CAS(E) This Sketch 197

Hello!

What an awesome CAS sketch we have this week for CAS(E) This Sketch! Such a simple but beautiful design that can be used over and over.

Once I'd stamped my white panel, I got the feeling of Nordic embroidery. I love this stamp and I really, really love red and white Christmas cards. :-)

I used SU! Cheerful Christmas and PTI Stylish Sentiments:Christmas stamps.

I hope you can join us in the fun this week.

Thank-you for taking a little time to come and visit me.

Michelle
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CAS(E) This Sketch 149

Hello!

It's time for this week's CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge! My card this week is a grungy Christmas card. I'm not sure if grunge and Christmas go together, but I enjoyed making silver and gold grunge. :-)

I used SU! Cheerful Christmas and Gorgeous Grunge stamps.

This sketch is awesome and I had visions of watercolour relief images. As often happens with me and sketches, a gremlin gets in my brain and takes me in a completely different direction from where I started heading.

I hope you're inspired to join in with us this week!

Thanks for visiting!

Michelle
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This year's Christmas cards

Hello!

I've been making Christmas cards. After much experimentation, and some very cute cards made (I'll share more later), I have decided that these two are the winners for mass production this year. They are quick and CAS, or QACAS as Darnell would say, and they are bright and cheery. I just knew Stampin' Up! Cheerful Christmas was perfect for me!

How easy is this? White emboss the sentiment on a coloured panel, et voila! It's done! I did stamp the edges of the card base with PTI Postmarks stamp, for a little added interest, just like a candy cane. :-)

And this one is even easier. Stamp, stamp, and it's done! The image is Cheerful Christmas. The sentiment is PTI Keep It Simple: Season's Greetings.

Oh, I just love a good super-CAS card. :-)

Thanks for visiting! I hope to be back again soon!

Michelle
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CAS(E) This Sketch 99 - it's my sketch!

Hello!

This week is a very exciting week for me in my crafting life, a new milestone in fact. For the very first time ever, I created a sketch. And it was accepted as a sketch for CAS(E) This Sketch! Looking at it now, I wish I had made the sketch itself a little prettier. At the time, I was just jotting down an idea, lol! When I drew the sketch, I was thinking those explosions were flowers, but my computer didn't give me flowers as an option. I've since learned how to find more shapes. ;-)

When I came to make a card from the sketch, those flowers fled from my brain and were replaced by Christmas ornaments. Well, it is THAT time of year after all! The time that I make a pile of Christmas cards and then forget to send them until after Christmas...

Bauble stamps are SU! Cheerful Christmas, sentiment is PTI.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you make with my sketch. I'll be checking the gallery eagerly!

Thanks for coming by!

Michelle
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