Addicted to Stamps and More #309 - CAS

Hello everyone!  This week at the Addicted to Stamps & More Challenge we have a CAS (Clean And Simple) challenge for you.  This is one of my favorites as I get to showcase a favorite image and surround it with white to let it stand out.

Stamp Set:  Build-A-Flower: Cattleya (Altenew)

Inks:  Jet Black (Altenew); Mossy Meadow (Stampin' Up!)

Distress Inks:  Antique Linen, Worn Lipstick, Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Crushed Olive (Tim Holtz)

Cardstock:  Merry Merlot (Stampin' Up!); Sugar Cube (Taylored Expressions)

Other:  Sequins

For all of our challenge details and to share your project, visit the Addicted to Stamps & More challenge by clicking the image below.  We’d love to have you join us.  You have until Tuesday, September 18th at 7:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time to link up your project.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Hello Baby

It isn't often that I can combine three of my favorite challenges and come up with a sweet little card.  But, Just Us Girls, CAS(E) this Sketch and The Paper Players challenges worked very well together.

Another thing I don't often do is make baby cards.  I'm not sure why because I loved creating this one.  

Stamp Sets:  Something for Baby, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Inks:  Elegant Eggplant, Smoky Slate, Strawberry Milkshake (Taylored Expressions); Cardstock:  Whisper White, Whisper White Thick; Patterned Paper:  Rainbow Brights 6x6 Pad (Taylored Expressions); Other:  Baby's First Framelits Dies, Boho Chic Embossing Folder, Rhinestone Basic Jewels

The sketch I used is from the CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge.  For all the challenge details and to share your project, click the image below.

The colors I used are from the Just Us Girls Challenge. For all the challenge details and to share your project, click the image below.

The clean and simple baby theme I used is from The Paper Players Challenge.  For all the challenge details and to share your project, click the image below.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Vintage Christmas Lodge

Now that Thanksgiving is almost here and I have all my cards done, it's time to get my focus back creating those cards I still need for Christmas.  This week's challenge at The Paper Players was perfect.  I pulled one of my favorite retired stamp sets off the shelf to use, Christmas Lodge.  It's been a while since I've used it but I still love that lodge image.  I also used Baked Brown Sugar, one of my favorite ink colors from days gone by.  What doesn't show up in the photo is the Clear Wink of Stella sparkly snow on the rooftop of the lodge.  I love the stuff but it just doesn't photograph well for me.

Stamp Set:  Christmas Lodge (retired); Ink:  Baked Brown Sugar (retired); Cardstock:  Baked Brown Sugar (retired), Very Vanilla; Other:  Stitched Oval Stacklets Dies (Taylored Expressions, Clear Wink of Stella Brush

The "Clean-and-Simple Christmas" theme I used is from The Paper Players Challenge.  For all the challenge details, click the image below.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Watercooler Wednesday Challenges #76

Summer is in full swing here in my little corner of the world.  Hot days, warm nights and dreams of cooler weather.  For this week's Clean And Simple (CAS) challenge, Penny has chosen the theme of Butterflies.  I love butterflies and I seem to have a tendency to make them all blue.  Although I used the In the Meadow stamp set for the grass and flowers, I pulled out my Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set and used those butterflies.

While our challenge rules state you can add one layer onto your card base, I chose to keep it a single layer card.  I love trying to come up with a simple card that looks nice but has no embellishments other than the stamp and ink you use.

At this time, I'd like to share with you our rules for the Clean And Simple (CAS) challenge we have at Watercooler Wednesday Challenges.  You can make a single layer card or you can add a single layer to your card base.  No embellishments, no embossing folders and no die-cuts are allowed.  But, you can add color by heat embossing with your favorite embossing powder.  Just take a look at all the Design Team projects to get an idea of what we expect.  Follow these rules for your Clean And Simple project and you could be our next winner!

Stamp Sets:  Butterfly Basics (sentiment), In the Meadow, Perpetual Birthday Calendar; Inks:  Dapper Denim, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede; Stampin' Write Markers:  Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach; Cardstock:  Whisper White

For all the challenge details and to share your project, visit Watercooler Wednesday Challenges by clicking the image below.   We'd love to have you join us.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Thankful for You

When I first saw this sketch, I couldn't make up my mind what to do with it.  I know, how hard can it be!  :-)  What I did was dig out of couple of older stamp sets and this is the result.  It's a single layer, clean and simple card that, I think, is so pretty in it's simplicity.

The card base is Whisper White.  The flower and stem images are from the Nature's Perfection stamp set that was in the 2015 Sale-A-Bration Brochure.  The sentiment is from the Good Greetings stamp set from 2014.  All are stamped using Mossy Meadow.  Then, I colored the little flowers with using Stampin' Write Markers in Delightful Daffodil and Calypso Coral.  And that was it.

The sketch I used is from the CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge.  It made for a very pretty clean and simple card. 

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge #60

My March Paper Pumpkin kit came on Monday and when I saw it I knew it would be perfect for this week's Watercooler Wednesday challenge.  It was my turn to choose the challenge and, since my birthday is this month, I decided on a Clean And Simple (CAS) birthday challenge.

The stamp set in the Paper Pumpkin kit is a really cute one.  The card is one that is shown in the instructions but I changed it just a wee bit.  I used the Happy Happy and balloon stamps but set them up further in the white square so I could added the birthday sentiment from the Endless Birthday Wishes stamp set.  It was stamped using Bermuda Bay ink.  There was also a bow made from the baker's twine on the original and added just above the flags but I chose to attach them using my mini stapler.  To finish it off I added the colored pearls that were included in the kit.  The card base is Whisper White Thick.  Since it was to be a CAS, I didn't want to use the colored card base from the kit.  I really like the way this turned out.

For all the challenge details and to share your project, visit Watercooler Wednesday Challenges.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Lovely As A Tree

Over the next few days I'll be sharing with you the cards I made for a class being held at the Crafters Gift Boutique, a craft store that features work of local crafters and it's where I have a display.  It is scheduled to be a Valentine Card Class but I decided to show a birthday card just to show them that with a change of sentiment, you can fit a card to your need.

Lovely As A Tree is a great stamp set to use for a birthday.  It can be either masculine or feminine.  The one I made is more of the former.  To make it more feminine, you could add a bow made with ribbon and change the sentiment to a more frilly one.

Stamp Sets:  Lovely As A Tree, Delightful Dozen; Inks:  River Rock, Old Olive, Night of Navy; Card Stock:  Naturals White

This is the first card in a set of five.  It is a very easy card  and all there is to it is stamping.  I wanted to start out clean and simple to show them that you don't need a lot of product to make great cards.

Until we meet again...