Hi everyone!! Hope your having a fabulous week and how crazy that its October already??!!!
I wanted to remind you all about our current challenge at TIME OUT. October is 'Breast Cancer Awareness' month, so we wanted to make sure we included it in one of our challenges. Self checking your breasts only takes a few minutes and finding anything abnormal early on, can make such a difference with the outcome. Pink seems to be synonymous with Breast Cancer so you have the Optional Twist to 'Create a one-layer project with Pink'.
Our Sponsor for this challenge is CAS-ual Fridays Stamps who do so much to raise awareness and have stamps and dies created especially to provide support where proceeds from their sale go to Breast Cancer research. They are giving away a $25 voucher to their store to a random winner picked from those who use the 'Optional Twist'.
For my card I didn't use the optional twist, I wanted to include a few different stamps and dimension:
I started off by adding a panel of dark grey CS to the card front for a background. I then cut a panel of white CS slightly smaller than the card front. Using pink ink colours from Catherine Pooler, Waffle Flower and Hero Arts I stamped the 'hope' from the 'Hope Ribbon' stamp set and the ribbon image from the 'Word Ribbon' stamp set on the white panel. This was popped up on the card front on a piece of white foam.
I die-cut the 'Hope Fri-Die' twice from pink CS and once from white CS, gluing them together with the white on the bottom. This was glued to the card with Gina K Connect Glue. I stamped the rest of the sentiment (also from the 'Hope Ribbon' stamp set) with Versafine Onyx ink on white CS, fussy cut it out and glued above the die-cut, along with Pretty Pink Posh sequins.
I'm going to link this to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where their theme is 'Think Pink'.
You have until Wednesday 9th October to link your projects to the TIME OUT challenge and if your needing a few ideas to get you going, pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the Design Team and our fabulous Guest Designer Sidan have created to inspire you. Look forward to seeing you in the Gallery!!
Take care
Shona
Hi there Coffee-lovers and welcome to National Coffee Day!!
CAS-ual Fridays Stamps is very excited to be joining Coffee Loving Cardmakers for a National Coffee Day Blog Hop! There are lots of companies who have joined, lots of inspiration and of course lots of prizes to be won too! All the participants can be found on their blog.
We not only have a fantastic sale on Coffee/Tea stamps and dies but if you also use my special code you can save another 15% - that's 35% in total!!!! Woo hoo!!!
We also have some prizes up for grabs on the CFS Blog as well as lots of coffee-related cards to share with you all. Its a pretty fantastic day!!
I've been making a huge amount of Halloween cards of late, so was inspired to create a coffee card with a 'scary' twist:
To create my ghost I used the largest die from the Huggable Critters Set on some white CS. I then used some scissors to free-hand cut some waves across the bottom. I then used other shapes from the set to cut out some eyes and mouth, as well as some 'ghost hands' which I glued in place. I cut a panel of black CS and adhered to the card front before popping the ghost shape on some foam tape.
Next I die-cut the coffee cup and word 'coffee' (from the Coffee Cup Fri-Dies set) from black CS. I die-cut the word 3x and glued them all together with Gina K Connect Glue and then to the bottom of the ghost. I then die-cut the coffee cup again from white CS which gave me the piece to colour brown to inlay into the cup, which was then glued between the ghost hands.
To finish off I stamped the sentiment from Coffee Talk on some white CS and put on foam tape, along with gluing on some Neat and Tangled clear sequins.
I hope I've given you some ideas on how to stretch your dies and don't forget to visit the CFS Blog for all the info on the prizes to be won and links to the rest of the Design Team and their incredible cards.
So grab a cup of coffee or two, get yourself comfortable and enjoy the hop. Have a fabulous caffeine filled day!!
Take care
Shona
Hi everyone! We are coming to the end of September and I feel like I blinked and missed the whole month. The kids have just started their school holidays and Christmas is just around the corner....I feel like I'll wake up tomorrow and it will be 2025!
I just wanted to let you know I'm up on the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog today with this colourful little card:
I used texture paste for the first time and had so much fun mixing up colours with my Distress Inks. Pop over to the blog to find out how I put it together.
I've got a few other cards to share with you over the next few days so see you back here tomorrow!!
Take care
Shona
