A {Baby Shower} Card for Maylee...

Oh my!  I've been trying to get this posted for quite some time now and my computer was just not letting me.  I tend to leave a lot of pages open and then my computer comes to a crawl and then freezes.  Ugh, I hate when I have to press the power to shut it down, it just feels wrong.  


Anyway, now that I have my computer back to normal I can share this cute card I made for a baby shower over the weekend.  As you can probably tell they already have a name picked out-- Maylee, a combination of her grandmothers' middle names.  So adorable, I can't wait to meet her!  


I had so much fun making this card (well, it was fun after I tossed my first attempt).  I can't believe I used five stamp sets!  That might be a personal record for me.  I've seen a lot of the other Clear & Simple Stamps design team gals filling the bucket stamp with all kinds of things, so I thought I'd give it a try.  It does require a bit of masking though.  


Since I wasted so much time getting my computer to work, I'm going to stop chatting now.  If you have any questions about today's card, feel free to leave a comment.

Have a great day!

{A Gift For You...Maylee}

Stamps: Trendy Tags, Craft Room, Craft Room Bonus, Alpha Varsity, Holly Jolly (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: Paint the Town Pink, Coral Necklace, A Blanc Check (CSS)

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress (CSS)

Accessories: Foam Dimensionals, Rhinestone

Copic Markers: 0, W1, W5, B93, B95, R83, R85, Y38 

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A CAS-ual Fridays {Colorful} Card...

This week Clear & Simple Stamps is sponsoring a challenge at CAS-ual Fridays.  Our own Laurie Willison challenged us to use markers, pencils, chalk, etc. to add color to your CAS card.   I chose to use Craft Room and Craft Room Bonus for my card.  It was a little ironic to be coloring images of copic markers using my copic markers.  Weird, huh?

I think this sentiment is perfect for a challenge where you needed to add color.  I actually cut up this sentiment so I could space the words out and use different colors of ink.  I really like the rhinestones.  They really seem to make the card look special.

Here's a close-up of the sentiment banner.  It's curves just a bit and adds just the right amount of dimension.  


Head on over to CAS-ual Fridays Blog and check the cards from their design team as well as some linked up from the Clear & Simple Stamps design team.  

CAS-ual Friday participants get a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Clear and Simple Stamps. And as an added bonus, use the html code below to add the CSS blinkie to your side bar, and leave us a message with a link to your blog and we will randomly select (3) blogs featuring the CSS blinkie to win the Limited Edition Crafty Bonus stamp set!

{bonus offer closes Thursday, Oct 27th at midnight, EST}

Hope  you all have a great weekend!!!

{You Color My World}

Stamps: Craft Room, Craft Room Bonus (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Card Stock: A Blanc Check, Coral Necklace (CSS)

Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, Simply Blue-tiful, Paint the Town Pink, Creamsicle Cardigan (CSS)

Accessories: Rhinestones (Recollections), Foam Dimensionals, Labels 9 Nesties (Spellbinders), Birds & Swirls Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug)

Copic Markers: R81, R83, R85, B93, B95, B99, Y32, Y35, Y38, W1, W3 

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