CAS[E] this Sketch #347 - Retro week!



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There's nothing like looking back at cards of the past... we hope you feel that way, too, because it's RETRO WEEK, my friends!!  Chrissy's fun Sketch is from August 2015!!  Did you play??  Be sure to share the before, and after, in your post!!  Here's mine from 2015:



This past weekend, Tom and I visited our friends the Elton's, in Ohio … our guys spent a day photographing nature, and I was blessed with a full day of crafting with my sweet friend Lisa!!  SO how could I not make a 'what would Lisa do' card for this week?  I borrowed her SSS Autumn Blessings set, and she gave me a stack of GRAY card bases to play with, and shared an embossed tag - she does know me so well!  Thanks, Lisa!

Enough talk... here's my new card:

 

Thanks for stopping by … hope you have fun with this Retro Sketch!!  Let's go see what my CTS team has made for Sketch #347, shall we?

 

=]  Michele

Inspired By #97 ... blankets

It is most definitely time to bring out those Fall throws 'round my house … and who wouldn't love a stack of blankets like these in our Inspired By #97 photo inspiration?  They ALL fit my style, and color palette!  See that one on top?  It was all the inspiration I needed for my card this week!

 

A few plaid-builder sets were used to create the stamped plaid on my 'blanket' and there were a few colors used, and over-stamped' to recreate the look of that gorgeous blanket!  I'll list everything below.  All that wonderful woven texture came from embossing the panel with my fave SU ef - you know, the one I've used ad nauseum.  I also pulled out my favorite Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves dies!  Here's a bit of a closeup view:

 

The sentiment is from a new to me set from Memory Box called Grateful Autumn.  You'll see more of those very soon!

Hope you'll be Inspired By #97 … can't wait to hear how you were inspired by those gorgeous blankets!

=]  Michele

Waffle Flower Plaid Play
EBE Plaid Maker
EBE Painted Stripes
Catherine Pooler Inks:  Bellini, Twilight, and Black Jack

EBE November Release Tease Day 3

 

Your kindness was up, up, and a way too sweet yesterday … thank you!!  Today, it's all about the words -  and, if you know me well, you'll know how happy I am to have fun sentiments all ready for me in stamp form! 

EH has taken the guesswork out of the punchline, so to speak... meet: That Think You Do, and 'Tis the Season!

Full disclosure - that smiley face is mine!

and the branches are from Altenew's Leafy Canopy

 

Inside: you'll always be older than me

and, yes, that punchline IS included in the set!!! 

[Which should not make me that happy because I'm older than almost all of you!! lol]

 Can anyone else relate? HA! In hindsight, I should have made this a shaker - that could count as calorie burning movement!  The arched window was made using

Waffle Flower's Nested Domes, and the snowflakes are from the EBE Pop-up Mittens

 

Oh, do I wish I had more time - let me just say, these could be my favorites of the entire release!  but wait... oh wait until you see the treats tomorrow - please stop back?

 

=]  Michele

Second Helpings for Altenew!

With all those fun papers, and products I used yesterday still out on my desk, I thought a bit of color-blocking would be fun.  Here's the second helpings, for Altenew's Inspiration Challenge, my playtime produced...

Here's how I did it:

• I adhered three strips of appropriate colored cardstock together and cut it to an A2 card panel.
• Dotted Swirls debossing die added this fun pattern
• Classic Alphas [last year's birthday gift!] were used to cut my JOY-filled sentiment
• a fun pine bough from Focus on You was stamped in Versamark, and clear heat embossed, then die cut with the coordinating dies
• a few Red Cosmos enamel dots added a wee bit of swag to the swag. lol

Hope they like it … thanks for stopping by today!
=]  Michele

Watercoloured Poinsettia

There is so many wonderful challenges out there - you know I do have a few favorites, wink, wink.  With those in mind, yesterday I brought out one of my favorite Christmas flowers, and my Altenew 36 pan set of water colors, and just let the color flow. 

Here are my creations... the first one is heading over to the CAS Watercolour gals - they're looking for a monochromatic card... I don't know about you but I just adore pink Poinsettia - this beauty, from Altenew, will never go out of style!

Here's my recipe:

Water coloring + stamping + heat embossing +

dry embossing

 

 

Next up... same Altenew Poinsettia and die, but this one is going to Altenew's November Inspiration Challenge

 

Altenew's Dotted Swirls debossing cover die is so gorgeous - it adds just enough interest to my pale rose panel,

don't you think?  doing a bit of color mixing in the 36 Pan set allowed me to match those inspiration colors pretty easily.

 

 

 

Well.  I guess I'd better get these off to the appropriate gallery - thanks for hanging out with me twice today!  xx

=]  Michele

e.t.a.  what a wonderful way to end the CAS Season!!! 

Thank you, ladies!

 

So honored to be chosen from that gorgeous gallery of cards!

Thank you Altenew!!

 

 



EBE November 2019 Release - Day two

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by for Day Two of teases of the final release of 2019 from Ellen Hutson, LLC … your comments yesterday made my heart so happy!  Don't forget to leave a comment on each day's sneaks over at the EH Blog, for your chance to win the whole kit n caboodle! 

Today we're teasing Up in the Air, and Clouds the newest set of stand-alone dies to join the EBE line.  Ready?  Up, up, up we go....

You all know by now how much I love the neutral look of grey, right?  Today I've used a few patterned papers to create a scene.  You'll see that I stamped, and white heat-embossed the dirigible [a.k.a. Blimp =] onto my pattern paper.  I used the Clouds to make the imagination work to give it a little lift, and our EBE Big City for a skyline - all cut from the a different pattern in the same color!  The spectators in the Up in the Air set are just so fun … think that little girl reaching will be able to catch a ride?

[About those little messages?  you'll have to wait a few days - but aren't they the cahUTEST??] 

I'll be back tomorrow!  How is your Christmas card making going?

=]  Michele

25 Days of Christmas Tags

 I'm joining a few of my teamies from Ellen Hutson, LLC over at Tracey McNeely's 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2019 - her 9th season!!  Congratulations, Tracey!  My three 'French Hens' [a triple helping from EBE Good Egg stamps, and dies] are delighted to kick up their heels with a little can-can on a tag!  I've stretched the EBE Shipping Tag die to add a bit of frill with Pinkfresh Studio's Classic Edgers.

These cute little Santa hats were borrowed from their Beast Friends, btw.  And of course they wobble!!!  Why wouldn't they??  I found their hats all colored up in my Christmas snippets - what?  you don't have one?  I borrowed the Copic colored plaid idea from my teamie Ardyth!  I found just the perfect little ribbon from my stash of EH  thank you ribbons!  and OF COURSE I wrote the inside sentiment myself...

There is a prize from Ellen Hutson today just for commenting, and tag-making - and prizes galore each day from one of these generous sponsors:

Thanks, friends, for stopping by … enjoy every day of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags - and thanks, Tracey, for inviting the EH gang to tag along!

=]  Michele