CAS-ual Fridays #94

Get out your sunglasses!  I'm sharing a card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge, which is to use chipboard on your clean and simple design.  Play along and you'll have a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to CAS-ual Fridays Stamps, too!

I have lots of old sets of chipboard letters from my scrapbooking days, including a set from Making Memories in black, red, yellow, and pink.  I chose this pair of brackets to frame a sentiment from Truth Is, adding texture to the white border with PTI's Linen & Canvas impression plate.

For the accents, I die cut small circles from a chipboard coaster, covered them with white cardstock, and stamped them with flowers from Loving Thoughts.

Cardstock:  Stampin' Up! (Daffodil Delight), WPlus9 Design Studio (White)

Stamps:  CAS-ual Fridays Stamps (Truth Is, Loving Thoughts)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Real Red), Memento (Tuxedo Black)

Tools:  Papertrey Ink (Linen & Canvas impression plate), WPlus9 Design Studio (Lacey Layers die), corner rounder

Accessories:  Making Memories (chipboard), Papertrey Ink (coaster)

I hope you have plenty of real sunshine in your part of the world today, and not just the bright yellow cardstock variety.  :)

Have a great weekend!

CFC86--Long and Short

TGIF!  I think I say this every week, but I'm so happy the weekend is finally here.  :)  And to start it off on the right foot, how about a new challenge at CAS-ual Fridays to spark your creativity?

This week's theme is Long and Short--create a clean and simple card with one long side and one short side, such as 3 x 6 or 4 x 8.

I saw this as the perfect opportunity to ink up one of the vine images in CAS-ual Fridays Stamps newly released set, Casual Elegance.  I stamped it twice to cover the length of my card.  After shading the leaves with Copics, I cut around each one with a craft knife so I could pop them up.  I love the dimension this adds to the image as well as the peek at the color under each leaf.

I chose a sentiment from another new CFS set, Loving Thoughts, to stamp along the top edge of the strip.

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (Berry Sorbet, Vintage Cream)

Stamps:  CAS-ual Fridays Stamps (Casual Elegance, Loving Thoughts)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Island Indigo), Copic markers

Other:  Queen & Co. (rhinestone)

The Girl Fridays have rocked the challenge, as always, so hop over to the CAS-ual Fridays blog for your weekly dose of inspiration!

I appreciate your visit today!  Have a great weekend, friends!

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Sneak Peek--Loving Thoughts

Hi friends!  I have two special cards to share today.  This week we're bringing you sneak peeks of the newest CAS-ual Fridays Stamps to be released on January 18th.  You can find all of the details about the schedule of events, including the sneak peeks and prizes, on the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog.

Today's cards were made with a new set called Loving Thoughts.  For the first card, I did some masking with a Post-it note and stamped a frame using one of the flower images in the set.  I just love how it turned out!  I nestled one of the sentiments in the corner, added a pierced frame, and mounted the panel with foam dots on a square of plum cardstock.

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (Vintage Cream), Stampin' Up! (Perfect Plum)

Stamps:  CAS-ual Fridays Stamps (Loving Thoughts)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Rich Razzleberry)

My second card uses the floral images in a more traditional way, stamped onto a kraft card base with a masked strip for the sentiment.  I love the look of the red, black, and white stamped onto kraft.

I selectively inked the sentiment to make the word "love" stand out and added scored lines on either side.

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink (Kraft)

Stamps:  CAS-ual Fridays Stamps (Loving Thoughts)

Ink:  Stampin' Up! (Real Red), Memento (Tuxedo Black), Clearsnap (Frost White)

Tool:  Martha Stewart Crafts (scoring board)

Don't forget to visit the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog to see more creations by the Girl Fridays with this new set.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope your week gets off to a great start.