Brushos for Happy Little Stampers CAS

Several months ago I bought some Brusho watercolor crystals.

I was seeing some awesome cards using these crystals.

I love the explosion of color.

However....

many of my backgrounds end up looking like mud!

An explosion of mud is not attractive!

I kept trying and...

I finally  got a good one.

I used a die that was won at 

Pixies Snippet Playground

and I used it to cut the flower from snippets.

I thought the openwork flower was perfect with the colors peeking through.

Since I had to spray those crystals to release the colors,

I'm entering this in the

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge

Since this blue looks like Royal Blue to me,

I'm taking this over to

Simon Says Monday Challenge

ROYAL

I'm so glad you stopped by!

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Enjoy (Penny Black)

Ink: Basic Gray

Paper:  Watercolor (Arches, Strathmore for card), Whisper White

Other:  Brusho Crystals, Open Flower Die (Marianne Design), Candy Dot

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Watercolor Butterfly for Addicted to CAS

I have a new toy!

I had to have wanted the Wplus9 Flora and Fauna set since I saw it last year.

What a perfect set! It has flowers, butterflies and birds.

It was my choice for the challenge at
Addicted to CAS 
this time and I chose.


The sponsor this time is

Prize - $10 voucher to the store
(They have some pretty butterflies too.)

And we have a new Guest Designer this month.

Flo (Flos Habseligkeiten)

Do go visit her blog.

She has some awesome CAS Designs!

I stamped this medium-sized butterfly with StazOn ink
and watercolored it with Distress Markers and my Aqua Painter.

Love the way it turned out.

I even got some good splatters!

I had this little snippet from a piece that I did using 
Kylie's Acrylic Block Technique.

It seemed a perfect resting spot for my butterfly.

and my snippet gets me into
Pixie's Snippet Playground

and

Addicted to Stamps this week is
MAKE YOUR MARK
I colored with Distress Markers.

Thanks so much for the visit and for your uplifting comments.
I appreciate each of them.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps: Flora and Fauna2 (Wplus9), Special Wishes (Penny Black)

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Pool Party, Basic Gray, Distress Markers (Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans)

Paper:  Watercolor (Strathmore, Arches), Pool Party

Other:  Aqua Painter, Misti

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Wetlands Birthday

Wetlands continues to be one of my go to sets for masculine cards.

I'm so glad it wasn't retired!

I inked the goose stamp with markers and stamped.

Using a blender pen and a bit of Crumb Cake marker scribbled on a plastic lid,

I colored the body of the goose.

I masked the goose and stamped the taller grasses "behind" the goose

with Delightful Dijon ink.

Some die cutting and some embossing with the 

Lil' Inker Stitched Circle die gave him a good place to hang out.

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

MAKE IT MASCULINE

AAA Cards

The Masculine Touch

Addicted to Stamps

MAKE YOUR MARK

I used markers to ink the goose stamp.

Seize the Birthday

ANIMALS

Here's another of our recent visitors....

A baby bluebird

In typical baby bird fashion, when he saw his mama

he opened his mouth for a snack.

I'm glad you visited too.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Wetlands, Morning Meadow (retired)

Ink:  Mossy Meadow, SU Markers

Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Whisper White

Other:  Stitched Circle Dies (Lil' Inker)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Bubbly Happy Mail

I love this little hedgie delivering some happy mail.

Since he has 2 legs, we're going to 

Less is More

Where it's Lucky Dip week

and the theme is 2 or 4 legs.

Actually he's been delivered already to a sweet friend.

I don't think she'll mind my sharing.

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bubbly (Penny Black), Everyday Happiness (PTI) (A special gift. Thanks so much mf)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Whisper White, Real Red

Other:  Copic Markers, Decorative Dots EF, Deckled Rectangle Die (Spellbinders)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Sparkle, Shimmer and Bling for Merry Monday

It's Merry Monday time.

This week, Kathy is asking us to

Add Sparkle, Shimmer and/or Bling

on our Christmas cards.

Do you ever think a card looks great until you see the photo of it?

That's what happened here.

I put a Glimmer Paper snowflake over a Whisper White snowflake

and thought they were all lined up.

It seems that they're not.

But it has sparkle, shimmer and bling.

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is

ANYTHING GOES

Now, I hope you'll pull your Sparkle out and join us at

Merry Monday.

Thanks so much for the visit and your lovely comments.

I know I'm behind on visiting and hope to catch up this week.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Greetings, Christmas Blessings (both Amy R.)

Ink:  Lost Lagoon

Paper:  Lost Lagoon, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer

Other:  Kars Snowflake EF (retired Cuttlebug), Circle Collection Framelits, Snowflake Die (IO), Basic Rhinestone

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted