ATCAS, CFC, and Pixie's ~ Circular Congratulations!

Well, hi.  Here we are at the half-way point of 2013, at a new month, and a new Monday!  I think it's time I started working on those New Year's Resolutions, don't you?  I'm caught up to 1989.

 

But first, I'm off to an afternoon workshop today to make some cards and some tomfoolery with some friends.  There will be six of us and we are each going to bring one card and the makings or "kit" for our card design so the other ladies can CASE our card.  It is going to be fun to see what each of us comes up with.

 

I'm sharing what I came up with, which is a card for Father's Day, which is now right around the corner.  To your left. 

Here you go:

The ingredients are at the end of the post below.  A whole lot of dieing went into this fun card, as well as a few of my new favorite embellies: wood veneers.  I tried coloring the little sailboats, but in the end, I decided I liked them best in all their nakid natural glory.

 

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I'm also going to share a "card hanger" die that I purchased from the clever and uber-talented Laurie Willison.  You can read all about it on her great Soapbox Creations website.  Basically, it is a die that cuts a piece of paper with an opening in it to reinforce the opening you cut in your gift bag. 

 

 

I made my card hanger reinforcement white to match the white bag.  This way the ladies can take their bags home and stamp and color them howsomever they want.

 

 

With the cool card hanger die, you can make the card that accompanies your gift as big and foo-foo and bulky as you want and not worry about having to squeeze it into an envelope or having it get lost.  I wish this concept would have been popular back in the 1900s when I used to have to squeeze my big and foo-foo and bulky self into a girdle.  But I depress.

So instead, there's your card, in all its glory, for all the world (or at least the recipient) to see, right there hanging smack in the front of your gift bag!

 

 

PDC, I'd say.  Well done, Laurie!  Oh, wait!  Did I tell you that Laurie's card hanger die is for sale?  You can buy them right from her website.

 

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Cleaning up the mess I made getting ready for the workshop, I found myself staring at the sheet of card stock full of negative suns that I had left over from using my sun die.  And one of those magical moments happened where a card practically makes itself, quickly, and cutely.

 

 

I think it will work for:

• my snippets card for Week 75 over at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground, 
• the Addicted to CAS (ATCAS) challenge, where the code word is "Circles," and

• CFC103 over at CAS-ual Fridays where the challenge is "Congratulations."

 

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That was fun, two cards, and a gift bag idea!  Off you go to enjoy your day!   No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS*! 

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*Life Is Too Short! 

 

Paper:  PTI white; SU! night of navy,

  baja breeze, marina mist, pacific point,
  and so saffron

Stamp:  Imaginations H3538

Ink:  SU! night of navy

Dies:  Paper Smooches, "Borders";
  MB "Puffy Clouds"; Lil' Inker "Stitched Sun"
Wooden Veneers:  Studio Calico

Paper:  PTI white; so saffron
Stamps:  Congrats from The Alley Way Stamps
  Sentiment from Lil' Inker Designs
Ink:  Versafine onyx black
Bling from stash