Happy Monday, peeps! Today is stamp club but I just had to share a couple of cards I made over the weekend! First, let me say that the stamping community is so wonderful; if you give other stampers their due credit, you usually can "borrow" their ideas and make them your own! Amanda Mertz at Did You Stamp Today? is one of my favorite stampers and she had a card recently that I thought I would CASE (Copy And Share Everything) with a current color challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches:
You can see her card HERE. I wanted to re-create that card using the above colors, and here's my take on it:
I used the Iconic Imagery set, punches and dies, and the challenge colors. I love it, but it wasn't quite clean and simple enough for me to enter, in my opinion!
And here's the inside:
SO, I went back to the drawing board to make a new card! This time I used Golden Greenery and Peaceful Season in the challenge colors, along with the Birch Wood embossing folder:
I finally mastered a trick to get these double die-cuts to line up easily (maybe I'll share that in a later post):
And here's the inside:
But that's not the end of the story! Yesterday, Amanda posted THIS card on her blog; a little bit different than my card, but we were on the same wave length for sure. And honestly, I made this card before seeing hers! Anyway, I think my second card is sufficiently CAS for the challenge, so in it goes!
Thanks so much for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!
| Project Details for Both Cards—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified | |
| Stamps | Peaceful Season, Iconic Imagery, Golden Greenery, Choose Happy |
| Card stock & Papers | Real Red, Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce, Basic White |
| Ink | Real Red, Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce |
| Accessories | Dimensional, Festive Pearls, Red Satin Ribbon |
| Tools | Cut & Emboss Machine, Birch Wood Embossing Folder, Golden Greenery Dies, Peaceful Season Dies, Various Circle Punches (ret), White Gel Pen (Posca) |
8 comments:
LeAnne, they are both so beautiful you have me wanting to CASE you both! I love that shy shamrock green - such a bright and welcome alternative to the normal Christmas palette!
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These are both so wonderful festive and fabulous!
I love them both sooooooo much!! We are stamping twins lol! Thanks for the shoutout! I love your version with the circles and those colors...the words in some of the circles is so smart! So nice to have such sweet stamp-y friends!
Love these - so cheery for the holidays!
Oh I love both of these, but the first one is most definitely my favourite!! I loved Amanda's original and I love your CASE too! I now NEED to make a version of this too. So fresh in our CAS Colours & Sketches palette too!
I LOVE what you did with the circles!
Both of your cards are terrific! While I agree that the second one is more CAS, the first one would have been perfectly fine to enter into our challenge, too! I like the simple layers of the images on the circles on the first card, and the layered sentiment on the second. Thanks so much for sharing your artwork with us at CC&S!
I also loved Amanda's card and intend to CASE it. Your card is fabulous and looks good in the challenge colors. Your second card is just as festive and a great us of the colors. Thanks for joining us at CAS Colours and Sketches!
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