You've got Rainbow Flowers

Hello again and Welcome.

Here is my second CAS card made for the

Somewhere over the Rainbow Challenge at

AAA Cards

My Rainbow coloured flowers are from

STAMPlorations Eclectic Florals

using Tim's Distress Inks.

Sentiment is from  VIGNETTE-Celebrate-Artsy

in Black Soot.

I finished by scoring 3 lines to add interest

and what a QCAS card it is as Darnelle calls those

quick clean and simple cards. 

 Came together so easily. Love when that happens -

just not often enough. 

Well that's a short post.

Thanks for dropping in. 

Love reading your comments.

Colour me a 'Rainbow'

Hello and Welcome to a CAS card post today for the

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Challenge

over at AAA Cards

As STAMPlorations are sponsoring this challenge

I had to use a few of mine.

My butterfly image and a bit of grunge are from

Flutter-Zen-Row-Artsy-Borders and Art-Marks

heat embossed in white on watercolour paper.

I then got out Tim's Distress inks and 

inked my craft mat spritzed it and

blended together with a dipped acetate sheet.

The background is a little larger than I wanted

but still plenty of white space.

The birthday sentiment is from

Balloons-and-Banners.

I then cut with a stitched die and attached to

white card stock.

While I had all my goodies out I made another

CAS card so keep your eyes open for that soon.

I am also going to pop this over to the current


Details Here

That's it for today.

till next time - Cherrio from

I Made My Mark with...

It's time for the Make Your Mark Challenge over at

Addicted to Stamps and More

Hi and Welcome.

I love making cards with Kraft card stock

adding white elements.
My mark is simply the heat embossed white lace.

I saw a card on Pinterest and decided to CASE it

but unfortunately I didn't save it to give credit.

It's pretty simple - I heat embossed the lace

from SU Delicate Details and my IBS Sentiment

then cut out the MB Quinn Flourish, cut a bit of 

the bottom and tucked the side under the kraft

card stock. Got out a much neglected die

called Heirloom Rose from MFT and

blinged it up with Nuvo Crystal Glaze.

I got a pack of Crystal Gems from

a recent craft show and they matched

nicely with the glazed flower so sprinkled them

around to finish my card.

 Added one to the centre of my popped flower also.

Here's a close up of the glittery flower.

Pop over and see how my Team Mates 

made their mark and come join us this week.

Love to see you in our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

Till next time - Cherrio from

Christmas in July for the 175th Challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids

Welcome to a Special Blog Post and Hop here today for 

Send a Smile 4 Kids The theme for this hop is
Christmas in July 4 Kids.



If you are unfamiliar with this blog
please go over HERE to read all about
the wonderful work done for inpatients
at Children's Hospitals.

I am part of the Alumni Team and am
happy to be part of this super Blog Hop Celebration.
Thank You Karen for the Invitation.
There is so much information to read regarding the Hop
 that I urge you to go over to The Blog and check it out.
***

**The Christmas in July 4 Kids challenge at SAS4Kids 

will run from July 21^st until August 3^rd at Noon CST 

(as is typical of our two week challenges.)

 You can qualify for one of 8 prizes by entering a 
Christmas or holiday card 

appropriate for a child following the rules 
of all of our challenges found on the Blog. 

The prizes will be awarded by random drawing 

and announced with the rest of the winners on August 4^th on our blog.

For comments left here
I will choose my Winner of a $12 Gift Code from
Bugaboo Stamps
 so be sure to leave yours
before the Blog Hop closing on July 31st.
Winners will be announced here on August 4th.
If you see you are the Winner.
Please email Karen at khasheck@gmail.com
before August 18th to arrange your prize.
 Good Luck!

***

A quick rundown on how I made my card -
My night sky was created with Magicals and
Perfect Pearls. I stamped trees from Repeat Impressions
as a background to my snowy slopes - smooched
again with Magicals. These were cut from a wonky stitched die.
My elf is from STAMPlorations Christmas Elf
and coloured with Distress Markers and pencils.
Added a Nuvo Drop to the peak of his hat
and some glitter to the rim and shirt.
He was popped in front of the snow.
Both sentiments are from the same stamp set.
Added a few stars to finish.
***
The hop will start with Send a Smile 4 Kids
and next is Karen  Here and so on.
If you are following the blog order you should have come from
Cyndi's Blog Here
and your next stop after mine is to
Deonna's Blog Here
and so on...
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Here are the rules for this blog hop:

**You do not need to comment on every stop of the blog hop to have a chance to win a prize. One comment on any of the blogs or on the main SAS4Kids blogpost qualifies you to win one of the prizes on that blog. If you leave a comment on each stop, you will have earned 17 chances to win a prize, and if you enter a card in the Christmas in July 4 Kids challenge, you will also earn a chance to win one of 8 random prizes there.

**You MUST have an USA mailing address to qualify to win any of the prizes. We apologize to any of our readers outside of the USA, but this is a requirement to win any of the prizes in this blog hop and in the Christmas in July challenge.

**The blog hop will start July 21^st at 8:00 a.m. CST and continue until July 31^st at midnight CST. When the blog hop is done, all the winners will be drawn randomly from the commenters on each blog and on the main blog, and announced on the SAS4Kids blog on August 4th and on each individual blog. If your name is listed as a winner, 
you must contact Karen at khasheck@gmail.com
 BEFORE August 18^th at midnight CST with your 

NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS AND MAILING ADDRESS.

 If you do not contact Karen before August 18^th at midnight CST, 

your prize will be forfeited.

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Thinking of You

Hello and Welcome to my post for our New Challenge

over at Just Us Girls

It's 

and choosing these gorgeous pastel colours is our Host Lisa.

This is a simple card as I think the Hero Arts
 Leafy Vine Stamp heat embossed in white is Feature enough
with a background made from
Tim's Oxide's in Picked Raspberry & Peacock Feathers.
My die cut sentiment is from CUTplorations
cut a couple of times for dimension.
That's it - my card was done after I attached to white card stock.

Pop over to Our Blog to see what our Guest
Julia and the Team created for your inspiration.
Hope to see you in our Gallery this week.
Thanks for dropping in.

Happy Birthday Wishes

Hello and Welcome to today's post for

Crafting with Dragonflies. 

The new challenge over there are looking for Spots and Stripes.

This combination really threw me for a while

so I went looking into my stamp collection

to see what I could find. The spots were easy

but finding stripes - lucky I had just recently bought

a stamp from Kaisercraft that had the stripe border above.

Once more this card was nothing like I had planned

but once I found my SU Timeless Textures stamps

this is the direction I went. I love this set

as it is a bit grungy and you can do so much with it.

As you can see I added background bits inking with

SU Rich Razzleberry and Mossy Meadow.

My flowers from SU Petite Petals were die cut

and inked with the Rich Razz.

Leaves are from Marianne Designs 

cut from the MM paper

and sentiment - Avant Garden.

I corner rounded two sides and attached to

Mossy Meadow card stock.

Added a few pearls to finish.  

Pop over and see what the Dragonfly Designers

created and hope you get to join in the Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in.

A 'Blooming' Fabulous Day

Hello and Welcome to my make for the day.

I recently purchased the Retired SU Botanical Blooms

Stamp/Die Set. It was one that I had let slip away 

but when I saw it on a Retired SU site for sale

I JUMPED at it.

Here is a CAS (I think) trying it out.

Because I have used both required elements for the

CAS Watercolour Challenge which is

Splash Watercolouring and

CAS Mix Up Challenge

Colouring our Die cuts

(I used the splash technique)

Die cuts, stamping and pearls

I will add this to their Galleries.

***

I inked up my watercolour paper

with Tim's Seedless Preserves 

for the main floral die and a smidgen of Magicals

(couldn't help myself as the purple adds a lovely shimmer)

and Mowed Lawn for the smaller blooms.

The leaves were splashed with Milled Lavender

and a hint of Magicals (again)

Added my Darkroom Door Sentiment then

I cut a strip of the green paper tearing the edges

 to add to the background and then 

arranged my leaves and flowers.

Backed this with card stock from SU

and adhered to white card base.

Finished with pearls.

Here is a close up

I plan to play a lot more with this set

and include the matching paper so

be on the lookout! 

Thanks for dropping in

Till next time - Cherrio from

Simply 'Hello'

Hello and a Big Welcome to this weeks challenge at
Just Us Girls
Bobby is our Host and chose a Big Favourite -
 very in vogue and popular.


Oh how I love making backgrounds!

I have played around with some old and new products here.
Always nice to see how they stack up and I must say
I am REALLY happy how this card turned out.
Wanting to get away from the usual flower thing
I chose a new stencil from Kaisercraft - Bamboo.
This was stenciled with
Golden Olive Metallic Gilding Polish.
My watercolour background(s) were made with
Sea Grass Green Magicals and
Prima Marketing Rustic Brown Metallic Paint.
The front was cut with a circle die
then adding the bamboo stencil which was
smooched on the side with distress ink.
Behind that is corrugated cardboard
sponged with gold paste and a touch of
the green Magicals.
Again I backed that with leftovers from
the front smooching. As you can see it is a lot lighter
and adds another dimension.
I finished with a simple die cut sentiment from Altenew.

Our July Guest Julia and the Team
have also had fun with their watercolour backgrounds.
I look forward to seeing yours in our Gallery.
Thanks for dropping by.
Till next time - Cherrio from

It's your 'Birthday'

Hello and Welcome to today's make.

Since I still had my CAS-ual Friday's Stamps out

 I made another card for their current challenge

 asking for Heat Embossing

I went into my bits box to see what I could find

and came across the background piece I used here.

It is one I did some time ago at my girlfriend's house

where we were experimenting with shaving cream.

She had never done it before.

I know the re-inkers I used would have been

Tim's Peacock Feathers and Black Soot

 but not sure of the gold.

I heat embossed the flower from 

CAS-ual Fridays Wonderful Words

with Zing Aqua EP

adding Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the petals
(which can't be seen in the photo)
and tiny beads to the centre after I fussy cut it.
I did have another one that had coloured
petals but it landed you know where.

I cut the square peek a boo die from MFT

from white card stock and popped 
in front of the patterned paper. 

Added my heat embossed sentiment from

CAS-ual Fridays Shenanigans

and the Birthday Die from CUTplorations Birthday Word Die

cut from SU Tip Top Taupe card 

 CAS-ual Fridays

Thanks so much for coming by today.

Love to read your comments.

Till next time - 

Cherrio from

It's Celebration Time at Addicted to Stamps and More!

There's Big Celebrations at

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE

'cause we are turning 6 and it's our

300th Challenge.

How awesome is that!

Of course Birthday Celebrations

aren't complete without a Prize

which is kindly donated by Kylie - 

The Leader of the Pack

over at Happy Little Stampers

Here's my Happy Birthday Celebration Card.

What is a Birthday Celebration without balloons?

Mine were created by the CUTplorations Balloon Shaker Die

using DP from Stampin' Up.

Behind my popped balloons is the Evolution Stencil

from ARTplorations using white Texture Paste.

My Happy die is from CUTplorations 

popped and cut several times for depth.

Sentiment is out of the

STAMPlorations Balloons & Banners Set.

Added 3 punched glitter stars to finish.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created

for this Special Occasion

AND

come join our Celebrations.

See you in our Gallery!

Thanks for dropping in.

It's CAS-ual Embossing

Hi and Welcome.

Today I got to create a card

for the  CAS-ual Fridays

Heat Embossing Challenge.

I started by heat embossing multiples 

of flowers from the 

CAS-ual Friday's Wonderful Words Set

with Ranger Black E/P.

I then got out Distress Inks in 

Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin

and Abandoned Coral and blended away.

The background needed a little something so

stenciled off some colour from Tim's Stone Stencil.

Tried a little Clear Crackle to the flowers

and some Antique Silver Kindy Glitz to the centres.

Haven't used that in an age and surprised it was still fine.

Added a few splatters and then heat embossed

my sentiment from the same set.

Finished by added to black card stock.

Hope you like my make for the day.

Thanks for dropping in and leaving a Comment.

'tis another Poinsettia Card

I'm back with another Christmas card for a couple of challenges

My second one for CAS Christmas Card Challenge

Check out the details Here and
The  City Crafter are Celebrating
Christmas in July with Silver
so will pop this over to their Gallery.

My Christmas cards are not complete until I 

use my Spellbinder Poinsettia Die.

This one wasn't quite as quick as my previous

poinsettia card but is still a CAS style.

I cut my card stock on an angle and then

sponged some Iridescent Medium with a

piece of bubble wrap (Thanks Loll).

Love the shimmer!

I then got to that poinsettia inking 

 card stock with Coral Reef Wax 

wiping some of the colour off the top with a spotty stencil

from Kaisercraft giving it a nice effect.

I cut several flowers and glued them all together.

Behind it is some silver leaves from

Tim's Holiday Greens.

Added grey card stock and my

Merry Christmas die from Paper Smooches 

 cut from the same silver paper

as my leaves. This was the hardest part

trying to keep it all together and getting it straight.

Finished off with pearls and gems

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your comments.

'CELEBRATE'

Hi there and Welcome to today's Post.

It's for the new Challenge over at

Happy Little Stampers

Anything Goes with Dies.

I have this gorgeous Cover Plate from CUTplorations

that I used here and had recently been playing

with a new addiction to me - Alcohol Inks

so decided to cut it up and use on the front

of some pearescent card stock which matched.

Pretty simple right! 

All I had to do then was to cut a few CELEBRATE

dies again from CUTplorations using the same card base

and my card was done. 

Nice when a card comes together easily. We need that

for the other time that nothing seems to go to plan.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created

with their dies and come join us this month.

Hope to see you in our Gallery.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 

Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS 

AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, 

YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Thanks for dropping in.

A Mix Up Watercolour Card

Hi and Welcome. I have a card for you today for the

CAS Mix Up and CAS Watercolour Challenges.

Same card though!

Check out the details for Mix Up Here

We are asked to show how we colour our Dies

and Watercolour Here to Splash Watercolour.

Loll has an easy peasy Tutorial Here

Now those that know me are aware that I love

messing around with all sorts of techniques.

Here is what I came up with - 

I am using 'those' SU 4 Feathers Dies

but before I got to them I started with my background.

I inked my craft mat with Tim's Mermaid Lagoon

then added some  Perfect Pearls Powder. All I had to do was

a bit of thumping my watercolour cs onto the mat

and drying as I went along making sure I only covered

part of my paper. It has a real shimmer IRL.

I then cut out my feathers and randomly thumped

parts of the feather. The back one I inked the edges.

My twine wasn't the right colour so I inked that up with

the Mermaid Lagoon (with my fingers)

Yes I had nice coloured fingers when I finished.

The feather were then popped after I added my twine.

Sentiment is from 49 AND Market.

My MIX is -  Die Cuts

Splash Water Colouring 

Distress Inks and Powder

Stamping 

My CAS is Splash Watercolouring

on the background and cut feathers.

Clean and Simple on Sunday
have also got a CAS Splash Water Colour Challenge
so will pop this over there.

Since it's Winter here in 

'The Land Down Under'  it's a great time to play

and I have a few other cards in the finishing stages

so there is more to come for those CAS Challenges.

Once more I will add this over at
Monochrome Magic for their latest Challenge Here
This time not with the twist of 'purple'

Till next time

Cherrio from

Celebrate the Season for CAS Christmas

Hello and Welcome

The new challenge over at

CAS Christmas Challenge is a beauty

and sure to be a big hit with a 

favourite Christmas Flower - Poinsettia

to take pride of place for this month.

Check it out Here
Over at Little Red Wagon their Challenge is
Christmas in July so this card will be in both Galleries.

This was the easiest and quickest Christmas card

I have ever made so it's going to be mass produced

for later in the year to help me out 'cause

I am so far behind and I know I will 

need them in a hurry.

Here is how I made it.

That beautiful poinsettia is the

STAMPlorations Large Christmas Flower

I saw Shery - the Owner make a card with this flower

and she stamped the back of the stamp then turned it around

and stamped the correct side off centre a bit and that is

what I have done here. Doesn't it look fabulous!

I used Memento Sweet Plum on the background and

Eldenberry on the main image.

Added some WOS Gold/Green

to the centre berries and Nuvo Glitter Gloss

on the front flowers.

Added my sentiment from

STAMPlorations Framed Celebrate the Season

Cut this from a stitched die and attached to

SU Rich Razzleberry card stock.

I refrained from added gems or glossy accents

on those berries and think I did the right thing.

# AAA Cards are also celebrating

Christmas in July Here so joining in

their Gallery also.

# Update - and how could I not add this card to the

Monochrome Magic Challenge  over at

Monochrome Magic with the 

Twist of Purple!

and The Flower Challenge has

Monochrome as well. Yay!

I do love 'Purple'

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your Comments.