Bird Amidst the Holly

Hello friends.

I'm back again with a mid-month reminder for
CAS Watercolour

I put a light wash of Antique Linen on a piece of mixed media for the base
and added some splatters with the same ink that sort of disappeared into the background.

The holly and bird were die cut from Mixed Media paper.

I watercolored the pieces with Distress Markers and an Aqua Painter and
used a bone folder to slightly shape the leaves.

After the holly boughs were adhered, I added the chickadee with dimensionals
and some Dazzling Details glitter on the leaves.

Here's the CAS Watercolour Challenge

Our Design Team and Guest Designer Ina have some wonderful inspiration for you.

And with that bit of glitter, it fits with the CAS Mix Up Challenge too.

There's some gorgeous cards in both of these galleries.  Lots of inspiration for Christmas cards!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Season's Gifts (PB)

Ink:   Antique Linen (DI), Distress Markers (Peeled Paint, Barn Door, Fired Brick, Antique Linen, Hickory Smoke, Black Soot, Dried Marigold)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Str), Neena

Other:  Bird Amidst The Holly Die (PB), Dazzling Details (retired SU)

Ghosted Leaves for CAS Mix Up and a New CAS Challenge

This is a long post but there's some fun and exciting news contained herein.

But I'm going to save that for the end.

For now here is this month's CAS Mix Up Challenge

and my card

I used Stamping, Ghosting and Sponging

The Design Team has some awesome inspiration and we're joined this month by
Mac Mable (The Sweetest of Peas) who was our Monthly Pick for August
with this lovely card.

There are several ways to do the ghosting technique and there are video links at CAS Mix Up.

I used the Bleach without Bleach by France Martin (12:29) technique for this card.

First I sponged lots of ink on a piece of Neena cardstock.

Next I spritzed a leaf stamp with Stampin' Mist and pressed it down on the sponged piece.

I repeated the process several times using different leaf stamps.

I pretty much CASEd Frenchie's design.

Because the stamps weren't true silhouette stamps they left the ghosted imprint
of the outline and some lightening inside but still left some color.
I loved that look!

I cut down the panel and have another piece left over.
(That piece didn't turn out as well and may be in the bin before long.)

I don't know what happened to the sentiment.  I stamped it with Always Artichoke ink
and it was much darker when it was first stamped.  When I went back later, the ink had lightened considerably.  I had removed the stamp from the MISTI so I decided it was best to leave it alone.

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Now on to EXCITING NEWS!!

We are having a Design Team Call for CAS Mix Up.  The DT call runs from October 1st - 15th. Are you interested on being on the CAS Mix Up Design Team??  Check out the requirements on the CAS Mix Up Blog.  Good luck everyone!

MORE EXCITING NEWS!!

Loll and I are excited to announce a new card challenge ---
 CAS Watercolour Card Challenge.

We had trouble deciding between a mixed media or watercoloring challenge earlier in the year.
Mixed media won out then.
But our love of watercoloring on cards was still pulling on us and we're excited to
finally launch this new challenge.

 We hope you like the idea and want to join in.

The challenge starts today.  Future challenges will begin on the 2nd of every month. The challenge is to create a CAS (Clean and Simple) Watercoloured card following the theme each month.

There is a new challenge starting today ... a "sister" challenge to CAS Mix Up.  

Click HERE to check out CAS Watercolour Card Challenge.

Our first challenge is

Here's a little something I whipped up for this challenge

I used a NBUS Verve stamp and watercolored with an Aqua Painter and ink pads.

MORE EXCITING NEWS!!
We are having a Design Team Call for CAS Watercolour Card Challenge.  The DT call runs from October 1st - 15th. Are you interested on being on the CAS Watercolour Design Team??  Check out the requirements on the CAS Watercolour Blog.  Good luck everyone!

If you're interested check out the details at

CAS Mix Up

and 

CAS Watercolour Card Challenge

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (CAS Mix Up)

Stamps:  Vintage Leaves (SU), Beautiful Butterflies (PTI)

Ink:   Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Always Artichoke

Paper:   Very Vanilla (SU), Solar White (Neena 110 lb.), Core'dinations

Other:  Stampin' Sponge, Stampin' Mist, Linen Thread (all SU), Fun Foam

Card Recipe (CAS Watercolour Card Challenge)

Stamps:  Bountiful Harvest, Happy Fall (Verve)

Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Crushed Curry, Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Baked Brown Sugar, Sahara Sand, Soft Sky (SU)

Paper: Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Aqua Painter, Paper String (TH)

Sunny Pair Two Ways and Exciting News

I had this stamp out for the inside of a sunflower card we did in class last week.

Before I put it up, I stamped it on piece of watercolor paper

and watercolored it with my Zigs and an Aqua Painter.

After coloring the flowers, I did a light wash in the background, then

randomly stamped with a script stamp and small butterfly.

Here's another that's a little more of a loose look.

I got some blooms where I didn't really want them.  That's the thing with watercolor.

You never know what to expect!  That's one thing that I love about it!

I used my MISTI to ink just the petals and moved the color around with an Aqua Painter.

Then I stamped the petals again over top of the painting.

I did the same thing with the stems and leaves.

Then I did the center.

Finally, I used the wet on wet technique to do the wash (and bloom).

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

NATURE

is still open so I'm going to share these cards over there.

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AND NOW FOR

EXCITING NEWS!!

There is a new challenge starting on October 1... a "sister" challenge to CAS Mix Up.  

Click HERE to check out CAS Watercolour Card Challenge.

Come join the fun!!

See you on October 1st for the first CAS Watercolour challenge!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (Card 1)

Stamps:  Sunny Pair, Snippets, Happy Snippets (all PB), Thinking of You (HLS)

Ink:   Archival Black (Ranger), Chocolate Chip (SU)

Paper:   Chocolate Chip (SU), Distress Watercolor (TH)

Other:  Zigs (Yellow, Orange, Med. Green, Mid Brown), Aqua Painter, Stately EF (Craft Concepts)

Card Recipe (Card 2)

Stamps: Sunny Pair, Enjoy (PB)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena 110 lb.), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Ink: Distress Markers (Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Gathered Twigs

Other:  MISTI, Water Spritzer