CAS Mix-Up Challenge for September 2026

I'm hosting this month's CAS Mix-Up challenge.  It's a watercolor challenge with Sunflower as the theme.

This should be a bright and beautiful gallery with all those sunflowers.  Just be sure your card is clean and simple and features watercoloring.  

I totally forgot about another sunflower stamp I have that would have made a perfect CAS card.  Instead I stamped my Dancing Sunflower from Altenew in the corner of my watercolor panel  and colored it with Distress Inks.  The sentiment is from the same set.  

The Design Team has some beautiful sunflowers to inspire you and there are also several videos you can watch listed on the blog.  I hope you'll join us for this fun and colorful challenge.

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Just Us Girls #839 - Die Week

It's Die Week at Just Us Girls and our host Sue would like you to use a "Thanks" die.

My card features SSS Cosmos Duo, colored with Coral Bliss, Heartbeat and Firefly Altenew inks.    The background is the Petal Grid Coverplate from PFS backed with Silver Pearl cardstock from Spellbinders which was also used on the sentiment die from Catherine Pooler.  

I'd like to welcome our guest for this month, Julia Aston.  She and the rest of the design team have some lovely cards to inspire you.  I hope you'll take a peek and then make a card for our challenge.

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Time Out #321 - Theme Challenge

The theme challenge for this fortnight at Time Out is

It took me a while to figure out what to do for my card, until I remembered a sale item I got a while ago.  

That item was the box of popcorn from SSS.  The film strip from PPP was cut from SB Matte Black Treasured cardstock and I found some patterned paper from Paper Rose to fill the centers and make it seem like a negative.  The rule of threes meant I had to add the admission ticket from My Craft Spot, one of the oldest sets in my stash.  It was all placed on a panel embossed with Tasteful Textile from SU.  

This challenge is sponsored by STAMPlorations and the winner will receive a $25 store credit.  

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CAS Christmas Challenge - August 2026

I thought I was going to be too late for the CAS Christmas Challenge but it ends today so I'm just in time.  I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting a card I made last year but never posted.  I have a big file of them on my laptop and since I didn't bring a sleigh die with me I went searching and found this card. 

All the dies are from Spellbinders Delivering Joy.  The body of the sleigh is glimmer paper I've had for a while and all the gold is from a Recollections pack.  The rest is all cut from scraps. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #751 and NBUS #89

My friend Michele is the host at Freshly Made Sketches and has given us a great sketch to base our cards on.  I made another Halloween card.

I wanted to do something other than squares and the NBUS Penny Black Ripple frame die was on my desk and I used the centers to put my image and sentiment on.  The bat from Unity's Creep it Tweet was stamped on light gray and edged with Black Soot.  The sentiment from the set is white heat embossed on darker gray, edged in white.  To add more fun, I glued the two circles together and popped them up with a paper square.  They fold to the right for mailing. 

The first time with the dies and this image means off my card goes to Darnell's NBUS challenge.

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Just Us Girls #838 - Stencil Week

Denise is the host for Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and it's Anything Goes. 

I chose to stencil Altenew's Sunny Flowers with Gina K Carnation inks and Altenew Forest Glade and Frayed Leaf after stamping them with Toffee Crunch ink for a softer look. I saw Therese Calvird use colored cardstock for a background so I embossed Always Sunshine on light green paper.   The sentiment from the set was stamped directly on the card. 

There is plenty of inspiration from the Design Team and our guest designer Betty Keefe on the blog. 

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