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)

Summer's End

Good Morning.

I must say that I am sad to see the summer ending but the crisp, cool Fall air feels refreshing.

Happy to have some time to stamp today and play with some new-to-me stamps.

I wanted to create a washed watercolour background for my card.  I did that simply by inking up my long acrylic block with Distress inks, sprayed with water and dragged the ink over the front of my card.  It is a super easy way to add ink yet leaving some white space behind.

Next, using my Misti, I stamped the flowers across the panel.  To add a bit of interest, I stamped the chevrons along the side too.  I think it just helped to break up all the flowers.

Stamped the sentiment and mounted it onto a white card base keeping it very clean and simple.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

CAS Watercolour- SILHOUETTE

Little Red Wagon- GIVE US YOUR BKG 

Simon Says- STAMPTEMBER STAMP IT

Just Us Girls- BLOCK WATERCOLOURING STAMPING

Supplies

Stamps- Dans la Nature (Carabelle)/ Chevrons D13123 (Impression Obession)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento/ Distress inks- Wilted Violet, Stormy Sky, Salty Ocean

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti/ Mister (TH)/ long acrylic block

Acrylic Block Watercolouring

Good Morning.

Playing with inks and paper again.

One of my favourite techniques is the Acrylic Block Watercoloring.  It is so fun and super easy too!

So here's what I did.

I pressed different colours of Distress inks directly onto my acrylic block, sprayed with water and then pressed onto my heavy weight cardstock.  When I lifted the block there was some puddling so I just soaked up the excess with a paper towel...my background was born.

When the piece was dry, I placed it inside my Misti, then inked the flowers with black and stamped them onto my card front. To add further interest to the bkg. I used the Mixed Media Elements and stamped along the edges to help balance the card out. Stamped the sentiment then mounted the whole piece onto my embossed card front.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Shopping Our Stash- CAS FOR SIMPLICITY DAY
STAMPlorations- STAMPS AND WARM COLOURS
Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING GOES STAMPING
Dare2B Artzy- BRIGHT COLOURS


Supplies
Stamps- Wildflowers Umbells (Magenta); Fond Expressions 2 (STAMPlorations);
Mixed Media Elements (STAMPlorations)
Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry, Fired Brick, Squeezed Lemonade,
Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans)
Paper- heavy white cs (local store)
Accessories and Tools- MISTI; die-Inside Out diagonal (MFT); Cuttlebug; acrylic block; mister (TH)