CAS(E) this Sketch #181

This week's sketch:

My card:

Supplies:

Precut craft card (square, cut down to a C6 size)

Stampin' Up! Whisper White cardstock

Stampin' Up! Tap Tap Tap stamp set

Stampin' Up Tip Top Taupe inkpad

Altenew Ruby Red inkpad

Stampin' Up! Washi tape

Hey!

Today's card using an image from a Butterick 1965 sewing pattern catalogue:

I used the new Labeler Alphabet stamp set from Stampin' Up! and gosh was it hard to stamp it.  I'm not steady enough to stamp such small stamps I think (each letter/character is an individual stamp).  A bit disappointed, I think I should have got the rotary stamp before it retired - it's probably more of the look I want - that typewriter style font.  Oh well.

And, my Carl trimmer has gone a bit wonky again, so I'm having trouble cutting straight lines and getting a rectangle instead of a rhombus! So annoyed, given it cost $100 for this trimmer. 

Supplies:

Stampin' Up! Whisper White notecards
Stampin' Up! Lost Lagoon (?) cardstock - I'm not really sure if that's the colour of the green cardstock
Stampin' Up! Moonlight Designer series paperstack (retired)
Stampin' Up! Hello Honey ink

Birthday card

For my husband's nanna who just turned 91.

Supplies:
Stampin' Up! Whisper White Notecards
Stampin' Up! Whisper White, Berry Bliss (retired) and Mint Macaron card stock
Stampin' Up! Berry Bliss (retired) and Mint Macaron ink pads
Stampin' Up! Flower Shop stamp set
Stampin' Up! Pansy Punch
Stampin' Up! Cottage Greetings
Stampin' Up! Metallic Enamel Shapes

What a shame the Berry Bliss ink has been retired, it's such a gorgeous colour. All products (except retired) can be purchased here.

CAS(E) this Sketch #178

This week's sketch, found here:

My card:

Supplies:
Stampin' Up! Whisper White Notecard set
Stampin' Up! Love You Lots Hostess Stamp Set - image and sentiment
Stampin' Up! Watermelon Wonder Ink
Stampin' Up! Aqua Painter

Five

Another birthday card using a Butterick 1965 sewing pattern image.  On the one hand I think the 5 is too small, but the next size up dies looked like they would be too big.  So it was probably better to go with the small but it doesn't stand out as much as I'd like.  The inside is stamped with happy birthday sentiment from a Lawn Fawn set. Didn't photograph it.

Supplies:
Stampin' Up! Whisper White and Calypso Coral cardstock (base, mat and number)
Kaisercraft little numbers die set
Grace Taylor designer paper (discontinued)

Clean and simple using Kaisercraft

I got the 6 1/2" Summer Breeze paper pad on special and made a couple of quick cards last night.  I really liked this paper with the multiple squares on it.  It had 5 x 5 squares so I cut each sheet down to a 3 x 3 and I still have some more squares that I can use on some notecards.

This is the first one I did using Kaisercraft square cards.  These were one of the first items I bought when I started thinking about making cards with my vintage children's books, so I just bought some pre-cut card and envelope packs.  They're a bit disappointing, they haven't been folded very well so the edges were uneven.  I ended up trimming a bit off each one.

I just added some 3D foam stickers to lift the paper up a little and then used some baker's twine.

 

 

 

On the second one, I decided to use my Stampin' Up Decorate Dots embossing folder to give it a little texture.  I think I prefer this one.  You can't see in the photograph but the flowers have a bit of gloss/texture to them.

Birthday card

A birthday card for a girl at my son's childcare who is turning 5.

Unfortunately my phone doesn't capture the true colour of the backing paper, it's more teal than it appears here, which matches the dress.  I stamped Happy Birthday on the inside.  The girl is from a Butterick 1965 pattern book.

Supplies:
Stampin' Up Very Vanilla and Berry Bliss cardstock
Stampin' Up Berry Bliss ink pad
Dear Lizzy Happy Place paper
Lawn Fawn Birthday Tags stamp set.

CAS(E) this Sketch #171

This week's sketch, found here:

Edit:  Redux

Last night I was looking at what I first came up with and I wasn't liking it, so I deleted my submission and reworked it slightly.  I've kept the original below. It felt really flimsy and like it was lacking something.  Wasn't liking the Very Vanilla background.

I matted it on to Stampin' Up Berry Bliss Card stock and then glued that on to Crumb Cake notecards. 

Supplies:
Stampin' Up Very Vanilla and Berry Bliss cardstock
Stampin' Up Berry Bliss cardstock
Stampin' Up Crumb Cake Notecard
Stampin' Up Flower Shop and Tap, Tap, Tap stamp sets
Stampin' Up 2014-2016 In Color Designer Washi Tape
Stampin' Up Berry Bliss ink pad
Stampin' Up dimensionals



Original

This time I grabbed the image on the Facebook page and chose not to look at the blog and the team's creations first.  I don't know whether it's a beginner thing, but I find I take the sketch quite literal ie the flower being a flower.

When I saw it I really wished I had some grungy stamps that I could use for the rectangle and the paint splatters and then just stamp a flower.  I've got my eye on a couple of Stampin' Up sets so I think I'll just have to buy them (gee this card making caper gets expensive).  But I don't have them yet so this is what I came up with:

I used Very Vanilla cardstock this time, so it was a bit hard to photograph.  And I had trouble stamping such a teeny message with a little block, my hand rocked a bit so the "my" is a bit smudged.

Supplies:
Stampin' Up Very Vanilla cardstock
Stampin' Up Flower Shop and Tap, Tap, Tap stamp sets
Stampin' Up 2014-2016 In Color Designer Washi Tape
Stampin' Up Berry Bliss ink pad

CAS(E) this Sketch #170

This week's sketch found here:

Had no clue what to do/what I was doing with this one.  It didn't turn out how I envisaged it when I was looking at papers to use.  I don't have a lot of supplies at the moment.  I didn't know to measure out to cut the paper to cut it so it had the cross cut out so I drew it on the back of my patterned paper, which meant when I turned the paper over the sketch was flipped.  So first error.  The sentiment I wanted to cut out which said Lots of Love (which I thought went with the multiple hearts), I ended up ruining because the corner punch stuffed up one of the corners, but it would have been too big anyway.  It is what it is, and it's a learning process for me.

 



Mother's Day Cards

Have been working on a couple Mother's Day cards using Stampin' Up products.  I was trying to work out what to put along the bottom of the card, and decided I wanted a bow.  I bought some ribbon but couldn't for the life of me tie a bow, even after watching videos and looking at pictures.  Will have to keep practising.  So I ended up buying some Christina Re self-adhesive bows today.  They're a bit chunkier than I wanted but with Australia Post's delivery times, doubt I would have been able to find something online and get it delivered in time.

Supplies/Tools used:
Stampin' Up 1" punch.  I can't believe they're retiring this product, glad I bought it.  You can get one at a discounted price here. 
Stampin' Up Pretty Petals Cardstock (Mint Macaron and Old Olive) and Pretty Petals Designer Paper Stack.  Another two on the retiring list.  I just love the paper in this stack.  It's on sale
Stampin' Up Whisper White Cardstock 
Canson Black cardstock
Christina Re self-adhesive bows
Double sided tape
Stampin' Up dimensionals

The cards are A5 size and I cut the black cardstock to 10cm x 10cm, and the white cardstock to 9cm x 9cm.  The black card is adhered to the card base with stampin' dimensionals.

I made another one with Calypso Coral as the base, but forgot to photograph it. 

Five Senses

Got a gorgeous book for 50c at my local Vinnies.  Such sweet images.  The book is called Five Senses by Tasha Tudor and was first printed in 1978.

CAS(E) this Sketch #169

The sketch:

I'm a sucker for stripes and polka dots, and I loved this paper immediately when I saw it.  I feel quite lazy with this one - not much thought went in to it. 

Supplies:

Stampin' Up Whisper White Cardstock
Striped paper from Dear Lizzy's Happy Place 6 x 6 pad (American Crafts)
Stampin' Up Mint Macaron ink.

Raggedy Ann and Andy: The Little Gray Kitten

All images used are from a Little Golden Book, "Raggedy Ann and Andy:  The Little Gray Kitten"

More cards from Tales at Bedtime

 



The card below was a disaster - not how I wanted it to turn out.  I just wanted it on plain kraft cardstock, but I wanted to round the edges for something different.  But my little fiskars corner punch does not work properly and massacred the edges. I really wanted to keep the image so I just cut around it and stuck some paper on for the background.  But I don't like it.

 

 

 

 

This image was at the bottom of a story, and the kite string went through the text and the kite was up top.  So I fussy cut the kite and part of the string and tail and lined it up and glued it on.

 

 

 

 

A birthday card

Another image used from the Tales at Bedtime book

Big Sister and Little Sister

I found this book, "Big Sister and Little Sister" for 40c.  I still have a few pages I could cut some tags from.  Worked out it cost $2.62 to make this lot.

Tales at Bedtime - Children's Bedtime Stories

Went for a drive yesterday and ended up at a Savers recycle store.  They were a bit more expensive than the op shops I normally frequent, but I picked up a couple big children's books - Tales at Bedtime and The Children's Dictionary in Pictures.  I think I'll make some bookmarks with the dictionary one (though I will probably have to buy a laminator, gee this hobby is becoming expensive).

But I've made some cards from the other book already:

CAS(E) this Sketch #168

My 2nd attempt at a sketch.

The design:

 

 

and my attempt:

 

 

 

Supplies:



 

Stampin' Up Whisper White Cardstock

Amy Tangerine papers

 

 

I actually tried to come up with something last night and it was a disaster. A glue disaster which ruined the paper, but then I wasn't happy with the layout anyway and thought, "that's it, I'm giving up, I can't do this cardmarking stuff".  But thought I'd attempt it again today.  Still not entirely thrilled.  Are people just born crafty?  Or is everyone average to begin with and coming up with a design/idea gets easier the more you do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Prayer Book

These cards were made with images from the Rand McNally book "My Prayer Book".  Still have a few pages left with smaller images that I'll probably use for gift tags or small note cards.