Since it's nearing Christmas and all........

Hi there!

Once again I find myself apologising for the infrequency of my posts. On the 7th Dec, I lost my e mail account and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO frustrated trying to get the thing back up and running. I can only imagine the amount of e mails that are going to be waiting for me when I eventually gain access to it again. For those blogs that I regularly comment on.....I promise I will be back....soon!!

Anyhow....onto today's effort. I thought I'd share with you some of the Christmas cards I have made. As usual, after promising myself that I would start earlier...it is once again LAST minute creations, so they are very CAS!!! I found a GORJUS card by Penny Smiley here. I decided to do a few colour combinations on both WW and VV.

Very Vanilla Versions

 

Whisper White Versions

 

 

I used basically the same colour combo on both sets. Here are the Elegant Eggplant and Melon Mambo ornaments up close.....





The sentiment is from "Delightful Decorations". It is amazing what you can find when you rummage around you stamp collection....isn't it??

I hope you like these CAS cards. I have more to share, because whilst I have had no e mail, the upside is that I have had more time to create!!

Thanks for popping by.

Stuff used:
CS: (SU) Whisper White, Very Vanilla
Ink: (SU) Night of Navy, Pool Party, Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wasabi, Elegant Eggplant, Melon Mambo, Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade
Stamps: (SU) Ornament Keepsakes, Delightful Decorations
Dies, Embossing and Punches: (SU) Holiday Ornament Dies, Designer Frames EF, Carla Craft 1/2 inch circle punch
Other bits:Dimensionals, Gold and Silver elastic cord fm Alice's, Clear Rhinestones from stash

Lynda xx

Pockets of Sympathy

Hi all.

Sometime back I did some CAS birthday cards here. With some thought and a little tweaking, I altered them to add to the sympathy card stash at work. I made a mixture of male and female tones. Male being early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy and female tones of Regal Rose, Perfect Plum and Concord Crush. The male cards were on Very Vanilla and the female on Whisper White.

Rather than show you all of them, here are the female ones.....

I think these appropriately fit the bill as (thankfully) so did the Practice Manager.

Thanks for popping by again. There is so much more to show you, so please keep dropping by.

Stuff Used (in the cards shown):

CS: (SU) Whisper White, Perfect Plum, Regal Rose, Concord Crush

Ink: (SU) Regal Rose, Perfect Plum, Concord Crush

Stamps: (SU) Sincere Salutations, Warm Words, Teeny Tiny Sentiments, Pocket Silhouettes

Other Bits: White satin ribbon fm stash

Lynda xx

Style Beautiful - # 2

My MIL has the last family birthday for the year....5 days after Christmas....so in that...is a veritable minefield of fun and games. With JUST feeling good about what we got her for Christmas....we (or as in all cases.....I)have to come up with something for her birthday. I am not a big fan of combined pressies...as your birthday should be a seperate celebration.

With receiving Style Beautiful, I had the start of an idea for a card bouncing round my brain. Trouble is...what bounces around is very rarely what appears on the actual card. However, Here's what I came up with....

I wanted to keep it CAS and fuss free, cause that's the sort of lady my MIL is.

To get the flourishes lined up right, I cut a wide oval punch from a post it note and then stamped the black.  

Then it was a matter of stamping the larger flourish in Riding Hood Red as well as the sentiment over the top, cutting the wide oval punch out and mounting it on dimensionals.



Masking technique may need some polish, but I am happy with the way the card turned out....and it was also close to the idea I had bouncing round my brain. I think the sentiment is also lovely for a birthday too.

Thanks for popping by again.

Stuff Used:

CS: (SU) Very Vanilla

Ink: (SU) Basic Black, Riding Hood Red

Stamps: Style Beautiful

Other bits: Dimensionals

Lynda xx

Clean and Simple Birthday

You have to love cards that are Clean and Simple (CAS).

My baby sister is a tough cookie. She appreciates the fact that I make cards....she's just not really THAT fussed about them. So for her birthday, I toned down everything.....literally!! I started out with a piece of SU Whisper White CS and then got some black ink and one of my fave SU sets....Pocket Silouettes. A bit of meauring...a bit of stamping and here's the result.

Added a white bit of ribbon and a sentiment from the FAB Amy R set and presto!!

I loved it so much that I also did one in Mellow Moss...same layout, but different feel. It could also be used for a Christmas card, Sympathy card...anything really.

Hope you like this CAS idea. I know I do. It goes up so very quick and looks pretty.

Thanks for dropping by and catch you next time.

Stuff used:

Card: (SU) Whisper White, Basic Black, Mellow Moss

Ink: (SU) Basic Black, Mellow Moss

Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes (SU) and Amy R "Birthday Sentiments".

Misc: White satin ribbon fm stash.

Lynda xx