Happy Little Stampers October CASE Challenge

Hi everyone! I hope you are well and had plenty of time to get your mojo working in your craft room. 

Today is the start of a new month of challenges over at Happy Little Stampers! The 1st of the month kicks off our CASE challenge.

We are CASEing Birgit this month.

Here is Birgit's card -

I love Birgit's vintage look. My inspiration came from the colour of the bird, the die cut behind the bird, and the embossed sentiment.

Here is my card -

To create my background, I smooshed yellow and orange brushos together onto watercolour paper. The die cut is from Sizzix and a fabulous one! I was lucky enough to get this at the HLS Craft Retreat earlier this year. I embossed the sentiment from the HLS Thinking of You set with WOW embossing powder.

I would like to enter my card into these fabulous challenges -

Cute Card Thursday - CAS

Make My Monday - No patterned paper

I hope you will join us over at Happy Little Stampers for our challenge. Don't forget we have 5 monthly challenges for you and we also have a DT call right now!

Here is the HLS stamp set that I have used today 

See you over at the challenge blog!

HLS September CASE Challenge

Hello! Happy 1st of the month. We have a brand new set of challenges starting today over at Happy Little Stampers. I hope you will play along.

First up is our

This month we are CASEing the super talented Asa. She has created a gorgeous CAS card for us to take inspiration from.

Here is my CASE -

The butterfly die is a newbie that I got from the HLS Craft Retreat. I decided to layer a large and small butterfly together. They have been die cut from Brusho panels.

Here is a close up of the layers -

I used the Everyday Sentiment sent from Happy Little Stampers to coincide Asa's sentiment. 

I hope you will play along this month - there is always the chance to win!

Thanks for popping in today - see you on the 3rd when we kick off our CAS challenge :)

HLS July CASE the Designer

Hello! Wow, it is the 1st of July. Time for a brand new month of challenges at Happy Little Stampers. 

We kick off July with our CASE the Designer challenge. This month we have the amazingly talented Carol as our designer. I had so much fun CASEing Carol's gorgeous card.

    

Here is my card -

I thought Carol's card was adorable with the aperture she created. While making mine I had a bit of a light bulb moment and went with making a shaker card.

I also wanted to create the punny sentiment like Carol did. 

Here is a close up off all the cute shaker elements.

I used the set by Happy Little Stampers called Birthday Friends. The small 'Happy Birthday' is from the Fun Birthday Sentiments set. Perfect for mixing up with other sets.


    


We can't wait to see what you come up when you enter this challenge.




See you there!

HLS June CASE the Designer

Hi everyone!

It's so good to be blogging again. I have been so busy with the house move and just life in general that it has taken most of my time and my mojo with it.

Today starts a new challenge over at Happy Little Stampers. We have a brand new designer to CASE!

We are CASEing Rahmat this month!

and here is my card -

I have heat embossed my entire card! I don't do that very often. 

The circles from the Mix Mash set were heat embossed in white and then the circle outlines in silver.

I used Distress Ink to create an ombre effect over my panel.

I heat embossed the flower from the Doodled Flowers set and fussy cut it out. The leaves and sentiment were also heat embossed. I used vellum for these elements.

The last step was to add a glitter enamel dot in the center of the flower.

Using Rahmat's card as true inspiration I really only changed a few bits and pieces of my card.  Thanks for the inspiration!!

I hope you will join us over at Happy Little Stampers. 

Here are the products I used on my card -

 

See you there!

Happy Little Stampers - CASE the Designer

Hi everyone! Welcome back. 

We have a brand new challenge starting over at Happy Little Stampers. As you know, on the first of each month we kick off with our

CASE the Designer challenge.

This month is even more special as we are celebrating our 1st birthday! There are lots of prizes to be won this month. All you have to do is play along for your chance to win.

This month we are CASEing Joyce!

Here is her card -

I love the design that Joyce created!

Here is my CASE -

I simply die cut a panel and temporarily adhered it to my card base. I stamped the images making sure I went off the edge of the small die cut panel. Once I had finished stamping, I removed the smaller panel and coloured in the flowers using glitter gel pens. I replaced the panel using foam tape to add dimension.

This set is the new one from HLS called Doodled Flowers.

This challenge is sponsored by

Check out the challenge blog for all the details.

See you over there :)

HLS CASE the Designer Challenge

Hi everyone. I can't believe it is March already!

This is a scheduled post for me as I am cruising around the South Pacific. I will check in when I get back with some photos :)

At Happy Little Stampers today is the day we kick off our

  

Kim Heggins came up with this amazing card using inlaid dies for us to CASE.

  

Here is my CASE of Kim's card -

I had to change up my layout to work with the dies I have in my stash but I love how it turned out. 

I've used Glitter paper for my negative cuts and stamped the sentiment (Fun Birthday Sentiments) in black. 

Here is another card I made because I was having fun with this technique.

I made the background for my inlaid dies by drawing with gelatos onto paper to create a rainbow, spraying it wit a gloss sealer and then die cutting my bits and pieces.

HLS Products used -

I hope you pop on over to the Happy Little Stampers blog to see the amazing inspiration by the Design Team. 

Thanks for popping in :)

HLS - February CASE the Designer Challenge

Hi everyone! The Happy Little Stampers February CASE challenge is now live.

This month we are CASEing

SHONA CHAMBERS

Shona is a brand new teamie over at HLS. Welcome to the team!!!

Here is my CASE

I really loved Shona's use of masking to create her card. The colours were also very cool.

I masked off the circle and used the Mix Mash set to create my background. I decided to use sentiments within the circle.

Once I had finished my stamping, I used the die that I used to create my mask to outline my circle with a black pen.

One layer and very dramatic!

If you play along at Happy Little Stampers throughout the month, you have a chance to win a prize from the shop!

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenge -

Mod Squad Challenges - Masculine Birthday

Thanks for stopping by :)

HLS CASE the Designer

Hello! Happy New Year!

It's exciting times at Happy Little Stampers: the New Year has made way for a new challenge. Instead of our monthly sketch challenge, we have decided to go with CASEing one of our designers each month.

This month the designer is.... ME!

To create this card, I used Brushos on Glossy cardstock. I have a video tutorial for this technique below. The pink splatters were created by smearing Distress Ink onto my craft mat, picking it up with a wet brush and flicking it onto the panel.

I used the HLS Thinking of You set for my sentiment. I placed the butterfly right on top of the words thinking he looked right at home :)

The Design Team have all CASED my card over at the blog so if you are stuck for ideas, pop over there and see amazing inspiration from them.

This challenge is sponsored by 




Thanks for popping by!