Thursday, June 14, 2012

CFC57: Be you

Happy Friday to all! I'm back with another fun challenge from CAS-ual Fridays!  This week it's clear as day:
Create a CAS project using acetate or vellum

That's right - the challenge is to use acetate or vellum on your project.  And the sponsor for this week is stamp designer and Girl Friday Karolyn Loncon.  Yep, our very own Karolyn designed 6 stamp sets for Paper Smooches, and the winner will receive ALL 6 SETS!!!  Her sets are some of my faves - they are wonderfully graphic and they build upon each other so nicely.

Okay, on to the challenge.  I always love the look of acetate and vellum, but for some reason they're not really my go-to's.  I should use them more.  I had so much fun creating my card for this challenge.  And here is my paper yummy:


I used a bunch of transparencies from Basic Grey, and used a punch from Stampin' Up! to create windows for the transparencies:

Since my punch wouldn't quite reach to the very middle of the black cardstock, I punched it as far in as it could go from either end, and that left me the perfect space to stamp a sentiment:

I created the "be you" using the Alphadot stamp set from Paper Smooches, and heat embossed it with mustard yellow embossing powder.  I finished off the card with a yellow star transparency backed with white cardstock, a green cardstock star sticker, and a red brad:

I really love the way it turned out.  I love all the little phrases on the transparencies, and I adore the patterns on them!  How about you?  Do you use acetate or vellum often?  We would LOVE to have you play along with this week's challenge, and you have until next Thursday at noon EST to do so.  Thanks so much for looking!  Don't forget to stop by and give all the other Girl Fridays some bloggy love!

Supplies: cardstock: Georgia Pacific (white), Recollections (black); transparencies, cardstock sticker: Basic Grey; word window punch: Stampin' Up!; stamps: Paper Smooches; ink: Versamark; embossing powder: American Crafts; brad: craft supply; corner rounder punch: We R Memory Keepers

13 comments:

  1. All those bright colors and stunning against the black! Love this cheery card.

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  2. What an amazing design! This is so fabulous! LOVE!

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  3. Wonderful design! Those colors against the black really make all the words stand out to make their statement!

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  4. I love this, so unexpected with the black, you just keep getting better and better

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  5. The word windows are so bold and bright against the black card base. I love the combination of phrases!

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  6. Love your bright, bold colors and use of your transparencies! Your card design is awesome!

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  7. This is such an awesome card! I love the look of the colored sentiments with the black card base, and the fun brad and star!

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  8. The colors really stand out against the black background. Great job!

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  9. This is absolutely over the top fun, and a perfectly designed card. Love the bold colors and word windows!

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  10. LOVE this card!! And not just the design, but the sentiments as well! What a great card to give to anyone!

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  11. What a really brilliant card Kimberley! I love the colourful variety of sentiments going down the card like that.

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  12. This is a great design-a wonderful use of sentiments!

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