FRIENDS !

Hi there!

I think the TV series FRIENDS is a favorite among so many people, young & old. Our local cable TV provider is having a FRIENDS marathon at the moment, showing all episodes... again! I've been watching some of the episodes with my daughter, who is a FRIENDS expert. You can ask her anything about any character 😄. So what is all this FRIENDS talk about, you may ask ... my card for today, of course!

Inspired by the logo and the lyrics of the theme song, I made this card using:

• Font called DK More or Less to cut the words
• Silhouette cameo
• Small circle punch 
• Black & white, red, yellow and blue card stock
• Glue pen

Tip: Use the cutout and layer it over your card to get you text spaced correctly and straight. A very effective method to get professional results !

Sharing my card at :

Time out challenges  ~ Inspired by the word 'friend' from the provided phrase

Addicted to CAS ~ Friend

Lift challenge ~ Use a black card base inspired by the example card

Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge ~ Clean & Simple

          

Thanks for visiting me today!

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Hannelie

CASology : Education

Hi there!

It's that time of the year (in the northern hemisphere) ... the start of a new school year !

With this in mind ,  CASology bring you the following cue card this week :

                                                                

... but remember... the cue is always open to your take on it... so show us your interpretation!

Here's mine:

A closer look:

 ... and the supplies:

Cutting file from :  Apex Cuttables.

For Silhouette users, I have this useful tip:

When using a cutting file which wasn't necessarily designed to be used on the small scale like that of a card, you have to make some changes. In this case I selected the parts that were too small to cut, selected the black fill option, and printed it instead of cutting it.

For this reason, I printed the sentiment, the glasses, string of the teabag, and the mouth of the teacup.

After that you are ready to  assemble your card, and add the finishing touches.

I used distress inks to add color to my die cuts, because everything were cut from white card stock.

After applying the distress ink, I added interest to the books by tone on tone stamping using background stamps from Kaisercraft & Stamperia.

Googly eyes for the fun!


Looking for more inspiration? Just click the links listed below 👇

Guest designer: Shona

Anna Uhras

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet 

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Judy Marino

Kymona Tracey

Melissa Chipperfield

Rachel Bergfeld 

Sherrie Mannion

Thanks for visiting me today!

Hope to see your card in the gallery this week :)

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Hannelie

A little note to say...

Hi there!

I hope you are doing great on this beautiful Wednesday!

I have a card to share with you which was inspired by 3 challenges:

A close up to show the dry embossing on the butterfly wings :

The background panel was stamped with the TIN ROOF  stamp by CASual Friday stamps.

The sentiment is also from CASual Fridays, PRETTY POSIES set.

I colored it with turquoise & lilac Promarkers for the Less is more color challenge and dry embossed the Vellum Butterfly (Silhouette cut) with the Celebrate embossing folder from Couture creations for the CAS challenge at Happy little stampers and the CAS challenge at Addicted to stamps challenge.

A little tip when you dry emboss vellum: Vellum tends to tear or crack when you emboss it, so I used a piece of lightweight card stock, folded in half, and placed the vellum inside the folder before running it through my big shot. You still get a good impression, without tearing and you also end up with a spare piece of embossed card stock!


            

Thanks for visiting me today!

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Hannelie

Fun with geometric shapes

Hi there!

What do you need to create a card in a jiffy ? Inspiration wise I mean. Not supply wise ;)

1) A theme and or technique.

2) A layout or sketch

3) A color combination

I find that when I have those 3 things in place, a card comes together really easy !

I LOVE playing with geometric shapes.

For my background I played with repeating octagons. I love the little square that forms (negative space) where 4 octagons meet! I just couldn't resist adding a square gem to 3 of them.

This type of background can easily be created in the Silhouette Studio!

For my focal point I layered 3 octagons (Spellbinder dies) with foam tape to create a graphic 'rose' .
The leaves are part of the daisy die set from My Favorite Things.

Hello sentiment cut with my Silhouette (Miss Kate Cuttables)

Challenge inspiration :


Inkspirational challenges ~ Theme (Geometric)

Color throwdown  ~ Hot pink, teal, black and white

Freshly made sketches  ~ Layout



                      


Thanks for visiting me today!

Hannelie

CASology : Distress

Hi there!

It's time for a new challenge at CASology !

The cue this week is :


                                                           

Hmmm not something you see me doing too often (that's on a card ;) Stress I do from time to time, but distressing... not so much!

So with my thinking cap on, my mind wandered to distressed jeans... and a damsel daisy in distress, and a card was born!

Although I seldom use any distress techniques on my cards, I was surprised to see what an easy way it is to add texture to a design!

To create the distressed looking pocket, I just folded a piece of lightweight card stock a couple of times, gave it a light scrunch, opened it and smeared it lightly with faded jeans distress ink.

I framed it with a silhouette cut 'frame' cut from denim patterned paper.

Added my favorite pink daisy and some silver glittered 'rivets'.

Finished off the card with an older sentiment you can find here.

For more awesome inspiration, just click the links below to visit my friendly teammates!

Guest designer : Annie

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Deidre Payne 
Hazel Hodgkins
Jacquie Southas 
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Sherrie Mannion 
Tracey McNeely

Sponsor: Lawn Fawn

The team at Less is more wants to see some added texture this week, so I am heading over to join Chrissie and the girls with my textured distress jeans card ;)

Thanks for visiting me today

Hannelie

Casology : Owl

Hi there!

I think you are going to have so much fun with this week's cue card at CASology  ... here it is...

                                                        

My take:

And a closer look...

For interest, and to keep the design clean... I used only a couple of characteristic elements to create my owl focal point. A punny sentiment to complete the design :

Looking for more inspiration... please click the links below to visit my talented team mates!

Ardyth Percy - Robb

Hazel Hodgkins
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kimberly Wiener
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield

Ren
Tracey McNeely 

Sponsor :  Concord & 9th


Thanks for visiting me today!

Casology : Pretty

Hi there!

The cue card this week is actually so easy, because we all make pretty cards!

How will you interpret this week's challenge ?

See... pretty easy!!!
               
                                                       


My take on the challenge:

And a second take...

For my first card, I stamped the sentiment from the "Truth is" stamp set by Casual Fridays 4 times to create a background for my smaller focal point.

For the second card, I used a larger cropped version of the same silhouette, but to keep it CAS, I toned down the sentiment by stamping it once only in the upper left corner.

2 cards to show the effect of scale on a CAS card. Do you have a favorite? I would love to hear your opinion!

For more inspiration please visit my talented team mates!

Guest designer: Claire

Ardyth Percy - Robb

Hazel Hodgkins
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kimberly Wiener
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Ren
Tracey McNeely 

Sponsor: Uniko studio

Thanks for visiting me today!

CASology : Vehicle... and happy birthday Tracey!

Hi there !

I am here to share this week's card for the newest cue at Casology ! No... wait a moment... before I announce the cue card... I just want to thank everyone who came to visit my craft space over the week end!

You were all so kind! As expected, most of you were surprised about my limited supplies, some even shocked, and to some a revelation that you can create without lots of supplies ;)

But one thing is sure... you all LOVED my dear spaniel Sugar! I agree, he is the best part of my craft space!

Ok... now we can get to the cue card this week :


                                                         

 
 I had this card in my head for such a long time, so this was the perfect opportunity to get it out there :

As my post title mentioned... we have a birthday in the Casology house today!

Blog friend and team mate Tracey celebrates her birthday today, so this one is for you Tracey! Enjoy your special day, and may you blessed above and beyond all expectations!

My card once again features a cutting file turned to a digital stamp. That's the bicycle and the balloon strings. Just so delicate to cut those, so I used the fill option, and printed the black elements instead of cutting them. I added the Silhouette cut bow and balloons in bright colored card stock, and popped the turquoise balloon up with faom tape. Metal embellishments on the wheels of the bicycle and my own digital sentiment finish off the card.

Looking for more inspiration... click the links below to visit my team mates.

A special welcome to Ren, who is our new team mate and joins us today for the first time! You will LOVE her fabulous inspiration!

Guest designer: Susan

Ardyth Percy - Robb

Hazel Hodgkins
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kimberly Wiener
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Ren
Tracey McNeely 

Our sponsor this week: Cindy B designs

Just in case you would like to use the sentiment... here it is:

Thanks for visiting me today!
Hope to see you play along this week ;)

Case this sketch #147

Hi there!

It's Thursday... that means there's a new sketch for you to try at Case this sketch !

Here's my take on N@Ali's sketch:

Just like this card, the poppy image I used can be found in the Silhouette on line store, as a cutting file. But... once again, when used on the scale suitable for a card, there's just too much small detail to make a proper clean cut. This time I picked the solid (black) fill option, printed the image and applied an offset cutting line to cut out the poppies. After cutting it out, I gave it subtle color with my promarkers, and dimension by adhering foam tape to the back.

The sentiment is from Miss Kate cuttables. I used it as a digital stamp, the same way as I described for the poppies.

I am adding my link to the current Fusion card challenge, using the inspiration photo. Also adding my link to the anything goes challenge at Simon says stamp.


                                



I can't wait to see what you create with the sketch this week!

Thanks for visiting me today :)

believe

Hi there!

I hope you are all doing great on this beautiful Wednesday!

I have a card to share inspired by the sketch at Less is more .

The moment I saw this cutting file ( Design ID #96969 ) in the Silhouette store, I fell in love with it! Yes you read it right the first time, it IS a cutting file! But I soon realised after downloading it, that there's a lot of small detail for the scale on which I want to use it (that is for card making of course )

So what to do...

I decided to use the fill option in my Silhouette programme, followed by the print and cut function. Instead of cutting it after printing, I replaced the blade with a Silhouette sketch pen, and created the colored outline for visual interest and to make it pop!

I love the effect of the outline sentiment when you use the sketch pens!

I added 3 enamel dots to finish off the card.

This is the sketch:

                                                       


Thanks for visiting me today!

Casology : heart

Hi there !

I am here to share this week's card for the newest cue at Casology !

                                     
                                                                  

So many possibilities with this one!!!

By now you know I love playing with shapes... and negative space... and this is the result!

The flamingo is a cutting file from the Silhouette store.
Sentiment my own, computer generated.

I had a question from Anne R last week asking about placement of digital stamps. Anne, I hope you read this because I couldn't find a contact e-mail for you. There is a link in my side bar on how I place my sentiments on the exact spot on the card where I want it.

Also a question about the white on black sentiments... All you have to do is open the sentiment in the programme PAINT, (you might have a more sophisticated programme, but PAINT works well!) Select the area (rectangular selection) , right click and select 'invert colors' .

A quick and easy way to create a white on black sentiment!

Looking for more inspiration... click the links below to be wowed by my team mates!

Guest designer: Anita

Ardyth Percy - Robb

Hazel Hodgkins
Jen Wills
Joyce Mehrberg
Judy Marino
Kimberly Wiener
Kymona Tracey
Melissa Chipperfield
Tracey McNeely 

Sponsored by: So Suzy stamps this week !


Thanks for visiting me today... hope to see you play along ♥