CAS-ual Fridays Stamps - Coffee Talk

I'm up on the blog over at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps making some pretty things.  Hope you'll hop on over there for links and details!

I'm playing along over at Double Trouble's current challenge, It's A You Day!  They're partnering with Stinkin' Inkers and their Girly Girl themed challenge and I'm playing along there too!  You should check them both out!

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

 

Everyday Dragonflies and An Alcohol Lift

Hello!  I'm up on the blog over at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps today with this one!  I had some fun with alcohol inks, alcohol lift ink, and some foil along with these beautiful Everyday Dragonflies!

Hop on over there if you'd like links and details.  Thanks so much for stopping and come again soon!

 

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!

 

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and Catherine Pooler Designs Collaboration Hop!

Hello!  I've got some fun for you today!  CAS-ual Fridays Stamps is joining Catherine Pooler Designs for a Blog Hop!  We've all used some beautiful CP Inks along with some fantastic stamps and dies from the CFS shop!  And both are giving away a $30 gift code!  Hop and leave some love at each stop for your chance to win!

You should have arrived here from Jen Carter's Blog!  Here's how I was inspired: 

I decided to pull out the Full on Floral background stamp for today because it's so pretty and I thought it would be perfect in these beautiful colors from the Party Collection Carnivale Mini Ink Pads.  I used the Misti and applied the Limoncello ink first and inked up the bottom right corner of the stamp and stamped onto a panel of white cardstock.  When I do this I like to apply the ink with a sponge to avoid lines and get a better blend.  It will take me a couple applications which is why I use the Misti.  I cleaned off my stamp in between colors and followed with Coral Cabana and Be Mine.

Then I left the stamp on the Misti and covered it with some Wow Embossing Ink and stamped over the inked background.  I added some Wow Changers Sparkle and heated it up.  It added a really pretty sparkle to all of the beautiful color.

I stamped, cut and colored that sweet bunny from the Somebunny stamp set and then diecut the Sweet from the Sweet Friend die set three times from white cardstock.  I added more of the same colors of ink again using a sponge to one of the word diecuts and then heat embossed it with the Sheen from the Changers kit and then again using some clear powder.  I stacked my three word diecuts together and then popped the bunny and "sweet" onto my base.  I stamped a sentiment from the Be A Unicorn set and cut out the top and bottom parts to arrange around the Sweet to build my sentiment.

I added a few sequins and this one was done!

I've been using these inks lately ... I just love the beautiful and rich colors and the pads are nice and juicy!  Here's a couple more projects I made recently using CAS-Fridays products along with these inks:

If you come here often, you know how I love my coffee cards!  That background was made using the By The Beans stencil and CP inks topped with a little translucent texture paste and some "texture" Wow Changers.  If you'd like more details you can visit this post here!

And oh look!  More Coffee....lol... and you can find this one here if you'd like more details.

That's me for today!  Now head on over to see what Karen Baker has created for you today!  Remember!  Be sure to hop and visit each post and leave some love for your chance to win one of two $30 gift codes to one of the shops!  You'll find all of the details when you stop at the CAS-ual Fridays and Catherine Pooler blogs... links to those are at the top of this post!

 Thank you so much for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoyed your visit and you'll come back real soon!

CAS-ual Fridays Full On Floral Eclipse

I'm up on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog today and sharing a card using an Eclipse technique.  If you're not familiar, the Hello in my card is what we're talking about.  It's a raised area that could be a Word like in today's card or a shape or anything really that almost seems to raise out of the background... visible, but you can sometimes almost miss it... almost ghost-like.

Here's how I made mine:

I started by stamping the Full On Floral background stamp onto some mixed media paper in Versamark and heat embossed it in gold.

Next I used Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxides and blended them over the embossed image.  When I was done blending the inks, I wiped over the top of the image with a dry paper towel to remove the ink from the top of the gold to let the shine through again.

 I splattered some water and Gold Color Shine over the top and when it was dry, I die cut the Hello die from the Sweet Friend Dies from the center of the embossed panel (you would want to cut this from whatever area you wanted to add your eclipse to because the negative space will be where you place it.  (Note: Be sure to save those little pieces from the middle of your O's, E's, L's.. you get the idea... because you'll need to place those inside their negative spaces so you don't have white showing through your eclipsed word or shape).

I added all of the layers to my card including the embossed panel with the Hello cut out of the center.  Next I die cut three more of the Hello words from white cardstock.  I glued and stacked all of my Hello words together with the embossed piece on top.  Sometimes I like to offset the top piece just a bit so that there is a tiny bit of the color from the bottom layers that shows around the outside in some places to help the word stand out just a bit.  Then I glued the stacked word into the negative space and added the little center bits that I saved (center of the O, etc).  I also added a thin layer of Glossy Accents to the top of the word... again so that it would stand out just a little bit more.

I included a simple sentiment from the Bushy Tailed stamp set and a few sequins to finish it off.

And there you have it!  A simple Eclipse design with a big impact!  I think it's cool anyway!

I hope you enjoyed your stop!  If I've inspired you and there is something you need to have, you can head on over to the shop here and use this code for a discount on your order!