CAS Happy Thoughts- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning.

A new month means a new theme at 

THE FLOWER CHALLENGE

We have a PRIZE to give away again this month. The amazing Michele from 
CAS-ual Fridays stamps has generously agreed to give our lucky winner this month a
prize of $25. All the Design Team have used CAS-ual Fridays stamps also on their cards. Michele very kindly gave us all some of her stamps to use on our cards ;)

We also have a new Guest Designer for October ,Tina Magnusson I am sure you will agree she makes such beautiful cards. Do check out her blog you won't be disappointed!.

This is how I created my card.

I began by rubbing some Blueprint Sketch DOX ink onto a piece of acetate, sprayed with water and pressed onto my white cardstock just to one side.  I tried to leave some white open space as we are creating a CAS style of card.  Next, I place the Simple Grid stencil over the inked area and added some random bits of stencilling for interest using some Tumbled Glass DOX ink.

While that dried, I took a piece of white cardstock and using some more DOX inks in the same colours as mentioned above and a wet paintbrush, I painted the flowers then fussy cut them out along with the leaves.
I stamped the sentiment using my Misti, then added the scored lines to help define the stamped areas.
I simply mounted it all onto some heavy white cardstock.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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Supplies

Stamps- Peaceful Garden (CAS-ual Fridays)

Inks- DOX (TH); Versafine Clair Nocturne

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Simple Grid Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

acetate sheet; black gems, Scor-Bug

Up on the Rooftops

Meet today's card.

Just a simple one filled with some fun.

I began by masking the side panel with a piece of scrap paper.  I punched a circle as well to represent the moon as I sponged with my Distress inks to fill in the masked area.

Leaving the mask in place, I stamped the trees using black Memento ink.

I removed the mask and stamped this fun flying Santa in his sleigh that I just picked up from The Stampin Place, with more black ink.  Added a simple sentiment and then mounted the whole piece onto navy cardstock.

That's it...pretty simple eh?

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- CHRISTMAS/WINTER WISHES 

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES

City Crafter- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAT?

CAS Mix Up- STAMPING/MASKING/SPONGING

Supplies

Stamps- trees (Northwoods); Santa's Sleigh (The Stampin' Place); Christmas Cheer (TT)

Inks- Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans Distress (TH); Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; inking tool (TH); paper for masking; circle punch (SU)