A Buncha Challenges

These days when I lack mojo, I tend to pull myself out of it (if only a little bit) by playing with my hoarded collection of washi tape. If I can take a sketch and a color challenge, I'm usually set.

The design for this first card is a variation of my go-to three-strips-of-washi-tape design. I used the colors from the current Play Date Cafe challenge:

 and this is what came out:

You may think I had a purpose with the placement of those stars, but in fact they hide some unfortunate flaws. The one on the yellow washi hides a piece of fuzz that got under the tape and won't let go. Also, there were only three stars at the top until I noticed a smudge, and since I made and trashed four of these before I got to this one, I was NOT starting over again. CAS is not clean or simple in my world.

Moving on, I used the ColourQ challenge colors:

to make this:

You can sorta tell this started out as the same design as the first one, but of course I stamped the sentiment crooked. Look:

I thought I'd be smart and trim the card stock so the sentiment was straight, then go back and square it up from that edge, which is how that bottom edge got to be such a weird angle. However, when I got to this point, I remembered the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch!:

which I re-oriented to work for my, um, situation:

See that angled edge? THAT'S what I needed! So that's how this came to be (one more time):

The original sentiment is nicely covered by the banner. See? There are no mistakes in stamping; only opportunities for embellishment!

I think both of these cards qualify as "Masculine", so because I'm in a funk, I'm going to go ahead and submit them for the Addicted to CAS challenge:

So there you have it: a buncha challenges all knocked out in two cards.

Thanks for stopping by!

Products used but not linked below: Misc washi tape, black sharpie (faux stitching over the washi tape).

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