CAS(E) This Sketch 138

Hello!

I have gone super-CAS today for the new CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge! Originally my card was completely black and white, but I thought it needed just a little something extra. Who can go past a rainbow when the opportunity arises? :-)

I used Mama Elephant We Click stamps to create my card.

I just know that the rest of the design team have made wonderful cards using this sketch. Please take a wander over to their posts and leave some love.

Thanks for visiting me!

Michelle
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Playing Cards with Michele (one-L)

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Today I'm playing cards with Michele (one-L) Ferguson and we're CASEing Kara!

I "met" Michele when she launched her blog in May 2014. Michele was a fully-fledged cardmaker when her blog was born, and I just loved every single card she made from the very first post. Nothing has changed, every card is awesome. Michele and I are now teamies on CAS(E) This Sketch.

A few weeks ago, I saw Michele playing cards with Chriss Blagrave and I thought it sounded like a very fun idea! So I told Michele that I would love to play cards with her, and here we are! The idea is that we choose a card that we both admire and CASE it. After some to-ing and fro-ing, we couldn't find a stamp set that we both owned that would work for this project, so it's a very freestyle game. ;-)

This is my card.

I used SU! Garden in Bloom stamps. This may be my new favourite stamp set! I coloured with Copics, and like Kara's card, I also coloured the background. It's a great effect! I pretty much copied Kara's card - I loved the brightly coloured flowers, the dark background, and the vellum overlay on her card.

This is Kara's card that provides the inspiration.

I can't wait to see what Michele has come up with! This is going live late at night for me, so I will have to wait until I wake up to go and take a look.

I have one other picture, which is my background without the vellum. It was so pretty, I decided it deserved to be seen clearly. I almost didn't cover it up!

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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A missed deadline...

Hello!

On the week-end I made a card for Freshly Made Sketches, but when I went to enter I thought it was closed. After checking back, I discovered that I was looking at the list of sponsors' design team entries, not the challenge entries. By then, the link had really closed, sigh! Next time I need to scroll further down to make sure I'm at the right spot in the page! After all that, I decided to share my card anyway. ;-)

I used my brand new set SU! Garden in Bloom. I love this set. I have another card coming up using it later this week.

Tomorrow is my littlest girl's 8th birthday. I still need to make a card... and ice some cupcakes... and wrap some presents. I'd better get cracking!

Thanks for coming to visit!

Michelle
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CAS(E) This Sketch 137 - Happy Father's Day!

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For those of you in Australia, this serves as your reminder - Father's Day approaches! If, like me, you have a Dad who is overseas, you need to get cracking and send that card! I think I may be too late. Italian mail is notoriously slow. I usually allow three weeks for a card to get there from here. I used the CAS(E) This Sketch sketch for my Dad's card.

I used SU! Crazy About You stamps and Hello You dies. Colours are Blackberry Bliss, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, and PTI Hawaiian Shores.

I took the colours from last week's Colour Q. I wish I'd made a card in time to join in, it was a great colour combo! Something completely different to my usual style, and I loved being stretched in this direction. :-)

Thanks for dropping by to visit me! I hope you join us at CAS(E) This Sketch this week!

Michelle
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Super Girl strikes again!

Hello!

I know there are only so many times I can show off my little Super Girl, but I love her so much that I think she'll continue to make regular appearances here on the blog. :-)  Maybe I secretly have a desire to be a Super Hero myself... ;-) My girls reckon that this girl looks like me. :-) I usually make my Super Girls just like my girls - fair and blonde - but I stretched myself to make darker hair and skin this time. I'll get more adventurous, I promise (as the Copic collection grows slowly)!

I used MFT You're Super stamps, and the mask die came from Super Boy. He was happy to share.

I used the MFT Sketch Challenge sketch for my design layout.

The colour scheme came from Colour Me! Challenge.

Thank-you for visiting me!

Michelle
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CAS(E) This Sketch 136

Hello!

It's time for a new sketch over at CAS(E) This Sketch! It's a very simple sketch this week, which sometimes makes it very hard to make a card! Luckily, this time, inspiration struck pretty quickly. :-)

I used PTI On the Farm stamps to create my ducks in a row.

You know what would work really well with this sketch? A perfect line of washi. ;-)

Thanks for coming to visit! I hope you take a little wander to visit the other design team members also!

Michelle
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Pinterest Inspired 1

Hello!

There is a new challenge on the block! And it's right up my alley! Pinterest Inspired Challenge. :-) I was inspired on the first day, but it has taken me a little while to sit down to make a card in response. Thank goodness the challenge runs all month long!

I used PTI Ruby Rose stamps to create this 80th birthday card for my very dear Aunty, who is celebrating her birthday today. We had a wonderful family lunch together with all of her kids, grand-kids, and great-grand-kids with a few cousins, nieces, nephews thrown into the mix. :-)

So this inspiration was irresistible, so pretty!

Thanks for coming to visit!

Michelle
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Runway Inspired 89

Hello!

It's such a pretty dress on Runway Inspired Challenge this week! My card doesn't do the dress justice, at all!

The dress is a very graphic CAS design, so I made a graphic CAS card. Simple stripes. I tried to capture the tulle layer with my vellum at the top of the card.

I've had such a busy time at work over the past few weeks. I'm feeling quite worn out. A little crafting revives me. Oh, how I wish I had whole days to devote to making cards. Perhaps I need to take a holiday to achieve just that? ;-)

Thank you for dropping by!

Michelle
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Tuesday's Take 1

Hello!

Have you noticed that Cath Edvalson is back blogging with her new blog Hip and Hooray? Oh my! Cath has not lost any of her eye for the beautiful and her gift with words has only grown. Cath is running a new Inspiration Challenge (for any media) called Tuesday's Take. It's running on Instagram. The tag for the first challenge is #tuesdaystake1. We don't need to blog our entry, but I decided to share here anyway. :-)

I used PTI Teach and Inspire stamps to create my card. Looking at the inspiration photo, I think it's pretty clear where my inspiration was taken from, lol!

Thanks for coming to visit!

Michelle
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Hello Friend!

Hello!

You all know I can't resist a great CAS inspiration, so it won't be a surprise to see me joining in over at MUSE Card Club this week! I didn't get terribly creative, I basically just recreated the inspiration card, because I love it so much! :-)

I used PTI Birds & Blooms stamps.

This is the inspiration card from our Muse Joan.

Because I have used that little twine bow on my card, I am also entering into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge where Simon says to Tie it Up!

This week we have a public holiday on Wednesday. I will be celebrating my aunty's 80th birthday with our family. I'm so looking forward to a week where I am at home and where I get a bonus day with my family. :-)

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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CAS(E) This Sketch 135

Hello!

As you read this, I will be finishing up my work week in Melbourne! I haven't been to Melbourne for about five years. Unfortunately, my work load means that I won't see much of it this time around, boo! I checked the forecast, it's set to be cold and wet. I hope the weather-forecaster is wrong, but it IS Melbourne in Winter time. ;-)

As opposed to when I went to Sydney a couple of weeks ago, this time I organised myself to have my card made and ready for this week's CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge, yay!

I used Altenew Striped Florals stamps and did a little colouring with Copics. The sentiment is from an old PTI mini set.

What an awesome sketch! These ladies I am blessed to work with on the Design Team are really super-talented at drawing sketches as well as being lovely people all round! They also make fabulous cards, but you don't need to take my word for it, you can go and visit yourself. :-)

Thank-you for visiting! If you're curious about my Melbourne adventures, I'm sure to share a photo or two on Instagram (I'm @amusingmichelle). Probably photos taken walking between hotel and work building, lol!

Michelle
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