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Sunday, May 30, 2010

CAS challenges

I love CAS cards.  Funny thing is, sometimes they are harder to come up with than layered, embellished cards.  There are many great CAS card artists...and I thought I'd play along with two of them this weekend.  I have long been a subscriber to Simplicity and was excited when Susan decided to challenge us.  This is the first one I've had a chance to try.  The challenge was to overlap an image and a sentiment.  And did I mention it has to be a ONE layer card?  Not only are Susan's ideas wonderful, but there is a lot of great inspiration in the submissions.  Check it out!

Newer to me is the CAS-tastic challenge blog.  Their challenge this week is using a "touch" of green.  So I tried to use just a touch!  This one didn't have to be one layer, but I tried to keep it simple and uncluttered.  I wanted "waves" for the border punch...but I'm not able to find that darn Martha Stewart punch around here anywhere.  Perhaps it's discontinued?  Oh well...I will continue my quest!  (Imagine waves when you look at the scallops!)  That's a SU bordering blue - which I'm sad to see retiring! - sea on that card...I've had the darndest time getting it to show up blue-r than gray-er in photos.

OK...enough posts for this weekend.  I just don't know when I'll have another chance...and I don't want to let it go for a month again.  It's the end of the school year and baseball season is still in full swing.  (no pun intended!)  If I can carve out some rubbah time, I'll be back to share with you soon!

16 comments:

  1. I love your snowman cone card...too cute...your layout for the second card is great too!

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  2. Those are great, love both those cards, well done!

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  3. The snowman cone card is sooooo clever!

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  4. How totally cute! That snowman cone is adorable, and I love your CAS little one card, too!

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  5. LOVE the snowman! What stamp is that? I [[need]] it!! LOL!

    CAS card is fab too!

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  6. The snowman is called "snow cone". He (and his brother "with sprinkles") are from Art Gone Wild, here: http://agwstamps.com/fall-wint/fall-wint2/fall-wint2.html

    Thanks for stopping by!

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  7. Great cards, and I love your snow cone! Super-cute.

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  8. Darling snowcone!! - you forgot to mention what company the stamps are from!!! Perfect for this challenge.

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  9. ooh cute little ice cream with snow man..lovely one layer card and the card number 2 is also adorable love this LO....I just joining for the first time the challenge from Simplicity Blog too..would you mind hop to my Blog?Many thanks before, hugs, Monika

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  10. Love the snowman - such a cute sentiment!!! Thanks also for playing with us over at CAS! Your card is so sweet!

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  11. Tooo cute; love this!

    Thanks so much for joining us in this week's CAS-tastic Wednesday "Touch of Green" clean and simple color challenge!

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  12. I adore this card! That snowman image is so cool and the glitter is a great touch too!

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  13. Now that snowman is way too cute! And I think your scallops make fine waves as well. Both wonderful cards. Thank you for joining us at CAS-tastic this week!

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  14. Thanks Shannon for the info of what stamp company the ice cream snowman was from. Yes I am a TAC "angel" - have been for 7+ years and love their images. Keep me in mind if you need anything. Thanks bunches for visiting my blog.

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  15. Thanks Shanon for your comment on my Dragonfly card for man.... but I have made another one layer Dragonfly card here is my Links if you interest in to see :)

    http://creativewithmonika.blogspot.com/2010/05/dragonfly-again-ten-minutes-card.html

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Thank you for taking time to leave some thoroughly encouraging words!