CASE STUDY #125 - Happy Camper

Hi and hope everyone is doing good!  I'm happy to be sharing some new CASE inspiration with you today. Our muse this month is Amber Daigre from Damask Love   and our special guest designer is  Tasnim Ahmed from Cards and Bookmarks!! 

Amber has a beautiful clean style - just look at this inspiration photo for us this week. What I love about CASE? You can be inspired by whatever grabs you in the photo. Do you love the color scheme? Maybe the heart - will you make a Valentine? Oh I know, the sketch? Maybe the "We are moving?" sentiment? Well doesn't matter - get inspired and go with it! And as for me? I was totally stricken by the map aspect of the card. And even though this is a clean and simple design - I had to make this one all mine and take it in a whole different direction! I think this is my new favorite card I hope you like it too. 

Check out that bitty camera on the lanyard!

How about a little note pad to use as a journal for your field notes?
 

Gotta have a tent to stay in!
I hope it made you smile!  I can't wait to see what inspires you!  Hop on over to the rest of the CASE ladies blogs and see what they did with this one this week!  

Chupa - Iwona Palamountain

Amy Wanford

Andrea Ewen

Christina MacLaren

Clare Buswell

Debbie Hughes

Jean Martin

Maureen Plut

Teneale Williams

I hope I see you over at CASE Study Challenge Blog!  Have a fantastic day!

Hugs! 
Jeanne

Supplies Used:  Finished Size 5.75" x 5.75"
Stamps:  Papertrey Ink:  Summer Camp
Dies:  Papertrey Ink Rounded Labels, Spiral Notebook Page, Spellbinders Labels 21, Memory Box Deer Trio
Pattern Paper  Paper Studio Wood Fence, Forest Trees, Basic Grey Fact Collection Yellow Ledger Paper 
Card Stock Papertrey Ink:  Real Red, Dark Chocolate, Stampin Up Gumball Green
Lanyard Clip Basic Grey
Ribbon:  Organic Cotton Stripes Red May Arts, Natural Burlap Cord 1/8" May Arts
Border Punch Martha Stewart Zig Zag
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Vintage Sepia, Stampin Up Real Red, Momento cottage Ivy, Bamboo Leaves

SSCB #3 - Have A Care

Have you heard Serendipity Stamps has started a challenge blog?  Yes!  Now you can play along with our twice monthly challenges!  The theme this time is Have a Care.  Serendipity allows you to choose one of their stamps for awareness  featuring a variety of causes, including recycle, breast cancer awareness, adoption among others, at no charge with your purchase.  If you don't have one of these stamps the challenge site will be offering a free digital version of the one I am using today.

I come from a family of book readers so I chose Recycle / Reuse along with a pretty vintage book stamp to highlight my cause.   My family is always passing books back and forth to each other.  I've given away all my children's books that they've outgrown to a local school and hospital for others to enjoy.  When I'm on vacation I usually leave my book behind hoping someone else will pick it up.  If you have books to donate there are lots of organizations that would be happy to share them with others including your local library and www.books4cause.com.

I tried make my card look like a book too.  There are leather corners, a ribbon / book mark, and the title in a pretty frame on the cover! 

Hop on over to the rest of the design team member blogs to see their "have a care" cards.  

Helen Berry

Jenny Gropp

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier

Pauline Pollington 

Anya Schrier 

Cathy Weber

And if you have some crafty time I hope you will stop over at the Serendipity Stamps Challenge blog and play along this time.  Don't forget there is a free digi stamp this week and you have to play for your chance to win $20 off your next Serendipity Stamps purchase!

Jeanne


Supplies Used:  
Stamps:  Serendipity Stamps  1098D Recycle/Reuse, 063F books, 192D Feather Pen
Pattern Paper:  BoBunny Back to Basics Time Piece Collection 12" Time Piece Numbers, 12" Time Piece
Card Stock:  Papertrey Ink:  True Black, Vintage Cream
Die:  Spellbinder Jar Labels, Labels 10
3/4" Corduroy Black Velvet Ribbon May Arts, 1 1/2" Black and Cream Grosgrain Stripe Ribbon Girls - THANKS JJ!
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Antique Linen
Extras: Buttons

Welcome January!

I think time is getting away from me lately!  I should have posted this one at the beginning of the month but I sort of got side tracked.  Sometimes I get focused on something and everything else falls by the wayside.    Maybe it just didn't feel like January here in the Midwest lately.   Where I am we haven't had much snow - in fact, we haven't had to dig out the shovels even!  Yesterday we got a light coating of snow - and the temperature has dropped  just as winter should be and I got inspired to make my January card.  

If you've been following me you know I am working my way through this set of month stamps from Serendipity.  I think they are just too pretty to break out for just a calendar or scrapbook page.  What a great way to make a special birthday card, or just to celebrate the dayl! Each month has little images that are perfect for the month they feature.  January has snowflakes, mittens, hat and a scarf.  I thought it would go perfectly with this ice skating paper!  I blinged it up a lot because after all diamonds look like ice right?  I added a bit of cozy warm velvet ribbon in there too!

Thanks for stopping by!  Tomorrow is the Serendipity Stamps challenge - see you then!  Have a beautiful day!

Jeanne

Supplies Used:  Finished Size 5" x 7"
Stamps:  Serendipity Stamps Large Oval Month January
Pattern Paper:  October Afternoon Holiday Style Collection
Card Stock:  Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, Aqua Mist
Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Bling:  Recollections
Ribbons:  Mary Arts 3/4" Blue Woven Velvet , Ribbon Boutique (Hobby Lobby) 5/8" Light Blue Double Face Satin