January CAS Watercolor and The Flower Challenge #16

Here I am.  Late to the party again.  Two days left before both the CAS Watercolor Challenge and The Flower Challenge close.  I've had both cards made or partially made for days but got busy and haven't posted.  I'll remedy that right now.

For CAS Watercolor:

I spent one evening stamping and masking a bouquet of Altenew flowers on Bristol so I could color with my Zigs.  The next day while searching for a sentiment I looked at the card and thought "Oh no.  It's supposed to be CAS." In order to keep it that way I opted for a tiny sentiment from PB.  I hope that's enough white space.

For The Flower Challenge:

I hope this uses enough of the spotlight technique.  Only small portions of the Altenew flowers are outside the die cut circles and uncolored but I hadn't used these flowers in a long time and wanted to make a card with them.  Not quite the look I was going for but I'm happy.

Thanks for dropping by.  I love it when you do.

Time Out's Third Birthday

When someone has a party it's rude not to RSVP and so below is my card to celebrate the third birthday of the Time Out challenge.  Boy has that three years gone by fast.  Congratulations to the team who keeps it going. The theme for the party is 'Love and/or Friendship' with the optional twist of spotlight stamping.  I'm all for options. 😉  And I did a twist on the twist.  Uh oh, now I'll be singing "Let's Twist Again" all night. 😀

Can you see my twist?  I spotlighted the outside of the circle and left the inside uncolored and then popped it up on black foam.  Since the flowers from PB were fairly thin lines, I was able to stamp my PTI sentiment right over them without losing it into the background.  The other flowers are colored with Zigs.

Congratulations again, Time Out.  I always enjoy playing cards with you. (Sorry to steal your line, Michele).

Just Us Girls #347

It's technique week at Just Us Girls and Nancy has picked spotlighting.

This is a technique where you highlight one part of your image with color while leaving the other outlined.   You'll see plenty of inspiration over on the JUGS blog but first here's mine.

Have you ever felt like a card is cursed?  I think this one was because things just kept going wrong.  It's a wonder I got it done at all.

This is actually the third rendering and it had a boo boo on it as you can probably tell.  The image is from Altenew's daisy that I painted like a Gaillardia using Distress Inks.  Layered inks as the first colors weren't exactly what I was going for.  See those buds?  The first card I stamped them upside down.  And under that sentiment die from SSS is a little smudge.

If you make a card using the spotlight technique and enter it in the Linky you will be eligible to be Chic of the Week and possibly a guest designer spot in August.  So what are you waiting for?