10 Minute Craft Dash Challenge

So I decided to try this week's 10 minute craft dash challenge from the Pretty Pink Posh blog.  Instead of doing homework my niece Neena decided she wanted to help me.  Before you know it, she was looking through my craft area, she chose to use washi tape and was holding them up to the computer screen to make sure she had the right colors.  She also decided that it would be cool to create a banner like Paulina did on her challenge image.  Even though that's a popular design, I decided to humor her and went along for the ride.

9:58 minutes later, here is what we ended up with:

Sentiment is from Close to My Heart, Birthday Chatter.  To save time we adhered the washi tape to paper, added a fish tail and then used dimensional adhesive to pop them up.  That was faster for me than wrapping the washi tape around the floss...go figure.

Thank you Neena for helping with this card!  You are pretty creative but now you have to get back to homework!  

Happy Birthday, Mojo258

Here is a birthday card that I made using this week's Mojo Monday Sketch.  I rarely make a card without a sentiment on the front, so it took me a while to convince myself that it was perfectly ok without one.  I tried, but this card just looked better without it.  I did stamp a birthday greeting on the inside of the card.  

Here is a photo of the sketch from Mojo Monday:

Happy Birthday, CFC69

This week's CAS-USUAL Fridays challenge is to create a CAS project using embossing.  I am always out of birthday cards (more like I wait till the last minute to make them) so I thought I'd play along in hopes of slowly building a stash of "go-to" cards.  Here is a simple birthday card I created for this challenge...

Sentiment is from PTI; Signature Greetings II stamp set.

Happy Birthday Sumitra!

Happy Birthday Sumitra!  I still can't comprehend how this happened so fast, but my daughter is now 14 and in High School!  To say that I am having a hard time with this is an understatement.

Here is the card that I made for her birthday.  I kept it simple while using her favorite colors, green and black!

Die cut and Happy Birthday sentiment are from PTI's Shutterbug Special collection and definition sentiment is from Hero Arts.  

Money Holder Birthday Card

Here is a money holder birthday card that I made for my son to give to his friend.  The money holder is a Silhouette America image that can be downloaded into different denominations.  Each denomination has a different cut that coordinates with the different faces of the bill.  I downloaded the $20 and $50 images, which gives me the flexibility to gift any amount over those amounts behind the top facing bill...hope that makes sense.  This was a super simple, no fuss, quick to make card!  :)

I adhered the money holder to the base of my card which gives me (or my son) a place to write a greeting to the recipient.   

Here is what the inside of the money holder looks like.

Happy Birthday, CSC104!

I was torn between two designers when I first played along with this week's challenge from CASE Study. I made this card the same night as I did the first one, but never got the chance to photograph it till now. The second Designer I chose to CASE is Aimes from Crafting Confessions.  Her work is very crisp, clean and simple.    

I think I was drawn to this card because of the eyelets...it felt like forever since I last used them!  Sentiment is from PTI - Think Big Favorites #12.

Here is a photo of the original card:

40 Amazing Years, CSC104

My husband needed a birthday card for someone at work today but didn't tell me till last night!  Since I didn't get to craft nor blog much this summer, I decided to challenge myself to a quick card hoping it'll get my "creative juices" going again.  This week's challenge at CASE Study is to CASE a card from any of the Design Team members.  They are all so talented how do you choose just one...that in itself was a challenge!  

I chose to CASE Debby Hughes from Lime Doodle.  I love her CAS style and her work is simply brilliant!    

Embossing folder, die and sentiment are all from PTI's By the Numbers impression plate and die collection along with Big Birthday Wishes stamp set.  

Here is Debby's Original card: