CAS Colours

 What a busy week

Cards, curtains, sewing and building the SHE SHED....yippee. Unfortunately the shed isn't quite finished 😭 the good old-fashioned British weather decided to put a dampener on our hard graft. 

I am entering this little creation into the CAS Colour & Sketch challenge, this is a colour challenge and the colours were yummy

As always it also has to been CAS and this gave me the perfect excuse to experiment with one of my forgotten dies.

I wanted to create a unisex card, because there is always that birthday you only remember at the last moment.

I had this lovely musical die collecting dust, but it works so well with a darker underlay. I used SU crumb cake ink and a WHS birthday sentiment. The ribbons were also long forgotten stash.

It's so nice when you finally find a project for old stash.

I was so inspired by the colours that I also created a girly Non-CAS versions

See how one small colour palette can create to extremely different card. Here the stamped (LOTV vintage heart) image is crumb cake and the sentiment is in night of navy. The small love-heart pendent die-cut is in dapper denim. 

I used kraft cardstock for the main card, layered the colours in dark to pale and cut them level with the edge of the card.

The flowers were cut with a TL flower die from the 2018 TL Advent calender. And of course they had to have corresponding gem centres.

Back soon with more sharing

Hug & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

  

Holiday Tutorial Time

Hello and welcome to our second annual Holiday Tutorial Time.

Last year we went through the "masking" technique. This time we are doing CAS, for those of you new to card-making CAS stands for Clean And Simple. 

Some purist might say it also has to be one layer, it definitely doesn’t. It just has to have a lot of unused space.

So let's begin:

You will need:-

Stamping blocks, stamps/sentiment, Inkpads, Markers/pencils/crayons, card-blank, A4 white card, scissors, double-sided tape/foam-pads, blending pads, stencil, and a HUGE sense of fun

Don’t worry if you don’t have a shop-bought stencil

 Here I show you a range of stencil, the top left I bought, the top right was free on a magazine, but my absolute favourite is the bottom stencil which I made myself. You can probably tell that it is well used and loved.

The first thing we will do is use our stencil

Use your low tack tape to hold it in place and prevent ink getting onto the card where it isn't wanted.

Ink up your sponge/dauber/foam and gently rub over your stencil.

You should have something that looks a bit like this. Now before you remove your stencil we will add our sentiment in the same colour ink.

You could just use a black ink for the sentiment, but I like to colour coordinate.

Believe it or not you could just stop there. Or add a few gems

So that could be card one

But I said we would do the topper card, so let's go...

So now that we have our card base, we are going to stamp our topper (the decoration that will sit on top of the card)

Now colour in your stamped image. I am using ProMarkers, but you can use whatever you have. Pencil crayons are great for beginners or young children.

Then cut them out (daughter doing a little hand modelling here)

If you have sticky foam-pads the stick them to the back of the cut-outs, if you do not have foam-pads then double-sided tape or glue will do.

Find your ideal spot on your card and stick down your toppers.

Hey presto a lovely CAS card, with or without toppers.

Here’s a little secret, the card itself does not have to be white, yeah I know, how about that.

Hugs & Happy Thoughts

Buffy xx

Think Colour

Hello,
 we are thinking about colour over at The Male Room but only 3 of them.

Blue, Orange and Yellow.

Any type of project you like as long as you stick to the colour pallette. I have made a super simple  birthday card for a friend who I know will throughly love it.

 
My shear cheekiness will be warmly welcomed............along with a pint of their favourite poison of course!

Well, off to put the finishing touches to another project.

Back real soon

Hugs

Buffy xx