I made another card last night - this one is for this week’s Sunday Sketch at Studio Calico. I used the Sock Hop Card Kit to make this card for a friend whose birthday is this coming weekend. This is manly, right?

Everything here was included in the kit, even the diecut shapes. I stamped the sentiment and the lines along the left edge using the stamp set that was included in the kit. I have to laugh because even with the sketch and with everything cut for me, this took me quite a bit of time - I have a new respect for all you scrapbookers out there!

Have a fun day,
Suzanne

Today’s card is for this week’s CAS-ual Fridays Challenge, which is to make a card with things that you might find in the ocean. Our sponsor this week is Stop & Scrap, who has offered a $20 gift card to this week’s winner.

I automatically thought to use Fish More from WPlus9, which is my favorite set right now, and papers from Echo Park. I diecut the striped frame using my Sending You dies from PTI, but I made it longer by cutting a strip to layer under the banner, making it look like one piece. The letters were diecut using alphabet dies from Memory Box, and the button is from American Crafts.

A perfect card to welcome the weekend, since we’re about to head out camping. What are you up to this weekend? I hope you have fun!

Look at me playing along with Waltzingmouse! Finally….YAY! I’ve been meaning to order some of their stamps for quite some time, and last night I had an idea for this week’s sketch using the Compact Family stamps…

I used A Muse Studio inks along with some washi tape, a MFT border die, Mr. Huey’s spritz, navy blue twine (from RibbonCarousel.com), and other random goodies that have been sitting in one of my crafty drawers. The arrows and the stars are stamps from two different PTI sets, but I thought they added nicely to the mix on the center panel.

I hope you like this - this was a bit of an adventure from the norm for me, but super fun nonetheless!

Happy Weekend!

I’ve got a few projects to share with you today for the latest CAS-ual Fridays Challenge. This week, we’re challenging you to make CAS masculine cards that incorporate designer paper. Our sponsor this week is Gina K. Designs…and she has given the team some of her great Casual Fridays designer paper to work with for this occasion.

For my first card above, the patterned paper made me think of rugged and industrial types of things, which is when I remembered that I have that really cute distressed wrench stamp from A Muse Studio. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to align the images in different ink colors, and added the coordinating sentiment…only to finish it off with the nut (I think that is a nut). I love how that one came out.

Next, I was inspired to emboss the paper using one of my Cuttlebug folders. A card that was designed by Dana Grothaus a few years ago is what I used for the layout inspiration of this next card…though I didn’t use any stamps on this one:

The letters were diecut from oatmeal cardstock from WPlus9 using Sizzix dies that I got from SU!. The ribbon reminded me of a measuring tape, so I deemed it manly and finished the card off with a nice knot using this ribbon from Ribbon Carousel…a bow just didn’t seem manly enough!

Lastly, I wanted to try some paper piecing with Gina’s papers, this time using different images from A Muse Studio:

I used the Vintage Labels 1 dies and stamps from A Muse to create the center panel, and paper pieced the shirt and tie from two different patterns in the set.

Did I go a little man-crazy? Thanks for stopping by! I hope you will play along in this week’s challenge. Please be sure to check out the Facebook page for the rest of this week’s CAS-ual Fridays inspiration!