CAS-ual Fridays Stamps - Nothing You Can Do

 

I'm up on the blog over at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps with this one!

I hope you'll hop on over there for links and details!

Thanks so much for stopping!  Hope you'll come again soon!

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps - The Whole Shebang

I'm up on the blog over at CAS-ual Fridays stamps playing with alcohol ink and foil again.  Hope you'll hop on over there and join me for links and details!

Thanks so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

 

CAS-ual Fridays Champagne Flute Full of Flowers

Welcome back!  I've got this one up on the blog over at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps today!  I had some fun with an alcohol inked and foiled panel of EVO paper and you can hop on over there for links and details as well as news about a sale and an extra discount!

 

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps - Hang In There!

I'm up on the blog over at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps playing with Alcohol Inks and the Alcohol-Lift Ink with those great EVO Synthetic Papers!  If you'd like details and links, hop on over there and join me!

Thanks so much for stopping and hope you'll come again soon!

 

Peace, Love, Coffee and Color Burst

Welcome back!  I'm sharing with you today a card I made using some of my very favorite CAS-ual Fridays products!  I started with a background I created using some Ken Oliver Colorbursts and the Modern Petals stencil.  (I have a short photo tutorial here if you didn't catch it the first time around).  I love to get out my colorbursts and stencils and play and make a bunch at one time so when I'm ready to use them, they're ready for me!

Then of course... the coffee cup... I love the To Go Cup Fri-Dies available in the shop... the size is fantastic to be the star of the show on a card... and since coffee is the star of most of my mornings... it's perfect!  And that beautiful fox from the Foxy stamp set... perfect for my coffee wrap that I cut from Copic Friendly paper.

I love the 4 Petal Fri-Dies!!  Handy for all kinds of flowers... I cut these from red cardstock and covered them with some Wow Vintage Candy Cane embossing powder.  Added a few branches from the Casual Trees Fri-Dies and my favorite sentiment from Peace, Love and Coffee as well as the additional Peace sign... both stamped in Versamark on black cardstock and embossed with Wow Opaque Bright White powder.

I love how bold it is, yet somehow (to me anyway) it still evokes peaceful thoughts... I think it's that beautiful quiet fox....

I hope you enjoyed your stop!  And did you know now is a good time to get some of your favorite sets that you've been wanting but just haven't gotten yet?  There are some products in the shop that are retiring and are 25% off right now!  Once they're gone they are gone!  They're making room for some awesome new products so get what you've been wanting before it's too late and at a great price!

And here's this for you as well:

And you don't have to use mine!  Use the code for whichever Girl Friday inspires you!  

Come back again soon for more inspiration!

Somebunny Told Me - Huggable Critters With CAS-ual Fridays!

I'm up on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog today and sharing this card I made using the Huggable Critters Fri-dies and a punny sentiment from the Somebunny Stamp Set!  I wanted this to have a kind of sewn stuffed animal feel so I used some pretty coordinating patterns and along with the stitching on the Fri-dies, I love the way it turned out!

There are SO many options with this die set!  You can create all different kinds of expressions and faces... with four different ear shapes and a few eye, mouth and nose combos, two different paws and three different tails.  I trimmed down the bunny ear and attached the puppy ear to create the look of one of his ears being turned down.  And I love to use foam tape to create depth on these... I think it makes such a difference.  I also trimmed down just the inside two of the bunny ears to create a lighter inside ear color.  I added a flower by cutting two of the smallest Four Petals shapes and layering them and used Nuvo drops for the center.

And this sentiment from the Somebunny stamp set was perfect!  A sweet birthday card for a sweet little girl!  And I kinda want a stuffed bunny like this now!

Sweet, right??  I love how these critters can hold a gift card... a sign... some flowers... anything!

So thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoyed it and I can't wait to see what you create with these critters!  If you don't have them yet and you feel the need to get them, I have this for you:

Stay tuned and come back often for more CAS-ual Fridays Inspiration AND for something special coming later this month!

Positively Beautiful Negative Spaces With Stencils!

I'm up on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog today and sharing with you a technique I used during the new release with Ken Oliver Color Bursts and some of the new stencils available in the shop!

My favorite stencil at the present time seems to be the Starlequin stencil... especially with this technique... I think it's all of the detail but it still has wide open spaces to give the colors lots of room to blend.  This is the watercolor paper I used.  I can't say if it's my favorite, but it worked well, and I got it on sale!  I cut my watercolor panels ahead of time and had two ready to go!  Have a little spray bottle of water ready too.

You'll want to protect your surface because this is messy... or maybe you don't... lol!  I'm not the boss of you!  I layed my stencil over one of the panels and sprinkled some Chartreuse and Lime Color Burst powders over the top in a random pattern.  It seems some of my bottles come out heavy and some not so much, but it's better to start out light and you can always add more!

I prayed on some water... you may want to tape down your stencil, but I didn't.  I don't mind if a little sneaks underneath... To me it adds to the beauty!  I sprayed a good amount of water on mine... a little at a time and just watch the beautiful colors do what they do.. mixing and swirling.  When you think it's enough, just lift off the stencil..

You'll want to be careful that all of that extra color doesn't slip off the top!  Move your first panel aside and put the fresh one in place.  It's ok if it takes you a longer than you plan... the oven dings... you have to chase after the dogs or the kids... because you can always spritz it with more water before you flip it over and smoosh it on top of your fresh panel!

I make sure to press down on mine..yeah.. my hands are a mess when I'm done...but I don't care!

And when you lift that one up, you have two beautiful panels to work with!  The hardest part is deciding which one to use!  I closed my eyes and picked because I love them both!

I cut the Bubble Box die out of some water color paper and used a bit of the Chartreuse powder to watercolor it.  I'm impatient so I used a heat gun to dry this piece so I could stamp it with that inspirational sentiment from the Dream Then Do stamp set (LOVE that set!)  I popped it up and splattered a bit of shimmery watercolor over the top.

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I cut some leaves using the Garden Fri-Dies from green cardstock and cut some flowers from some yellow Sparkling Sheets using the 4 Petals Fri-Dies.

Isn't that background yummy??  Well, I love it anyway.

And that's me for today!  Hope you'll give this a try!  This is just one of the many mediums you can use with these beautiful stencils and right now it's one of my faves.  I just love the unexpected results each time!

I'm playing along with a couple challenges today!  There's a fun new inspiration over at Cupcake Inspirations.  It's all about Inspiration Quotes.  I used an inspirational quote and I loved the pretty green and yellow color scheme so much I used that too.

And over at Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge is about Beautiful Blooms... and I added lots of flowers here for that.

Thanks so much for visiting today and if you saw something today you must have from the CAS-ual Fridays shop, I have this for you:

Unleash Your Inner Sparkle With CAS-ual Fridays!

I'm up on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog today and sharing a card I made with some "leftovers" from my New Release frenzy of creating!

I was playing with my Color Bursts and stencils and made a few of these backgrounds playing with various colors and stencils and I loved them all, but just didn't have time to use them all so I picked this one that I made with the Modern Petals stencil to use for today.  It was perfect with the deep rich and fiery colors for what I was feeling.

I decided to create a shaker with a clear back again using the Bubble Box Fri-Dies.. a fantastic set for creating shaker frames... and filled it with lots of sequins.

I cut these 4 Petals flowers previously too... the foil cardstock ones and you may remember the glitter embossed ones from a while ago... they were perfect with this background.  And I cut a few branches from the Casual Trees Fri-Dies to go along with them.

And this sentiment from the Be A Unicorn Stamp Set was perfect!

That's me for today!  Thanks for coming and hope you enjoyed your stay!  Come back often for more inspiration and be sure to follow CAS-ual Fridays wherever you hang out!

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps New Release - Sweet Friend Word Dies!

Welcome to Day 3 of Inspiration for the new CAS-ual Fridays Release!  Yesterday we showed off the 5 new stencils available in the shop and today it's all about the Sweet Friend Word Dies!  We're sharing inspiration all week but all of the new stuff is available here right now!

Here's how I was inspired:

These new word dies come in a set of 3... Sweet, Friend, and Hello and they are awesome!  Similar to the Big Hope die from the last release, the size is perfect!  And you can use them separately or together!

For today's card I grabbed another one of the new stencils and some Ken Oliver Color Bursts to create two backgrounds!  I started by cutting my base from watercolor paper.  I laid the Starlequin stencil over it and sprinkled on a few different Color Burst powders.  Then I used a spray bottle to add water... lots of water until the color moved around, but not so much that it would go too far underneath the stencil.

Once I was happy with the coverage, I let it sit for just a minute and then lifted it off.

I just love how these colors melded together!  And then I looked at my stencil and realized there was still a lot of beautiful color on it and I happened to have another panel handy.  So I flipped that stencil over onto the second panel and voila!

I got a REALLY cool negative print of the stencil!   I also splattered a little bit of Prima Metallic Watercolors in pink and white over the top.. 'cause I could!

While those two panels dried, I used the same colors of Colorburst and another couple pieces of watercolor paper along with a paintbrush so that I could coordinate the flowers and leaves that I cut using the 4 Petals and Garden Fri-Dies.

I cut two of the smallest Bubble Box dies from vellum and the Sweet and Hello dies out of  white glitter paper, once each, and then three more times each out of white cardstock.  I love to stack my word dies for dimension and these dies are so easy to do that with!  I layered everything on and then added some white gems to the center of the flowers.

I cannot wait to do this again... I just love these backgrounds!

To finish off my sentiments I added a couple mini sentiments from the Bushy Tail set... love the size of them and they fit perfectly with the new Sweet Friend word dies!

And there you have it!  Two yummy backgrounds from one Colorburst application.  I have to admit I love looking at these...lol!  

I'm playing along with Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge which is Play With Paint this week!  And I did just that!  And what fun I had!

Thanks so much for stopping today!  I hope you enjoyed your visit and that you'll come back tomorrow for some more inspiration.  And be sure to hop around and check out what everyone has created for you today with the Sweet Friend Fri-Dies!  Leave us some love and you could win some free stuff!  Check out all of the details at the CAS-ual Fridays Blog here!

Should you decide to shop I have this for you: