Thinking of you

When I was blog hopping the other day I came across AAA cards blog which appealed to me as the emphasis is on CAS cards.  I love the CAS style but have discovered that a simple look can actually be difficult to achieve!

Game #10 on AAA cards is PLAY with watercolour techniques.

I embossed the image on my card with white embossing powder and the used distress inks to watercolour the image. I mounted the panel on dimensional foam.

Materials used:-

Stamps - image and sentiment by Woodware

Distress inks - various

Thank you for visiting my blog - I hope you will pop over to AAA cards and see what the other participants created.

Turquoise

I am entering this card in the following challenges:-
Keep it Simple #43 - Turquoise
Addicted to CAS #42 - Code word SKY

To make the card, I clear embossed the snowflakes and then inked the card before ironing off the embossing to give a nice smooth background to do more stamping.  Finally I added the die cut snowflakes and mounted the panel on a glittered card.

Materials used:-
Uniko Studio Stunning Snowflake set - snowflakes and sentiment
Snowflake dies - Uniko Studio and Marianne Design Creatables "Swedish Ice Star"
Distress inks - tumbled glass and broken china

Thank you for visiting my blog - perhaps this card will inspire you to start making your Christmas cards early!

Earth Tones

The colour challenge for week 179 at Less is More is   Earth Tones.   I made a very simple card using the Kaleidocolor rainbow dye inkpad which has lots of earth tones. I thought the card looked quite bare so I inked the edges lightly with some distress ink, added machine stitching and some glitter stickles to the seed heads. I am feeling quite pleased with myself as the stamp and the inkpad both came from my NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff)!

Materials used:-
Woodware Grasses stamp
Kaleidocolor - Cappuccino Delight

Distress ink - Antique linen

Ranger Stickles - copper

Thank you for visiting my blog and for your comments.  Please pop over  and see what the other participants have created.

Recycled Christmas Tree

The challenge for week 178 on Less is More is to use a recycled item. This did make me pause for thought - not that I don't have a lot of discarded stuff - but I seemed to be lacking inspiration! Then I found some old Christmas wrapping paper lurking in the back of the cupboard. I covered some scrap card with the wrapping paper. The embossed piece was from my "discards" box and it was already inked. The panel was cut from a card which had some marks on it. It turned out to be a quick and easy card!

Materials:-
Sentiment - Banana Frog Xmas Elegance set
Ink for sentiment - Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler

Thank you for visiting my blog - please pop over to LIM and see the other "recycled" cards.

Reindeer!

When I was blog hopping I found this Christmas card challenge blog entitled 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown. I thought it might be fun to take part so here is my entry to this week's challenge where the theme is "reindeer".

Materials used:-
Reindeer stamp - Tim Holtz Seasons Silhouettes; snowflakes - Stampendous
Sentiment - Stampin Up Sassy Salutations
Distress inks - tumbled glass and broken china
Archival inks - black and cobalt

Thank you for visiting my blog - please pop over to 52CCT - you may inspired to make your Christmas cards early!

Spread sunshine

The code word on Addicted to CAS this week is "sun" so I searched my stock to find a suitable stamp. The one I have used was a free one from Craft Stamper magazine. The background is done using a Tim Holtz technique which you can see on his blog. I like the water coloured effect it produces. I machine stitched around the background to link this to the stitching on the circle.

Materials used:-
Tim Holtz mask - Harlequin
Distress inks - mustard seed, spiced marmalade and picked raspberry
Sun stamp - Craft Stamper
Sentiment - Hero Arts "Anytime messages"
Dies - Lawn Fawn for the circle and Die-amicus for the banner

Thank you for visiting my blog!

Three flowers

Here is another water coloured card - I stamped and embossed the images before colouring them with distress inks. The hardest part was cutting out the squares and mounting them to ensure they were equally spaced. Hope they are! I am going to enter this card in this week's challenge on Less is More which is Watercolour. There are so many great examples of this technique on the LIM blog so do pop over and have a look.

Materials used:-
Stamps - Hobby Art mixed flowers
Distress inks - broken china, picked raspberry and seedless preserves

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