Rainbow Inking for CAS Mix Up

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's time for another challenge at CAS Mix Up!

Our hostess this month is my talented friend, Susan and for our Stencilng Challenge

 she chose...

I used a NBUS stencil from Studio Katia and inked through it with

Distress Inks.  The strings were stamped in the same colors.

The piece was die cut with a stitched rectangle and I added a narrow matting of

green.  The sentiment is heat embossed on a snippet of black cardstock and

popped up with dimensionals.

My sweet and talented friend, Michele (I Card Everyone) is our Guest Designer this month.

She and the Design Team have some awesome inspiration for you.

I hope you'll check them out and join us.

Challenges:

CAS Mix Up - Rainbow Inking-Must use a stencil

NBUS #26 - Never Before Used Schtuff (new stencil)

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Celebrate (for strings-SSS), Bitty Birthday Wishes (MFT)

Ink:   Picked Raspberry, Spiced marmalade, Mustard Se, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, Wilted Violet (DI), VersaMark

Paper:   Nenah, Granny Apple Green, Basic Black (SU)

Other:  Birthday Balloons Duo Stencil (Studio Katia), Stitched Rectangles Die (SSS), Subtle EF, White Gelly Roll Pen, White EP

A Rainbow Array of Balloons

Hello friends.  I'm glad you could stop by!

I've used my balloon punches and dies to cut various sizes of balloons
from Mixed Media paper and colored them by swiping my Zigs
around the outer edge and spreading the color with a water brush.

When dry I temporarily adhered them to a scrap of cardstock,
smacked them with a Versamark pad and heat embossed with clear powder.

After laying the balloons on some sparkly paper to check for placement,
I stamped the happy birthday and some swirls from the other
words in this set in coordinating colors for the strings.

I've popped the balloons up for dimension.

I'm taking this to the Seize the Birthday 200th Challenge Celebration.

I have been inspired by the colors and the balloons.

Congratulations to Seize the Birthday!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Curly Sentiments (wish)

Ink:   Encore Gold, DI, VersaMark

Paper:   Mixed Media, Sparkly (?), Soft Sky (SU)

Other:  Balloon Punches (SU & MS), Celebration Time Dies (SSS), Zigs CCRBM (22 Carmine Red, 70 Orange, 50 Yellow, 36 Lt. Blue, 41 Lt. Green), 81 Lt. Violet), Gold EP, Clear EP (SU)

Rainbow with Birds on a Wire for CAS Watercolour

Hello friends.

Just over a month to join in at CAS Watercolour.

Another Rainbow card for
Loll's CAS Watercolour Challenge

This was a test of using the Acetate Smoosh Technique I used on this card.

It was too pretty to throw away.

I added the silhouette birds on a wire, die cut twice and stacked, 

then framed it, stamped a sentiment and was done.

Well I did mount the design on a piece of foam and attach it to a card base.

Then I was done!

The bird die was a gift from a sweet friend.

Thanks so much.  I love it!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Festive Berries, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean (DI), Onyx Black (Versafine)

Paper:   Mixed Media, Neena, Basic Black

Other:  Double Pierced Rectangles Die (Avery Elle), Birds on Wire (AE)

Rainbow Stripes

Hello friends.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I'm having fun making rainbows this month for

CAS Watercolour

There are some really pretty rainbow cards joining the gallery too.

To do this background, I swiped some Distress mini ink cubes on a piece 

of acetate one at a time, spritzed and pressed onto mixed media paper.

I let the colors overlap a little and re-inked if the stripe wasn't bright enough.

The trick is lots of water!

I saw this technique here and CASEd Julie's card.
I found it easier to work with the acetate than the acrylic block.

I split the panel and adhered it the two pieces on foam tape to the card front.

The die cut balloon was watercolored with Zigs and covered with Glossy Accents for shine.

I wrapped a piece of twine around the base of the balloon and taped it in the back

then glued the end under thte heat embossed sentiment.

I tried this technique more than once to get this look.

Just saying....

Practice, practice, practice!

I'm going to take this over to the

Take It Make It Challenge at

Craft Stampers Magazine

ANYTHING GOES

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Fun Birthday Sentiments (HLS)

Ink:   Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Wilted Violet (DI), Onyx Black (Versafine)

Paper:   Mixed Media (St.), Neenah

Other:  Acetate, Celebration Time Die (SSS), Zigs CCRBM (#50 yellow, #52 Bright Yellow), Glossy Accents, Black EP (SU), Twine (FSJ)

Rainbow for CAS Watercolour

Hello and welcome.

It's time for a new challenge at
CAS Watercolour

This month, Loll is hosting the challenge.

How fun is that?

I've had this Ironwork Background stamp for a long time.

It wasn't in my NBUS box, but I don't remember ever using it.

I could be wrong though.

I stamped and heat embossed the image onto Mixed Media paper.

To watercolor, I smooshed some Distress Ink onto a small piece of acetate, 

spritzed with water and pressed it onto the embossed piece.

You can see a tutorial for this on Karen's Snippets Blog.

I repeated this process using different colors and blending them together

a bit with the brush, sometimes drying in between colors.

When it was all dry, I die cut the piece and added the 

Memory Box butterfly and sentiment.

(The black outline butterfly has a solid die cut of vellum  underneath.)

Our Design Team has a beautiful variety of rainbow watercolor cards

to inspire you.  We are joined this month by our talented

Guest Designer, Hannelie (Desert Diva).

Hope we'll see your watercolor rainbows at CAS Watercolour this month.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ironwork Background (HA), Fun Birthday Sentiments (HLS)

Ink:   Whisper White (SU), Festive Berries, Mustard Seed, Mermaid Lagoon, Picked Raspberry (DI)

Paper:   Mixed Media, Neena, Basic Black, Vellum (SU)

Other:  White EP (SU), Acetate, Water Spritzer, Moonlight & Kaleidoscope Butterfly Dies (MB)