CASology...Camp

I am super thrilled and so honored to have been asked by Melissa (CONGRATULATIONS, Melissa on the birth of your baby girl on Sunday! SO happy for you!!) to be the guest designer at CASology this week!!...

The cue card this week is CAMP...

I used to camp all the time with my parents from an early age up until my mid teens...some of the best experiences of my childhood!!  BUT...the word camp, also made me think of going to camp.  I went to summer camp when I was little, a day camp.  I could not decide which CAMP to use for my card, so I made one for each school of thought...

When you camp in the wilderness, you can see a million stars!!  There are no lights from the city to drown out their brilliance!! I wanted to capture that part of my memories when we would camp.   I used a Memory box Landscape die and a star die from Simon Says Stamp(I cut many of my dies apart, as I did this one, with my Stanley 7" all purpose snips:)!).  I die cut the landscape which had houses, but cut the houses off to make it more "wildernessy" and moved a couple of the pine trees from the end of the die to the place where I had cut off one of the houses.  I layered on a black panel that I had die cut some very tiny stars, the smallest of the Simon Says Stamp Holiday Shapes and added some dots with my white gel pen. Used a Spellbinder rectangle die and cut a rectangle out of the main panel, stamped the sentiment from My Favorite Things and popped up panel on white card.  

My second card was based on going to camp.  I can remember that there were LOTS of crafts at camp. I chose to take a couple craft  items I remember from camp and make a card...a pipe cleaner and some yarn!  I used a red pipe cleaner and some red yarn along with a die cut Paper Smooches "love" sentiment for a pattern.  I twisted the pipe cleaner into the shape of the word using the die cut to compare my design to....my "e" is a little bigger than the die cut, but the word is pretty close:):)!  This was my third try...and just a note...I cut most of the red fuzz off the pipe cleaner...it makes it easier to wrap the yarn if there are not long red pieces hanging out from the pipe cleaner.  Added a "you" from a Simon Says Stamp set and popped up on white card.  Super simple...SUPER FUN!!

Thank you, Melissa, for inviting me to be a part of your design team this week...a blast from the past...and a blast!!  

Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

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