Brusho Butterfly

Hello.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I have a bright card for you today.

I've die cut this butterfly from a piece of Brusho Background and just
popped it on top of some dry embossing.

I shaped the butterfly's wings with a bone folder and adhered him
under the body so his wings are dimensional.

Super quick and clean and simple.

I'll take this to
Color Throwdown #529

and CAS Mix Up

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bleeding Heart (Technique Tuesday)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Daffodil Delight (SU), Back of cover from Mixed Media pad

Other:  Stitched Butterfly Trio Die (PS), Brusho (orange), Large Daisy Side EF (Darice)

Ribbon Heart

Hello friends.  I hope you are not in the deep freeze anymore

and maybe enjoying some nice weather like we are.

I noticed a daffodil has bloomed in my yard.  Spring isn't far off now.

And neither is Valentine's Day.

I love this ribbon heart from Poppystamps and die cut it from some red foil.

It looks like it's made from satin ribbon if you use your imagination.

It's atop a piece of French script that I hope says something romantic.

Or at least nothing offensive...

I think this works for this month's Poppystamps Challenge

and Just us Girls

and Allsorts Challenge

LOVE

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  French Script (Darkroom Door)

Ink:   Smokey Slate, Real Red (SU)

Paper:   Neenah, Read Red, Gold Foil

Other:  Ribbon Heart Die (PS), Love You Die (SSS), Stately EF (ret. Craft Concepts)

Silver Snowflakes for CAS Christmas

Hello friends.

There’s still time to join in at CAS Christmas.

 This month’s challenge is hosted by our lovely Colleen.

To make this card, I picked out several snowflakes from various stamp sets and arranged

them in my MISTI to stamp with silver ink on mixed media paper.

While the ink was still wet, I heat embossed them in silver.

Then I wet the background with clear water and dropped in color from

smooshing ink pads on my palette.

I love watching the color move with the water!

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed on a strip of vellum

and tucked around the design image.

Then I popped the whole thing up with some fun foam.

The Design Team, including our fabulous Guest Designer, Linda have

some more wonderful inspiration pieces for you.

Hope you'll  join in the fun at CAS Christmas. 

Challenge ends on the 24th.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snowflakes (various), Christmas Wishes (Kaisercraft)

Ink:   Encore Silver, DI (tumbled glass, wilted violet, faded jeans) 

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series), Neenah (110 lb. Solar White), Vellum

Other:  Silver EP (SU)

Red and Pink for CAS Watercolour

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

It's time for a new challenge at
CAS Watercolour.


This month Marcia chose our challenge

Our Design Team has some fabulous inspiration pieces for you and
our friend Darnell, our Guest Designer, has a delightful card to inspire you too.

To do my card, I stamped and heat embossed this vase and flower in white
for an embossed resist design.  A sweet friend gave me this stamp set
and it's been in my NBUS box far too long!

My color for the vase was a tiny bit of Lindy's Magicals in the palette
mixed with a little bit of water.  It makes for a really rich color.

I colored the flower with a bit of Blushing Bride re-inker and added
some depth by picking up Regal Rose from the ink pad.

I masked the flower and vase with sticky notes and inked the
stem and leaves with Old Olive, then used my waterbrush to move the color
and added some more color with ink picked up from the inkpad.

I did a wet on wet technique for the background.

I couldn't decide on a sentiment so I left it blank for now.

I gave the design a narrow mat to bring out the red and put it all
on a card base made from watercolor paper.  I love the texture it adds.

I hope you'll join us at CAS Watercolour.


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Flower Vase Set (Darcie's Heart and Home)

Ink:   WOW Emboss Pad, Old Olive, Regal Rose (SU)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 Series), Riding Hood Red, Watercolor (Strathmore 140 lb. cold press)

Other:  Lindy's Magicals (Autumn Maple Crimson), Blushing Bride re-inker (SU), White EP (SU),

Rainstones (PTI)

Shaped Poppies for CAS Mix Up

Hello friends.

We have a new challenge at CAS Mix Up.

Here's the challenge our talented hostess, Hideko, chose.

I love playing with die cuts!

I've chosen to watercolor these beautiful die cut poppies.
The die was sent to me by a sweet friend and I love all the detail on it.

I put a drop of liquid watercolor in the well of my palette and added a drop or two
of water from my waterbrush.  Then using the wet on wet technique (to keep
the colors from being too dark), I dabbed color onto the flowers.  First I used the
pink building color as needed.  Then I added a bit of red to the base of the flowers and buds.

I also cut and watercolored an extra lower bloom so I could add
even more dimension.

When the flowers were dry, I colored the stems with a Zig and waterbrush.

I stamped the sentiment on a snippet of watercolor paper and heat embossed it,
then watercolored it with the pink and red.

A strip of dry embossing gave the flowers a bit of background texture.

Then I shaped the flowers, adding the second layer to the bottom one and
added them and the sentiment strip to the card front with dimensionals.

Here's a side view so you see the dimension better.

My mixed media are Shaped Die Cuts, Watercolor, Stamping, Heat Embossing, 

and Dry Embossing

There are videos on the challenge site and lots of inspiration from
our Design Team and Guest Designer, Arlene.

Hope to see your dimensional die cuts in the gallery at
CAS Mix Up!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Banner Sentiments (PB)

Ink:   Whisper White (SU)

Paper:   Neenah, Watercolor (Strathmore 140 lb. cold press)

Other:  Bodacious Die (PB), Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Pinkfresh Liquid Watercolor (Bubble Gum, Candy Apple), Zig CCRBM (#43 Olive Green), White EP (SU)