CAS at A2Z

A2Z has a Clean and Simple challenge for September and I chose to work with the Vintage Travel digital kit only available at A2Z Scrapbooking.  All of the images are from this same kit.

Since it's a CAS challenge, I made these very CAS.  The sentiments are my own handiwork.

Time rushes by Like a Train on its Track

Up, up, up and away

  

Vintage is just a Concept

Up in the Air

Remember your 15% discount - check out this post at A2Z Scrapbooking.

You will have so many images to use and if you love vintage, you'll love these.  

Add a couple lines or color and you've got a card. 

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Please join us in this month’s "Clean and Simple" challenge.   As you know, we’ve changed our rules a bit and participants are no longer required to use Hero Arts products to enter our challenges. Each month we feature a ‘Digi of the Month’ which will be the prize offered to our randomly-chosen challenge winner from our Hero Arts store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month










The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

• Hero Arts digital kit Vintage Travel only at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Distress inks, one on each card - candied apple, dusty concord and fired brick
• white cardstock

Kinda Cute Treasure

The sponsor for September is Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez. 

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Be sure to visit Die Cut Divas to join the challenge.Your prize will be three (3) digital images from the store..

Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez sells digital images and stamps.

The theme is to use the color "YELLOW" in your project.

The treasure in this chest is yellow gold.  I thought this chest was so cool and decided it had to hold gold as well as a skeletal hand.  I  doodled circles and half circles to create the coins inside the chest and added some squiggles to the book to create handwriting.  A key to go with the book to lead someone to a treasure chest is what I had in mind.  I posted here.

Kinda Cute Monkey Magicician (I used the chest and book)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles
Elizabeth Craft Designs Steampunk Charms (key)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Ropes 1
Little B Handwritten (celebrate)
Puzzle panel is from an old card
Copic markers C2, C6, E33, E37, Y08, YR16, YR27 on chest & E30 & V91 on books
Mitzibishi Uniball SIgno Broad white pen
Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z "Clean and Simple" with Tiger Lily

I made it easy on myself when I ordered this Hero Arts Clear stamp set (Color Layering Tiger Lily) and ordered the inks cube set, Desert Sun) to use as a first choice of inking up the set.  This ink cube set was a suggested ink combination in the Hero Arts Summer Catalog and I thought the set looked perfect.  I used three colors, Dandelion, Tangerine and Caramel, one for each of the flower stamps, going lightest to darkest.

Please join us in this month’s "Clean and Simple" challenge.   As you know, we’ve changed our rules a bit and participants are no longer required to use Hero Arts products to enter our challenges. Each month we feature a ‘Digi of the Month’ which will be the prize offered to our randomly-chosen challenge winner from our Hero Arts store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month


The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

• Hero Arts Color Layering Tiger Lily
• Hero Arts Ink Cubes pack - Desert Sun (available by custom order if not in store)
• Hero Arts Spiral Stencil at Hero Arts  (available by custom order if not in store)
• Card stock

Color Me Yellow from Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez

Die Cut Divas' sponsor for September is Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez.  Your prize will be three (3) digital images from the store..




Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez sells digital images and stamps.

The theme is to use the color "YELLOW" in your project. Check out Die Cut Divas and join in on the fun. Simple, yes?

This is my first card using Kinda Cute images.

I really like the way this turned out.  I chose some unusual colors and took my time.

Supplies:

Big Rose at Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez

Elizabeth Craft Designs Best Wishes

Elizabeth Craft Designs Curvy Leaves

Copic markers Y02, YG01, YG61, YG 67, YR09, YR12, YR19

Nuvo Crystal Drops Woodland Green (dot over the "i" in Wishes

Vagabond die cut machine

Striped paper in my stash

Morgan's ArtWorld September Challenge

Ready, set, go.

No, it's not Halloween, but I've been eyeing this image for quite some time and it's NOW MINE.  I printed the image in different sizes so I could handle the paper, see the sizes and finally determine the size I would work with.  This is the largest size I printed.  I was looking through my stash for a window type die and came across a recent purchase, cut it and glued it to the front of my image so the skeletal image and stunning girl's eyes would show through the panes of "glass".  About 1/2 inch on each side of the block were left on each side of the panel window.  What to do...  I left it sit for 3 days on my desk so I could process whether to cut off the rest of the image or do something else Something Else" never materialized, so I cut all the extra paper off and I liked it.  A few more days on my desk led me to think about ECD papers, rummaged until I found the perfect background, added a tree and some sequins.  All of it is attached to a black folded card.

Close-up below

The theme is always "Anything Goes" at Morgan's ArtWorld.  
Challenge dates are September 1st to September 26th 
on Australian Eastern time (Sydney).  

You can use any image or project you have created and enter up to three (3) times.

Be sure to check out and join the Morgan’s Artworld Facebook Group too.

Last, but not least, visit Morgan's Artworld Digital Image Shop

to shop for your digital images. We are open for business and my duck with cracked egg will be available to you to purchase.

Supplies:

Morgan's ArtWorld image Alyce with Skull

Couture Creations Intricuz dies High Arched window

Elizabeth Craft Dies - Stitched Rectangles

Copics markers in YG and BV tones, some TO on the top of the skull I don't remember the exact E combinations for the skin. 

Vagabond die cut machine

All Morgan's Artworld images are on Facebook at Morgan's Artworld Digital Image Shop

I will be participating in the challenges at 

The Creative Crafters Challenge - “Anything Goes” 8/15-9/8
Crafty Creation Challenges Anything Goes
Creative Moments Always Anything Goes - check on  25th for LINK
Scrapy Land - Anything Goes using any brand of die Scrapy Land sells

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - “Anything Goes” (weekly)

Thank you to Cheapo Dies

Cheapo Dies is offering a $15 gift certificate,

 which goes a long way.

The challenge at Die Cut Divas is to submit a project which uses silhouette(s). 

I'm thinking Halloween already with a black cat in a tree by the light of the moon.  This was so much fun for me.
This is not a Cheapo Die, but you can find so much to make a card similar to mine.  If you want a cat, you might choose Cat on a fence or Flowery cat, but if you want a spooky house, do I have one for you, right here.

Close-up below

Supplies:

Halloween Circle by Silhouette

Silhouette Cameo 

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles

Vagabond die cut machine

Distress markers mustard seed, wild honey,ripe persimmon, & black soot on the dotted cardstock

Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss Red Berry, just tiped at the corner of the cat's eyes.

Check out Die Cut Divas - my post here.

Road Trip

Cheapo Dies is offering a $15 gift certificate,

 which goes a long way.

The challenge at Die Cut Divas is to submit a project which uses silhouette(s). 
A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject

I recently purchased the inner arch and wanted to use it, coupling it with the Spellbinders' large arch and a motorcyclist from Silhouette.  Not until I took the photo did I connect the RIP (Rest In Peace) above the motorcyclist.

Close-up below

While this is not a Cheapo Die, Cheapo Dies has similar dies such as unbranded cutting dies - Gothic Window or a lady pane.  Cheapo Dies has many dies that would make perfect silhouettes.  This post is on Die Cut Divas here.

Supplies:

Spellbinders Arched Windows One

Couture Creations - BE MERRY HIGH ARCHED WINDOW 

Sizzix Thinlits VACATION

Silhouette Motorcyclist

Vagabond die cut machine

Silhouette die cut machine

Sheer Shimmer Spritz - Sparkle

Older paper pack from Michaels (graded colors)