I’m back! This time with a shimmery, stripey, magical, friendly, monochromatic card …
Yesterday, I had a fantastic Feedly fest and caught up with lots of what everyone’s been doing this week … including this card made by Kristie where she used a hanging word. I was really taken with the idea so I’ve given it a go here. I partially die cut a panel of paper with the ‘you’ (Mama Elephant letters), leaving the letters uncut at the top, and sliced through the remaining positive space at the join with a craft knife so that the word would hang down from the panel. Strips and another ‘you’ were cut from pearlescent card and adhered over the white panel and word. I stamped and silver embossed the sentiment (Technique Tuesday), trimmed the panel to size and popped it up on foam dots on the card base.
The sweet, talented, generous, humourous and thoroughly delightful Darnell is celebrating 500 followers this month … many congratulations, my friend … a perfect indication of how much you’re loved in our wonderful papercrafting community. If you’re not already one of the 500, stop right now and go over to the Playhouse and sign up … you don’t want to miss being a follower for a moment longer! I’ll wait. To celebrate this amazing milestone, Darnell is hosting a fun challenge where we’re invited to join her using NBUS … Never Before Used Schtuff (a Darnellism!). The theme is friendship and all the details are over at the Playhouse … another reason for a visit! My NBUS here is the stamp set … Incredible by Technique Tuesday … I got it and one or two other goodies just as the creative go-slow in my brain started some weeks ago, so until today it hadn’t seen ink.
I’m also playing along with these challenges …
CASology – Shine (silver embossing and pearlescent card)
Muse – Vicki’s Inspirations (see below)
Colour Me! – Monochromatic Coastal Cabana
SSS Monday – Magic (heat embossing, the hanging die cut word … and Darnell!)
Off for a meander around the blogosphere … there may be more later! Thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita 🙂
My Papercraft World 
Fabulous card Anita! I love those colors and your sweet sentiment and that silver embossing, wow! So much fabulousness in one card. Enjoy your day and can’t wait to see what you do next.
I love this CAS card – you always amaze me by combining numerous challenges and coming up with a CAS card!
Should I say this card is fabulous? wonderful? awesome (not a word I usually use)? It is all those and more. Love the idea of the hanging word and the silver embossing does indeed shine.
what a cool card, anita!! fabulous take on the Colour Me! challenge… so happy to see you playing along this week!!
Oh gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous Anita! I loved your inspiration card as well. This is a fabulous stamp set you’ve used and I love the fab embossing. I’m sitting on my hands at the moment waiting for inspiration to strike for my submission to Dippy’s (sorry Darnell’s!) new challenge – although I’m surprised it isn’t 5,000 rather than 500……………what a sweetheart she is. I always know if I’m feeling a bit down I can pop over to the playhouse for a while and come away with face ache from laughing so much!
Hugs.
Karen xxx
This really is amazing, I love the hanging word and the whole card reminds me of summer clothes x
Beautiful card! The silver embossing is perfect and so are the colours. Thank you so much for sharing some magic with us this week at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!
This is such a unique and amazing take on the the muse card, I love the silver embossing and alternating white and blue strips, icing on the cake is the die cut YOU ! Love this
Such a fun card, Anita!
You are the combination queen! This is so awesome – I love how the silver embossing looks on the stripey panel! So glad you joined us at CASology and Muse this week!
Well pal..I’d say that you definitely got the “Hang” of this technique! Hee hee!
Love the silver embossed words with the blue & white! Hey – this would make a gorgeous Christmas card using festive/seasonal words!
I’ve just been forced indoors by a nasty hail storm! Thankfully, I got all my pots moved under cover in time! Not sure about the bedding plants and my vehicle though!
I wish you would have put Vicki’s card on your post, Anita, so everyone could see at a glance how you ROCKED your CASE of her fabulous card! (Winner!!) I just love your take on it with your unique and graphic design, embossing, and hanging pronoun!! Bam, bam, and shazambam!!
Thank you so, so much for your loving compliments! The feeling is mutual! Thank you, too, for your support of my little NBUS challenge. It took big pants for me to publish that and put myself out there, wondering if people would play. Phew! I know, that was silly. It’s been a real boost to see the reaction and have encouragement like yours to keep me going! Mwah! Big hugs, my friend! Darnell
(PS I LOVED that closing line about SSS! I’m just so sure that the folks at Simon’s are going to consider me “magic!” NOT! Hahaha! You’re the best!)
This is absolutely stunning. I can not add anymore than has been so eloquently said already except WOW!
Elaine
Such a fabulous card. I love your shiny sentiments and the way you got that ‘you’ to hang down. Very cool. Thanks so much for playing along at CASology this week.
Love the hanging word and silver embossing – fab card! I’m off to visit the Playhouse 🙂
Oh, I really LOVE this card, Anita! The beautiful shade of blue and all the lovely sparkle is amazing! Love how you played with the sentiments, too! You did an awesome job combining all these challenges!
This is amazing!! I love the hanging word and silver sentiment. FABULOUS card!!!
That is a fabulous, wonderful, and awesome card! Love the hanging word, the shimmering stripes, and those cool scripty words!
Love the hanging “you” – beautiful color blocking and choice of sentiments!
So glad to see your back!! And your back with a bang, this card is gorgeous!!! My favourite colour combo with silver looks amazing and must look into the ‘hanging word’ idea you described. I haven’t ‘come back’ yet but can feel the ideas starting to arrive. I hope your ideas keep coming thick and fast.
Beautiful sheen on the focal pt. sentiment. Luscious in aqua and silver!
Wow Anita – your card is stunning! I love all the shine and your design is fab:) xx
This is absolutely gorgeous! Love the sentiments you’ve used!
Winning card in every way, Anita – not only the challenges, but for planting mega watt smiles (alllll over our faces!) of those of us fortunate to see this fabulous, wonderful, awesome YOU-infused card. Totally in love with this; it’s a show-stopping knockout!! WOW!! Hugs~c
Spectular card! You rovked the challenge!
Your card is fabulous Anita! I love the look of the “you” hang on the bottom. I saw a video that Jennifer McGuire did on this technique and I can’t wait to try it myself. Love your colors and that silver embossing too. I will certainly go check out Miss Darnell’s info and play along!! Hugs, Brenda
This rocks, Anita! I thought of the Muse card immediately and love your take on it! Thanks for playing along with CASology this week!
Love your blocked sentiment’d panels, and the ‘hanging’ you is perfect!
Love that hanging word – have to try that one day! Fabulous take on the Muse! The silver embossing makes your card really shine!
Very cool design! The silver looks great with the blue 🙂 Thank you so much for taking the time to share with us at Colour Me…! this week. We sure hope to see you again soon 🙂
Another fabulous creation, Anita – love the hanging word. Perfect card for all the challenges (especially Colour Me…! while I’m guesting 😉 !
My fave in the Muse challenge… absolutely love the silver embossing.
I love the aqua and the silver embossing make for a great card Anita.
Wonderful card, love the stripes with the writing on them. Thank you so much for joining us this week at CASology
Oh, this is fabulous! I love it!
How fun are all your comments! Way to combine the challenges with this totally fabulous card — love the silver! Thanks so much for joining in with Muse!!
Anita- way to rock the challenges!
WOW girl, challenges ROCKED!! Look at you, love this SHINE and the embossing is perfecto-!
Thanks for joining us gal pals at CASology!!! We LOVE seeing you here Anita!!!!!
I also made a note of Kristie’s hanging sentiment… LOVE your take on Vicki’s card Anita! AWESOME!
What a unique and special card this is! I love the alternating stripes,the silver embossing and the hanging YOU, Perfection!Thanks for sharing the technique. I always love visiting you, Anita. Have a great day! 🙂
Great Cas card with a great colors!
Well aren’t you the sneaky one? You tell me I won but never mentioned your honorable mention. Congratulations! It is a wonderful cards.
Such an incredible card! LOVE This one!
What a fab-u-lous card – love the colour combo (aqua is one of my favourite colours!). Amazing how you combine so many challenges! Nicole x
Oh, another awesome creation, Anita!!!! I love the hanging ‘you’ and the silver embossed words!! So clever to have your embossed words flow from one stripe onto the next – it just adds to the total success of the card!! Great on combining all those challenges to create another lovely card!!!