Happy Wishes

Freshly Made Sketches is having a Celebration for their 200th Sketch, so I made a Happy Wishes card. I'm going to try to get another card made before the challenge closes in a few hours, as they have lots of great giveaway's from some incredible sponsors for this celebration!

I stamped a soft band of Sea Glass and Maliblue ink across the middle of the card using a PTI ombre builders stamp.  I topped that with a glossy accents coated happy die cut and stamped the wishes (PTI) sentiment in Maliblue ink.

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Karen

Merry and Bright

 

I hope it isn't too early for Christmas for you!  This card is for Ellen Hutson's August Mix it Up Challenge with Clearly Besotted.  I combined Essentials by Ellen Brushstroke Christmas and the dots from Bold Blooms with Clearly Besotted's Dandelion Dreams.  I'm also putting it into Christmas Card Challenges #36 - Anything Goes.

Wishing you have a Merry and Bright summer day!

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Karen

Hello

Today's card is for CAS(E) this Sketch.  I used an image from PTI enclosed: star stamp set to make the design using Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise and Hybiscus Burst ink.  The sentiment is also PTI.  Oh, these colors are so not the norm for me, they are very bright and in your face, and oops, I just noticed I must have had some fluffy's sticking to my stamp for some of the impressions! 

 ETA - Happy  my cards was to be chosen one of the favorites at CAS(E) this Sketch!

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Karen

Stood in the Storm

    

ETA - Very thrilled to have been chosen the winner for this weeks CASology Challenge!

ETA - Wow, also happy to get a Spotlight Artists Award with City Crafter Challenge!

I have another card for CASology and City Crafter this week using the Simon Says Stamp Sail Away set again.

I die cut the Sea Star (or Starfish if you prefer) three times from cardstock inked up some with SSS new Apricot ink color and stacked them up.  I think it's the perfect color match for Sea Stars commonly seen on the East and West coast of Canada.  I dotted some stickles along it's arms and mounted it over a circle of blended Sea Glass ink.  I thought the sentiment fit too, if you've ever watched a loose Sea Star being moved around in the waves you will see it moving it's arms (sails) to try become more stable and secure by finding something to latch on to.

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Karen

Deeper than the Ocean

Wow, I've been away from my blog longer than I planned so I'm happy to be back with this card!

I used a PTI background builders stamp for the Maliblue waves and a new wave die from SSS to make my ocean.  The sentiment and sand dollar are from SSS Sail Away set stamped in distress inks. I covered the Sand Dollar with glass glitter inspired by some of Debby Hughes recent cards and popped it up with foam dots.

I'm linking my card up to CASology Week 159 Aquatic, City Crafter Challenge Week 274 and The Male Room challenge 16.
ETA - I'm just sneaking in to link up to Inkspirational Challenges.


                                                                                                



                                                                           

This glitter is great, I can see using it a lot for Christmas cards.


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Karen

Nautical Happy Birthday

This week the Cue Card for CASology  and The Challenge is Nautical.  Luckily I have a friend who has a birthday in a few days and she is a sailer so this is perfect.  Don't you just love the name of her boat!

I don't have any nautical stamps or dies so I had to be creative.  Below are nautical flags that symbolize letters in the sailing community.  I made flags based on this alphabet to spell out HAPPY, added some string for the mast rope.  I had a memory lapse and forgot to put the 'breezy swirls' on before I attached my blue sky piece to the card so they are in deeper than I planned because of the extra layer.  If you every get the chance to spend time on a sailboat on a clear day I recommend it!  It's great to lie down on the deck and look up at the sky through the billowing sails.  That view is the inspiration for this card.

My Mac and my camera both went kaput this week so I commandeered (I'm sure that's a nautical term) my son's computer and he has different photo editing software than I'm used to and I'm not quite happy with the pictures.  If I get the chance I will try to fix up them up sometime. 

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Karen

Hugs!

The cue card for this weeks CASology is kids.  Two things that immediately sprung to mind were fingerprints and finger painting, so I tried to combine the two in my card.  I inked up some old handprint stamps I have in rainbow colors for the finger painting.  For the finger prints, I stamped the same stamps in Versamark on the grey backgound paper.  Super simple card. The hugs sentiment is from a SSS set.

ETA:  I just remembered this fits in for Work It Wednesday over on the SSS Blog.

 

  

ETA: I'm so happy my card was chosen for an Honorable Mention for this weeks CASology!

                                                                        

My youngest son used to literally climb the walls at the end of the hallway which opens up to our kitchen leaving hand and footprints around the six foot mark (at least I didn't have to bend over to wash them off).  He would put a hand and foot on either side, scramble up and stay there until he could scare someone coming around the corner.  For the longest time we ducked going around the corner in case he was there. 

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Karen