All Wrapped up

LOL..... I'm sorry!! I couldn't resist.  Maybe it's my sick sense of humour... not too sure!!! I've had a busy couple of weeks but I had some down time today so I decided I wanted to play just for the sake of it.  And what better excuse but to make cards on World Card Making Day.  Laundry? What laundry? LOL...

The Ribbon Carousel is sponsoring CAS-ual Friday this week so I decided I wanted to incorporate their challenge into my card. Their challenge is to get loopy with ribbon!!! You know I love my ribbon so that was easy!!!  I've used some Ivory Lace ribbon and some Black Jute/Burlap twine on my card.  I made a loopy bow using some of the ribbon as well as a button to hold it in place.

I loved this week's TESC sketch so I decided I wanted to incorporate that as well... yes... I took a liberty or two but isn't a sketch a starting off point?  Let's just go with that and we'll keep it a secret... no one needs to know right? LOL. I've always enjoyed the Stella line from Stamping Bella and this Tangled Stella is no exception.  I've watercolored the image with my Tombow markers and then added a sentiment from the TSG Set, Hauntingly Delightful (which is unfortunately out of stock right now - sorry!!) .  I couldn't resist... the sentiment and image just go together so well. 

Have a great day!!!

Happy Birthday Jessica!!

Hey there!!!  I'm so excited about today's blog hop in honour of our fearless leader at There She Goes, Jessica!!! It's her birthday (well actually it's on the 24th but with the TSG sneak peeks starting tomorrow), so we wanted her to have a day all to herself with past and present Trendsetters as well as some of our fabulous customers.  I'm the first stop on the hop today so grab your coffee and maybe a bit of birthday cake or how about a cupcake and enjoy the eye candy for Jessica!!! 

I had an absolute blast making my card today using the set called "Make A Wish.  The fabulous cupcake was watercolored with Tombow Markers, paper pieced the liner and then added Mini Micro beads to the icing and a bit of Fruit Punch Stickles.  I've used this week's Fall to Layout and considering I'm becoming hooked with CAS cards, I decided to use this week's CAS-ual Friday challenge of using Bling. 

I've had the honour of getting to know Jessica through TSG and we've gotten together a couple of times with some of the other Trendsetters.  Jessica is one of the nicest and funniest people I know and I'm thrilled that I can call her my friend.  Love ya Jessica!!!! Happy Birthday!!!!  Your card will be in the mail as soon as Canada Post decides whether to go on strike or not. 

Your next stop on the hop today is Anita, one of our fab customers at There She Goes.

I've included the list of participants today so if there is a break in the hop, you'll know where to head next. 

Angela <--- You are here!!
Anita
Ann
Corinna
Crafty Math Chick 
Danielle
Heather
Holly
Iwona
Jackie R.
Jessie
Jodi
Joy & Polo
Judy
Julie
Katie
Laurel
Lisa
Makiko
Michele
Piali
Sandra
Tammy
Theresa,
and last, but certainly not least, TSG's master of Whimsy: Torico

Thank you all for helping us celebrate Jessica's Birthday!  Make sure you give the birthday girl a little love on her blog too.

CAS Twine meets Inspiration...

Wow!! Its three weeks already! Last week at the Ribbon Carousel Challenge, we asked you to add on the layers with your shabby chic creations and this week, you’re going simple, Clean and Simple that is. Clean and Simple is all about the design – having white space but that doesn’t mean you can’t fancy it up with ribbon!

For my card today, I've decided to use this week's Fall to Layout sketch which perfectly with the TSG set "Bug Me Anytime" that I've watercolored with Tombow Markers and then added Diamond Stickles to the edge of the dragonfly's wings. Because I've had so little time this last week I decided to combine the TSG challenge with the Ribbon Carousel Challenge.(I'm normally done my DT cards a few days early and today, I'm writing up this post just a couple of hours before the post goes live) - can you tell I've been busy?    This week's TSG challenge is an inspiration piece (see pic below).  I loved the colors in the inspiration pic so I tried to find some DP that had the same colours and decided to use the My Mind's Eye DP from the Happy go Lucky line.  Love it!!!  With the new "CAS-ual Friday" challenge blog, I knew I wanted to participate and use their challenge this week which is using Buttons and Twine. Easy peasy considering one of our requirements of the Ribbon Carousel Challenge is to use anything that comes on a spool... And I love my Baker's Twine... A little birdie has told me that tons of ribbon will be added to the Ribbon Carousel website any day now.  WAHOO!!!

 

*** Please remember that your creation must have ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine, lace (basically anything that comes on a spool) to qualify to become a "TOP SPOOL" at The Ribbon Carousel Challenge.  If you are uploading to any online gallery, use the keyword RCC3 so that we can find your project.