LSC205

Hi!

Here's an SUO card for you gals who come here for that :) The limited supplies challenge (LSC205) at SCS was to make a Clean and Simple or CAS card. Clean and Simple can be considered in the eye of the beholder, I think. I tend to think my style is fairly clean and simple. I don't do a whole lot of layers or embellishments together and try to let one element be the focus, be it a gorgeous image, beautiful paper or embellishment. Rarely do I combine the three on one card! I guess the challenge with CAS is to have the card look simple, yet finished.


I think I will use this card for my card camp coming up next weekend. Better get crackin' on my designs for that!

This card is pretty simple. I used the sketch from SC208 from Splitcoast. The flowers from Eastern Blooms are stamped randomly on the Pale Plum card stock in Pale Plum ink and also onto a Very Vanilla piece. The sentiment from Hugs and Wishes is stamped in Certainly Celery. It's layered up after using the scallop border punch on the celery piece and punching slots with the slot punch. It's mounted on dimensionals and then the ribbon threaded through and knotted.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

LSC179

Super quick card and post for today!

We're off to the water park for the day today :)

A card for the Limited Supplies Challenge at SCS today. This card certainly isn't funny, but the challenge was to make a card that would make someone smile. I thought that if someone were facing cancer, receiving a card like this in the mail might bring a smile to their face.


I used the retired Stampin' Up! set Hope Is which I recently purchased. I stamped the ribbon in Pink Pirouette and stamped the sentiment over top in Riding Hood Red on Whisper White paper (this is also the card base). Pretty simple card after that. I used a 4x4 square of Designer Paper from SU! (Bella Rose) for the card front. I try to never use larger that 4x4 for DP because that way I know I will always be able to get 9 cards out of one sheet. Especially useful info if you are doing a card camp.

The Pink Pirouette layer is stuck down next and then the ribbon tied (May Arts velvet). Once the ribbon is on, then adhere dimensionals and the sentiment. Having the ribbon go between the layers something I like to do on a simple card as it adds just a little bit of interest.

A card added to the stash that I hope I'll never have to use.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great.

Angela

LSC176 and a Chocolate Kiwi

A card for the Limited Supplies Challenge at SCS. You can check it out here. The challenge was to make a summer card using limited embellishments, no patterned paper and no more than three layers.

These are the only summer stamps I have really. The butterfly and summer sentiment is from SU!'s Perennial Favourites. I've had a layout for the Wow Flowers rolling around in my head similar to this but since my new goodies hadn't arrived yet, I tried it out for the challenge. Goodies have since arrived so you can see my other layout below.

I decided on my colours by going through my paper and pulling out the brightest ones I could find. I don't work with the brights much so this was fun. Colours are Cool Caribbean, Green Galore, Summer Sun, Only Orange, Pink Passion and Lovely Lilac. Inspiration taken from Natasha Trupp's Fall to layout #1 seen here.

I stamped the butterflies on their colours in the same colour ink and then punched with a 1" square punch. I purposely had them off the edges. Too much lining up gives me a headache! lol Then I mounted with dimensionals, tied a ribbon and added the sentiments. Inspiration from atomicbutterfly at SCS for the sentiment combo. The welcome sentiment is from SU! Warm Words.

This next card was created when the goodies arrived! I used the new SU! set Wow Flowers (available Aug 11) along with the new Kiwi Kiss colour and Chocolate Chip.

I stamped the flower motif on Kiwi Kiss paper and punched it out. You could also cut squares to 1" and go that way. They are adhered to Very Vanilla cardstock and then raised on dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped in Kiwi Kiss.

I think this might pass for a "man" card. I cut the ribbon straight-for some reason that seems less feminine? I don't know. And it's a flower, I know, but it would pass for a funky 70's motif and that's all the rage.

Lurve the Kiwi Kiss muchly!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I'm off to tend to my sunburn now-ouch! I was at the beach today and it was overcast (I know! I know! Those are the worst days!!!!) and as you can guess, I'm burned. I don't know what I was thinking! I'm quite fair and am usually the sunscreen Nazi, but today it just didn't happen. Don't feel sorry for me-it's my own fault!

Have a great evening!

Angela

LSC175

Good morning! I tried my hand at the Limited Supplies Challenge over at SCS today. You can see the challenge here.

I wasn't planning to make a 4th of July card since I'm in Canada so I came up with a birthday card. The colours to me felt masculine so I went with it.

I used the Bronc Buster set from SU! and stamped the images randomly using Buckaroo Blue paper and ink (sadly retired from SU!) to make a patterned paper. The sentiment is from Papertrey's Birthday Basics. A ribbon from Michael's is tied around the card front and three star eyelets (Making Memories) are put in the corner to balance out the sentiment. Those things were a PITA I tell ya! My Crop-o-dile sure got a workout with those babies! Maybe I should have used a different tool to set them and I've have had an easier go of it.

Anyways, thanks so much for taking a look! Hope you have a great day and Happy 4th of July to my American friends :)

Angela