Less Is More #344

I love lime green and blue together so I had to play along with Less Is More this week.

I had a scrap left over from a tissue paper technique done in blue and green. I darkened the blue with Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink and put it behind the MFT peekaboo die.  The same DI was used to color some cardstock for the PB die and to stamp the sentiment from Altenew.

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Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media, Watercolor and CAS

I thought this post was never going to happen.  I couldn't find the linky on any of the HLS challenges all day yesterday.  I messaged Kylie and she said it must be my computer and maybe I needed to clear my cache.  Before doing that I checked the blogs again today and there they were.  Whew! Now I can post this one card for three of the Happy Little Stamper Challenges: Mixed Media, Watercolor and CAS.

The Mixed Media challenge was to use tissue paper and I had several in my stash from a previous challenge.  I pulled out this one to use as a background for my NBUS Stemmed Statements from PTI.  Since I watercolored the nasturtium with Zigs, I can enter it into the Watercolor - "Anything Goes with the Option of a Bloom" challenge.  It's also going to the CAS challenge that asks for a flower.

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CAS Mix-Up July

July is almost half over and I just got a card made for the July CAS Mix-Up challenge.  I had so much fun with the tissue paper techniques that Loll showed in her video but I should have worn gloves.  I had as much ink on my fingers as on the tissue.  I planned a panel that I hoped would look good as a die cut flower and I'm happy with the result.

The dies are from Altenew and the sentiment from EBE.  I finally got a chance to use one of the embossed panels that Bonnie so generously sent me after I gushed over it several times.

In a conversation with Loll, she mentioned using a paper towel that had mopped up leftover ink from her craft sheet to make a background by laying it down on hot press watercolor paper and spraying it.  I quickly pulled my paper towel out of the wastebasket and loved the pattern that was on it. I tried the technique with mixed media paper and it didn't come out very bright so I came up with another technique. Introducing "the paper towel background".

I thought this looked like a flower garden so using a sponge I spread school glue all over my cardstock and glued the paper towel to it.  When it was dry I popped up the frame and added the hollyhocks from PTI and sentiment from EBE.  From now on I may be saving all my mop towels.

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