CAS Autumn Sympathy – #TTTC259

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It’s Tic Tac Toe Thursday and Team O’s turn at the design board.  My friend, Jeanie created a fun board chock full of inspiration. Here’s Jeanie’s board…I know you’ll find a lot to spark your creativity!

And here’s my card.  I chose the bottom row across: Leaves, Frame, Embellishment

I’m trying to replenish my on-hand card stash and sympathy cards are always a must have, especially because you never know when you’ll need them.  It’s important to me to have them at the ready so they can be mailed in a timely manner.  My sympathy cards tend to be floral or more on the feminine side, so I wanted to create one that would be appropriate for anyone.

Here’s a look inside…

With just a change of sentiment and this card would be appropriate for a number of occasions.

Come on over to the challenge HERE and join in the fun!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Take care,

Rosanne

Supplies

STAMPS: Lasting Lily (ret. SU)
DIES: Maple Leaf Window (Lawn Fawn), Layering Ovals (ret. SU)
CARDSTOCK: Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze
PATTERNED PAPER: All About Autumn DSP(ret. SU)
INKS: Cajun Craze
MISC.: Tasteful Textiles Embossing Folder (ret. SU), Neutrals Adhesive Back Sequins (SU)

Autumn Floral Birthday

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I feel like I’m finally getting my card creating mojo back.  Today I have a pretty birthday card that I created for my sister’s birthday.  Her favorite color is orange so I dug around my stash and came up with some papers that coordinated.  And the paper really did all the work here with the exception of the sentiment die, which is SU retired Celebrate You thinlits.  The floral paper is a 12 x 12 sheet I purchased at Hobby Lobby.  I’m always on the lookout for pretty paper and if I can purchase just a sheet or two, all the better.  Here’s the sheet. If you don’t mind fussy cutting, which I rather enjoy, these flowers are just beautiful.

The inside sentiment is from a long ago CTMH stamp set.

I also used a floral cut-out for the inside of the card and the envelope front.

I’m playing along with Inspired By Challenge HERE…

As always, thanks for stopping by today.

Take care,

Rosanne

Fangtastic Friends Fun, Fun Halloween Card

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I’m starting off the week before Halloween with a cute and fun to make Halloween card. I’m not really sure if this card is going to be sent this year as I’ve already created enough Halloween cards to send but just couldn’t resist playing with this new to me fun Lawn Fawn set: Fangtastic Friends stamps and dies.

 

How cute are these little friendly bats!? Lawn Fawn creates the most adorable critters!

 

 

I started off with a Elegant Eggplant card base and then cut the frame from MFT’s: Rectangle Frames. After cutting out the frame, I dry embossed it with Su’s Pinewood Planks embossing folder. The night sky background paper is from my stash. The big, bright full moon is punched from a circle punch in Bumblebee card stock with some sponging. The spooky tree is also from my stash. All the images and sentiment come from the Fangtastic Friends stamp set and are colored with alcohol markers.

Here’s a peek inside…

 

The inside sentiment is from 9/20 Paper Pumpkin.

I would send this to my grandsons, but I already created a really fun card for them that I’ll share later in the week.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you’re looking forward to a beautiful autumn week. October is just flying by and we are enjoying many perfect autumn days. The leaves are at their peak here in SE Pennsylvania and the trees in my community are just beautiful!


                   

I’m playing along with the Festive Friday #FF0170 challenge HERE….

 

Take care,

Rosanne

 

 

A FaBOOlous Throwback Halloween Card for CC2C

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Welcome to the October installment of CASEing Coast to Coast.  This month we’re beginning our cross country stamping adventure in California with Karen Hallam and our theme is an appropriately seasonal one: Halloween.  You can see all the details of Karen’s adorable and fun card HERE.

Now for my card, I pulled out some “vintage” Stampin’ Up! DSP, Toil and Trouble.

I especially love those colorful witch’s hats.  And since I also find fussy cutting very relaxing, it was easy to cut a few as the focal point of the card.  All other products are noted below.

And here’s a look inside..

Growing up, Halloween was always an especially fun holiday as it was also my Mom’s birthday.  So along with all the candy, there was cake and ice cream…talk about a good time!  Although my Mom has been in heaven for a long time, this year would have been her 100th birthday.  And even though I’ve not had children to dress for Halloween for quite a long time, and heck, now I don’t even live in a community that gets Trick or Treater’s, I still love this fun holiday.  I do enjoy seeing my grandson’s costumes and watching their school parades.  And then there’s a cute little dachshund named Olive that will need a costume!  So I guess I do get to dress some one for Halloween!

I’ll have a few more fun Halloween projects before the end of the month.  I hope you’ll come back! In the meantime, please head over to Karen’s blog for some more Halloween crafting fun.

Take care and have a wonderful week!

Rosanne

 

 

 

Stamps: Howl-o-ween Treats  (ret. SU), September 2020 Paper Pumpkin (inside sentiment)
Card Stock:  White, Crushed Curry, Basic Black
Patterned Paper:  Polka Dot from stash, Toil & Trouble (ret. SU)
Ink:  Memento Black, Versa Mark, Black embossing powder
Misc:  Enamel Dots (ret. SU)