CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #46–Name That Tune!!

Are any of you old enough to remember that show?!  I totally remember it – and I SUCKED at it!  LOL  I usually couldn’t figure out what the song was until way too many notes . . . good thing I never had to play in real life!  LOL

But we’re playing Name That Tune this week at CAS-ual Fridays!!  Your challenge:  Create a CLEAN & SIMPLE project and be inspired by a song.  Great idea, right?!

This week’s sponsor is the UBER talented Melanie Muenchinger, illustrator,author and designer extraordinaire for Gina K Designs!!  Melanie has very generously provided a fabulous prize for this week’s TGIF Winner, but you’ll have to click on over to the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge Blog to find out what it is.  Thank you Melanie!!

Well, since I’ve already admitted that I’m old enough to remember Name That Tune, I guess it’s not so far fetched that I’d admit that Debby Boone's version of You Light Up My Life was one of my most FAVORITE songs in high school.  I knew that song, word for word, and sang it at the top of my bloody lungs every time it came on the radio!  LOL  Come on – sing it with me! 

Amazing, right?!  LOL

PRODUCTS USED:
STAMPS:  Eureka Light Bulbs (Maya Road), Grunged Sunrays (A Muse Studio), Smoocheroos (Paper Smooches)
INK:  VersaMark and Onyx Black VersaFine (Tsukineko), Fresh Snow (PTI)
PAPER:  Lemon Drop CS (French Poptone), White CS (Neenah), Cherry Cheesecake CS (Bazzill Basics Paper), Linen Vellum (PTI)
ACCESSORIES:  Lemon Drop Baker’s Twine (The Twinery), Bright White Embossing Powder (WOW!), Linen/Canvas Impression Plate (PTI), Stampin’ Dimensionals (Stampin’ Up!), Heart (Silhouette Studio)

I seriously had a blast with this challenge.  You so need to pop into the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge Blog to see the eye candy that the other Girl Fridays have cooked up for your inspiration.  It’s some great stuff, I tell ya!

Oh, and if you haven’t done it already, I hope you’ll consider applying to the CAS-ual Fridays Design Team – we’re looking for some new designers!  So if, clean and simple is your go-to card style, you really should apply!!  You can get all the details HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I’m so appreciative of the time that you take to pop in and say hello.  I have a very busy weekend ahead of me, but I’m hoping to get some crafty time in there, too.  I haven’t really gotten inky since I got back from Seattle and Boston on Monday – it’s killing me not to get my stamp on!!  Hope you have a great weekend, too!!

Thank You!

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I hope you’re enjoying a beautiful Tuesday – I know I am!  I wanted to share a card with you all that I made for the last Paper Crafts Magazine/Stamp It! call.  They wanted cards featuring heat embossing.  Well, I think you all know about my love affair with ZING/American Crafts embossing powder, so I figured that challenge was right up my alley.  Apparently, I was the only one that thought so since it was a REJECT!  LOL  But I’m over it now . . . I doubled up on my meds and I’ve moved on.  Hahahaha

The center doilies were stamped using some brand spankin’ new Maya Road stamps called Doilies – duh!  LOL  I stamped the large doilies in Versamark on the Kraft squares and then heat embossed with White ZING EP.  I then stamped the same doily image again on white cardstock in Versamark, and heat embossed with Black ZING EP.  I punched the center of the black doily out with a 7/8” Circle Punch and adhered it to the center of the white doilies using dimensionals.  I then adhered a turquoise rhinestone to the center of the black doily circle.

I stitched a horizontal and vertical line through the center of the Hawaiian Shores square.  The four Kraft squares were then adhered to the Hawaiian Shores panel with more dimensionals.  The sentiment came from a new clear set of stamps that I received from Practicing Creativity called Chatterbox.  Isn’t that font amazing?!!  I stamped it in Versamark in the bottom right corner of the card base, and heat embossed with the black ZING EP.

This was the only card I submitted for the Stamp It! call – the other two possibilities were thrown into the trash by the time I got done working and reworking them.  Even though this wasn’t picked up, it hasn’t completely discouraged me from continuing to play the publication game.  You can’t win if you don’t play, right?!

That’s it for me today.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope to be by tomorrow (or maybe later today) with a picture of my blog candy that you’ll have a chance to win with every order placed at ABC Toys & Crafts using the discount code listed on the blinkie below.  Just click on it, and it’ll take you directly to the store – enter the discount code at checkout and receive 20% off your entire order as well as a chance to win my blog candy.  It’s guaranteed to be in excess of $100!!  You can use this code as many times as you like between now and September 30th.  You’ll get one chance to win for every order you place using that code.