Autumn Woods

What do you do when there's the edge of a hurricane going over?

Watercolor of course.

Actually I did a different watercolor piece but haven't got a photo of it yet.

It got kind of rough around here for a while, but we were blessed and didn't lose our power.

The lights flickered and actually went off twice but came right back on.

Other than a few limbs, branches and lots of leaves laying around, we fared well.

Some of our neighbors in the state and the southeast coast didn't.

Our prayers are with them as they deal with loss.

To make this card I masked off a piece of Mixed Media paper and
stamped a portion of this stamp.

Then I squished some ink into the lids of my ink pads and picked up with an Aqua Painter.

I just dabbed the color onto the background.

Easy and fun!

CAS Watercolour Card Challenge

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian Friends.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snowy Grove (PB), Sheltering Tree

Ink:   Brushed Corduroy Distress, Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive (SU)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip (SU)

Other:  Aqua Painter

Sending Ghosted Hugs

Have you tried the ghosting technique yet?

Here's another of my tries.

After sponging some Distress Ink on a piece of cardstock, I used Shery Russ' technique

and stamped with water on the background.

I was a bit too overzealous with the water.  Oops!

So I die cut a butterfly to pop over one ghosted butterfly and

stamped over the other.

I splattered a little bit of water on the background too so there's some ghosted drops.

So I used Stamping, Ghosting Technique, Die Cuts and Embossing with a Die

for my mixed media.

CAS Mix Up

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Butterfly Trio (PB), Friendship Messages (SSS)

Ink:  Early Espresso, Tangerine Tango (SU), Mustard Seed, Wild Honey Picked Raspberry (Distress) 

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore Cold Press), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Kaleidoscope Butterfly (MB), Stitched Square Die (LI), Sequins (PPP)

Gift of Love for Candee

My friend, Candee (Card Corner by Candee) was designated the Featured Stamper at SCS this week.

I've CASEd this card from her gallery.

This is what I came up with.

I used the same stamp set, changed the color and frame and added splattering

 and die cut leaves instead of embossing.

The stamp was stamped and embossed in white and watercolored with an Aqua Painter and ink pads.

The Autumn colors fit with the 

CAS Watercolour Card Challenge for October

Candee came to my Stamp Stack last week and brought me a wonderful
goody bag full of Halloween treats.

She has directions for these goodies on her blog.

What an amazing variety of Halloween treasures (and candy).

I have such talented friends.
What a blessing!


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Gift of Love (SU)

Ink:   Whisper White, Vellum (SU)

Paper:   Whisper White Heavy Weight, Peek-a-boo Peach (SU)

Other:  White EP, Flourish Thinlits (SU)

Shakin' with the Elves for Merry Monday

Good Merry Monday morning!

Linda chose our fun challenge this week

I found this cute elf at Art Impressions and thought he would be perfect for a shaker card.

and he even has a backside!

so you can see him coming and going.

I used some of my shaving cream marbled paper cardstock and colored the
little guy with Copic Markers.

I used my Fuse Tool to make the shaker bag.

I had lots of fun making this card!

Now I hope you'll have some fun finding an elf to put on your Christmas card.

The Design Team has some fantastic inspiration pieces
so go check it out at Merry Monday.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Elf and Reindeer (Art Impressions), Christmas 2 (Art Gone Wild), Mixed Christmas Sentiments (HLS), Peaceful Pines (SU)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Garden Green, Whisper White (SU)

Paper:   Solar White (Neena 110 lb.), Marbled, Whisper White

Other: Copic Markers, Fuse Tool (WRMK) 

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)