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!

CTS #283

Good morning, everyone!!  I hope you guys are ready for another awesome new sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.  I had a blast with this week's sketch and I've been busily getting a little ahead before our yearly vacation to one of the Great Lakes.  I'm super excited for the time away but the planning and prepping always exhaust me a bit.  This year our kitty will be traveling with us and that just makes things that much more complex.  I'm sure we will have a blast though.  Anyway, back to the sketch.  I really loved Donna's sketch this week and had a blast with it.  Here's my card:

I started with a black card base and layered on this fun black and white patterned paper.  Next, I cut the super cool Reverse Confetti Hello Square from black and trimmed off the frame.  I couldn't figure out what to add for that one extra layer but eventually settled on a glitter heart cut using the WPlus9 Clear Cut Stackers: Hearts.  Super simple but it turned out great!  Here's a closer look:

  
Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you'll join us over at CAS(E) this Sketch today.  See you there!

CAS(E) this Sketch #239

Hi, everyone!!  How's your week going?  Things are ramping up here again.  School is in full swing, cross country, gymnastics, confirmation, drum lessons, bowling...you name it, we are running to it.  The crazy thing is, I feel more sane when the school year starts then when we can supposedly just chill in the summer.  The school year is predictable for me and the summer always gets busier than I expect it to be.  Crazy how that works.  I hope you are all settling into a routine and having a great week!

This week's sketch was a fun one.  It was really fun to work with some layers and I just love everything the team created.  Here's my card:

I had fun combining some scraps of papers I had on my desk with this awesome bear from WPlus9's Friends For All Seasons: Fall set.  I just love coloring this cute guy in with copics and those balloosn are just so adorable!  A simple piece of vellum with my sentiment stamped on it finishes this simple card off.  Here's another view:

I hope you liked me card and will come join us at CAS(E) this Sketch!  We'd love to have you!

CTS #238

Good morning, you guys!  I hope you are having an awesome week.  We just got back from Family Camp and we had a blast.  Now I'm trying to get all the laundry we created done.  A mom's work never ends!  I'm taking a break from my mountain of laundry to share my take on this week's CAS(E) this Sketch.  I hope you enjoy it and will come play along this week.  It's a fun sketch and the team has really created some magical cards!  Here's my take:

Talk about extremely easy!  I saw the sketch and I immediately thought of the Whole Lotta' Happy set from WPlus9.  I stamped the stars from the set in a random pattern in dark green.  Then I finished it off with a sentiment stamped in Navy.  Super simple!  Here's a closer look:

Thanks so much for stopping by and I'll see you over at CAS(E) this Sketch.

CTS #199

Good morning!  It's another wonderful Thursday and I get to share the latest and greatest CAS(E) this Sketch challenge!  It's a two week challenge so you have plenty of time to play with it.  I wasn't super happy with my card so you can bet that I'm going to be playing with again.  I'm still working on my birthday and Christmas stash so I could use the extra inspiration.  Here's the card I created:

I used some fun WPlus9 stamps to create my card today.  Talk about simple.  All I did was layer some stamps from the Whole Lotta' Happy set in various shades of blue to match my background paper that was cut along with the stone focal piece using Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Rectangles.

Super simple but I still wasn't perfectly happy with it.  Don't worry though, I'll be playing with it! 

I hope you have some time in the next couple weeks to join us at CAS(E) this Sketch!  We'd love to have you play along!  :)  See you there!

Flower Friday!

Good morning!!  Fancy meeting you here on a Friday.  I wanted to jump on to share a birthday card I made using the CAS(E) this Sketch #169 sketch.  Sometimes, when I need a little inspiration to get a card done, I look back at old sketches and make a card with them again.  So, that's what I did here.

I used the WPlus9 Happy Wishes stamp set to create this card.  I just love the flowers in this set and the sentiments make it super simple to create a card.  To create the look of the sketch, I used some striped pattern paper that I cut to about 1" and then cut in half before adding it to either side of my sentiment. 

I hope you like my creation today and have a great weekend!!!