Friday, January 21, 2011

OCL CAS challenge

This is my last card today (it isn't quite midnight yet)  LOL!  Our Craft Lounge has their weekly challenge posted today.  Another new one for them!  Do a CAS card with a heart theme.  So........hearts, valentines etc. are not OCL stamps sets that I have (and I have alot of them).  So.....I went digging through the sets that I had and found only 2 that had hearts in them.  I ended up choosing 'Sunshine Cheer'. 
CAS (clean and simple) is not easy for me.  I love to use layers, and ribbons and flowers and glitter and brads and, well,,,,,you get the idea.  The thought of one layer and nothing making my card cost more to mail almost gave me hives!   Heh, heh.
The ribbon is glued on flat, no bow.  The random hearts are brads with the legs cut off and the tops glued on.  The images and sentiments are simply stamped and colored.  The embossed lines are done with an embossing board to keep the lines straight.
The inside has 'Valentine's Day' hand written.
The best part of doing a CAS card, it only took about 15 minutes to complete!

Images:  Sunshine Cheer from Our Craft Lounge
Sentiments:  Sunshine Cheer from Our Craft Lounge
Color:  Copic Markers
Ribbon:  Michaels
Brads:   My stash
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

This card will be entered in the following challenges:
Our Craft Lounge:  CAS with heart theme
Stampin' Royalty:  Anything with wings
Aly's Sunday Challenge:  Things with wings
Fresh Brewed Designs:  Spread some Love
Lexi's Creations:  Say it with Love
Bunny Zoe's Challenge: Love is in the Air 
RRR:  Hearts and ribbon
Little Red Wagon:  One Layer

8 comments:

Tammie Edgerton said...

Great idea using Sunshine Cheer, Gale! I was just thinking about this set yesterday and want to color that cute little sun again.

Kendra said...

PERFECT! You totally ROCKED it Gale! Great way to be creative without having a Valentine set. I just adore this set & you used it wonderfully. Thanks so much for playing along on the OCL Challenge this week!

Denise Marzec said...

Awwww, LOVE those little lady bugs marching across the bottom. Too cute!

Lesley said...

Too cute, I love all the little hearts! Check out my blog, you're the winner of one of my images!

Amber (bambi64) said...

You knocked this one out of the park, Gale! Great card. Thanks for playing with us over at OCL.

Heather McNally and Melissa MacDonald said...

LOVE LOVE LOVE this, Gail!!!! WOW!

Regan said...

lol...hives super cute card!!!

Bonnie Garby said...

Great CAS card! Thanks so much for joining our Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge.