Bejeweled for CAS Mix Up

Time for another challenge at CAS Mix Up!

This month I am the hostess and this is what I chose

We are defining liquid color as any color medium that comes in liquid form.  
It can be Alcohol inks, Re-inkers, Stains, Paints, Sprays, etc.

I used Distress stains.  I hadn't worked with them before and it was fun to experiment on different papers and with different colors.

For this card, with the stamp in my MISTI, I daubed Picked Raspberry on the flowers and stamped.  I moved the color around a bit with my waterbrush and stamped again.  The stamp was still quite wet so I got another good inking.

I moved the color a bit more with my waterbrush then did some thumping with the Picked Raspberry Distress Marker on the still damp flowers and stamped that.

Then I repeated the process with Peeled Paint Distress Stain on the leaves and stems.  I didn't do any thumping on this part though.

I felt that the flowers needed a little more contrast so I put a drop of white acrylic paint on my palette and diluted it with a bit of water to brush lightly on some of the petals.

I die cut a double stitched circle for an aperture and used embossing paste and a small flourish stencil that Loll had cut with her Silhouette.

My mixed media are Stamping, Distress Stains, Acrylic Paint, Die Cutting, and Embossing Paste with Stencil.

The rest of the Design Team has some outstanding designs to inspire you and we have a very talented Guest Designer too.

There are videos at CAS Mix Up to give you some more ideas.

Hope we see you over at CAS Mix Up!

Also adding to
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge
ANYTHING GOES

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bejeweled, Happy Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Distress Stains (Picked Raspberry, Peeled Paint), Distress Markers (Picked Raspberry)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Stencil (cut with Silhouette), Embossing Paste (Wendy Vecchi), Double Stitched Circles Dies (LI), Acrylic Paint (Plaid)