CASology Challege #408: COZY

 Welcome to CASology Challenge: COZY!

All good things must come to an end and we have reached that point with the CASology Challenge.  I have to give a huge THANK YOU to Melissa Chipperfield for creating this wonderful corner on the internet and inviting me to join the design team. It has been a privilege to create cards along with the talented team and watch the gallery fill with the amazing creations of everyone playing along.

For my final design team card, I decided to highlight that white space in a clean and simple design doesn't have to be white.

The Ali Edwards Cozy sentiment is heat embossed on a black rectangle first and then the house adhered with foam dots under it. This house is a sticker that was added to a piece of scrap paper and trimmed to leave a narrow frame.

The small panel is popped up on the card base and a trio of hearts adhered flowing out of (into?) the house.

I hope you check out the amazing design team cards!

Åsa Johannson

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Melissa Chipperfield 

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munro

We are two amazing Guest Designers this month!

 Arlene

Christine

 

We are looking forward to seeing how COZY inspires you - just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! This is a month long challenge, so you have until 9 AM Monday, October 31st  (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #477

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #477!

The square focal panel of Jen M's fabulous design, a new Simply Graphic die and five friends selling houses this week conspired to influence me into making a card that could be given to someone buying or selling a home.

The house is cut three times using two shades of Lawn Fawn Woodgrain cardstock and a scrap of red felt. The MFT Greetings & Salutations sentiment is heat embossed on the aqua panel before the house is assembled and adhered. It's always a challenge to match whites on a project and I was a little frustrated that the white embossing definitely took on a cream tone.

A square of the white woodgrain paper is cut along a diagonal line and adhered to the gray card base. I love the way the simple cut line adds interest to the design.

I hope you check out the terrific Clean Team Cards and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #456

                                       Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #456!

This was a week when I wasn't sure my creative mojo was going to show up and I really struggled to get the idea in my head on to paper. I knew I wanted to make a card congratulating a nephew and his fiance on buying their first home so started with coloring the Concord & 9th City Stacks houses to match their new neighborhood.

It wasn't until I pulled out the heart dies that the design finally came together. A Memory Box Heart Wave anchors the house panel, a few leftover tiny hearts from a PTI Notched Hearts tag die cut provide a little chimney smoke and a larger soft pink heart fills the corner element.

I hope you check out the terrific design team cards and join us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Week 254: HOUSE

Welcome to Week 254 at CASology!

As soon as I saw the cue card this week, I pulled out the Memory Box Birdhouse Trio die to sit on my desk while I thought about what kind of card I needed.  The sentiment from Jane's Doodles Neighborhood stamp set is perfect for a thank you card we'll be needing later this summer. A Zig marker is used to add the blue watercolored sky directly onto a watercolor card base before the die cut is adhered.

Check out the Design Team cards for more great ideas!

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins 

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Janet Ribet

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld

Sherrie Mannion 

Guest Designer: Sue!

Sponsor:  Rubber Dance Stamps

We are looking forward to seeing how HOUSE inspires you -  just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! You have until Monday at noon (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Week 222: WELCOME

Welcome to Week 222 at CASology!

This card started with the sweet little house die from Avery Elle and an idea to create a sentiment based card. It took a few days, and more than a few failed attempts, before I narrowed the design to the die cut rainbow "happy" along with the stamped black sentiments.

My MISTI was put to good use as I selectively stamped some images like the "welcome" from PTI Perfect Pairings stamp set, and cut apart a few others like the "to" and "yours" from Technique Tuesday Say It - Birthday stamp set.

The Avery Elle Alpha dies and house are adhered after all the sentiments were stamped.

For more ideas on where to go with the word WELCOME, check out the beautiful Design Team cards!

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Jen Wills 

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield 

Sherrie Mannion

Tracey McNeely

Guest Designer: Anna!

Sponsor: Cindy B Designs

We are looking forward to seeing how WELCOME inspires you -  just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! You have until Monday at noon (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

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Muse #90 + CASology Week #118: Home & CTS#97

For the first weekend this month my dear husband is home and, except for one soccer game, there is nothing on the schedule. This may just be the eye of the storm as the next free weekend is Thanksgiving, but for today I enjoyed a little time in the office and have a couple of cards to share as a result.

This first card is inspired by Marion Vagg's stunner for Muse #90 and the CASology Week #118: Home.

I love the clean, graphic design of Marion's card, but went in a slightly different direction with mine. A Tim Holtz stencil is used to ink a white panel, with more ink added after the stencil was removed.

The house & heart paperclip was stained red with alcohol ink, but needed a little extra help to stand out on the panel, so it was backed with an inked scrap of cardstock.

I loved the DT cards for CAS(E) This Sketch #97 and fussed with an idea that was perfect in my head, but wasn't translating well in real life.

I walked away from my desk for a few hours before completely scrapping the first plan and going with a simple one layer card.

The feathers are stamped with Versamark and embossed with a clear embossing powder so that the white cardstock shows through when inked.

I hope you had a nice, relaxing weekend. Tomorrow I have to get out the Halloween decorations if they are going to get up before Friday. I'm kind of missing the old days when the kids would start begging in September to decorate and I would hold them off until October 1. The last few years it seems we get the lights up just in time for the trick-o-treaters.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CTS #70 + Merry Monday #101 & Craft Hoarders Anonymous #4 + Card Concept #6 & FMS #129

I have a trio of cards to share today. This first one was inspired by the CAS(E) this Sketch! #70 and I think you can see I took Sam Simpson's sketch very literally.

I used Distress Inks to color the background sky panel and the border die cut foreground. After inking, I spritzed water to mottle the colors a bit.

The foreground panel is popped up with a very thin foam adhesive and then the whole panel is adhered to the card base with a thicker foam square.

For this next card I took inspiration from The Card Concept #6 and Freshly Made Sketches #129.

My card follows Clean & Layering style, with the embossed panel inspired by the white cake & the double scalloped senitment panel by the cake plate.

This final card is for the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge #4 and Merry Monday #101: Grey, Red  & White challenge.

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Inspiration Photo

Sparkle, Glitz & Glam

The wreath image is stamped and embossed with silver embossing powder and a few of the berry dots are touched with red stickles. 

The white panel is attached to the card base with the white glitter tape, so it has a swing and movement to it that I really like.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie