CASE IT IG Hop - October 26

Hello again friends. I hope you've had a great start to your weekend. I'm here to share this month's card for the CASE IT Instagram Hop where we find a project on Instagram that inspires us and we will share that project as well as the project we’ve created. There are so many beautiful creations on Instagram the only difficult part is narrowing down which one to CASE (which means Copy And Share Everything).

This month I was inspired by @houses_built_with_cards and as soon as I saw Heather's cards I was in love, although I could have chosen any of her cards as she is so talented.  I loved the clean and simple layouts, the stripes and of course that I could make a two-fer!!  I have to say that I kept pretty much to Heather's design, using the circles and stripes but changed up the colours and sentiments.  I also used sequins instead of her enamel dots.  You can definitely see that my cards were inspired by hers! Here are her cards for my inspiration:

Aren't her cards just amazing? Using Ardyth's LIMES process (you can watch her video here) we list what we see - she has used blues as her main colours, a die cut circle, stamped sentiments, blue enamel dots and a clean and simple design.  So as I mentioned I pretty much followed Heather's layout and style but changed my colours to bright pink, orange and yellow and my paper is stripes instead of woodgrain.  I used different sentiments and also swapped her enamel dots for black sequins.  I hope you like them.

Here are my cards:

A closer look at card 1:

Plus I decorated the inside:

A closer look at card 2:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and cut some strips from my pink, orange and yellow scraps.  I laid onto the panel at an angle using liquid glue and took a circle die and cut it out of the panel.  For the first card I took another white panel the same size and laid it behind the striped panel with the cut out circle using foam squares.  I stamped the gorgeous bold sentiment using black ink onto the back panel and added some black sequins to finish.  I added the panel onto my card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I added some strips of the coloured card to the bottom of a white panel with liquid glue and stamped a sentiment in the centre using black ink.  The panel was then adhered to my card base using double sided tape.  

For the second card I used the cut out circle, although I think my stripes were a little bigger than Heather's and didn't leave much room for my sentiment, so I cut a second white circle, trimmed down the striped circle slightly and added it over the plain one with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink at the top of the circle and added foam squares behind.  I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and a piece of black and white striped paper to 2" x 5 1/4" and added it to the panel with liquid glue.  I added the circle on top and finished off with some black sequins.  For the inside I cut another white panel and added a strip of the striped pattern paper at the bottom before stamping the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create challenge - ATG optional twist think pink

Allsorts challenge - more than one fold or ATG (entering card 1)

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - sentiment as focus

Word Power challenge - sentiment as the focus

We hope you will be inspired by our CASE IT Instagram Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous cards along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #caseithop and we will find you.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Lots of love

card supplies:

Waffle Flower - nesting circles dies

Reverse Confetti - friendly floras stamp (for bold sentiment)

Gina K Designs - sketched roses mini stamp (for birthday sentiment)

MFT - let's celebrate clear stamp (for inside sentiment on birthday card)

MFT - black & white stripes 6x6 paper pack

Clearly Besotted - a little sentiment clear stamp (for inside sentiment on thank you card)

Spellbinders - black smooth disc color essentials sequins

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

coloured card from my scraps bin

AAA Birthday challenge #66 - circle shaped

Good morning friends and welcome to October.  Well unfortunately autumn has started with lots of rain in my neck of the woods so not the start I wanted.  Let's hope I get the crisp and bright days I am dreaming of arrive soon.  Today I'm sharing my card for this month's brand new challenge over at the AAA Birthday challenge. This month Deekshita is the hostess and she has chosen 'circle shaped' as our theme.  Our guest designer this month is Nancy so please pop over to her blog and leave her some love. 

To be clear: your card should be a circle shape, not just a card with circles on it.

I love the look of circle cards and definitely don't make them often enough.  I made my own card base using a large circle die and the finished card is 5" diameter.  I haven't coloured flowers for ages and after rooting through my stash found this large floral image that I hadn't used before and it was the perfect fit for my card base.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A close up of the beautiful flowers:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the flower image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured it with Promarkers and cut it out with the matching die.  I also stamped the sentiment in black ink and die cut it with a sentiment strip die.  I took an A4 sheet of white card and using a large circle die created my card base.  I cut another circle the same size as my card base and lightly ink blended some sea glass ink all over; I then added this to my card base with liquid glue.  I adhered the flower image with liquid glue.  I decided to make a frame to go on top of the card front and I created this with the same circle die and the next size down in the set.  I added this with foam strips.  I added the sentiment strip with foam squares and a few silver sequins.  For the inside I used the left over circle (from creating the frame) and stamped a portion of the flower image in grey ink on the left side.  I also stamped a sentiment in black ink.  This was added to the card base with double sided tape.   A fairly simple card but I'm happy with the finished result.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - ATG

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes & optional mood board

Die Cut Divas challenge - ATG on a card

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - always birthday

My Time To Craft challenge - spring season

PINspirational challenge - shapes (shaped card)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Cutie Pie challenge - birthday girls  

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs.   

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed.  I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

I'll be back in a short while with an extra card for you so I hope you can call back and check it out.  Until then, enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Reverse Confetti - roses stamp & die - on sale!

Promarkers

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiment dies

Gina K Designs - sea glass ink pad

Little B - circle dies 100381

Spellbinders - color essentials sequins silver smooth disc

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently oos

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

Heffy Doodle - adhesive foam strips - store now closed

Versafine - onyx black ink pad