CAS Stencil's First Birthday

Congratulations to CAS Stencil on celebrating its first birthday.   The prompt for this challenge is

I recently purchased the lovely "Leaves and Berries" stencil from Pretty Pink Posh and used it for my card.

A lot of masking happened on this stencil so the berries could be red.  I used Distress Inks initially and then went in with PolyChromos pencils to add even more shading.  To keep it clean and simple, a PTI frame was popped up on foam after adding the sentiment from Penny Black.

Thanks for dropping by.  Have a wonderful week.

CAS Mix-Up, Watercolor and Stencil for November

I'm having hand surgery tomorrow so I have to post all three of my CAS cards today (the fourth is my guest designer post for CAS Christmas that you've already seen).  The only cards you'll see from me for the next couple of months will be scheduled Design Team ones.  Let the show begin.

First Up - the Mix-Up Challenge:

I watched the shorter video and followed her directions.

I started by embossing black paper with the gear folder, then lightly inked with VersaMark and sprinkled copper, silver and gold powder before heating.  I layered it behind a popped up panel cut with a SSS stitched circle.  I had some coppery metallic paper to cut the PTI word die and then silver embossed the 'happy'.  So I have the oxidized metal, stamping of the sentiment, with die cuts as my choice. I think this makes a great masculine card.

Next is CAS Stencil.

I've tried monoprints before without much success but this time I think it worked.

I just HAD to have this Buffalo plaid stencil by Echo Park and think I've used it once.  I inked it up with Iced Spruce DOX, spritzed it (maybe not well enough) and printed it to my cardstock.  I love how the DOX separates into different colors.  I added some Altenew greens and a heat embossed sentiment from HLS.

Last but not least, and my favorite, for CAS Watercolor.

I've used this PB stamp many times but never all in browns.

I colored the stamp with Distress Markers and spritzed them, repeating several times until I got a look I liked.  The background looked a little stark so I inked the edges with Frayed Burlap, splattered some Walnut Stain and added a sentiment from N&T.

So that's it from me.  I love these CAS challenges and am so glad I had time to enter them.  Thanks, girls, for four more wonderful challenges that teach us new tricks and stretch our imaginations. These are the last challenges for the year as the teams take a break in December so hopefully I can enter again in January.

And thank you for dropping by.