Sentimental Merry Monday

Good Merry Monday morning!

Lovely Colleen is our hostess this week.

How is your Christmas stash coming along?

Pick out a sentiment and join us at
Merry Monday.

and

Christmas Card Challenges




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Enjoy!

CAS Mix Up April Challenge

It's time for another CAS Mix Up Challenge

Loll chose the challenge for us this month and I know you're going to have lots of fun with it.

Lee-Anne Cross  is our Featured Designer this month.

Be sure to check out her card and the tutorial she has shared with us this month.

I've chosen to use Embossing Paste with my stencil.  

I've also Inked the stamp with markers, watercolored a little scene 

and die cut it into a tag.

I added a bit of ribbon, cotton thread and rhinestones for extra texture.

I can't wait to see how you choose to use your stencils!

Hope to see you at CAS Mix Up!

and at

AAA Cards Game #66




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Card Recipe

Stamps: Winged Beauty, Snippets (both Penny Black)

Ink:  Crumb Cake, SU Markers (Marina Mist, Pretty in Pink, Soft Suede)

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

Other:  Texture Scraped Paint Stencil (Memory Box), Pinpoint Main Street Tags (Poppystamps)

Best Thoughts with Color Lifting

Awhile ago, Jennifer McGuire showed a Distress Ink Lifting technique.

Of course I had to try it.

I wasn't as easy as Jennifer makes it look, but I finally got a passable image to share.

I ended up cutting it out because I went outside the lines.
(Grossly outside the lines.)

It made for an interesting layout, I think.

After lifting some of the color off the flower, 

I dropped some Picked Raspberry on the wet petals 

and I got more of the Mowed Lawn on the leaves and stem.

Here is another version the I consider one of my

Blunders and Boo Boos.

I'm not sure if this is what Darnell has in mind for her

April Fool's Day Big Fat Card Boo Boo!

Check it out on April 1st.

Sounds like fun!

Come back this afternoon to see the new

 CAS Mix Up challenge

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Best Thoughts (SU), Kind Words (Verve)

Ink:  Distress, Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Solar White (Neena)

Other: White EP (SU), Stitched Circle Dies (Lil' Inker), Brick EF (Sizzix), Clear Wink of Stella

Hark the Herald

It's Merry Monday time again.

This week it was my turn to choose the challenge.

Here is my choice.

I have so many favorite Christmas carols.

And I love them any time of year.

This is actually my DH's favorite...
Hark the Herald Angels Sing.

I hope you'll share your favorite Christmas carol with us at
Merry Monday

All that embossing and shine didn't want to cooperate with the camera.


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Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Rejoicing with You, The Newborn King (both retired SU)

Ink:  Encore Gold

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Gold Foil (SU)

Other:  Gold EP (SU), Frantage EF (Stampendous)

Best Easter Wishes

Rejoice!

He is risen!

Wishing you a blessed Easter!

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Love Art (PB)

Ink: Distress Markers, Basic Black

Paper: Watercolor (Arches 140 lb. hot press)

Other:  Aqua Painter (SU), MISTI (My Sweet Petunia), Sequins (SSS)