CAS Christmas, Watercolor and Mix-Up Challenges

For some reason I seem to get my cards for the CAS challenges all ready at the same time and so I post them together.  It saves on writing and the Design Team members can comment once if they are on multiple teams.  A win-win for us all.

First up is my card for the CAS Christmas challenge - Joy.

The Casual Friday stamp is heat embossed with Silver Sparkle on metallic cardstock from Neenah.  It needed something more so I used my Scoreboard to add double score lines for a border.

For CAS Watercolor - Red and Black, I painted a flower from Penny Black using Zigs.

A PTI frame, some black spatters and a sentiment from SSS finishes it off.

The CAS Mix-Up challenge wanted us to make our own stencil from a die cut.  As I was looking through some dies I found a stencil I had made earlier and forgot about.  Why reinvent the wheel?

 

I recently purchased some Distress Spray Stains and thought it was time to try them out on the leaf stencil cut from a SSS die.  I started with Evergreen Bough and then add some Tarnished Brass. I had a little trouble with blobbing but it still turned out okay.  I cut the panel with the Nordic Frame from The Greetery and added a gold heat embossed sentiment from Paper Smooches.  

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