It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a fill in the blank!  My favorite beach activity is collecting shells!

I live in a landlocked state so I rarely visit the beach.  We have lakes of course, but I am not much of a water person no matter if it is the ocean or a lake.  But!  When I do visit the ocean, I love to collect sea shells. 

I started by stamping some sand, shells and a bucket.  I die cut the shells and bucket then popped up on my card.  I added a summery sentiment and was done!

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Supplies:  CS:  PTI white.  Inks:  SU! bumblebee, Sahara sand, crumbcake and lost lagoon.  Dies:  PTI linen plate and fence line summer.  Stamps:  PTI fence line summer and floating by sentiments.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a color challenge to use daffodil delight, blueberry bushel, granny apple green and white.

I opted for my standard CAS style with a simple but I think effective card.  I die cut some paisley pieces out of daffodil delight, blueberry bushel and granny apple green.

I stamped the sentiment and then arranged the pieces around it.  I added a few blue rhinestones and was done!'

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white, daffodil delight, blueberry bushel, and granny apple green.  Stamps:  PTI larger than life hello sentiments.  Dies:  Lil Inker paisley.  PTI linen plate.  Other:  SU! blue rhinestones.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a fun sketch challenge!

I love a great sketch and this one is definitely open to interpretation.  I don’t know that I did it justice but my mind went to camping so I searched out some camping stamps and got started.  I stamped and colored my images before die cutting. 

The sentiment snugged up nicely with the car and trailer so that I didn’t have to ruin the clean lines of the Tahitian tide that I added underneath.  Just a nice pop of color all around!

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white and Tahitian tide.  Stamps:  Lawn Fawn happy trails.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.  MFT blueprints 20 and mini stitched scalloped rectangles.  Inks:  SU! stampin’ blends – parakeet party, bubble bath, Tahitian tide, lemon lolly, smokey slate and gray granite.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a speed challenge to make a thank you card!

I have a love/hate relationship with speed challenges.  I love them when I know exactly what I am going to make and I can get it done in the required time…and I hate them when I know what I am going to make and it takes more than 10 minutes…lol!  I had to make this card twice so I was an expert the second time around.

I stamped the image from the long ago retired SU! always thankful stamp set.  I love this stamp set because of this one image.  I stamped it in wild wheat and ran the card thru my linen impression plate.  I stamped the sentiment and went to check the time…and cleared the timer!!  Argh!  So I started over!

So I repeated the above paragraph, sans clearing the time, snipped the sentiment edges and popped up on the card.  I was so proud of myself – I was about 5 minutes in when I decided to add some bling – which cost me a minute and a half trying to unstick the dots and get them on the card!  But at 6 minutes and 30 seconds, my card was done!

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! white.  Stamps:  SU! always thankful.  SSS sailing.  Inks:  SU! wild wheat.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.  Other:  SU! wild wheat dots.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a theme challenge to make a wedding card.

My sweet niece is getting married – thus my inspiration for the challenge!  I wanted to use her colors to make this card for her and my soon to be sweet nephew.  I started by die cutting the bride (in white and white linen) and groom (in misty moonlight) and gluing all the pieces together.

I die cut the oval in this lovely green to showcase the bride and groom.  I popped it up over some ribbon and then added the sentiment – which I really had to dig to find.  I think I need some more wedding sentiments!  Happy wedding day!

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Supplies:  CS: SU! certainly celery and misty moonlight.  PTI white and white linen.  Stamps:  PTI keep it simple wedding.  Dies:  PTI man and wife and linen plate.  MFT mini scalloped stitched ovals.  Other:  SU! certainly celery ribbon.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  We have a recipe challenge to use an embossing folder, black, white, one other color and die cut.

I opted to stamp my image (in pretty in pink as my one other color) randomly on the white card stock.  Then I embossed with my tasteful texture embossing folder.

I stamped the sentiment, die cut it as well as the white card front.  Then I adhered the card front to the pretty in pink cardstock and then onto black.  Finally, I added a strip of black behind the sentiment to anchor everything together.

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white, black and pretty in pink.  Stamps:  SU! faith in nature.  Dies:  SU! stitched rectangles and tasteful texture embossing folder.  Inks:  SU! pretty in pink.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a fill in the blank challenge.  The color I use least in my crafting is...flirty flamingo!

Confession:  This card was made for our previous challenge.  As I was making it - I had the thought that I never use flirty flamingo and shame on me because it is a lovely color!  You are probably wondering why I didn't post it for our last challenge...because I broke the rules and used green and two neutrals (white and brown) when you are allowed one neutral and only the four colors in the challenge.  I didn't have time to make another card so I had to sit out the challenge.  However...sometimes mistakes can become a card for the next challenge!

I stamped the apple harvest branch and colored the apples with my calypso coral and flirty flamingo blends.  I used crumbcake and granny apple green for the branch and leaves.

I stamped the sentiment and some flowers that I colored with bubble bath and daffodil delight.  I fussy cut them and added to the card front.  I backed the white front with flirty flamingo then adhered to the calypso coral base.  I ended up making another card with flirty flamingo while I had the cardstock out.  That means I am probably good with this color for awhile.  LOL.

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white, calypso coral and flirty flamingo.  Inks:  SU! blends:  daffodil delight, bubble bath, flirty flamingo, calypso coral, crumbcake and granny apple green.  Stamps:  SU! apple harvest.  CB message me.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.  SU! deckled rectangles.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a fun sketch challenge!

I started by stamping my lighthouse and then die cutting.  I went rectangle instead of circle, but that’s the great thing about this sketch – you can change up the shape!

I decided to get creative with the way I stamped the sentiment and I love how it turned out.  As you can see, I split the sentiment and used the word light to keep to the sketch requirements.  Once I had all the parts of the sentiment done – I added that bit of twine to keep with the oceany feel.  I popped the whole thing up on a piece of real red, adhered that to the white card base and was done. 

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white and real red.  Stamps:  PTI guiding lights.  Inks:  SU! real red.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.  MFT washi tape.  SU! deckled rectangles.  Other:  SU! linen thread and black rhinestones.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a speed challenge to use spring flowers!

I dug out this spring flowers stamp set that I have had for a long time and never used.  I thought I could finally beat this challenge and make a card in about 6 minutes (I know we have 10 minutes but I always seem to need the whole 10 minutes).  I did not think this through.  LOL.

The image stamping (and linen plate) took about 3 minutes – I took a quick peek at the timer and thought I can do this – just the coloring left!  Umm…no I couldn’t.  I spent the next 6 minutes and 53 seconds coloring.  Maybe next time!  Time left:  7 seconds.

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Supplies:  CS:  PTI white.  Stamps:  SSS spring flowers and friendship blooms.  Inks:  SU! blends – parakeet party, granny apple green, bubble bath, melon mambo, daffodil delight and lemon lolly.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a theme challenge to celebrate Easter.

I don’t have a lot of Easter stamps but…I bought this cute bunny wreath a while back and voila…Easter!  This is a stamp and stencil set so first up was stenciling the bunnies, the flowers and the carrots. 

The stamp portion is all of the greenery and sentiment.  I die cut the wreath and popped it up on some rustic white with the sentiment in the middle.  I added some sparkle and was done!

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Supplies:  CS: PTI white and rustic white.  Stamps/stencils:  The Greetery bunny hop.  Inks:  SU! daffodil delight, pumpkin pie, bubble bath and pear pizzazz.  Dies:  The Greetery bunny hop.  PTI linen plate.  Other:  rhinestones.