With Love

Hi there,
This is my second post today, a bunch of lovely Penny Black Tulips, a stamp out of my new stuff bin.

They were stamped on watercolor paper with versafine black onyx ink, then water colored using distress ink markers.  The sentiment is also from Penny Black.



The tulips are visiting these challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenges
Challenge up your Life
The card Concept
CAS Watercolour Card Challenge

    

Seasons Greetings

Hello-

There are several challenges I'd like to play in and they are all expiring soon. 
So first off this entry for:
CAS Watercolor Challenge, (cool colors Blue print sketch, Salty Ocean,
Mowed Lawn and  Dusty Concord) 
ABC Christmas Challenge  (Option B, last row of tic tac toe) and
Addicted to CAS (Frosty, Snowflake, and frosted gem).

I created a watercolor washed square using Distress Inks in Blueprint Sketch, Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn and just a touch of Dusty Concord.  I overlaid a diecut snowflake from Lawn Fawn, added a clear embossed sentiment from MFT and topped it all with a single frosted gemstone.
   

Thanks so much for visiting.

Triple CAS

Hi there -

Where has this month gone????  I looked at the calendar and saw it was the 24th and realized I had yet to play along with the ladies at the CAS challenges...so I got myself to my craft space and had some play time.

 

I started with CAS Stencil - Monoprint, because it needed drying time.

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 Next I played with CAS Mix up -  Oxidized Metal. 

This one was tough for me for some reason.

I have stamping, oxidized metal and embossing both dry and heat.

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My final card is for CAS Watercolour - Monochromatic

I used reds from the distress inks and some gold embossing hopefully this 

counts as a neutral and doesn't disqualify the card.

It was an enjoyable evening of crafting and getting inky.  Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous week.

CAS Watercolor

Hi There again -

One more card today for the CAS Watercolor Challenge. 

 

I scribbled some watercolor brush pens onto some hot-press watercolor card.  I wanted the colors to blend a bit but not to lose their individual colors since this is a challenge for colorful butterflies.  The colors were then lightly spritzed with water. It created some blending, but not a muddy mess thankfully.  I die cut the butterflies with a Simon Says Stamp set of stitched butterfly dies.  I mounted the butterfly, added the dotted lines and sentiment.

I might be disqualified since one of my butterflies flew the coop before getting glued down...and then the card looked better as a square with just one butterfly.

Thanks for stopping by.

Celebrate You

Hello -

Lately it seems that I only get to crafty stuff on the weekends...and I am retired.  Tonight I am playing along with Cupcake Inspirations, CAS Watercolor, The Flower Challenge and Color Throwdown.

This stamp is Altenew's Book Club. It's is meant for creating bookplates. I think the two small bouquets make for a wonderful embellishment around the sentiment space. 

I stamped everything with versamark, added silver embossing powder to my bristol paper panel. Light gray and pink were added to the flowers and leaves with Arteza brush pens. I blended out with a water brush.  I die cut the panel with a NND die and adhered it to a pink cardbase.

   

  

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Miss You

Greetings...

My week away seems to have jump started my mojo again.  YAY!   This card is for three challenges, one of which is new to me.

I am entering Just add Ink (Sketch),  CAS Watercolor (blue), and Challenge Up Your Life (tic tac toe).  I love it when one card can be made to fit several challenges.  I'm sending this one to my crafty friend - Peggy who recently moved from Maryland to Maine.  I do miss our get-togethers.

I started with the sketch, then chose the first column on the tic tac toe board which also satisfied the third challenge for something blue.

Adding score marks horizontally across the card base provided the start for the card; next - white heat embossing the Ellen Hutson mondo gebera daisy, coloring it with a water color marker and water brush, die cutting it (san stem with the help of some fussy cutting), mounting it on the prepared card base and lastly adding the sentiment from CTMH using my mini misti.

   

 

Thinking of you

Hello!

I'm playing along with a couple of challenges.  I took out the watercolors.  I haven't played with them in a very long time. The challenges are CAS Watercolor Challenge,  Die Cut Diva's and Double D Challenges.

I created a backdrop by splotching around some yellow, umber and green watercolors.  Once that was dry, I stamped in very light ink a portion of an IO poppies stamp.  I have about 1/3 of the stamp on my panel.  I went for a no-line watercolor look.  After adding several layers of color and allowing it all to dry, I added a sentiment from CTMH.  I die cut the panel, and mounted it on a pale green card base.

        

Thanks much for stopping by!

Begonia

Hello-

It is Saturday, and I am spending the day catching up on challenges.  Several are due soon and I want to make sure to play along.

Since January I've rediscovered the CAS suite of challenges (stencil, watercolor, Christmas and mixup)  I've come to love these, because I learn techniques and because of due dates, I have to play with that technique.  So it goes from oh that looks fun I'll have to try that sometime (some have been waiting years) to play soon or now.  So thanks Ladies, for the push!

This one is for CAS Watercolor, the challenge is watercolor on Vellum.  I stamped and embossed a begonia and a couple of leaves on some medium weight vellum. Then I turned them over and added color with artesia brush pens.  I bled the color out with a water brush.  Then I waited for it to dry.  I added a second layer of color and water and more waiting.

I wanted a dramatic card and I had quite a bit of warping of the vellum, so I used white card stock covered with stick it and attached the colored images.  I die cut them, and trimmed down the white edges.  I decided how to place the bloom and leaves, then added a gold embossed sentiment to a navy card base. The begonia and leaves were then adhered to the base.  I really love how the color pops on the dark base.

Thanks for visiting.

May Your Days

Hello ~

I have an entry for February's CAS Watercolour Card Challenge.  The challenge cue is Pink and Red.

I broke out a new Newton's Nook Stamp, and colored the tulips with some Zig markers on watercolor paper. I used a wet brush to soften the red.  The dress was colored in pink.  After it was dry, I went back to the tulips and I gave them more red, with a tiny bit more blending.  I think those tulips look positively velvety.

I added an oval hemstitch die to frame my image and mounted it on a red card-stock base. The sentiment too, is from the Newton's Nook Set Loads of Blooms.


Thanks so much for stopping by.

CAS Watercolor and Christmas

Hi there,

I am having fun making cards today.  I have one card for two challenges.  CAS Watercolor - Winter and CAS Christmas Card - Blue & Silver.

The panel was watercolored with salty ocean and faded jeans distress inks, left to dry naturally.  Then I added the image and sentiment from SU's Happy Seasons stamp set heat embossed in silver.  A bit of silver glitter tape was used to frame the panel and finish off the card.

               

Thanks so much for stopping by.

CAS is the style

Hi There!

Three challenges up today. HLS July CAS Challenge - Birthday, Addicted to Stamps and More - CAS, and CAS Watercolor Challenge - Butterfly.


I love challenges, and its fun to combine them when possible.  Here is my card:

The butterfly is stamped in black versafine and clear embossed because I am going to watercolor it using the zig clean color brush markers.  I used bristol paper, it allows the water to bleed color out beautifully. The butterfly is from Hero Arts, the sentiment and the stitched panel die are from Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

   

FMS287 and CAS Watercolor Flowers

Hi there, its been a bit rainy and drippy here the last few days and I am absolutely loving it. The end of the week has promises of a heat wave - ugh!  So, I'll just have to enjoy this while it lasts.

I have a card for two challenges today.  The sketch from Jen at Freshly Made Sketches is fabulous, and the theme of flowers at CAS Watercolor Card Challenge is a no brainer for me. I love flowers.

Thanks much for stopping by!