CAS Mix-Up and CAS Stencil May 2020

Gesso resist?  Who would have thought?  I guess Linda did because that's what she chose for the challenge at CAS Mix-Up.  I had a big bottle so I gave it a try and I'm loving the results. 

I painted the gesso over a plaid stencil from TCW and let it dry.  After cutting the panel in half I inked this one with Iced Spruce.  A watercolored die cut from MFT and a sentiment from CB was all I needed to finish it off.  So stamping, watercoloring, die cutting, stenciling and Distress inking along with the gesso is my mix.  And I have the other half of the panel to do something else with.  Hmmm.

I also did a second card for the CAS Stencil challenge.

I've had the alphabet stencil from TH for a long time and hoped I could do something with it.  I inked and clear heat embossed it, added the SSS grid stencil and inked again.  Then I had to think of a sentiment.  Always the worst part.  I placed the letter stencil back on and heat embossed the letter B in red to go with my computer generated sentiment.

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The CAS Challenges - Christmas, Watercolor and Mix-Up

It's not often I make a card that fits three challenges and I really didn't plan it that way but when it all came together my card worked for three of the four CAS challenges:  CAS Christmas, CAS Watercolor and CAS Mix-Up.

It started with the Altenew poinsettia that I thought I could do in pink and red for the Watercolor challenge.  For the Christmas challenge I needed to use the word "peace" so I combined it with the Mix-Up challenge to add dimensional die cuts by cutting the word from EBE and stacking it up four times.  So for Mix-Up I stamped and heat embossed the poinsettia, watercolored it, added a hidden sentiment and because the tape tore a tiny piece of the watercolor paper when I removed the die, I added a few sequins.  I was quite pleased with the results if I do say so myself.

Thanks for dropping by.  I do hope you'll check out these wonderful challenges.