CTS #322

Good morning! I hope you all are having a great week. I'm waiting to hear if my husband will be able to get in the field this morning before more rain is predicted tomorrow. Here's hoping. I know he is getting anxious to get everything in a planted. I'm just anxious to share this week's CAS(E) this Sketch with you! Here's the sketch:

Here's what I created for the sketch:

I broke out this awesome yellow heart patterned paper again. I just love it and since the grads school colors are red and yellow, it worked out perfectly! I made a shaker card filled with sprinkles, hearts, and images from Pretty Pink Posh's Congrats Grad set. For the shaker frame I used rectangles from WPlus9 and finished it off with a congrats from Papertrey Ink. Here's a closer look:

Thanks so much for checking out my card today and I hope you'll join us over at CAS(E) this Sketch!

Lil' Inker Designs May Release Day #1

Hi, you guys! It's day one of the Lil' Inker Designs New Release Blog Hop and I'm super excited to share all the new products with you! I think you are really going to enjoy this release and all the new inspiration from our team. It's packed with fun, as always and, lucky for you, all the new products are available right now at the Lil' Inker Store! We have an amazing blog hop for you today so, hopefully, you are coming from Amy's blog and if not, you won't want to miss her amazing creations! Make sure you didn't miss anyone and start at the Lil' Inker Blog. Now for the fun!

First off, here's one of my favorite cards that I made using the gorgeous Cover Up Die: Butterfly.
 

I worked and worked on getting this card just right and I love how it turned out. I started picking out the cool alcohol ink looking patterned paper background. Next, I cut the Cover Up Die: Butterfly from black, added some acetate behind and started to make the entire card front a shaker.  I got it all finished and realized that I forgot to leave a spot for a sentiment so I tried stamping one on the acetate after it was all assembled...we all know how that goes. Ha ha!  So, I grabbed the scraps of my patterned paper and cut the Cover Up Die: Butterfly out of that. Then, I filled in the outside areas with the new cuts and used some gold sticker words to add a sentiment.  SAVED!!! Here's a closer look:

Thanks so much for looking at my project today! I can't wait to share more tomorrow. Don't forget about our giveaway!

You'll want to leave comments along the way because Laura is giving away the ENTIRE NEW RELEASE to a lucky commenter during the new release hop. The winner could be you. I hope you are enjoying our new release! We love sharing these awesome products with you! Be sure to keep hopping, here's the list:

Laura/Shop

 Amy Kolling

Chrissy Larson <---Yup, that's me!!!

 Heather Hoffman

Karen Baker

Kimberly Rendino

Laura Williams 

Lisa Henke

Don't forget you can check out the new release right now in the Lil' Inker Store and you can get all the goodies I used today. Here's what I used:

  

Another Day, Another Christmas Card

Hi!  While we are on the subject of triptychs, I wanted to share another card I created for my Christmas card stash using the Frantic Stamper September Release. I figured I'd squeeze one more in before I start showing off this month's Lil' Inker Designs release on Wednesday. ;) Hopefully, you will enjoy it all.  Here's another Christmas creation.

I don't make a ton of shakers because I consider myself shaker challenged but the Triptych Village Card Panel (FRA-DIE- 10523) really just screamed shaker to me. So, I went about foam taping, filling, and layering to get this look. Now, I totally messed up centering my die cut on the snowy gray background that was intended to be my card base so I had to change it up and trim it down to cover up my error (told you I was shaker challenged). So, I ended up going with this fun snowflake paper as my base instead. It actually worked out better because it led me to introducing more teal/turquoise shades into the card with additional cuts of the die. It needed a little something more so I added the Falalalala Die (FRA-DIE-10526) in the same color as Santa's sleigh to balance out the teal. I filled this card with all sorts of fun. Basically, anything around me that looked like snow...I threw it in.  Here's a closer look:

Thanks for checking it out and I'll see you back here for some Lil' Inker fun tomorrow!