OLW145 - Spice Girls

It's my turn to host One Layer Wednesday and our theme is Spice Girls. Make a one-layer feminine card inspired by a spice, condiment or flavouring. You can use your spice as colour inspiration, as part of a sentiment or as a theme.

I chose salt and pepper (colour and 'texture'), with a little saffron thrown in for a pop of added colour. I used an Annabelle Stamps background (masked in a funnel), Papertrey flowers and a Stampin' Up sentiment.

You can go in any spicy direction you can think of!

OLW 145 Guidelines:

1. A one-layer card is defined as a single layer of card stock folded in half. No other layers of card stock allowed!

2. Make a feminine card inspired by a spice, condiment or flavouring!  Please  remember to keep embellishments to a minimum.

3. Upload your card somewhere online and link it using the InLinkz button to the right of this post. If you link to your blog, please make sure the link goes to the individual post, not to your blog's home page.

4.HAVE FUN! That's really what it's all about.

CASology #49 - Fish

This week's CASology Cue Card is Fish

I don't have very many fish stamps and the ones I have (or at least the ones I could find), just weren't doing it for me, if you know what I mean.  So I used this Muji Funny Face eye stamp. I stamped the fish bodies and then masked and used the stamp again to make their tails. Easy-peasy.

I coloured them with copics in bright colours and then added a little grey shadow underneath, an easy trick that helps to add dimension to a flat card.  (ah, man, I missed one - do you see that?! Actually, I did that on purpose so that you can easily see the difference! lol!)

There was no room for a sentiment without throwing the design off-balance, so the inside of the card says "Just Keep Swimming!" - a perfect card for a time when someone needs some encouragement.

And now it's your turn. Before you go, check out what the rest of the Design Team made for your inspiration:

Tracey McNeely
 Rosemary Dennis

Melissa Chipperfield
Meghan McMillan
Maureen Merritt
Judy Marino

ABNH - Faux Cloisonne

It's my turn over at A Blog Named Hero today. I'm showing a card I made using a technique that (I think) I developed and have used from time to time. I call it Faux Cloisonne. I used it on this card a couple of weeks ago, and on this one last year.

Head over to A Blog Named Hero for all the details!

Our current challenge at ABNH is #Tag - make a project either incorporating a tag or inspired by dog tags. Make sure you check it out - if you enter, you could win a $25 gift voucher to Simon Says Stamp!

Snowbirds

As you can see, the rain cleared up and we had a wonderful time at the Air show. There were lots of old WWII planes (one of the only two remaining Lancasters, and the only remaining working Mosquito, as well as Spitfires and Hurricanes), a Lysander, an aeronautic stunt team of 3 Harvards, some WWI replica planes and of course, Squadron 431, the Snowbirds.  (My son, above, has a flight jacket with their squadron patches on it). I didn't take too many pictures, because, really, the fun is watching the action rather than trying to record it! But here are some of the 50 various manouevres that the Snowbirds performed.

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While I can honestly say that I would probably have chosen crafting over the Air Show (you would have, too, admit it!), I did have a good time hanging out with my son and my dad, and we're already making plans for the 'big' airshow that happens on Labour Day weekend.

A day off...

No card today - we've had a busy, busy week and today, Struan and I are going to meet my dad and go to an Air Show to see the last working Mosquito (WWII plane) and the Snowbirds (Canadian Aerial Stunt demonstation team). It's pouring rain right now, although it's supposed to let up for the afternoon. I'm hoping that at least it won't be crowded! ;-)

Stop back tomorrow afternoon for my first solo A Blog Named Hero post.

And enjoy the rest of your weekend!

OLW 144 - Red White and Blue

Cheryl is hosting this week's One Layer Wednesday challenge. It's a colour challenge - Red, White and Blue.

I used my trusty old Papertrey sentiment (love that clean font!) and a masked portion of a Stampendous birthday stamp. (there's a photo of the full stamp and some cards I made with it here)

Coloured with Copics, some Stickles for sparkle and done! It  doesn't get much more CAS than that!

FFC10 - Vintage Christmas

There's one week left  (ETA - oops - deadline is on Wednesday!) to play in the current Festive Friday Theme Challenge: Vintage

Claire Brennan from Waltzingmouse Stamps is playing along as our Guest Designer, and in her honour, I pulled out my Nutcracker Sweet  set to make this simple, elegant and vintage (I hope!) card.

To make it feel vintage, I used cream rather than white card stock. Then I embossed the Nutcracker in gold and added some red rhinestones to their crowns (and now I'm getting a three kings vibe from this). They  took up most of the space in the main panel, so I decided to put the sentiment (also from this set) in front of them - I love how the placement of the sentiment makes it look like they're holding a bar with a sentiment banner on it!

We all hope that you'll be able to play along with us in this challenge - the perfect opportunity to dig out those 'classic' Christmas stamps and supplies!

Did you see that there's a 'Grand Prize' at Festive Friday? Here are the details, and they're sure to provide you with even more incentive for keeping up with your Christmas cards throughout 2013:

2013 Festive Friday Grand Prize! 

We want to give you even more incentive to stay on top of your holiday card stash, and we also want to encourage you to continue playing with us! Our last challenge will launch in the middle of November, and at that time, we will be offering a $40 Gift Certificate to one of three online shops to one lucky player who has participated in 15 or more of our challenges! Keep the images of your entries handy - you'll need them!