Welcome to the Catherine Pooler Designs and CAS-ual Fridays Blog Hop! We are featuring the fun stamps from CAS-ual Fridays and the amazing Carnivale Collection of Inks from Catherine Pooler Designs. If you are following along on the hop, you should have arrived from the talented Lisa!
My first card features the Happy Birthday Stamp Set and coordinating die cut from CAS-ual Fridays. I started with a card base made from Ultra Smooth White Cardstock. I then covered strips of paper with the Carnivale Inks, using the direct to paper technique to create custom colored cardstock. I adhered these at an angle on the card front, then die cut "happy birthday" from the the front as well.
I opened the flap and stamped the coordinating sentiment from the Happy Birthday Stamp Set in Midnight Ink on the inside of the card for a peek-a-boo card.
My second card features the same items, along with CAS-Fridays Jacks Stencil.
I dry embossed the stencil onto the card front of a card made from Ultra Smooth White Cardstock. I then die cut the word Birthday from the Happy Birthday Fri-Die. I covered the die cut with All That Jazz ink, adhering to the card front at an angle. I stamped the word "happy" in Midnight Ink using a stamp from Catherine Pooler Designs Happy Birthday Many Ways Stamp Set. I added a coordinating sentiment strip with a sentiment from the Happy Birthday Stamp Set onto a sentiment strip covered in Limoncello Ink.
The fun, vibrant colors of the Carnivale Collection of Inks from Catherine Pooler Designs paired with the fabulous products from CAS-ual Fridays is really a perfect pairing!
Your next stop on the hop is the fabulously talented Maria!
Not only are we showcasing how fun these two companies pair up together, there are also prizes. Both CAS-ual Fridays and Catherine Pooler Designs each have one $30 gift card to a random commenter. The winners will be announced Tuesday on the Catherine Pooler Designs and CAS-ual Fridays blogs.
The hop order is as follows:
Karen <-- that's me!
 Catherine Pooler Designs Ultra Smooth White Cardstock Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Midnight Ink Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Limoncello Ink Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Samba Ink Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Be Mine Ink Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Grape Crush Ink Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Mardi Gras Ink Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Suede Shoes Ink Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Coral Cabana Ink Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs All That Jazz Ink Shop at: CPD |
 4 pack Life Changing Blender Brushes by Picket Fence Studios Shop at: CPD |
 Mini MISTI Shop at: CPD |
 Catherine Pooler Designs Happy Birthday Many Ways Stamp Set Shop at: CPD |
 Precision Craft Glue by Bearly Arts Shop at: CPD |
Great cards Karen! The dry embossing of the stencil gives a great background - I'll have to try that.
ReplyDeleteSo fun! I love the peekaboo way you used the die-clever!!
ReplyDeleteLove the effect of the dry embossing
ReplyDeleteLove the peek-a-poo card. I haven't tried one yet.
ReplyDeleteWhat great cards Karen! Love the window card with the sentiment!
ReplyDeleteLove the first card design with the stamping on the inside! Must try out this technique!
ReplyDeleteAwesome job done on your cards. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards, Karen. Love how you did the Happy Birthday on the first card. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSuch fun cards.
ReplyDeleteYour cards were so much fun! Thanks for sharing your ideas.
ReplyDeleteGender neutral birthday cards, yes!
ReplyDeleteHow cool! I LOVE the way you did the backgrounds!
ReplyDeleteAwesome birthday cards! Love that Happy Birthday set!
ReplyDeleteGreat colors and card layout!
ReplyDeleteTerrific cards Karen!
ReplyDeleteLove the surprise cut out of your first card! Both cards are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I not think to dry emboss. I always go wicked messy with inks, and love the subtle look you got. Also love that cut our of the sentiment. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards. I really love the bold colors on your first card.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards thanks for sharing!~Ginny~
ReplyDeleteLove the embossing with the jacks. Great cards.
ReplyDeleteMarisela Delgado said: Great colors! mariandmonsterd@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteLoved your cards. I never tried embossing with stencils but your card was awesome.
ReplyDeleteWhat great card ideas. Love the way the Jacks stencil was used to created your dimensional background.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your great card ideas.
ReplyDeleteVery cool cards! Love them both!
ReplyDeleteOoohhh that first one!! I could use some washi!!
ReplyDeleteNice I like the clean and simple look.
ReplyDeleteKaren, so fun! Love these designs!
ReplyDeleteGreat diecutting of the sentiment on the first card.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards. I love the die-cutting on the first card. I also love the bold colors.
ReplyDeleteEmbossing is great! Love that these cards could be given to men!
ReplyDeleteLove the peek-a-boo card using the Happy Birthday Stamp Set and die. Need to get this stamp and die
ReplyDeleteAwesome creations, I love the big Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteI love the window you created using die. So pretty. Love the dry Embossing.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards!
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are so creative love how you did the peek-a-boo part,how you created your own custom colored cardstock,and how you dry embossed the stencil these cards show how amazing all of these products are that you used on both cards thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun card with the birthday window!
ReplyDeleteThank you for reminding me to try diagonal lines on cards -- which too-often are just straight lines.
ReplyDeleteFun cards! Love the diagonal design elements
ReplyDeleteGreat cards! Love the embossing!
ReplyDeleteFun cards! I love how you embossed with the jacks stencil.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards with their strong, bright colours and clever designs! Love the embossed background! Thanks so much for the inspiration! Take care! :)
ReplyDeleteLove your fun cards. I really love that sentiment on the last one.
ReplyDeletethat first card is bold and bright.
ReplyDeleteLove how you did the sentiment.
The shadowing is great.
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I like the colorful stripes and the embossing.
ReplyDeleteYour first card is so clever! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteLovely cards! A wonderful collab!
ReplyDeleteI love how you did that with the top card! What a fun idea to have it open up with the sentiment like that! Great collab :)
ReplyDeleteFab cards and ideas.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see the 'How old are you' stamped out...it makes me laugh.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. I like cards for masculine bdays!
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