CAS-ual Friday #125

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Lunch with Joyce and Marybeth

This is going to be a very fun day for me...going to have lunch with my crafty friends Joyce (Cards by the Sea) and Marybeth (Marybeth's Time for Paper).  Am I lucky, or what?  We have been meeting sometime during the holiday season for several years now and it is always a lot of fun.  I will try to coerce someone in the restaurant to take a picture of us...got my hair freshly colored so I am all set to go!  Before I take off though, I have a card to share that I made for CAS-ual Friday Challenge #125.  The theme this week is "In a Word". 

 Cute theme, but the first thing I thought of were speech bubbles.  You would think that with the thousands of dollars of craft supplies I have, that I would have at least one speech bubble...but, you would be wrong!  I don't have a single one.  So, what do I have that I could use to make a speech bubble?  Speech bubbles to me always look like ovals or circles with a triangle cut from the bottom.  I tried a little experiment with my oval and circle Lil Inker Stitched Mat dies.  They cut the perfect bubble, but what could I use for the triangle?  I brought out my Stitched Star Dies and ran them through the already cut oval and circle and created what I think to look like a pretty darn good bubble.  What do you think?

They even have the cute trademark stitching that most Lil Inker dies have.  Now wouldn't these be a great idea for Lil Inker to sell?  Hint, Hint!

I stamped my sentiments using one of Lil Inker's newest stamp sets (Love Things Stamp Set) and popped up the negative panel with dimensional foam.  I added a little more pink with a copic marker...can't have enough pink for Valentines Day, and that was it!

I'll be back later with the mug shot taken from our little get-together!

CAS-UAL Fridays #106 and CASology #50

 

I haven't played along with CAS-UAL Fridays in a long time, so today I spent some time with their challenge #106. The theme is Over the Edge...now what can I hang off the edge of my card? Flowers? No. Leaves? No. How about some cute butterflies? That sounds like an idea to me. My sister is having a birthday on Sunday and she loves not only butterflies, but the color purple, so those are the elements I decided to use. As I brought out the butterfly stamps, I remembered that this week's CASology #50 challenge cue word is "Free" and for some reason the butterflies seemed to fit this cue word, so lucky me...one card for two challenges.

I die cut some PTI Beautiful Butterflies and stamped the cut out portion with WM Woodgrain. I think Woodgrain looks good on everything, even butterflies! The sentiment is also from Beautiful Butterflies and I used a Cuttlebug Sheet Music embossing folder. The butterflies are scored alongside their bodies and added with scor-tape. I don't have a lot of embellishments here with me, but I did have some pearls, so I lined up a few for the butterfly bodies and think they add a little elegant touch to the butterflies. So what do you think you can hang over the edge of a card? Something that also reminds you of the word "free"? If so, get hopping and make a card for this weeks CAS-Ual Fridays and Casology #50...this was a fun one!

 

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