Cool Colours- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello and Welcome.

First card of the New Year and a new challenge at the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge.

This month we are creating using Cool colours.  

Here is a sampling of them:

We also want to welcome our Guest Designer this month:

Guest Designer:  Chrissie (Simply One of a Kind)

So onto my card details.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and placed it into my Misti.

I positioned the Peacock Feathers stamp from Technique Junkies over my paper then I painted directly onto the stamp with some diluted Brushos in purples, green and blues.  I pressed onto my paper and added more ink where needed.  It helps to spray your stamp with some water as well to help the colours blend.  The Brushos give such rich colour.

When it was dry, I stamped the sentiment and simply mounted it onto a heavy white cardbase.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

I hope you will come and play along with us.  We have some great challenges to offer you this year.

Supplies

Stamps- Peacock Feathers (Technique Junkies); Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Brushos

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); paintbrush

Rainbow of Color- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Welcome.

Today, I have a card for our new challenge at the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge.

We have a fun theme to be inspired by this month; Rainbow

We are welcoming our guest this month as well, Hannelie (Desert Diva).  

To create my card, I began by making a monoprinted background.

I rubbed Distress Oxide inks onto my stencil, starting with the lightest colour at the top and moving down to the darkest at the bottom, sprayed with water to help blend the colours and pressed onto my paper.  When I lifted up the stencil, I was left with this wonderfully rainbow coloured background.

I dried the piece then placed it into my Misti.  I inked up the stamp from the Unity set and stamped it onto my rainbow background.  I stamped the sentiment then simply mounted it all onto a white card front.

I hope you will come and play along with us.  I'm sure we will have such a wonderful, colourful gallery this month.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Use Your Stuff- FREE WEEK
Watercooler Wed.- FEMININE ANYTHING GOES
Try It On Tuesday- STENCILS/DIE CUTS or both
Papercraft Challenge- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Supplies

Stamps- Insightful Meadows (Unity); sentiment (Rubbernecker)
Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Distress Oxides- Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry,
Candies Apple, Peeled Paint, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers,
Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans, Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet (TH)
Paper- heavy white
Accessories and Tools- Misti; Bubble Layering Stencil (TH); Mister (TH)

Garden Silhouettes- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Welcome and meet today's card.

Time for another card for the 

CAS WATERCOLOUR CHALLENGE.

Great theme this month....Garden.

For the challenge this month, we ask that you include a garden and not just a flower.

We welcome Nonni from Nonni's Handmade Cards as our GD this month.  

Here's what I did to create my card.

I began by masking off my card front so I would have a nice clean white border when I was done.

Next, I inked the back of Mini Sweet Peas stencil with Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide inks, sprayed with water and pressed onto my paper to give me a monoprint.

*Be sure to let your paper dry when working with Distress Oxide inks, they smear when wet.*

When that was all dry, I stamped these flowers from Art Journey over the top using some more Distress Oxide inks.

I decided not to add a sentiment so my card could be used for any occasion.

I hope you will come and play along with us.

Adding my card to these challenge:

Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES

Inspiration Destination- ANYTHING GOES

Moo-Mania- COLOUR EFFECTS

Supplies

Stamps- Nature Flowers (Art Journey)

Inks- Distress Oxides (Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Wilted Violet )

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- stencil- Mini Sweet Peas (TCW); Misti; Mister (TH); Post It Tape

Love Note- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello and Welcome.

Time for more fun at the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge

 With Valentine's Day right around the corner it's a great time to create a heart card.
We are so happy to also welcome Sue from Sue's Card Craft as our Guest this month.
Come and see what our talented team has created.


I began my card by creating the backdrop for my cute little Penny Black houses.
To do that, I rubbed some Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide inks onto my acrylic stamping block, sprayed with water and pressed onto my paper.
I also used some Seedless Preserves to paint the little heart on top of house in the center.
I mounted the inked background and the little houses over a circle die-cut front.
Stamped the sentiment from the cute Smitten set by Penny Black using my Misti.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES
Shopping Our Stash- HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT
The Male Room- INSPIRED BY TV
(Fixer Upper)
Addicted to Stamps and More- MAKE YOUR  MARK
(acrylic block inking)
Just Add Ink- ADD ROMANCE

Supplies
Stamps- Smitten (Penny Black)
Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Distress Oxides
Paper- heavy white (local store)
Accessories and Tools- Neighbourhood Love (PB); Misti; acrylic stamping block; Mister (TH)

Birthday Blessings- The CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello and Welcome

Here is another card for our birthday theme at the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge.

I think we can always use some extra birthday to have on hand in our stash.
I kept mine very clean and simple by inking the side of my card front using the Acetate Inking Technique I have shown here on my blog before.
I rubbed Distress Oxide inks onto my piece of acetate, sprayed with water then pressed on my paper until I was happy with the inking.
I placed the thistle into my Misti and stamped over the inked area using black ink.
To add some interest, I stamped the Queen Anne's Lace flowers in the background using the same colour that I had inked with.  By doing that, it creates sort of a shadow effect yet still keeping my card  looking very clean and simple.
I stamped the sentiment off to the right,  just touching the one side of the flower to help pull the whole design together.

I hope you get a chance to check out the challenge.
Thanks for looking.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Card Mania- MONOCHROMATIC
Creative Craft Cottage- JANUARY BLUES
HLS January Mixed Media- GARDEN
Love to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies
Stamps- Nature Flowers (Art Journey); Birthday Blessings (Denamidesign)
Ink- Tuxedo Black Memento; Salty Ocean, Peacock Feather DOX (TH)
Paper- heavy white
Accessories and Tools- acetate sheet; Misti; Mister (TH)