Wedding Champagne Glasses Card

I've been making mostly quick cards lately that I haven't been posting, but this week I wanted to play along with the CAS-ual Fridays challenge because I love making contrasting black and white cards. Plus, this combo was perfect for a wedding card I needed. My "extra" color was silver, although I also have a few gold sequins as well.

To my amazement, I didn't use any stamps on this card - only die cuts and embellishments. The layered champagne glass die is from My Favorite Things and Congratulations sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. The glasses are popped up with foam for extra dimension. I like the simple, but elegant look.
I'm also posting the card on the Simon Says blog for the Anything Goes challenge this week since I've used their products.

Supplies:

• Accessories: Simon Says Sparkle & Shine SNS736 sequins
• Tools: MFT Layered Champagne Glass Die-namics, SSS Congratulations die

~Olga

Firefly Mason Jar Card

The card I'm showcasing today is slightly different dimension. It's based on the Mojo Monday 450 Sketch and is a little skinnier than usual to allow for tilted label. I call this the firefly card. It's a little hard to see from the picture, but I used glitter cardstock for some of the die cuts to give the illusion of glowing and added some other sequins to the shaker. 

After taking the picture, I realized I forgot to add the jar lid and have adhered it since.Thanks for looking.

Supplies:

• Stamps: MFT More Essential Sentiments, PTI Wreath for All Seasons
• Accessories: SU Lost Lagoon stitched satin ribbon, sequins
• Tools:MFT Maison Jar dienamics, Simon Says Stamp Wishing dienamics

~Olga

Birthday Rose CAS Card

I've been making a lot of birthday cards lately for the Splitcoast Stampers Birthday RAK committee. Here's a quick one based on this sketch from CAS(e) This Sketch challenge:

It's the first time I've tried this set from Altenew and love how quick and easy it is to create multi dimensional looking rose.

Thanks for looking.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Altenew Beautiful Day
• Tools: Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday Die

~Olga

Color Throwdown 386

Another quick card from this weekend. The colors are from CTD386 challenge.

The foil strips are adhered to a thin score tape strips. The whole card came together very quick. 
Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:

• Stamps: StampinUp Pretty Amazing, Simon Says Big Scripty Greetings
• Accessories: Silver foil
• Tools: Darice Chevron embossing folder

~Olga

CAS Congratulations Card

This week I've made a CAS (clean and simple) card using CAS(e) This Sketch 157, colors from Color Throwdown #377 - yellow, kraft and grey and the Simon Says Congratulations set that I've been wanting to ink up for some time for Simon Says Anything Goes Challenge. To make the card a little more fancy I used fine silver embossing powder instead of grey ink in the color scheme. 

Thanks for looking.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Simon Says Congratulations
• Accessories: Silver embossing powder, silver cord from SU

~Olga

Using Mini Prills on Cards

I recently bough a jar of Mini Prills because they reminded me of cupcake pearls, but haven't used them on a project until now. I've made cards with micorbeads before and prills are sort of similar. They're a little bigger and I think made of styrofoam.

The first card was for Simon Says Stamp Best Friends Challenge using Mojo430 sketch. I made a card with the cute Boston Terrier - Stylish Simon stamp and added a heart embellishment covered in Mini Prills. To do this, I liberally covered a die cut in Aleene's Tacky Glue, covered in prills, hand pressed and then let it dry under the weight of acrylic block to keep the cardstock from warping under the wet glue. It turned out pretty well without empty spots on the paper. 

For the second card I put drops of Crystal Effects on a cupcake and used prills as sprinkles. Because they're so small, they clumped up a bit instead of looking like individual sprinkles. They seem to be holding pretty well when I'm just holding the card, but I think these are more likely to fall off in the mail.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Simon Says Stylish Simon, PTI Cupcake Collection
• Paper: BasicGrey Blush
• Accessories: Mini Prills
• Tools: MFT and Stitched Fishtail Stax

~Olga