A Simple Thank You

I am in the need of some thank you cards so I decided to attempt the sketch on C(ASE) This Sketch.  I have a hard time making CASE cards.  I am a "many layers cardmaker" so simple cards scary - a single layer card - OMG - that send me over the edge.  Here is the sketch.

Here is my take on the sketch.

The background is done on watercolor paper.  It is smooshed distress ink.  I then added silver embossing paste.  I wanted to try the the look of the looped string (this is not easy - you should see the second card I made like this).  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.  I added some sparkly dots to complete the card.

Here is a close up of the focal point of the card.

I am also entering it into the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge for the week where the theme is Anything Goes.

You can buy your own Paper Smooches stamps at this link.

I am also entering this into the challenge on CAS on Sunday which is Splash (or use water on your card).  To Smoosh, you must spritz your distress ink with water.

If you have a spare birthday card for a little boy who is battling cancer it would be wonderful if you could mail him one.  I believe he will be 6 years old at the end of this month.  Here is his address:  Colin Cahill, 819 Capman Street, Milton, WI  53563

Thanks for stopping by.

CAS Sympathy Card

I am combining two challenges for this card.  Addicted to Stamps' weekly challenge is CAS.  CAS on Sunday is a sympathy card.

I find it very hard to make sympathy cards because when you are making the card, it is for someone you care about who has lost a loved one.  I have decided to get a few made for my personal supply or if someone asks me if I have any for sale.

A couple weeks ago I was playing with my distress inks - and making some backgrounds.  You can see a couple of the cards at this link that I made with my background play.  The cards are all very similar.  I had one more background made and it was already stamped.  This was the incentive to finish the card.  Thank you - you don't know how many cards I have sitting around waiting to be finished.

The background was made with distress inks squished on a sheet, sprayed with water and a damp piece of water color paper dipped in it.  I got a fairly even coating with it and did not do anything else to it.  The stamp is from Hero Arts.  This was the floral stamp and then a outline stamp.  I stamped it first in the turquoise ink and then the outline with black ink.  I added a few rhinestones to the center of the flowers to complete them.  I don't have many sympathy stamps so I used a sticker from SRM Stickers.  I had colored some paper to use for the sentiment.  I placed the sticker on the paper.  Cut it out freehand and to cover the edges, I ran the edge of a black copic marker around it to finish the white edges off.  The image is pop dotted on the card front.  I placed the sentiment directly on the image.  I did not want to make it too bulky for mailing.

Thanks for stopping by.  Thanks for helping me get one more unfinished card done.

More Watercolor

I am still playing with watercolor - or I am making cards - out of backgrounds I made in the watercolor class I took online.  I had so much fun in this class.

The background was made by getting ink on an acrylic block and then stamping the block on your watercolor paper.  You get some interesting colors when you do this.  I do like the background.  It was done with distress ink.  The floral stamp is from Deep Red.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

I used the sketch from CAS on Sunday.  Pretty clean and simple and pretty true to the sketch.

I am also entering it into the Simon Says Monday Challenge blog where the challenge is botanical.  My flower card will qualify for that.

Well off to get a few more things done.  Participating in a blog hop this week end so need to read the rules and decide on what I want to do.

CAS on Sunday on Thursday

I found a new site called CAS on Sunday.  It is hosted from the Netherlands.  This week their challenge is to do a CAS masculine card.  This golf stamp was sitting on my design table from a couple other cards I had made.  Add in some black ink, kraft paper and black paper plus a Hero Arts sentiment and a CAS masculine card is designed.

This card will go in my next Operation Write Home box.  It is getting time to mail the box off.  Need to have a line and tuck party during the lunch hour at work soon.

Enjoy your evening.