Tuesday, August 7, 2012

A Hoppy Hello

Here's a card I made for the CASology week #5 challenge. The cue card for this week is "pond." I guess we'll see frogs, lily pads and flies at the pond, so that's the idea I ran with. I kept it CAS too with lots of white space. I also made this in all green colors, so it  qualifies for the Shopping Our Stash #63 weekly challenge which is to create with monochromatic colors. I shopped my stash for this very old DCWV dsp, along with a cute Technique Tuesday stamp set that includes the sentiment, flies, and lily pad. The frog is from the "All Wrapped Up" stamp set by SU!. I also used the retro sketch #23 for inspiration. I had to flip it because the frog looks better facing this way. Instead of using squares, circles or punches, I stamped the flies in 3 groups just for fun. I colored them with my neon green Copic and added some Spica clear glitter pen accents. The frog is covered with glossy accents and popped up on foam tape.

That's it for me today, but thanks for stopping by!





Carol

17 comments:

LeAnne said...

LOL, this is soooo cute! I don't know if I have any pond-ish stamps or not! LOVE the gingham and the flies!

jimlynn said...

I had the same idea to use a frog for this challenge - but haven't gotten any further than that thought! LOL!

Love this little neon green critter! Precious card and like how you used it for the sketch!

Lynn

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

Too fun and cute!! I just love the frog and the gingham paper!! Great CAS design!
hugs,
Chris

JD/ Jill said...

Very cute Carol...

~ Kathy said...

So cute - love how you used groups of flies instead of solid shapes! The design paper makes me think he's got a picnic all layed out! Can't help but smile...

Ardyth said...

So cute! Thanks so much for playing along with CASology this week!

Jenni's Jems said...

Great idea to add the glitter to the flies, and love the gingham paper makes the frog just 'leap'out :-D at you ! x

Tracey McNeely said...

Such a sweet card Carol, the flies are so funny. Thank you so much for joining us this week at CASology!

Cynthia said...

The flies are hilarious!! I LOVE your card!!!!

Melissa said...

Adorable! That is going to be one satisfied frog after it eats all those flies...too funny! :) Love the punny sentiment and your CAS design is fabulous! Thanks for joining us at CASology this week!

Shannon White said...

Cute Cute Cute Miss Carol! Love your Sweet little froggy and all the fun little flies, ( sounds so funny to say that, cause I can't stand flies, lol ) Just Adorable! 8-)

Hugs
Shannon

Benzi said...

Oh, how cute and fun, Carol. Just look at the meal froggie can have with all those flies. I love this CAS clever card.

Rosemary said...

too cute!! love those little flies!! thanks for playing along with CASology this week!

Vicki Fraser said...

very sweet, all he needs now is a sticky tongue to grab those flies!

Susan said...

Those flies just crack me up! If that frog had a quick tongue, he could catch a few flies! Adorable card!

CarlaKH said...

Hehe what a cute card! Love the froggy!
Thanks so much for joining us at Shopping Our Stash!

Deena said...

loving how you made this card fit into those challenges and that sketch! Thanks for playing with Shopping our Stash and the Monochromatic Challenge!