Pink and Yellow

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

I recently found a box of flowers stickers deep in the cupboard.

In it were several different styles and sizes of daisies.

Pairing one (or two) up with a salted background in my stash, came

together for a card for the Color Hues challenge.

This is an A6 size and a bit larger than I usually make.  

I'm trying to use up some envelopes.

The salted background was made by wetting a piece of cold press 

watercolor paper and sprinkling Color Burst Powders over it.

When it was completely blended and still wet, I sprinkled some coarse salt

over top and let it dry.  When dry, I brushed the salt off and it left this fun design.

I stacked a smaller daisy over the top of a larger one for a little more depth.

I'm not sure if I'm crazy about it, but it's not coming apart.

Challenges:

Color Hues #85 (Yellow and Pink)

Krafty Chicks #712 - CAS week

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Handwritten Notes (ret PTI)

Ink:   Versafine Smokey Gray

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (Arches cold press)

Other:  Colorburst Powders (Razzle Berry, Lemon Drop), Coarse salt, Hemstitch Rectangle Die (Spl), Daisy Stickers (?)

Enjoy!

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Dash Away All

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

This Santa die had been hanging out in my NBUS box since last Christmas.

It's about time I  used it.

I cut a piece of salted watercolor for the background and die cut Santa and his reindeer 

twice from a snippet of black cardstock. I glued the two pieces together for 

some depth.

The houses were cut from another snippet of brushed silver cardstock.  I pressed the

edges of the roofs in VersaMark and sprinkled with a twinkly embossing paste

I found a tiny star stamp and stamped a few stars in the sky and embossed them.

I added a frame from my UFO box and stamped and embossed the sentiment.

Another one for the Christmas stash!

Challenges:

CAS Christmas - Santa

NBUS #40 - Santa Die

Jingle Belles - Bring on the Bling (glitter embossing powder)

Double Trouble Paper Crafts - Christmas in July

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bitty Holiday Wishes (MFT), Mini Stars (?)  

Ink: VersaMark

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (Arches Cold Press), Black, Brushed Silver

Other:  Dash Away All die (TH), Holiday Home Dies (ret SU), Metallic Platinum Sparkle EP (WOW)

Enjoy!

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Pine Boughs for CAS Mix Up

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

I've used a piece of salted background and used this beautiful, Big Bold stamp

that I won during Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Coloring Challenge in July.

Using my MISTI, I stamped parts of the pine boughs and pine cone with White Pigment ink

placing it off the side.  Then I heat embossed the images.

I used Zigs and my waterbrush to add color to the pine cone and winked the boughs

and cones to add some shimmer.  The camera chooses to ignore the sparkle.

Challenges:

CAS Mix Up - Watercolour Off the Edge

Double D - Pine Trees or Pine Cones 

Merry Little Christmas - Anything Goes

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Pine Branch & Pine Cones (Colorado Craft)

Ink:   Whisper White, Chocolate Chip (SU)

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches Cold Press), Neenah

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolors, Salt (Seasalt, Himalayan Pink), White EP, Zig CCRBM (Brown, Mid Brown), WOS, Stately EF (ret. Craft Concepts)

Wrapped Star

Hello dear friends.

Today is the launch of another
CAS Christmas Challenge.

The very talented Christine is our host this month.

I've used a piece of salted watercolor as the sky for

my die cut silver star.

Be sure to check out the awesome entries from our Design Team

and Guest Designer, Kaja (Kajcyika crafts).

I hope you'll join us at CAS Christmas.

It's so nice to have those Christmas cards done and ready to go

when December rolls around.

And it rolls around quicker every year!

Also adding to

Poppystamps Challenge

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Blessings (Verve)

Ink:   Encore Silver

Paper:   Neenah, Watercolor (Arches 140 lb. cold press), Silver Foil (SU)

Other:  Wrapped Star (PS), Silver EP (SU), Double Stitched Circle Die (LI), Salt, Gansai Tambi Watercolors 

Bitty Bird for CAS Christmas

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

I have another card for CAS Christmas

This time it's a little bird but I think he makes a big impact.

A short time ago a friend came over to play with some salt and watercolor.

She'd never tried the technique and it was fun for both of us to watch how 

the salt changed our watercolor as it dried.

I used some pieces for a card for my class.

Here's that card.  Another bird.

I had some extra card sets and I wanted to change them up a bit.

You'll be seeing more salted pieces and this layout in the future.

The CAS Christmas challenge ends Midnight tonight (PDT) on the 24th.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  A Better World (PB)

Ink:   Not Quite Navy (SU)

Paper:   Not Quite Navy, Real Red (SU), Watercolour (Arches 140 lb. cold press), Neenah

Other:  Birches Die (IO), Watercolors  (Gansai Tambi), Salt (Coarse Sea Salt, Pink Himalayan)

Winter Tree

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

This month, Christine is hosting at 

CAS Christmas

I used a piece of salted background left over from these cards

and stamped this winter tree on it. The MISTI enabled me to get a nice 

dark stamping on the watercolor paper.

I added snow with a Snow Marker and heated it to make it puffy.

Surgically separating the sentiment made it easy to stamp it in two colors.

Bobby (bits and pieces) is our Guest Designer this month.

She and the Design Team have some amazing inspiration pieces!

I hope you'll add to your masculine Christmas card stash and join us.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Tree (Seaside Stampin' Ink)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Real Red (SU)

Paper:   Neena, Basic Black (SU), Watercolor (Arches CP)

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolors (#61 Cornflower, #64 Blue, #66 Menthol Violet), Sea Salt, Himalayan Fine Pink Salt, Snow Marker (Marvy), Cheery Cardinals Die (PS)

Peaceful Dove for CAS Watercolour

I've had so much fun using salt with watercolor.

Here's another card using a salted background.

This one uses a NBUS dove die that's been waiting for use for
way too long!

I used a piece of watercolor background from this post.

Our CAS Watercolour Challenge this month is

But it must have watercolour!

The Design Team and our Guest Designer, Hideko (Papercraft Boutique)

have done some awesome inspiration pieces.

I hope you'll check them out then join in.

Since I have stamping, watercolor, salt, dry embossing and die cuts,

I'll add this over at CAS Mix Up too.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Festive Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Night of Navy (SU)

Paper:   Neena, Watercolor (Arches CP)

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolors (#62 Cobalt, #139 Purple), Sea Salt, Snowfall EF (Ret. Cuttlebug), Stitched Hexagons die (MB), Doves Die (IO)

Evergreen Window Stands Tall

Hello friends.

I had done this card a while back and liked it so much that I decided to

use it for one of my Christmas card classes.

One of the gals had her card this way to cut and I liked the way it turned out.

So I CASEd her.  Sometimes we have those happy accidents!

I stamped the sentiment crooked. What a surprise!

So I stamped again on a snippet and put some Dazzling Details 

around it to cover the boo boo.  

I added some sparkle to the trees and sky while I was at it.

I'm going to take this over to 

Rudolph Days at Scraps of Life by Scrappy Mo

Thank you Mo for hosting this challenge each month!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Treasures (wish)

Ink:   Night of Navy

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches 140 lb. cold press), Neena

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolour Paint, Salt, Evergreen Window Die (SSS), Dazzling Details (ret. SU)

Salty Joy to the World

Hello my friends.

I have another salty card to share.

My friend and teammate Christine (It's a card days night) is the Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers this week.

Woot, woot!  Congratulations, my friend!

Here's a link to her fantastic gallery at SCS.

I'm CASEing (Copy And Share Everything) this card.

To make this background, I wet a piece of Arches watercolor paper and dropped in color
from my Gansai Tambi watercolors.

While it was still wet, I dropped some Sea Salt on it.

This is what it looked like after it had dried and I scraped the salt off.

I thought it looked very wintry.

I had this wonderful die cut that my friend Susan sent me (thanks again Susan).

All I had to do was cut off a piece of the salted background and pop the die cut on top.

I'm going to take this over to
Rudolph Days
where it's anything goes Christmas.
Scrappy Mo sponsors this challenge every month from the 25th until the end of the month.
A great way to inspire us to increase that stash of Christmas cards.


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Care Recipe 

Stamps: Christmas Sentiments (Kaisercraft)

Ink:  Night of Navy (SU)

Paper: Neena, Watercolor (Arches CP)

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolors (#62 Cobalt, #139 Purple), Sea Salt, Evergreen Window (MB)

Salt in Pink

Here's the piece after watercolor and Sea Salt were added and it was left to dry.

I used the left side for this card.

You can read how I did the right side of this piece here.

Jack was helping me do "science experiments" with the salt.

He didn't like his pieces but he agreed to let me keep them and use them.

His mom's birthday was coming up and she asked for a card using some of Jack's work.

You can't see the shimmer on the flower, but Jack was fascinated with the 

silver and white paints and I die cut the flower from a piece of that.

I fit the cut out pieces back in for an inlaid flower.

CAS Watercolour

Challenge is open until the 24th.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (Card 1)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:  Watercolor (Canson Cold Press), Neena, Basic Black (SU), Vellum

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolor (#34 Dk. Pink), Chrysanthemum Corner (MB), Leavenworth & Cascadia Butterflies (MB)

Card Recipe (Card 2) 

Stamps: Bouquet of Thanks (SSS)

Ink:  Versa Fine Onyx Black

Paper:  Watercolor (Canson Cold Press), Neena

Other: Gansai Tambi (#34 Dk Pink, #95 Silver, #10 White), Bright Blossoms Die (SSS), Stitched Rectangles (SSS), Sequins (PPP)

Sunflower Hello

Hello.

I hope you're having a happy day!

I've used just a pinch of salt today.

This happy sunflower was die cut from a salted piece.

It's hard to see the patterns from the salt because of the intricate cut.

The stem and leaves were cut from a snippet leftover from this card.

After I added the brown watercolor to the flower, I used a bit
on the leaves to give them some added depth.

And because, in my yard, all the leaves have brown on them.

I should have shaded the grass border brown as there's lots
of brown in our grass too.  I did sponge some green on it.

It looks like it needs mowing doesn't it?

The Poppystamps challenge this month is

I have a border of grass and a scored border.

and the  CAS Watercolour Salt Challenge is still going.

and my snippet of grass and stem will give me a visit to
Pixies Snippet Playground

Thanks for the shout out, Di.


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Friendship Messages (SSS)

Ink:   Early Espresso, Gumball Green (SU)

Paper:   Rustic White (PTI), Mixed Media (ST), Snippet of Green

Other:  Bountiful Sunflower, Grassland Border (both PS), Gansai Tambi Watercolors, Pink Himalayan Salt, Table Salt, Simply Scored

Salty Marigold or is it a Dahlia

Hello dear friends.

Here's another sample of salt play and a reminder that there's still time to enter at
CAS Watercolour.

I covered a piece of watercolor paper with a wash of yellows using my

Gansai Tambi watercolors.

While it was still quite wet, I sprinkled some Himalayan Fine Pink salt in a couple of areas.

I just used a pinch and tried to keep it in a small section.

To my surprise, it looked like a couple of flowers when it dried!

I probably couldn't do this again but that's what's fun about using salt on watercolor.

You never know how it's going to look!

I used a water soluble marker to outline the lighter "petals".

The background piece used as a mat was done using the same colors of paint and table salt.

I've covered most of it up so you can't really see much of the pattern left from the salt.

Sorry I didn't get a photo of the piece before I cut it up.

I'll try to do better next time.

The CAS Watercolour Challenge 

this month is

The challenge is open until the 24th.

The Design Team and our awesome Guest Designer, Ros, have lots

of gorgeous samples to share with you there.

And if you need some video help, there's links at the 

challenge site.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Happy Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Soft Suede (SU), SU Marker (Old Olive)

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore CP for background, Arches CP for watercolor)

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolors (#43 Mid Yellow, #42 Bright Yellow, #33 Orange), Himalayan Fine Pink Salt, Table Salt

Salt Water Continued

Hi.

I've had so much fun using salt with my watercolors.

I've gotten so many different looks.

This time I  dripped salt water on my wet watercolor wash.

I used plain table salt to mix.

Kind of backwards of what I did on the cards in this post.

I used the right side of this piece this time.

Then I drew some lines on some of the places where the salt had removed the color.

I've learned that the trick is to not think about what the pen is doing.
Just relax and go with the flow.

I stamped in some of the spots too.

Here's what that looks like on a card.

If you like watercolor, try sprinkling some salt on it, or mixing salt in water

and using it as a wash or on wet watercolor.

So much fun!

CAS Watercolour Challenge

Challenge is open until the 24th

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Choose Joy (PTI)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Delightful Dijon & Soft Suede for center (SU)

Paper:   Neena, Watercolor (Canson CP)

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolor (#34 Dk. Pink, #40 yellow), Micron 005 pen, Table Salt, Stitched Squares Dies (LI)

Card Recicpe (cards 2 & 3)

Stamps: Dee's Blooming Buds (Stamplorations)

Ink: Basic Gray, Regal Rose, Pear Pizzaz, Delightful Dijon Marker (all SU)

Other:  X stitch Borders dies (GM), Black Crystals