ATCAS #100 - Monster

We are back with a new challenge at Addicted to CAS . This time the host of the challenge is awesome Susan and she has chosen the code word... MONSTER. A super fun Codeword to bring all those cute monsters out :)I would like to welcome our fabulous guest Mandy Ashley , you will love what she created for the challenge :)

You will win a Gift certificate from our fabulous sponsor Create A Smile Stamps

Here's my card...

This is a quick, one layer and easy card, I stamped the monster and cupcakes in a way that it looks as if he is pushing cupcakes away.Next I did some coloring using spectrum Noir markers.
I have used STAMPlorations Party Mates Set and TAWS Monster Mash Stamp set.
I am sharing this at Addcited to Stamps and More #217 - Make your Mark and Color Throwdown #416 and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes!

Our DT has come up with some amazing projects this week. Pop over to our ATCAS challenge blog here and take a peek. I am looking forward to the challenge this fortnight and am very excited to visit your blogs. 

Have fun in creating CAS card :) and thank you for visiting my blog.

STAMPlorations October 2016 Stamp Release Hop!

Today is the Release spotlight week at STAMPlorations Blog, We are showcasing each of the four sets designed by the 4 designers at STAMPlorations :)

Don't forget to join us for the hop for inspirations and to win prizes :) You can find the details HERE. 
Prizes:

• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from all comments left on the STAMP blog and designers' blogs (Days 1 to 5 posts) wins her choice of stamp set + coordinating dies from the new release
• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from all comments left on the STAMP blog and designers' blogs (Days 1 to 5 posts) wins a $20 gift certificate to the shop
• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from our Facebook page will win a $10gift certificate for herself and a $10 gift certificate for one friend she tags in her comment
• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from this post in our Instagram account will win her choice of stamp set from the new release

Just for our blog followers and October stamp spotlight week blog hop participants, from October 24-November 1: All orders of at least $12 ship free worldwide! Use code OCTSTAMPWEEK.

Here are the cards I created with each set...

Using - Power of Words

 Using - Faith Expressions

 Using - Funny Kinda Love

 Using - Faerie Door

Besides the new stamp set, I have also used Artplorations Weathered Wood Stencil, Crazy Double Running stitch Rectangle Nesting dies and one of the card gives a sneakpeek to Edge dies coming soon ;) at STAMPlorations

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :) Dont forget to comment on rest of the team and STAMPlorations blog, HERE for your chance to win.

STAMPlorations Inspiration - October 25th 2016

Welcome back to STAMPlorations Inspiration post. We the inspiration team at STAMPlorations are here to inspire you with our creations using STAMPlorations products through these weekly inspiration posts and there is more to inspiration... We'll have a monthly random drawing -- 1 commenter wins a $10 gift certificate Yay!!

Let me show you my fourth Inspiration card for October 2016...

To make this card, I stamped , colored (with Prisma Color pencils) and fuzzy cut the little girl Kathryn's Image. I did some diecutting to make a base with patterned paper and a frame with gold foil kraft paper. I then made a shaker card, adhered the sentiment diecut and Kathryn's imge on top. I have used Kathryn and Christmas stamp set Be Jolly Word die and Crazy Double running stitch Rectangle dies 

Hope you like it! Head over to STAMPlorations Blog, HERE for more inspiration :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

STAMPlorations October 2016 Stamp Release - Power of Words

The release spotlight week at STAMPlorations kicks off from today with my stamp set Power of Words, and tomorrow we will have the showcase of Shery's Faith Expressions stamp set. At STAMPlorations Blog, we are showcasing my newest stamp set released under my stamp line Dee's Artsy Impressions  I am super excited to showcase this set... this time my focus was on some popular phrases :)

To add to the phrases I illustrated some images that were incorporated into the sentiments :) This set is a fun collection of sentiments that can be used for various occasions and it will also allow you to create beautiful backgrounds to pair with the sentiments :) You can also use these with various other stamp sets :)

Here are the cards I created with this set...  I created a watercolored scene on the first and a watercolor background n the other. The background on the second card was created using salt on watercolor.

Besides the new stamp set, I have also used Tree Silhouettes, Crazy Double Running stitch Rectangle Nesting dies 

Hope you enjoyed these creations,  Don't forget to join us tmrw for Shery's stamp set reveal and done forget to comment to win :) You can find the details HERE. 

Prizes:

• 1 winner of a $20 gift certificate
• 1 winner of her choice of 1 new stamp set

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

STAMPlorations Special Release - Kathryn Loves Christmas!!

Today we are doing another Special Stamp Release Blog Hop at STAMPlorations. It is even more special to me because another one of my stamp set is being released. This set is another one in my Kathryn series "Kathryn And Christmas". this set has little Kathryn as the focus with many Christmas images, you can mix these images to create fun and a variety in your projects.

We are doing a mini Blog Hop to showcase the versatility of this stamp. You are welcome to hop along and leave comments on STAMPlorations blog and all the Design Team blogs for your chance to win this set. The Winner will be drawn randomly from comments made on all the blogs. The commenting closes on October 21st.

Here is a preview into the set Kathryn And Christmas

Let me show you the cards I created with this set... 

I did the first card with watercoloring creating a night sky with snowfall and he second card in traditional Chritmas colors. Here I did Prisma color pencil coloringcombined with patterned paper and partial diecutting of the word die :)

Hope you enjoyed the cards I designed., there will be more designs coming soon and I would love to know how you like this set :) Also, until October 26th, Kathryn Loves Christmas is available at 10% off ($10.80 instead of $12), Click HERE

Please click HERE to find all the stops in the hop for your chance to win this set.

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

STAMPlorations Inspiration - October 18th 2016

Welcome back to STAMPlorations Inspiration post. We the inspiration team at STAMPlorations are here to inspire you with our creations using STAMPlorations products through these weekly inspiration posts and there is more to inspiration... We'll have a monthly random drawing -- 1 commenter wins a $10 gift certificate Yay!!

Let me show you my thirdInspiration card for October 2016...

To make this card, I stamped ans paper pieced the candles, I also diecut patterned paper rectangles and made the background the way you see it. To finisht he card I stamped, colored and diecut little girl's image and stamped the sentiment. I have used Kathryn's Big Wishes stamp set and coordinating dies, Dear Lizzy - Fine and Dandy 6x6 paper pad, Prisma Color Pencils and SSS Double stitched Rectangle dies.

Hope you like it! Head over to STAMPlorations Blog, HERE for more inspiration :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

ATCAS #99 - Coffee

We are back with a new challenge at Addicted to CAS . This time the host of the challenge is awesome Carolyn and she has chosen the code word... COFFEE Yay! Because I have new coffee set that I get to play with plus coffee is really hot in the crafting community :)I would like to welcome our fabulous guest Hazel Hodgkins her CAS style will make you fall in love with her cards :) you will love what she created for the challenge :)

You will win a Gift certificate from our fabulous sponsor STAMPlorations

Here's my card...

This is a quick and easy card, and inspired by the amazing photo from Inspired by little things challenge. Though I wont be able to play along with the challenge, yet inspiration was totally worth it For two reasons one the inspiring photo and two my very amazing friend is featured there Barb :) who is also our teamie. She is one wonderful person you will ever know :) So the background was done with my scoring board and focal cups were stamped and colored with Spectrum Noir Markers :)
I have used Coffee Happy Set
Here is a closeup...

Our DT has come up with some amazing projects this week. Pop over to our ATCAS challenge blog here and take a peek. I am looking forward to the challenge this fortnight and am very excited to visit your blogs. 

Have fun in creating CAS card :) and thank you for visiting my blog.

STAMPlorations Inspiration - October 11th 2016

Welcome back to STAMPlorations Inspiration post. We the inspiration team at STAMPlorations are here to inspire you with our creations using STAMPlorations products through these weekly inspiration posts and there is more to inspiration... We'll have a monthly random drawing -- 1 commenter wins a $10 gift certificate Yay!!

This inspirations post is even more special as it is our 100th post and there will be Special Drawing, we'll draw one winner from all comments left on this post and the designer blogs to receive her choice of 4x6 stamp set featured in today's projects.

Let me show you my second Inspiration card for October 2016...

To make this card, I took a watercolor cardstock and did partial diecutting with smile word die. Next I stamped the flowers and watercolored those. once it was all dried, I also did some text stamping in the background. I then adhered this panel on the card base that already had a patterned paper stuck to it with some foam tape. that finishes my card :) I have used Smile stamp set, Mixed Media Elements and Smile Word die. I did the coloring with Gansai Tambi Watercolors :)

Hope you like it! Head over to STAMPlorations Blog, HERE for more inspiration :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

Fall is here!

Hi Friends! I finally got sometime to create a card just for fun. It's late in the night and both my son and DH are fast asleep and me being a typical card maker with a card design idea right there... couldn't just sleep over it ;)

My dear friends Loll and Bonnie have started a new challenge CAS Watercolor and there very first challenge is Autumn. Watercolor challenge... I had to play along and this kicked in the idea. Thank you so much ladies for starting this challenge, this is going to be my favorite for sure :)

So let me show you my card, it is simple noline watercoloring of a maple leaf(from Inkadinkadoo) on a one layer card :) Sentiment is from Stamplorations Noteworthy set

The colors I chose are inspired by the leaves from the tree right outside my house. Sadly they never get the typical vibrant fall colors, instead the leaves start turning brown. But I guess they have their own beauty and I made an attempt to capture it :)

Here is a closeup...

I am sharing this at CAS watercolor October challenge - Autumn, Virginia's View #24 - Focal Point, Addicted to Stamps and More #214 - Clean nad Simple and Simon Says Wednesday challenge

  

Hope you like it, thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

STAMPlorations Spotlight - Create Prisma Art!

Hello friends! Today I am up with a spotlight project over at the STAMPlorations blog. This is my 41st spotlight feature and I hope I will be able to inspire you.   Lately, I have been seeing a lot of my FB friends posting their Profile pictures with Prisma effect, which is an app that transforms your photos into works of art. Taking cue from that I decided to create my Prisma Art Card :)

Here is what I created...

 and here is another look of the same card with some vintage effect ;) which I tend to like more... what do you think???

I have used Born to Roam, the April 2016 Stamp Club set and Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies

   
  

  

Please head over to STAMPlorations Blog for a photo tutorial on this. click HERE. Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

CUTplorations October 2016 Challenge!

Today I am here to share the very new segment at STAMPlorations :) As of today we are starting a monthly "CUTplorations challenge" with a focus on dies. This is going to be so much fun :) the fun part of it is the Photo inspiration. Our Teamie Maria will bring to you some fabulous photos every month to inspire your creative side :)

I hope you will play along with us.All you have to do is create a project based on the inspiration photo and using die cut(s). You must use at least one STAMPlorations/CUTplorations product (there's always the free digi stamp from the Never Ending Challenge). Then link up to the gallery which will be open until 11:55 PM PST on the last day of the month. You must also share the challenge graphic and link to the CUTplorations post in your blog posts.

The DT will select three top picks from the gallery to receive a winner's badge and one random winner will receive her pick of any two of the CUTplorations word dies used by the DT in today's post. Sounds like fun and rewarding. You can link as many times as you want.

This months Photo is superb! I had so much fun with this new challenge.

Here is the card, I created inspired by this photo :)

Pretty simple card, I diecut the base rectangle in white and the smaller in black. I then diecut the word on black and decided to use the negative. On the white panel, I did inking by masking off diagonally with post it notes. Finally I added the pieces together to finish my card.

I have used Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies, Smile Word die and Smile Stamp set. Distress inks - Barn door, Mustard seed and Peacock feathers.

I am sharing this at Addicted to Stamps and more #214 - Clean and Simple, Virginia's View challenge #24 - Focal Point, Inkspirational #118 - Glamour and Stamping Royalty #384 - Anything Goes!

  

I hope you like it and will play along with us, For more inspiration and details on the challenge, click HERE.

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment.

STAMPlorations Inspiration - October 4th 2016

Welcome back to STAMPlorations Inspiration post. We the inspiration team at STAMPlorations are here to inspire you with our creations using STAMPlorations products through these weekly inspiration posts and there is more to inspiration... We'll have a monthly random drawing -- 1 commenter wins a $10 gift certificate Yay!!

Let me show you my first Inspiration card for October 2016...

To make this card, I stamped the anchor in a very light distress ink, using that as a guideline I added the masking fluid and let it dry. Once dried, I watercolored the base and splattered some blue pigment :) when watercolor was dry, I removed the masking fluid, then I stamped the sentiment and added a few diecut hearts from my stash and layered this panel on patterned paper.  I have used Anchored stamp set.

I am sharing this at AAA Cards #74 - Masking, 613 Avenue Create #190 - Anything Goes and Great Impressions October challenge - Anything Goes!  

 

Hope you like it! Head over to STAMPlorations Blog, HERE for more inspiration :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

ATCAS #98 - Watercolor

We are back with a new challenge at Addicted to CAS . This time the host of the challenge is awesome Anja and she has chosen the code word... WATERCOLOR Yay! If you know me then you know how much I love watercoloring :). I would like to welcome our fabulous guest Maria Fischer I am always blown away by her trendy, one of kind style :) you will love what she created for the challenge :)

You will win a Gift certificate from our fabulous sponsor Happy Little Stampers

Here's my card...

This is a quick and easy card, I watercolored the background, stamped the sentiment and added the hearts inked in pink :)

The supplies I have used are CAS-ual Friday's Stamp - Mwah , the second half of the sentiment is from TAWS set and CAS-ual Friday's Fun Fetti Fri-dies,Shuffle Fri-dies and Koi Watercolors.

Our DT has come up with some amazing projects this week. Pop over to our ATCAS challenge blog here and take a peek. I am looking forward to the challenge this fortnight and am very excited to visit your blogs. 

Have fun in creating CAS card :) and thank you for visiting my blog.