CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #50–April Showers Bring May Flowers!

Happy Friday, sweet friends!!

 

It’s time, once again, for another CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!!  Can you believe that we’re on our 50th Challenge?!!  Fifty, people!!  Isn’t that just crazy?!!  I’m having such a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that we’ve already done 50 challenges, and I can honestly say without hesitation that I’ve loved each and every challenge so far!!  No joke!!  Can you imagine the fun we’re going to have for the next 50 challenges?  Oh my goodness!!

 

Sadly, this also means that a few of the original Girl Fridays will be saying goodbye to us.  Today will be Karen Baker’s, Jaclyn Miller’s, and Laura Davis’s final project and I’m beside myself with sadness about that.  I will miss you girls, and your beautiful creations each week.  Each and every one of you has inspired me over and over again . . . but know that I’ll still be stalking your blogs and drooling all over the place every chance I get.  LOL  Don’t be strangers, y’all!!

Okay, so let’s get to the challenge, shall we?  This week, we’re celebrating the fruits of going from winter to spring.  Spring is my favorite time of the year.  Since this week’s challenge starts on Arbor Day (today) and ends just before May Day, your challenge is to create a project that features flowers or trees.  Easy peasy, right?

SRM Stickers is sponsoring the challenge again this week, and we are thrilled to little bits!  Of course, they so very generously shared some of their fabulous product with the Girl Fridays (like seriously, a BOATLOAD of product!!) to work with, so creating was a breeze!!  The kind peeps at SRM have also provided a terrific 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.  Okay?  Thank you, SRM Stickers!!

Okay, I’m sure you’ve endured enough blah, blah, blah from me.  Let’s get to my sample, shall we?  I was inspired by an amazing card that I saw many moons ago, and because I made it a couple of months ago, I can’t remember who it was that inspired me.  If you know who this might be, will you please remind me so that I can give credit where credit is due?  I’m old, okay?!  LOL  I’ll list the products that I used below, if you’re interested.  Otherwise, I’ll suggest that you head on over to the CAS-ual Fridays blog to check out the terrific samples that the other Girl Fridays created for you.

STAMPS:  Through the Trees (PTI)
INK:  Provincial Gray (Fresh Ink), Cherry (A Muse Studio)
PAPER:  White CS (Neenah), Red Hot CS (French Poptone)
ACCESSORIES:  Thinking of You Stickers #55008 (SRM Stickers), Black Ribbon (from my stash)

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today – you all and your kind comments are what keep me going every single day.  Have a great weekend!!

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #43–For Sentimental Reasons . . .

Hola Peeps!!

Can you believe it’s Friday and time for another CAS-ual Fridays Challenge again?!!  Oh my gosh – where do the days go?!!  This week’s challenge is another goodie (don’t you think our Fearless Leader, Michele Gross, does an amazing job of keeping us really challenged with her clever ideas?!).  YOUR CHALLENGE:  Create a CLEAN & SIMPLE project where the sentiment is the FOCAL point.  In other words, your eye needs to immediately be drawn to the sentiment of your project.  Fun, right?!

This week’s fabulous sponsor is SRM Stickers!!!  SRM Stickers has an amazing selection of clear stickers that make card making and scrapbooking an absolute breeze!!  The kind owners of SRM Stickers shared an ENORMOUS variety of stickers for the Girl Fridays to play with for this challenge, and boy did I have fun with all those yummy goodies!  Thank you, SRM Stickers – you ROCK!!

This project was so easy to assemble – literally it took me five minutes!!  That’s one of the things that I love about both Clean & Simple designing as well as the use of clear stickers – so freakin’ easy!!  I cut the green “belly band” out using my Silhouette SD and a Silhouette Studio design.  I trimmed the edges of the band with the decorative borders from the Fancy Sentiments – Thinking of You sticker set.  I placed the Miss You sentiment directly onto the card base, and then adhered the trimmed band to the card base with dimensional squares.  Seriously, could this be any easier – and I really like the way this turned out!  What do you think?

 

So get those focal image sentiments out and create something for this week’s challenge – can’t wait to see what you come up with!  I would highly recommend that you drop by the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge Blog for some amazing eye candy from the other Girl Fridays – delicious, I tell ya!

 

Before I go, we have a sad goodbye to tell you about.  I’m sure you all know Julie Ranae who, with Michele Gross, created the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge.  She was responsible for much of the social networking of the challenge, but had many other responsibilities behind the scenes, as well as was a fabulous contributor to the inspiration projects that we share with you all each week.  Well, Julie has decided to leave our little “nest” a bit early, and we’re all so sad to see her go.  Julie has been an amazing cheerleader for us all, and continues to be an absolute creative MACHINE out there in blogland!  I’d like to thank Julie for her amazing contribution to making CAS-ual Fridays such a huge success.  I’m sad that you’re leaving, Julie, but I know that you won’t be too far from “home.”  I know we’ll see your beautiful face around and about, and that makes me happy.  Wishing you all the best in your future creative endeavors and in your life!  As far as I’m concerned this is not goodbye – it’s just “See Ya Later!”  How’s that for a focal sentiment?!  If you want to see what Julie’s up to, be sure and pop in to see her at her blog – Julie’s Open Window!

 

Thanks for stopping by today!  I’ll be flying off to Seattle on Sunday, so things may be a bit quiet around here for a few days.  I’ll try to pop in every now and then when I can, but my main focus for a while will be my grandsons.  Love being a Gramma!!