Christmas lights

Hello. Practicing my watercoloring on this Christmas light card. Thought it came out halfway decent and made it into a card. 

Mei Liang watercolors on Artisto watercolor paper are used on this card. To get the shape, I used a die cut to trace the light bulbs out lightly with a pencil so that I had something to start with. I believe the die is a retired one from My Favorite Things.  I did get a lot of inspiration over on YouTube with many watercolor artists doing the same thing but from scratch. I cannot draw, so that is why I used a die to get me started. The bulbs are good, but I still need a bit of work on how to get the glow below them. LOL. 

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Adding this into the CAS colours and Sketches. I used sketch #507 but turned it on the side and did not include a sentiment. 

Thinking of you

Hi there. Playing in the CAS Colours & Sketches #502 challenge today. 

The Flower stamp is from Impress cards & crafts. I used Simon Says Stamp pawsitively saturated ink in Cherry and sage to stamp the flowers and leaves. Centers are stamped with Versafine Clair.  Thinking of you sentiment is from Hero Arts, as is the red cardstock that I used for the card base.

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Happy Anniversary

Hello. Playing in the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge today. It's a pretty fun sketch, and has a lot of possibilities. 

Anniversary sentiment is from Avery Elle and I used a stamping platform to stamp it multiple times like the sketch calls for. I had a heart that I cut out from one of the Pink and Main stitched heart dies and put it to use on this.  The shiny red cardstock, I believe, is from Tim Holtz Idea-ology. 

However, since it's an anniversary card and couples are like puzzle pieces that fit together, I added that to the heart. I cannot remember who makes my puzzle pieces cover plate die, but there are a lot of them out there to chose from. 

Used the stitched rectangle frame from MFT and popped it up onto a pure poppy red card base and called it done. Super clean and simple.

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Wishing you a wonderful day

Hi everyone - Playing in the CAS colours & sketches #421 challenge today.

I really wanted to use this new die from The Greetery on this sketch and was bound and determined to get it right. I think it took me 5 tries to get everything lined up and as close to perfect as I could. My first sentiment that I wanted to use, just would not line up, even with the Misti. Then I got embossing lines, where I didn't want them....I'm sure you've all been there, inky fingerprints that wont come off, etc.  Well, I FINALLY got it! Whew.  That is aged mahogany distress ink behind the brick die cut. Added the sentiment from Paper Roses and a dragonfly die cut and called it done.

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Be like the bee...

Hello. Playing in the CAS colours and sketches challenge today. 

Stamps are from Picket Fence and the designer paper is from Moda Scrap.  Bee's are colored with copic's and I used spectrum Noir sparkle on the wings.

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Get well soon

Hello - Playing in the CAS Colours & Sketch challenge #389 today.

I was going for a clean and simple masculine get well soon card, as you all know, guys don't like a lot of stuff on their cards. LOL. I used some burlap designer paper from DCWV and a fishtail banner to cut the strips. Sentiment is from the Frantic Stamper. I stamped it in cocoa ink from Hero Arts. Rustic white cardstock from Papertrey, Ink is used as the base of the card and the top layer.  A stitched frame from MFT as used on it for added interest.

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Thank you

Hello - playing in the CAS colours and Sketch challenge today.

Blended oxide inks, cut out the fishtail banner, then splattered it with water and ink. Layered it in black, added it to the white panel and then adhered it to the black top folding card base. Added the die cut thank you to finish it off.

It turned out to be a pretty quick CAS card. 

Sweet Birthday Wishes

Hello. Playing in the CAS Colours and Sketch challenge today.

This one went together very quickly. I used the stamping village Happy Birthday set and chose the Pink and Main image with the lady bug. Stamped it in versafine and then heat embossed it in clear so that I could color the lady bug.

I then got out a dot stencil and used a finger dauber and distress black soot ink to create the dots on the pure poppy cardstock.  Added a thin strip of black on top, then popped up the greeting panel using fun foam.

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Thinking of you

Hello. Playing in the CAS colours and sketches challenge today.

Image is a digital line art flower for a tattoo that I found on Pinterest. Colored with Copic's. Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. The background leaf stamp is from Rubernecker and it's stamped in versamark, then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

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Ice skates

Hello. Playing in the CAS colours and sketches challenge today. I turned this one on it's side.

Skates are a die from Gina Marie Designs.  The pine branch die is from Carta Bella and the berry branch, I have no idea who makes it. I used some thicker DMC red floss on the laces on the skates.

I used Distress Oxide inks in tumbled glass and faded jeans with a life changing brush on Bristol smoooth to create the soft background. Then I stenciled on some snowflakes with white home made stencil paste. I used Fabrika Decoru in poppy to add the berries onto the branches.

Sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Congratulations

Hello. Playing in the CAS colours and sketch challenge today.

I made a gate fold card out of the sketch. Stamps and die set from Gemini that I just picked up at Hobby Lobby. Colored with Copic's.  Sentiment is from Avery Elle.

Hello

Hello! Playing in a few challenges today. Started off with the CAS Colours and Sketches sketch and went from there.

No stamping on this card, just a lot of distress coloring of the leaves. I cut four of the hello dies, stacked them three of the them together. The fourth one was heat embossed with black embossing powder to get a shine on it.  Plaid designer paper is from Carta Bella. Leaf dies are dinky dies from Xcut by docrafts.  The Hello and branch dies are from Savvy Stamps.  Below is an up close look at the leaves.

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Masculine congrats

Hello. Playing in the CAS colours and sketch challenge today.

Ferns are done with a stencil and Distress Oxide and regular inks. The congrats is cut out three times and stacked for dimension. Clear rhinestones added for interest.

Kept it very CAS so it could be given to a guy.

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You're unstoppable

Hello. Playing in a few challenges today with this card.

Supergirl is from My Favorite Things and colored with Copic's.

Glitter paper is from The paper source and the embossing folder is from Sizzix.


Challenges:
TGIF - all that glitters
CAS Colours & Sketches
Addicted CAS - Girl Power
SSS- anything goes

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Keep your head up

Hello - playing in the CAS colours and Sketches challenge today.

Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. I cut out three strips of the flower border out of yellow cardstock and snipped off the end flowers. Then stacked & glued them together for more dimension. Added black pearls from Queen & Co. to the centers. Decided to add the tiny die cut heart for a pop of color.

I think this is such a fun and clean sketch with so many possibilities. Thanks for stopping by.