CASE Study 4th Anniversary Celebrations - Week 1

Hello!

This month marks Case Study's 4th Anniversary. There is a month-long celebration happening with weekly blog hops and amazing prizes! I'm not hopping this week, it's my turn later in the month, but I still wanted to play along.

When I saw Laura's amazing card, inspiration struck. I didn't create exactly what was in my head, because I didn't quite have the supplies I needed... must be time to go shopping! :-)

This is my card, not a touch on Laura's original, of course!

This is Laura's card - rainbow CAS perfection. (If you want to Pin this, please go to Laura's page and pin from there.)

If you haven't already hopped along with the blog hop, I'd recommend you do. All of the cards are fantastic, with some super-spectacular ones thrown into the mix, and you get the chance to win awesome prizes!

Before I go, I have a couple of photos to share from the week-end. The first is a pheasant coucal who decided to visit yesterday. We have never seen one in our backyard before, so we were all out there watching until it decided to leave.

The other is a new photo of my chickens. Because I just know you love my chickens as much as I do. LOL!

Thank-you for coming to visit!

Michelle
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Teacher Thank-you

Hello!

Yesterday was the last day of school for the year. My daughter's teacher this year was a young man. I was stumped for a while for what to make for a card, and what to get for a present. I was going to make presents, but I just ran out of time this year. For the classroom teacher we bought a groovy pen. Apparently that pen spent the last day of school securely tucked in the teacher's pocket. My daughter was pleased. ;-) The card matched the pen (but I didn't actually capture a photo of the two together, oops!).

I used PTI Teach & Inspire and Wonderful Words: Teacher. Colours are Memento Tuxedo Black, SU! Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana, Real Red.

The die-cut TEACHER was layered in the same colours as the inks. The black top layer was covered in Crystal Effects to make it shiny. Here is a closer look at that.

My Coastal Cabana is one of the new Stampin' Up! inkpads. It's very WET. I struggle to get crisp images using the new inkpads, but I feel like an old fuddy-duddy when I say that I like the old ones better, LOL! For this card, I didn't mind the splotchy effect, but for most cards it would bother me hugely.

Today was my daughter's 4th Grade (AMEB) violin exam. At the end of the exam I grabbed some more work from her teacher to keep her busy over the Summer holidays (5th grade pieces and technical work). I'm pretty sure that is not what my daughter had in mind as fun for the holidays, LOL! To her credit, she didn't moan at all.

Thank you for coming by to visit!

Michelle
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An Apple for the Teacher

Hello!

I'm back! With a simple card that I just love. I cannot begin to explain how happy a really crisp one-layer card makes me feel. :-)

I used PTI Teach and Inspire (apple) and Wonderful Words: Teacher (sentiment). Colours are SU! Poppy Parade and Gumball Green, along with Memento Tuxedo Black.

I know that in the Northern Hemisphere you are all just now back to school, but here in Australia, we are just ending third term and winding up for the last blast before Summer holidays. After Spring break, we only have about 7 weeks left (filled with concerts, exams, and other end-of-school activity). This means I need to start getting organised so that I'm not running around like a mad chook in the last few days of school having forgotten to organise cards and presents for the hoardes of teachers that my girls have, LOL!

I made this card in response to three challenges. This is my first entry over at Curtain Call. I plan to enter many more times in the future. ;-)

I'm also entering CASology, where the theme is Apple.

And last, but not least, CAS-ual Fridays where the theme is also Back To School.

Thank-you for visiting me!

Michelle
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Summer Card Camp - Day 3

Hello!

I'm here with my card for Day 3 of Summer Card Camp 2. I decided that I'd skip Day 2 and go back if I can find the time sometime this week-end. ;-)  This way, I can pretend I'm up-to-date with my homework. I think I need to take holidays from work so that I can keep up with class, LOL!

My card today takes inspiration from Kelly Purkey's lesson in masked background stamping. I created a mask to make the banner. My mask was made of washi tape, and very pretty all by itself. I should have taken a photo to show you. Again, like yesterday, using this week's colours, I created an ultra-bright card. I changed a couple of the colours, and my card looks NEON. Woah! I only used four colours, but I didn't clean my stamp so much between stamping, and so created a few extra colours along the way. My die-cut "teacher" is two white layers with the blue layer on top. I glued the layers together using a Stampin' Up! 2-way glue pen. I took Laura's advice in her video that the Tombow Mono-Multi may get a bit messy with fine die-cuts.

I used PTI Wonderful Words: Teacher stamps and die. Ink colours are PTI Hibiscus Burst, SU! Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, Hero Arts Soft Cantaloupe, and Memento Tuxedo Black. Card is PTI Basic White and Hawaiian Shores.

Thanks for dropping by to visit. I'm really looking forward to taking a browse through the student galleries over the next few weeks, I'll get down to that over the week-end. :-)

Michelle
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