CAS-ual Fridays Meets Craft Dash, Happy New Year

Hi friends. Today I have a card to share with you for this week's CAS-ual Fridays post. Yes, you read that right. Today CAS-ual Fridays is teaming up with the 10 Minute Craft Dash over at Pretty Pink Posh. The challenge is to create a clean and simple New Years project. If you create it in under 10 minutes, then you can also link up over at the 10 Minute Craft Dash.

 

 

Our fabulous sponsor is CAS-ual Fridays Stamps. The winner of this challenge will earn a stamp set of their choice.

  

 

To create a project in such a short time is always a huge challenge for me. To make is a bit easier this time around (hmmm, are the holidays getting stressful?) I chose to use a previous card for some sketch inspiration. 

 

I inked up Countdown from CAS-ual Fridays and colored it in with my Copics.  I honestly gave no thought to how I would color in my shapes until I tried stamping the border a second time and the bottom row didn't stamp off well. So  even though I had randomly colored in a few, it actually ended up being in a pattern. Now how lucky was that? I tied some aquamarine twine around my sentiment strip before I adhered it to the cardfront with some foam adhesive.

 

This card was completed in 8 minutes and 29 seconds. Our challenge will run for 2 weeks. I can't wait to see what you create!

10 Minute Craft Dash with DeNami Design

It's me again! I am back with my second post today to share another DeNami creation. This time I am playing along with 10 Minute Craft Dash over at Pretty Pink Posh. The challenge is to create a project in less than 10 minutes, featuring buttons. You are able to have your supplies out and ready, but you must complete your project in 10 minutes or less.

The fabulous sponsor of this week's challenge is DeNami Design. The winner will earn a $20 gift certificate.

This challenge always pushes me out of my comfort zone. Yay!!! Once I had all of my supplies out on my table, I decided that I would make a tag. I inked up Elegant Holly and fussy cut the leaves. Then I added some score tape to the bottom of the tag. I stamped my sentiment from Christmas Greetings stamp set and then sprinkled some Ruby Red glitter over the score tape. Let me just say that this glitter just rocks!!! I can confirm that you will be seeing this on some future projects. I adhered the leaves with my ATG and then I added a Ruby Red boutique button using some glossy accents.

 

 

To finish of my tag, I added some ribbon and twine. This project took me 8 min and 45 sec to complete. Now, if I had my fabric scissors and ribbon handy, this would have taken me much less time. Nonetheless, I finished my tag in under 10 minutes. Yay for me!

 

Now it's your turn to play along. Just link up over at Pretty Pink Posh to play along!

DeNami Design meets Craft Dash

Hello friends! Today I have a card to share with you for this week's 10 Minute Craft Dash over at Pretty Pink Posh. The sponsor for this challenge is DeNami Design. Several of the design team gals  and I are playing along.

 

The winner of this challenge will win a $20 gift certificate.

 





For my card, I was inspired by the challenge logo. I inked up Stitched border and Happy Birthday (cling). Then I die cut my cardstock banners, and attached them to the card front. Lastly I inked up Small Solid Hibiscus and fussy cut it. Even though I have a silhouette cut file I created, I was just too lazy to look for one that was already cut. I attached it with some foam tape. The time it took me to complete my card was 9 minutes and 39 seconds. It would've been less if I didn't have to re-score my card and re-stamp my border. Oh well. The fun part about this challenge was that I created my card alongside my 5 year old daughter, Leah. It was a riot to see us trying to share our materials across 2 different craft tables.

 



 

Leah  used the same Happy Birthday sentiment and Stitched Border. She also inked up Fairy Princess chickie, Ballerina chickie, Girl chickie, and Princess Castle and colored them in with colored pencils. She also inked up Double Note. She finished her card in 9 minutes exactly.

 

 

The 10 Minute Craft Dash is a huge challenge for me. Even though I create CAS cards, I think I tend to be a bit too analytic. Even my daughter reminds me how she can create quickly because she just goes with the flow. I love learning from her. I hope you find some time to play along this week.

DeNami meets Craft Dash

 

 

***This is my second post for the day. To see my DeNami Pin-spired post, please scroll down.***

 

The next project that I have to share with you today is for 10 minute Craft Dash over at Pretty Pink Posh. The theme for this challenge is to create a card/project using hearts in under 10 minutes. Paulina has some great tips that you can find here. I can hardly believe that this is my 3rd time participating in this challenge. It defnitely pushes me out of my comfort zone!

 

 The DeNami design team is joining in on the fun. DeNami design has offered a fabulous gift certificate to this week's winner.

 

For my card, I used Red and White cardstock. I inked up Petite Fours Heart stamp set in Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz and Sweet Blush ink and randomly stamped my hearts. I added Love You Forever for my sentiment. I trimmed my cardstock and added it to the cardbase. The total time to create this card was 5 minutes and 23 seconds. I am pretty sure it would've taken me less time if I didn't work so slowly. However, I think it may still be the quickest card I have created.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you get the chance to play along!

 

 

 

 



DeNami Celebrations and 10 Minute Craft Dash

I am popping in with 2 quick cards today. Actually these cards were designed and created by my daughter, Leah, for DeNami's Celebration challenge and 10 Minute Craft Dash.

For the DeNami Design challenge, I told her the theme was celebrations, so I offererd her my Congratulations stamp as a start. She wanted to use pink and blue, and so this card was born.

 

She used Polka Dot Elephant, Small Congratulations, Fairy Princess Chickie, Girl Chickie, and Ballerina Chickie. She colored them in with her Crayola Twistable colored pencils. Not a bad job staying within the lines for a 5 year old if I must say so myself. She did not even use my stamp-a-ma-jig. She said that she needed an even number of pink and blue elephants so that her card would have balance. I nearly fell over with laughter. She also told me that she wanted to stamp the inside of the card, so she chose a heart from petite fours Heart Stamp set.

Here is the second card that she made for 10 Minute Craft Dash which is also teaming up with CAS-ual Fridays. Although I have a bunch of CAS-ual Fridays holiday stamps, she stuck with DeNami stamps since the wood mounted stamps are much easier for her little hands to use. She still had a bit of trouble with the cling and acrylic block, but she managed to the best of her ability. I showed her all of the holiday stamps I had and she made her choice. When I told her that she was going to make a holiday card, she said that it must have baby Jesus and a present since Jesus is a present to us. Oh how I love my little girl!

She decided which stamps would have red, green, yellow and black ink and positioned them by their ink pads. I hit the stopwatch on my phone and she went crazy stamping. I gave her little updates on how much time she had left to complete her card. You can tell which Berry Vines she had left when I told her she only had 2 minutes left. Her strategy to color outside the lines to leave no vine incomplete made me laugh. She completed her card in 9 minutes and 32 seconds. Whew!

Although this card is not technically CAS, we decided to link it up to CAS-ual Fridays any way. Maybe she'll try a little harder to make it CAS next time.
 

I have so much fun when I am crafting with her. It amazes me that she can create cards so quickly.