Birthday Bunny- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello and Welcome.

It's time for another card for the 

CAS WATERCOLOUR CHALLENGE

I have the pleasure of hosting the challenge this month with the theme I chose.

I thought it would be fun to add some cards for a child to our stash.  I hope you get a chance to check out the happy, inspiring gallery and what our DT's have created.

We also welcome our Guest this month, Bobby from Bits and Pieces.

So onto my card details.

I began with a plain white piece of cardstock.  I rubbed some Worn Lipstick and some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide inks onto my non-stick craft sheet, sprayed with water and slapped my paper into the wet ink.  My friend Loll Thompson has a great video showing how to do this technique here.

I took another piece of heavy white cardstock and die-cut the Diamond Cut from it and glued that over the inky background.  I stamped the bunny and the banner from the  PB Special Friend set with more of the Picked Raspberry, fussy cut them out and then pop dotted them over the inked bkg.  The finishing touch was the little white pom-pom I glued onto the rabbit's tail.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Special Friend (Penny Black)

Inks- Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry DOX (TH); Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- die- Diamond cut (PB); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); pop dots'

white pom-pom

Rose Garden- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning

It's time for another fun theme at 

The Flower Challenge

This month we are challenging you to create a card using this simple sketch.

Please be sure to check out all the great cards created by our DT's.

So onto my card.

I had a piece of Alcohol inked Yupo that I thought would make for some beautiful roses so I die-cut the roses with some heavy white cardstock first then cut again with the inked Yupo.  I carefully glued the die-cut pieces back into the white outline and set them aside.  (I should mention that I did modify the die by cutting it down a bit before adding it to my card.)

Using my Grid embossing folder, I embossed the long panel of the sketch you see to the left side.  Since I was leaving my card white, I wanted to add as much texture and interest as possible. 

Next, I die-cut the Swirl Square twice and glued them to another piece of cs to use as the smaller piece on the sketch.  I love how they look.

I then glued it all together as per the sketch, pop dotted the roses and added some little pearls as the finishing touch.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- None

Inks- Alcohol ink

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Swirl Squares die (Penny Black); EB grid (Darice); 

Rose Cluster (Kaisercraft); pop dots; sm pearls; Tombow Mono Aqua glue

Flower Collage

Happy Saturday and time to play.

Meet today's card.  Just a fun combination of stencilling and stamping.

I like the look of a nice crisp, white border so I began by masking off my card front with painter's tape.  I laid down the lattice mini stencil and using some Peeled Paint Distress Oxide ink, I covered my card front.  I removed that stencil then laid down the flower mini stencil from the same set over that and using some Broken China Distress Oxide ink, I stencilled again.  

(I did a TLC Challenge a few weeks ago over at Splitcoast stampers about stencilling over a stencil.

You can check out my other card here.)

Next, I inked up the Clover Silhouette inside my Misti with black ink then clear heat embossed it to help make it pop.  I did the same thing with the sentiment.

To help further define my card front, I stamped some mixed media element on the edges and inked around the edges with Distress ink.

I removed the painter's tape and mounted my piece onto a blue cardstock front.

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look!

Adding my card to these challenges:

STAMPlorations- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES 

Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES

Mod Squad- LAYERED FLORALS

International Art and Soul- ELEMENTS OF NATURE

Supplies

Stamps- Clover Silhouette (Magenta); Enjoy the Moment (Daisy Bucket); 

Mixed Media Elements (STAMPlorations)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Peeled Paint and Broken China Distress Oxides (TH)

Paper- heavy white cs (local store)

Accessories and Tools- MISTI; painter's tape; applicator tool (TH); 

Tim Holtz Mini Stencils Set 4; clear eb powder; heat tool