle. I stamped the axe, colored it with Early Espresso and Silver, and fussy cut it (probabaly the hardest part of the card, but still fairly easy). After that I used the axe to chop out the center of a piece of Adventure Bound DSP. Added the sentiment from @SoSocial, mounted it all, and Poof!!  See, it took way less than 10 minutes to read about it, so there!  LMBO! 

Well thanks again for joining me for another fun card...now please go visit CanYouCaseIt.com to see what other creations await. I'd also like to know if any of my readers are participating in the challenge, so please drop me a note below! 

See you all next week; ta-ta for now :-) 

Adventure Awaits Photopolymer Bundle

$27.95

(At)Sosocial Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$26.95

Wood You Be Mine Photopolymer Stamp Set

$23.95

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$8.50

Silver Stampin' Dazzle Marker

$3.50

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CYCI #64 - Yummy Color Challenge

Happy Easter!!!  What a marvelous day to celebrate!  Thanks for joining me for another CanYouCaseIt challenge.  This week we have............(drum roll, please).............

A Color Challenge!!!

 



 

I wanted to do a little something different with these colors and highlight the black... I haven't made anything like this before, so I figured what the heck, I'll just roll with it.  That's what a challenge is for, right?  So here's my card:

 

 

 

The black card front is actually chalkboard paper and the butterflies were sponged with a pinkish orangey crisp-cantelope-like-ish chalk ink (I know,...it's a stretch).  It lightens up a lot after it dries, so if you want to try this at home, I would suggest sponging the chalk ink first and letting it dry a little, then sponging the  color that you want on top of the chalk ink.  That's a new segment that I like to call "My Stampin' Tip of the Day!" (Lol!)  The "hello" was die cut using the Hello You thinlets, I punched the butterfly "stencil" using the Bitty Butterfly and finished them off with a few rhinestones, and finished the card with the flower from the Itty Bitty punch pack and some simple white Baker's Twine.

 

Thanks for visiting with me...now head on over to canyoucaseit.com and enter your own cantaloupe-pudding creation for me to see!  While you're there, check out the other designers cards....  Heck, actually just go and check them out anyway!  I've already seen them and they're quite impressive :-) 

 

Hope that you are enjoying/have enjoyed your Easter and I'll see you soon with another paper creation!  TTYL

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello You Thinlits Dies

$24.95

Bitty Butterfly Punch

$15.95

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

$16.95

Rhinestone Basic Jewels Embellishments

$4.95

Twine Baker's Whisper White

$2.95

Crisp Cantaloupe 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Pistachio Pudding 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Chalkboard Paper

$7.95

Rose Coral Colorbox Chalk Ink Pad

$5.95

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CYCI #63 - Whale of a Sketch!!

Hello again!  Well, last week was certainly a busy/productive stamping session...3 blog posts and 4 cards...that's pretty good for me! Lol!  Hope you were able to visit my post from the Creative Hop on Monday, and if not, link is HERE; it's a lot of fun, I promise!

On to this week's CanYouCaseIt challenge for the week.  Today we have a trusty sketch to be inspired by! Here it is:

 

Here's my interpretation:

 

 

I was completely inspired by the Maritime DSP for this card.  I went with the whale (fussy-cut from the DSP) as my shape and lowered the sentiment a tad.  I also used the DSP for the water and the fishy sentiment accent circle.  The Night of Navy school of fish and silver embossed anchor images came from the Sea Street stamp set.  The sunset is a twist on the Bokeh technique (sponging a few colors then stenciling the white on).  I was very happy with the bright and colorful fun and graphic card...looking forward to reusing the sunset technique for another card soon!  I can also see the fun Maritime DSP working perfectly for a boy themed birthday card, invitations, even party favors!  The more I work with it, the more I keep finding uses for it, too. I even made a party hat out of one of the flags in my last post!

 

I hope I have planted a seed of inspiration for your own creation.  Please visit CanYouCaseIt.com to see more of the design team creations, the great entries that we have, and don't forget to upload your own project and play along.  TTYL and see you next week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maritime Designer Series Paper

$10.95

Sea Street Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$16.95

Perfect Pennants Clear Stamp Set

$21.95

Large Scallop Edgelits Die

$7.95

Hooray It's Your Day Card Kit

$24.95

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Ahoy, Mateys!! CYCI#62

Welcome to another edition of CanYouCaseIt?!  This week we have another Designer's Choice challenge.  These are a lot of fun because you can play along with any type of project, no parameters to follow, no limit to your creativity!  Please share your projects on our CYCI site so we can see your wonderful creations!

 

 



My card for you this week is a fun and versatile Boy-themed 4"x4" note card.  Take a look: 

 

 



All in all, this was a fairly simple card.  I achieved the chevron background using the striped stencil and white sponging, and the main image is stamped onto a crinkled piece of Kraft cardstock.  I rolled the edges to finish off the "treasure map" affect.  The ribbon for the sentiment is the backside of the 5/8" Natural Chevron.  Oh, and I just discovered the Maritime DSP, which I used for the red anchor banner, so keep an eye out for more of that to come!! 

 

Thanks for joining us at CYCI this week.  If you haven't already, please head over and see what the other designers have made for you, as well as this week's entries.  Don't forget to enter your own project too!

 

SPOILER ALERT (kinda, but actually not really...just wanted to get your attention :-)  Come back tomorrow (or if you're not reading this today, then tomorrow is Monday March 23, 2015, but then again if you're not reading this on Sunday March 22 the post that I'm referring to will already be up and you will have likely already seen it...oh never mind, this is too confusing...just keep reading, please. Lol!) because I will be part of a creative blog hop...I promise lot's of fun and a really cute card, one of my favorites so far! 

 

 

 

 

Hey, Valentine Clear Stamp Set

$17.95

Natural 5/8" Chevron Ribbon

$6.95

Kraft 12" X 12" Card Stock

$5.95

Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Gold Glimmer Paper

$4.95

Project Life Let's Get Away Photopolymer Stamp Set

$13.95

Maritime Designer Series Paper

$10.95

Dots & Stripes Decorative Masks

$2.95

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