CASology : Journey

Hi there!

Time to announce this week's cue card at CASology !


                                                                 



We are all on a journey in life at any given time, so let's make the best of every moment, good or bad!

A closer look:

I designed my card in the Silhouette studio.

To go with the theme of journey, I tried to create a BG that look likes a road.

My road is the letter "S" from the font 'bauhaus 93' . I stretched it to fill the card from top to bottom and side to side. I then did an internal offset, and sliced the inner part using the knife function, removing alternative pieces to create negative space which represents the road markings.

I have 2 sentiments to share, please feel free to download and use it!

(Fonts used : Meadowbrook and Caviar dreams)

(fonts used : Paprika and Signerica fat)

For more wonderful inspiration, pleas visit my teammates listed below:

Guest designer: Barb

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne 

Hazel Hodgkins

Jacquie Southas 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Sherrie Mannion 

Tracey McNeely

Sponsor this week:  Rubberdance stamps.

Thanks for visiting me today... please join our journey this week ;)

Hugs
Hannelie

The Paper Players: Western

Hi there!

We have a wonderful new challenge at The Paper Players  this week! Laurie is our hostess and she has an exciting theme challenge:

                                                            

The perfect opportunity for me to make a masculine card... however... if you visit the challenge blog you will see more inspiration from the team in a variety of styles and takes... not only masculine!

A close up of the focal point:

I think this is the first time I made a masculine card I really really like!

The background is once again from The Pixel scrapper. The cowboy hat is a free clipart image, traced in the Silhouette studio to create cutting lines.

The sentiment is my own creation using the font bleeding cowboy. Awesome font perfect for the occasion!

Final touches 3 copper brads and a piece of twine, because every cowboy needs a rope!

You are welcome to use my sentiment :

I used inspiration from 3 other challenges to create my card:

Freshly made sketches  ~ Layout

Less is more ~ white space but not white

The male room challenge ~ magic/fantasy (because in my world, a cowboy is a fantasy figure ;)


                

Thanks for visiting me today!
Have a great week.

Hannelie

FREE

Hi there!

I started off making a card for the Casology challenge... and ended up making another, using the scraps or leftovers from the first card...and now I love the card made of the scraps more than the original idea!

Here it is:

I've cut 3 layers of the butterfly... to give the dimensions an extra boost.

Below is  the planned card, which scraps I've used to make the card above.

The sentiment of the first card:

Thanks for visiting me today!

Kites rise highest...

Hi there!

I believe it was Winston Churchill who said : Kites rise highest against the wind... not with it.
How true is that in life! No personal growth is possible without some trials and tribulations!

Not always easy to understand, but all fits in... in the bigger plan!

I took some time to make Silhouette cutting files for my clear/rubber stamps. I am a hopeless case when it comes to fussy cutting... so I started thinking!

I stamped all the stamps of a set on one A4 page... scanned the images... and opened the png image in the Silhouette software programme.

I used the traced function to trace the images... then used the offset function to give that little white edge around the image... and cut! So easy!

I thought I was the first one to be so clever, but after a quick visit to you tube... I saw someone else was clever long before me... and even made a video to demonstrate that!

HERE is the link!!!

Here is my sentiment:

The challenges that inspired my card :

                                                               Freshly made sketches

and 

The play date cafe

Thanks for visiting me today!

Small acts of kindness

I don't have a card on this Sunday morning, just thought I'd share something with you... and a quote to underline my experience this morning.

My daughter who is studying in Switzerland is having trouble with her mobile phone... and except for Skype, that's our LIFELINE! So I went to the post office this morning to mail her an old one of mine... not wanting to send a brand new one , because of the risks to mail an item like that!

The guy behind the counter has such a kind heart, and he helped me in such a great way, he really made my day.  Not only is my daughter's phone not working, she's really ill, with a respiratory tract infection, and can only see a doctor tomorrow! So this mother's heart is feeling very BLUE! 6000 kilometres is very far when your child is ill... and she's only 19!

Then I went to collect the mail from the mail box... to find a bag of goodies I won from Flonzcraft!

And guess what... because I was their first customer from the UAE, they included not one... but two free gifts!

I can really recommend you visiting their site... great stamps, affordable prize and great service!

Two small acts of kindness that meant so much to me !!

That was a lot of talking from me... but this is what I am trying to say...

Thanks for reading... and as Ellen says... be kind to each other!
Love

Decide!

Hi there!

Reading lots of inspirational quotes the last few days, here's another one ... It reminds me of what my mother always tells me when I can't get started with something... all you have to do is start... begin... just do it ... try!!!!

Wishing you a great day!

2 Inspirational quotes

Hi there!

When I saw this 2 quotes on my iGoogle page yesterday, I thought it would be great to use on a card to someone who needs a bit of encouragement!

I have transformed it into word art to share with you!

Hope you can use it!

Thanks for visiting... have a fantastic day!