CAS-UAL FRIDAY CHALLENGE #211 - Shades of Gold

Hello everyone!

I'm here with CAS-ual Fridays with a new challenge! We have a color challenge which is shades of gold. I hope you will join in on the fun. I also want to mention CAS-ual Fridays is retiring a bunch of sets which are marked down, if you are interested click here to see them all. Once the set has sold out, they will not be reordering.

Did you know, CAS-ual Fridays picks 10 winning entries who will be highlighted on their blog each Thursday before a new challenge? In addition, there is a $25 gift certificate to the overall winner atCAS-ual Fridays Stamps. If the chosen winner has used CAS-ual Fridays stamps and/or dies as the main focus in the card, that gift certificate will increase to $50. Wow, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to CAS-ual Fridays and link your card to the challenge.

Here is the inspirational photo:

Here is my take on the challenge.  I stamped the sentiment on black cardstock from the CAS-ual Fridays Merry Stamp set  with versamark and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. The layer gold paper I embossed the edges to match the sentiment.  I adhered the two together and added it to the vellum gold stripe paper.  I added some snowflakes from the CAS-ual Fri-dies Flurry, which I die cut from some gold glitter cardstock.  I finished the card off by adding some gold rhinestones.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you decide to play along! Good luck and have fun!

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #205 - Stamp a Pattern

Hello everyone!

I am here with CAS-ual Fridays challenge and it's all about stamping patterns.  I hope you will join us, the challenge will run for two weeks.  There are no restrictions, you will find the link on CAS-ual Fridays blog to link your card to the challenge.   There will be 10 lucky winners and you will be highlighted on the CAS-ual Friday's blog. Also, one lucky winner can win a $25 gift certificate and if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps or dies on your card, you will win a $50 gift certificate.

Here is my card for the challenge. Please stop over to the CAS-ual Fridays blog and see all the wonderful projects from the design team!

My card is clean and simple.  I used the Peaceful Garden stamp set to stamp the background.  The sentiment is from Best Day Ever stamp set.  I used two different ink colors to stamp my pattern background.  I used black in to stamp the sentiment and flowers. 



Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you decide to play along!  You have until August 10th to join in on the fun.  Good luck and have fun! 

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #204 - Rainbow and Butterflies

Hello everyone!

I am here with CAS-ual Fridays challenge and it's all about rainbows and butterflies!  I hope you will join us, the challenge will run for two weeks.  There are no restrictions, just link your clean and simple card here.   There will be 10 lucky winners and you will be highlighted on the CAS-ual Friday's blog. Also, one lucky winner can win a $25 gift certificate and if you used CAS-ual Fridays stamps or dies on your card, you will win a $50 gift certificate. Sounds like fun!

Here is my card for the challenge. Please stop over to the CAS-ual Fridays blog and see all the wonderful projects from the design team!

My card is clean and simple.  I used the "Be"stamp set and stamped the butterflies in various rainbow colors.  The sentiment is from the CAS-ual Friday stamp set "Peaceful Garden".  I finished off my card by adding some sequins. 

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you decide to play along!  You have until July 31st to join in on the fun.  Good luck and have fun! 

A Blog Named Hero - One Layer Challenge

Hello everyone!

It's Donna here and I am here with A Blog Named Hero and all month long we have been collaborating with CAS-ual Friday Stamps . Have you had a chance to play along with our one layer challenge yet? If not, please hop over to A Blog Named Hero and play along. You can post your project here. Be sure to stop over at "A Blog Named Hero" to see all the wonderful creations made by the design team.

My one layer card I am using the CAS-ual Friday stamp set called "Loving Thoughts", I love the bold words and flowers that are in the stamp set. I stamped the florals in different Hero Arts soft inks. I added the sentiment from the Hero Arts rubber stamp "Thoughtful. I finished off my card by adding some nuvo glitter drops and some twine from my stash.

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing my card. Thank you  CAS-ual Friday Stamps for collaborating with A Blog Named Hero! I really enjoyed working with your products!

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts

A Blog Named Hero with CAS-ual Friday Stamps

Hello everyone,

It's Donna here and I am with A Blog Named Hero and we have a new challenge for this month.  The challenge is "one layer".  I hope you will join in on the fun.  You can post your project here.  This month we are collaborating with CAS-ual Friday Stamps.  Be sure to stop over at "A Blog Named Hero" and see all the wonderful creations made by the design team.

Here is my take on the challenge:

Here is how I put my card together:

1.  I started with an A2 card, 4 1/4 x 5 1/5
2.  I used Hero Arts Floral Fiigree stencil and used Hero Arts Caramel to ink the background of the card, I was trying to get an ombre look, going from dark to light, starting from the bottom,
3.  I used the CAS-ual Friday stamp set Modern Petals and stamped a couple of the borders from the set at the bottom using Versafine Onyx Black Ink,
4.  I stamped the pineapples using the Hero Arts Color Layering Pineapple stamp set the inks I used were Hero Arts Butter Bar, Caramel,  Green Apple and Forever Green,
5.  I added a small panel on the right side of the card to give the pineapples some dimension.  I used the CAS-ual Friday stamp set Modern Petals and added a few borders from the stamp set,
6.  I added the sentiment,
7.  Popped the pineapples on the panel and then adhered the panel to the card using popped dots,
8.  I finished the card by adding some black enamel dots.

I hope I have inspired you in some way to get those embossing materials out and have fun! Thank you so much for stopping by, please come back again soon.

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Simon Says Stamp
Ellen Hutson
Hero Arts