…the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them

Sharing another CAS thank you card for another colleague.

This one features one of the sentiments from the Oriental Orchid set by Altenew, which I’ve embossed in white.  I’ve also added in some embossed stars created from one of Finnabair’s stencils by Prima, aptly named Stars.  I used a stencil to make my stars so I could play along in the current challenge at AAA Cards.

My card follows the sketch at CAS Colours and Sketches, the only change I made was to add the sentiment.  Well, I think my placement of my stars is about right!  Some of them look a bit wonky too, didn’t have the best of applicators going but I need this for the morning and it’s getting a bit late here so no time to go hunting for the right tools.

I went with a starry theme from the picture inspiration at Fusion.  I was going to make a background but I’ve no idea what I’ve done with my Yupo so an alcohol ink one was out.  I tried one on watercolour paper but it just grabbed all the embossing powder even after I primed it with an anti-static tool.  Luckily a quick search in my paper bins turned up a cute set from Gorjuss and this night sky looking paper.  Bonus, the strip I trimmed off perfectly contains the Gorjuss girl image and is just about right for a bookmark, which might be tomorrow’s project.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Prima Finnabair Stencil ~ Stars

Inks & Paints etc

Hero Arts ~ Unicorn White

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Docrafts Santoro 6x6 Paper Pack ~ Gorjuss

Stamps

Altenew ~ Orienta lOrchid

Challenges

 

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… and a cloud in my heart

Sharing a CAS card featuring the Glamorous die from Penny Black and sentiments from Altenew and Lawn Fawn.

I’ve made this card for a colleague who is leaving work who was always helpful and will be missed by pretty much everyone.  For that reason, I combined both a farewell and thank you sentiment, teaming the lovely scripty ‘thank you’ from Altenew’s Oriental Orchid set with the smaller and plainer ‘miss you already’ from Lawn Fawn’s Plane and Simple set.  I embossed both in gold for a touch of added class to my card.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I made the top set of elements smaller to add some interest to my card and swapped out the main circular elements for the flower die cuts.  Instead of one smaller circular element on either side I used varying sizes of rhinestones for a touch of bling.  I die cut my flowers from watercolour paper and inked with Distress Inks, love the soft watercolour effect this produced.

Over at Crafty Friends they want you to add a sentiment to your project and mine is front and centre of my card.  I really wanted the sentiment to be the main focus, hence shrinking down the other elements to accent rather than dominate my card.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale Regular

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Penny Black Dies ~ 51-117 Glamorous

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Rhinestones ~ Soft Pink

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing, Spun Sugar, Twisted Citron & Worn Lipstick

Papers

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Cotton Candy

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Watercolor

Stamps

Altenew ~ Oriental Orchid

Lawn Fawn ~ LF1409 Plane and Simple

Challenges

Crafty Friends #71 ~ Add a sentiment

Freshly Made Sketches #313 ~ A Sketch by Karren

TGIF #134 ~ Theme Week: Gratitude

 

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