JUGS #448 Citrus + Fusion Cactus Door

I couldn't resist making a lime margarita when I saw JUGS #448 Word Week: Citrus and used the colors and sketch from the Fusion Cactus Door to design my card.

  

The MFT Martini Shaker die subbing in for a margarita glass is cut from watercolor paper and colored in an aqua ombre. The Memory Box Small Citrus Rounds are also die cut from watercolor paper and colored with Zig markers.

The sentiment is stamped across the glass onto the card base before the glitter and sequin shaker is created.

The lime slice is tucked into the rim and the lime half is popped up to rest on the glass base.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

FMS #323 + CTD #479 + JUGS #426 + PSC #41

Several challenges went into making this card, starting with the sketch for Freshly Made Sketches #323 and colors from Color Throwdown #479. Given the love theme from Just Us Girls #426 and Poppystamps Challenge #41 to use hearts, it wasn't long before this design came together.

A white panel is inked with Festive Berries and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks and various sizes of the Poppystamps Love Balloon dies cut out. The die cuts are arranged on a heart embossed panel to mimic the color blocking of the sketch.

The Poppystamps Sentiments of Love stamp is paired with a Memory Box Sketchbook Love die to provide the sentiment.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Muse #230 + Just Us Girls #408

I picked up this sweet Lawn Fawn Aloha stamp set a while back and was happy to pull it out after seeing Kim's card for Muse #230 and the inspiration photo for Just Us Girls #408.

I love the scale of Kim's pineapple so had mine take up a little more visual space by mounting the circle panel on a black circle before popping them up on the card base. The black circle is barely bigger than the pineapple panel but gives me the black edge I was looking for and echoes the black embellishments on Kim's card.

A few enamel dots add interest, reflect the party atmosphere of the inspiration photo and expand the circle a bit more.

   

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Muse #189 + FMS260 + Seize the Birthday & MCV#68 + JUGS#367 + SSS Anything Goes

Happy Saturday! I was lucky enough to have some quiet time in the office this morning and ended up with a couple of cards for a variety of challenges.

This first card is inspired by Guest Designer Lucille's donut card for Muse #189 and the sketch for Freshly Made Sketches #260.

The sweet donut die cut from Reverse Confetti is paired with an Avery Elle sentiment. A few extra sprinkles are scattered on the banner before it is popped up on a large dot embossed panel.

This card is also being linked to Seize the Birthday in the Anything Goes category.

  

This second card was inspired by another Guest Muse, Jeanne Jachna, for Muse Christmas Visions #68, along with the Just Us Girls #376 Wild Card Week with the challenge to make the sentiment the focal point of the card.

Inspired by Jeanne's brightly colored color block panels and white inlaid dies, the front of the card base was inked with Picked Rasberry and Festive Berries Distress inks. A panel is die cut with the Memory Box Merry Christmas Channel dies, the sentiment masked and then the rest of the die cut also inked. 

A trio of Paper Smooches snowflakes die cuts are made on this panel. Once adhered to the card base white snowflakes are adhered and a couple of sequins added to finish off the card.

This card is also being linked to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog Challenge where Anything Goes this week.

   

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Week 214: BEACH

Welcome to Week 214 at CASology!

I've always been a beach lover and have been lucky enough to live a short distance from the ocean for most of my life. One of my favorite things to do is watch surfers, especially when a storm brings in the big waves.

This card started with inking a masked rectangle and die cutting a Memory Box flourish die for a wave. The placement of the wave is determined before the Avery Elle Surf's Up sentiment and surfboard are stamped. The surfer is borrowed from Altenew Figure Effect stamp set and finally the wave adhered in place.

I hope you can see that CAS(E) This Sketch #188 inspired my design. The sketch is flipped, with three of the wave curls at the bottom of the rectangle and the surfboard at the top representing the tabs in the sketch.

For more terrific BEACH cards, please check out the talented Design Team!

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne

Hannelie Bester

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Jen Wills 

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Sherrie Mannion

Tracey McNeely

Guest Designer: Lisa!

Sponsor: Cindy B Designs

We are looking forward to seeing how BEACH inspires you -  just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! You have until Monday at noon (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

FMS240 + JUGS347 + Seize the Birthday

I found myself with some unexpected free time yesterday and snuck into the office to play with an idea to combine the Freshly Made Sketches #240 with the Just Us Girls #347 Trend Week: Spotlighting Technique.

The Waffle Flower succulent image is stamped on two white panels, with one carefully & selectively die cut to give me the four smaller panels. Two of the panels are colored with Inktense pencils before they are assembled over the second stamped white panel.

For a little extra dimension, the two colored panels are adhered with thin foam squares raising them slightly higher than the other panels.

A Papertrey Ink sentiment finishes the card off. This is my first time trying the Spotlight Technique and I am really happy with the results.

I am also linking this card to Seize the Birthday where the current challenge has SUNSHINE as the Topping. I could stretch the sunshine idea to succulents being the flowers of sunshine states, but think this belongs in the Anything Goes option.

  

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

MIM#249: Make It With Money + JUGS #343: Vellum

Lexi has a fun challenge for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday #249: Make It With Money to use a cash gift as part of the design.

Around here money leis are a big thing for graduation and our daughter recieved a couple last year with the cash folded into pretty butterfly shapes, so that is what I decided to add to this card.

Two bills are needed to make this butterfly and this is the tutorial I followed. A woodgrain embossed panel is layered with white cardstock and vellum Turning a New Leaf die cuts before the butterfly is added.

There is two weights of vellum used, offering a little more interest to the texture and translucency of the die cuts. The Wet Paint sentiment is heat embossed on a black banner and then wrapped around the card base and adhered.

This card is being linked to the Just Us Girls #343 Trend Week: Vellum challenge.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CQC#285 + JUGS#287 + Virginia's View #14 + AAA Cards #36 + Curtain Call: Beginnings

I loved the color palette for the Colour Q Challenge #285 so much that I immediately pulled out my inks closest to the Stampin' Up colors listed so I wouldn't forget to play along this week. Somehow, it still took me all week to come up with a version of this card that I like and I am just squeaking in before the deadline (and did miss the deadline for entering it in the CASology: Spring challenge.)

The masked square on the card base is inked with a stencil and part of the sentiment is stamped before it is all framed with a couple of layers of PTI Slide Frame die cuts.

The "sending" die cut is inked with Mustard Seed Distress Ink and adhered along the frame with the Massa Leaf and Butterfly dies layered in the opposite corner.

ETA The butterfly dies are from Poppystamps. Delaney, the pink detailed die, has been discontinued and Cheviot, the solid die on the bottom, is still available. Although sold separately, Poppystamps has a number of beautiful butterfly dies that go together.

This card it being linked to a few other challenges - you can check out all the details by following these links,

Colour Q Challenge #285

Just Us Girls #287

AAA Cards Game #36

Curtain Call: Beginnings

Virginia's View Challenge #14

I hope everyone celebrating Easter and Passover had a wonderful weekend with family & friends. We follow the Orthodox calendar, so will be celebrating and feasting this coming weekend.

Thank you for stopping by,

Jacquie

TYIC#5 + Curtain Call Lovely Leaves + JUGS257

I am popping in with a quick tag card inspired by the Tag You're It! Challenge #5, the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: September 1 - Lovely Leaves and Just Us Girls #257 Word Week: Leaves.

I'm having fun with my new watercolor paints and used the Curtain Call colors to create a panel of yellow, orange, red, pink & purple. Once dry, the Lawn Fawn leaves were die cut from the panel.

While waiting for the watercolor to dry,  the tag was die cut from a soft gray cardstock and stamped with a cracked paint background stamp to add a little texture.

The largest leaf is popped up on the tag and then the tag mounted on the card base. All the leaves are curled slightly and only adhered in the center as they fall down the side of the card.

A feathery fiber finishes the tag off.

This is my first time entering a challenge at Just Us Girls, but when I saw Bobby's post as the September Guest Designer, I couldn't resist.

On a completely different note, I love San Diego weather reports. What you might call "fog", we call "marine layer" and what you call "humidity" we call "monsoonal moisture". Well, my dear husband and I are braving today's monsoonal moisture to join the feasting & dancing at our local Greek Festival. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie