A bit of CaS and update

 Good evening blogland

I'm making a late evening dash into blogland, with a very Clean and Simple card I made a while ago and an update on the craft/spare room - I've been shopping!

I wanted to post this card to join in with the first challenge of the year and a birthday post over at Less Is More - 11 years of challenges! I remember the challenge starting and loving the look of CAS, and I still love the look and style of CAS cards. Love doing them, they just make my brain ache, as I feel they have to be 'just so'! Also I do love stamping and colouring but many CAS cards seem to rely on die-cuts and I'd have to go out and buy a whole new ream of dies if I was to try that.  As I'm trying to cut-down not buy more, that's not happening.

So card:

Supplies used:

Stamps:

DoCrafts - Papermania: Henbury Lane

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Birthday

Die:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Rounded

Anything else?

Woodware corner rounder punch

What I did

Took a 6x6" square card blank and rounded the edges.

Stamped the image off centre.

Stamped and die-cut the sentiment, added to the card with 3d foam for a bit of interest (didn't think it would look right glued directly onto the blank).

et voila, job done!

More news on craft/spare room, as said above went shopping today! There's an office furniture and supplies shop in our nearest town and as I had a dentist appointment in town today we decided to pop in and look at desks. Upshot is I've a second-hand desk being delivered on Monday! Also brought home with a sort of cubbyhole unit, a bit like the IKEA stuff that loads of people use - but it's in a wood look and has a back.  Not quite sure yet what I'm going to put in it but I'll find something! I'll share pictures once they are both in place and the room has been cleared a little more! Presently there's a lot of dust / dirt / cobwebs and junk in there - I'd be embarrassed to show anyone!!

So that's it from me folks, until my next DT share,

Signing off,

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge / s:

 Less is More: Challenge #458 - Birthdays (Happy Birthday ladies - I've loved playing along with your fabulous challenge and hope there's another 11 years to go (at least!!).

The Paper Players: PP579 - A Clean and Simple Challenge from Ann : Wild About Wildlife

AAA Cards: Game #209 - 1/9th and Favourite Animal.  I know the flowers and butterfly is in the top right corner square of the card, but does it count that the sentiment overlaps? Apologies if it breaks the rules of this challenge, I wasn't sure so thought I'd take a chance and enter!

A little note

Good evening blogland,

It's been quiet again on the old bloggy blog, hasn't it.  I've been colouring away but they are 'in progress' DT stuff so can't be shared yet. 

In the meantime another CAS card left my table today - it's been mulling away in the background most of the week but, for one reason or another, it hasn't really come together before today.  Even now I'm not entirely sure it's my best effort and may well be re-visited at some point in the future.

Not much to chat about either, other than my evening runs are now done in the dark and cold - that's a shock to the system! I really am much happier in the sun and warm. 

More often than not I seem to go black and white when I go CAS, will have to work on getting more colour in.  Also, please note this is supposed to be a touch grungy so it's not badly stamped - it's a style.  Although, I'm not over pleased with the sentiment, I don't feel it goes but I didn't have the right typeface!

So, card:

Supplies used:

Stamps:

Digital:

Free piece of clip-art from the internet for the typewriter

Rubber:

Mama Elephant - spots and stripes

Do-crafts / Anita's - sentiment

Anything else:

Woodware - corner rounder punch

What I did:

Searched for and found then printed an image of a typewriter off the internet and fussy cut it out.

Stamped the spots, the sentiment  and the stripes on the card blank.

Popped the image onto some 3d foam and attached it to the card over the spots.

Then used the punch to round the corners of the card blank.

et voila, job done!

And now I'm off to have half hour sit down with a bit of TV!

See you soon,

Signing off,

Sarah

Challenge / s:

CASology: Week 397 - Type

Variations on a theme

Good evening blogworld,

I've been CAS-ing and not Copic-ing again! 

It's funny really as much as I love colouring, and I really, really do, I also love the challenge I get by having a very minimal amount of 'stuff' on the card blank and arranging it into a design that appeals to the eye. 

Although, it wouldn't be 'me' if there wasn't stamping somewhere - even if it is a plain black stamp! I actually made three cards along this theme, with two different stamps but wasn't sure that one of the stamps was technically a silhouette. I'd looked at it and thought I could probably colour that in, so that card has been put to one side for another time.

Presenting my 'variations on a theme' cards that I made:

Card one:

Card two:

Supplies used:

Image stamp:

docrafts - Papermania: Henbury Lane

Variations for card one:

Sentiment:

Catherine Pooler - Happy Birthday Many Ways

Dies:

unbranded rectangle die

Spellbinders circle dies

Anything else:

Distress Ink

blender brush

Variations for card two:

Sentiment:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips Background

Dies:

Taylored Expressions - Well Rounded

My Favorite Things - inside /out stitched circles

unbranded rectangle die

What I did:

Card one:

Blended two Distress Inks onto white card and stamped the image on the top.

Die-cut with circular die, then die-cut another circle and mounted the image onto the white circle.

Die-cut out the rectangle, 3d foam onto the stamped panel and popped it onto the rectangle.

Attached that to the card blank, again with 3d foam.

Card two:

Cut out a rectangle from linen card and die cut out a circle in the top right hand corner.

Marked the circle on a card blank, took away the linen card and stamped the image directly onto the card blank.

Attached the linen panel to the card base with 3d foam - making sure the image was lined up.

Glued the sentiment to the linen panel.

et voila, job done!

It was a very enjoyable afternoons' crafting to make these two (technically three) cards I am pleased to report. However I'll be back to colouring next time I see you as I'm swapping and changing as the mood takes me!

Oh, and in other news, all is right with the world again - as I'm feeling much better now than I did at the weekend and I can get my Les Mills exercise fix again!

See you all soon,

Signing off,

Sarah

Challenge / s:

Less is More: #456 - Silhouette

Little red wagon: Challenge #628 - No Patterned Paper!

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #418 - Birthdays (entering card one)

Retro Rubber Challenge: Challenge 171 - Fall colours (entering card one and the bird stamp I used is at least 10 years old if not nearer to 15, but I can't find a date on the packaging but I did find a SALE sticker - I do like a bargain! Confession time - it's also the first time I've used it, that's terrible!!)

Happy Little Stampers: November anythings goes with dies