Post 348: DT post for PABD- Crafting with Preeti D. Part 4

Hello friends!

I've shared 5 Clean & Simple Cards on the Peek-a-boo Designs Blog today.
These are simple projects and a lot of fun to make!
Would be awesome if you visit :)
I've shared the process as well as the supplies used.
All the PABD supplies including stamps, dies, washi tapes etc can be bought online here.

Here are a few sneak peeks of the cards:

Thanks for your time :) 

Stay Blessed.

Post 318: CAS Friendship Card (Smile)

Hi friends!

I'd like to share a Clean & Simple Friendship Card today :) 

The process was simple enough, I did a little ink blending with yellow and green inks to create a soft background for the die cut word "smile". To get the pink hue on the die cut, I blended Picked Raspberry Distress Ink onto white cardstock. Used Jennifer Mcguire's brilliant tip to line up the letters, by using the negative of the die cut. 

Supplies used:

MFT Dienamics - Words for Friends

MFT stamp- Because you 

Distress Oxide Inkpads- Cracked Pistachio and Fossilized Amber

Distress Inkpad- Picked Raspberry

Archival Inkpad- Aquamarine

Nuvo Jewel Drops - Sea Breeze

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge 356

MFT Color Challenge 80

CASology 272- Cherish (cherishing friendship)

AAA Cards Challenge 102- Ink Blending (did ink blending to create a soft background for the sentiment)

Addicted to stamps & more #265  (was inspired by the pink and "smile" in the photo)
SSS Wednesday Challenge- anything goes

Thanks for your precious time :)

Love reading your sweet comments.

Stay Blessed!

Post 222- CAS One Layer Card "I will always be there for you"

Hi friends!

This is the second post in which I share my experiments of trying to create summer fruits out of other stamps. This is an A2 sized cas one layer card. I created the background by sponging a couple of distress oxide inks (fossilized amber and spiced marmalade) through a hexagon design stencil, then stamped the penguin from the W & W Stampet: Penguin set and the sentiment from the W & W A Tree for All Seasons using versafine onyx black ink. Then converted the penguin into a pineapple by drawing and coloring on some details using zig markers and a white gel pen. 

This card really gives me a chuckle because the penguin masquerading as a pineapple with that huge crown on his head reminds me of King Julien from the kiddy movie series Madagascar, which is a brilliant funny flick and I really enjoyed that character. If you haven't checked it out, please do. It will make you laugh for sure. 

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

The Gossip Column with Taheerah Atchia No. 8- Summer Fruits

SSS Wednesday Challenge- Summer Sunshine 

SSS Work it Wednesday- Summer Icons

Thanks for your time !

Love reading your comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

Post 220: CAS One Layer Card- Hi!

Hi folks!

Hows your week looking? The weather here has turned quite unpleasant lately. It is humid and so hot. There isn't much one can do except staying indoors, having a lot of liquids and putting on the air conditioning. So I spent many hours crafting and challenged myself to make cas one layer cards. They are quite difficult for me, especially, if I want to keep them totally flat. So no sequins or embellishments. 

Today, the first card I'd like to share is a CAS OLC. I was happy to use a couple of never before used supplies: a stamp and stencil. This is slightly smaller than an A2 card so it is 5.25 by 4 inches in size. I basically sponged on distress oxide inks through a hexagon shaped stencil and then heat embossed the sentiment and bee in bright yellow. I kept the color scheme as yellow and black to go with the summery "bee" theme. 

List of Supplies:

Paper Smooches Stamp- Garden Greetings 

Hexagon Design Stencil

Ranger's Distress Oxide Inkpads- Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade

Ranger's Round Blending Tool and Foams

Versamark Watermark Mini Inkpad

Homemade Emboss Buddy

Ranger's Embossing Powder- Lemon

Ranger's Heat tool

Here are a couple of photographs of the card:

 

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. Paper Smooches July Challenge- Anything Goes (I have used a PS stamp here and linked it to the store) 

2. I Love Math Challenge #6- Hexagon (I have used a hexagon stencil here)

 3. AAA Cards Challenge #94

4. Less is More #336-337

5. SSS Wednesday Challenge- Summer Sunshine (depicted by the bees and yellow hues)

Thanks for your time.

Love reading your sweet comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

PS: I have a small crafty giveaway running through the month of July with 2 prizes on offer. Its open world-wide. In case, you are interested, all the details are here. Thanks :)

Post 219: CAS One Layer Card- Pizza

Hi friends :)

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple One Layer Card today. I made this inspired by a few challenges. I did not have a pizza or food related stamp so I converted a round flower stamp into a pizza and the smaller circles were used for pepperoni on the pizza. I added a hand painted black plate under the pizza to make it pop on the kraft cardstock. I colored in the one of the pieces of pizza, to show that it had been eaten, to depict the sentiment that we must delight in the little things in life, like eating our favorite foods. (Pizza is one of my favorite foods :) ) I did the stamping with distress oxides and then some coloring with zig markers and pencil colors. I've added pepperoni, capsicum, olives and cheese on my pizza and made the crust crispy, just the way I like it. 

List of Supplies:
Stamplorations Stamp- Fond Expressions 2 (Shery Russ Designs)
Craftyscrappers Stamp- Doodly Blooms
Ranger's Distress Oxide Inkpads- Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage photo.
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
Derwent Pencil Colors
Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad
Kraft Cardstock 250 gsm

Here are a couple of photographs of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

CASology #256- Pizza

Less is More #336 & 337

AAA cards challenge #94

Addicted to stamps & more #249 

 Stamplorations July Theme & Sketch Challenge (went with the theme of warm colors- yellow, orange, red)

 CIC413- Stamplorations 

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your precious comments. 

Stay Blessed. 

Post 214: CAS One Layer Card: Tea

Hi friends :)

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple One Layer Card today. This is a standard A2 size top folding card. I sponged 2 distress oxide inks through a stencil negative to create a yellow-orangish curve. Then stamped the sentiment in black archival ink and the images in red ink. To add a few details, colored the cup and kettle with Derwent pencils and for a little drama, added a little steam coming out of the cup :)  The color palette is in keeping with summer; yellows and reds. 

List of Supplies:

Paper Sweeties Stamp- Eat Cake (Sentiment)
Paper Sweeties Stamp- Planner Series- Happy Icons

Distress Oxide Inkpads- Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade

Ranger's round blending tool and foam
Ranger's Archival Ink- Jet Black and Carnation Red
Craftyscrappers Stencil- Create-A-Scene
White Cardstock 250 gsm
Derwent Color Pencils

Here are a couple of photographs of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. Less is More #334- Sketch 20

2. Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2017

3. AAA cards challenge #93- Words Take Centre Stage

4. TIME OUT challenge #86- Celebration OLC (Celebrating love with a olc)
5. SSS Monday Challenge- Stencil It

Thanks for your time :)
Love reading your precious comments.
Stay Blessed.

Post 213: CAS One Layer Card: Snarky Love

Hi friends :)

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple One Layer Card today. This is a standard A2 size top folding card. This is a snarky love card :) the first one I've made. The sentiment is quite fun I think, it reads, "I love you more than Coffee. (but please don't make me prove it)". I've kept the color palette bright, happy and summery with the yellows and oranges.

I sponged 2 distress oxide inks through a splatter design stencil and created the yellowish-orangish blobs of colors. Then stamped the sentiments in brown archival ink. I thought of stamping the snarky sentiment on the bottom right to look as a post script :)

List of Supplies:

Reverse Confetti Stamp- For the Love of Latte
Distress Oxide Inkpads- Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade
Ranger's round blending tool and foam
Ranger's Archival Ink- Potting Soil
Craftyscrappers Stencil- Color Splash
White Cardstock 250 gsm

Here are a couple of photographs of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2017

AAA cards challenge #93- Words Take Centre Stage

TIME OUT challenge #86- Celebration OLC (Celebrating love with a little laugh and a snarky olc)
SSS Monday Challenge- Stencil It
SSS Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes
SoSS #87- A for Arty (Used arty color splashes here)


Thanks for your time :)
Love reading your precious comments.
Stay Blessed.

Post 212: CAS One Layer Card: Fly

Hi friends :)

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple One Layer Card today. This is a standard A2 size top folding card. The process was simple enough. I sponged some distress ink through a butterfly stencil and created 3 flying butterflies. Then stamped the sentiment which reads, "May you always be brave enough to fly." in grey archival ink onto the card base. To emphasize the sentiment, I drew on three black stripes with a fine point sharpie. I really love that sentiment, its so encouraging and positive. 

List of Supplies:

Stamplorations Stamp- Trendy Butterflies 2 (Shery Russ Designs)
Distress Inkpad- Festive Berries
Ranger's round blending tool and foam
Ranger's Archival Ink- Watering Can
Butterfly Stencil from Itsy Bitsy
White Cardstock 250 gsm
Fine Point Black Sharpie Pen
Ruler

Here are a couple of photographs of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:
CASology #255- Fly 

AAA cards challenge #93- Words Take Centre Stage

TIME OUT challenge #86- Celebration OLC (Celebrating a graduation with a OLC)
Butterfly Challenge #81- Butterflies + Vermillion
SSS Monday Challenge- Stencil It
SSS Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes
Stamplorations Challenge- Anything Goes 

CFC 177-Tic Tac Toe (I chose the top row Butterflies+OLC+Stripes)


Thanks for your time :)
Love reading your precious comments.
Stay Blessed.

Post 191- CAS One Layer Card (coolest dad)

Hi Friends!

Hows the week looking so far? Mine is going great, I have been organizing and cleaning my craft space, it is a tiring process but much needed. I will slowly go through the room by taking up mini areas to work on instead of all of it together, otherwise, it becomes too overwhelming for me. I've gotten the stamps and inks kind of sorted for now. Will move onto the cardstock next. 

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple One Layer Card today. This is an A2 size top folding card. Boy! oh! Boy! I have to tell you, one layer cas cards scare me because it is so tough to get them right and working directly on the card base is so difficult for me. So I challenged myself to do it today :) 

I wanted it to have a summer theme so went from yellows and oranges into blues near the word "coolest". I have done Heat Embossing in black and white here along with Distress ink and Distress oxide Ink blending, this was a resist technique since heat embossed images resist distress ink. I wiped off the ink that sat on top of the embossed letters. This is a masculine card for father's day so I added triangle borders to the ink blended panel because with masculine cards I think geometrical designs go so well. I added the word "pop" by hand using an embossing pen because I thought it was a nice play on words and made for a cute pun, "pop"- "popsicle". The sentiment reads, "Dad, you're the coolest pop ever". I also colored in some of the triangles black and blue for added interest. I'm so happy I kept the card totally flat by adding no more embellishments and was true to the CAS OLC spirit.

List of Supplies:

Uniko Stamps- Background Builders: Triangulate (for the triangular borders)

Lawn Fawn Stamps- Best Pun (for the sentiment)

Distress Mini Inkpads- Chipped Sapphire, Broken China, Peacock Feathers 

Distress Oxide Inkpads- Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade

Memento Mini Inkpad- Tuxedo Black

Versamark Watermark Mini Inkpad

Homemade Emboss Buddy

Ranger's Super Fine Detail Embossing Powders- Black and White

Ranger's Embossing Pen (for writing POP)

Black Sharpie- Fine Point (for coloring the triangles)

Blue Zig Marker (for coloring the triangles)

Masking Tape

Ranger's Heat Tool 

Here is a photograph of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. Uniko Challenge #41 (This is a masculine card for father's day)

2. Less is More #332 (This is a OLC and the popsicle is the sweet thing)

3. AAA Cards: CAS game #92- Resist Technique (used emboss resist here) 

4. Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Make it masculine

5. Penny Black & More Challenge- Anything Goes 
6. D2BA June Challenge- Summer

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your precious comments.

Stay Blessed. 

Post 186- Masculine CAS card- Happy Father's Day

Hi friends :)

Father's day is soon approaching so I thought I would make a Clean and Simple Masculine card for the occasion :) I used masculine colors of greys and blues for the colors besides white and black. This is a standard A2 size top folding card. Also, used geometricals to keep with the masculine theme. 

List of Supplies:

Uniko Stamp- Squared

Mudra Stamp- Dad (Sentiment)

Ranger's Archival Inkpad- Shadow Grey, Watering Can and Jet Black

Gina Marie Designs x stitched rectangles die set (for the heart)

Lawn Fawn Dye Ink Cube- Mermaid

Enamel dots

Iris White Cardstock 250 gsm

Snippet of Grey Cardstock

Here are a few photographs of the card:

 

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Uniko Challenge #41 (I've twisted with a father's day card and used the Uniko squared stamp)


CASe This Sketch #224

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Masculine
Craft Stamper: Take It Make It Challenge for June

Thanks for your time!
Love reading your precious comments :)
Stay Blessed.