A case of CASEing; part 1

To jump start my mojo, I started out by CASEing some cards that caught my attention for their simplicity. All three of the cards below are in my "browsing basket" that I take to classes and such. I've received the cards in swaps. All stamps are TAC, and so are most of the other supplies.

This first one is by Cindy Goebel. She did the purple one, I did the blue.

This next one is by Gloria Albertson. Hers is on the left and mine is on the right. I like hers LOTS better! I didn't have the right pink strip or the right color of button to make it pop.

This last one is by some creative TAC Angel, but I don't know who! I think I received it at Seminar last summer, but I'm not sure. Hers is on the left, and mine is on the right. I like her scallops better!

Thanks, ladies, for your lovely cards. CASEing really helped me get going! Watch for parts 2 and 3 in the coming days... :-)

Hello out there...

I realize I've been MIA for a few months and I have really good reasons, but you probably don't want to know about them. Let's just say that I've got lots of posts coming over the next several days (weeks?). :-)

These photos are from an altered bag contest that I offered to my Stamp-a-Stack customers back in November. They could alter their popcorn-style bag that their card supplies came in and send me a photo to enter a drawing for a free stamp set. The drawing was totally random--I just put in the names of the ladies and drew one out. Below are the photos I received (not everyone decided to play).

Marcia's bag: front and back

Jana's bag:

Connie's bag:

Cindy's bag: front and back

Thanks to all who played! It's fun to see your lovely art!

Oh, did you want to know who won? CONNIE!!!!!! (and to think I forgot to give you the stamp set at class the other evening!!!) sigh...

Can you say WOW?!?!?!?!?!?!

www.theangelcompany.net

What a Deal!

Cling not included.

Corner Bookmark

Once again I was inspired by a fellow Angel. This time it was Angie's bookmark seen here. We've never done those in class, so I figured it was the perfect "non-card" project for the evening.

Once again, we used the Scor-Pal and Scor-Bug to add texture. In class we colored with Copic Markers, but I made the sample using Tombow Markers so they could see the difference in how well Copics blend (I had samples of both). This sample uses Tombows.

Isn't that smug look on the golfball's face hilarious?!?! :-)

Color Over Technique

When I saw this card by fellow Angel Trudy, I knew I wanted to try the technique. I've seen it several times over the years, but can you believe I never tried it myself?!?!? So, after a quick consult with Trudy and the inspiration of Debra Miller's layout on page 9 of Serendipity, here's the final result. The ladies in class really liked how pretty and unusual it is, yet it is soooo easy!

We stamped in Brilliance Moonlight White on TAC's brown cardstock. We colored with Prismacolor pencils without blending anything. We just colored!

The lovely pearls are from our Gem Collection, and the beautiful paper is Maggie. Of course the great texture comes from the Scor-Pal and Scor-Bug then lightly sanding with sanding blocks. ;-)

CASEd Card

Lucky me! I got the second card in this post from Carol in the swap I mentioned in the last few posts. I really liked it a lot and wanted to CASE it for my Nestabilities class--how perfect! I just changed a few things, and voila! A card using Nesties!


Hopefully you ca see the embossed frame around the Nesties as well. I stamped the frame and THEN cut with the Nesties die. Each gal at class got a white panel with the stamping/cutting/embossing already done. It was up to them to stamp the pumpkin image.

We used watercolor crayons on the stamp, then spritzed with water before stamping. It's a great effect! Because the brown Scrapper's Floss wasn't dark enough, we colored the floss with Copics. The background leaves are stamped in Versamark.