CFC130 Oval I Like Your Style

Good morning,

It's Friday and again over at Cas-ual Fridays a new challenge has sprung up.  I love participating in the challenges and today is no exception.  Today's challenge was to use Ovals...

Let me start by telling you since I am on the design team over at Amazing Crafting Products I pour A LOT of molds.  Currently I have one of those paper keepers, you know the ones that hold 12x12 scrapbook paper in them made by Iris?  Yeah, you know the one.  It is FULL of poured embellishments.  I have enough embellishments to start my own store.  Some are half painted, some are blank, some are finished but never applied to anything.  So when I saw the challenge today I decided to find something in my box to create with.  I really need to use what I have made and I found this:

A perfect oval.  I had poured this the other night because as I was making something and I had mixed too much resin and instead of wasting it, I just pour another mold.  That is exactly why I have this FULL box!  This piece was poured with Amazing Casting Resin mixed with Alumidust in Bright Blue.

Here is a picture of the actual mold using my Amazing Mold Putty.  

You can go here to see how you can make your own molds.

I started with dusing some Alumidust in Gold directly onto the mold and then spraying it with water.  Using your heat gun, just slightly heat it up and it's set!

Now, I wanted some bling also...I used my 3d Crystal Lacquer and glued rhinestones onto each of the peaks.

Now the big center peak is not flat so it's impossible to lay a rhinestone on it.  Back to my Alumidust, this time in Bright Blue and following the same procedure as above I created my center.

I kinda craft backwards alot.  Most everyone picks their paper, then their embellishments.  I'm the opposite; I create my embellishment and then I have to hunt for the right paper.  

I found this awesome paper in my stash from DCWV, the RockStar Mat Stack.  I knew it would be perfect for this card.

Again, still working backwards, now I needed a sentiment.  I stamped my sentiment on some bright blue card stock which matched my Alumidusted embellishment perfectly with the saying of...

I like your style.  Love how this all came together.  The stamp set is from Getting Cricky from when I was on her design team.  I still use this particular set allot.

I really do like how this clean and simple card turned out.

Adding that ribbon made it look like a belt buckle.  The perfect addition for any Rock Star.

Now, if you have looked closely I added a new addition to my craft room.

Can you see what I am talking about?

Do you know what the card is resting on?

Ha, it's a hand brush/mirror combination I found at the Dollar Tree.  I've seen so many people have these cute card holders and never knew what they were called or where you would even find one.  When I saw this at the Dollar Tree I immediately thought I could turn this into a card holder.  I might go ahead and spray paint it silver though...what do you think?

So, I hope you've enjoyed my card today and if you haven't participated or are looking for some challenges, Cas-ual Fridays is a great one to start with.

As always, have a great day and God Bless!

CFS 129 Grey

Happy Sunday all,

I am back with another challenge that I am entering over at Cas-ual Fridays.  I accidentally came upon this challenge by going through my Google Feed.  I wanted to create something for the gals that I throw darts with as an end of year "thank you".  I try to give them all something handmade each year and since next Thursday will be our last night of league until the fall this seemed to be the perfect gift.

I created four Monogram cards for each of them with a card holder and then I had a little bit of paper left over and made one smaller version.  I hate leftovers (and I am really trying to declutter my stash) and there was just enough paper to create that tiny notecard.  I used a total of 8 sheets of paper for all of this.  

The challenge is using at least two shades of gray.  I found this paper among my massive paper pile and it seemed to be just perfect.  I embossed each sheet with the Floral Fantasy embossing folder.  This paper isn't very good and it cracks when you emboss it which actually gave it that two tone I was looking for.  Adding the black and white ribbon to the center gave it enough "color" variation.  I cut all the monogram tags with my cricut, sprayed some silver smooch, inked the edges and stamped their letter with the Filigree PaperStudios Alphabets in black.  I love this stamp set!  I also added some rhinestones to the cards to give it just enough "bling".  I gotta have bling.  On the smaller notecard I added some silver/black Studio G glitter glue to give that a little bit of bling also.

The notecard holder was also cut with my cricut and a simple black ribbon attached is a perfect way to keep those notecards together.

I hope you've enjoyed my two shades of gray project and I will see you all again soon.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.