52 Christmas Card Throwdown 1.24

Last year I participated a number of challenges at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown which helped me keep on track with my holiday cards.  This year I hope to continue with as many weeks as possible.  This first week is a sketch and here's my card.

I also want to use more of my older stamps this year.   This little church is from Sunny Studio, colored with Altenew artist markers.  I masked off a strip and used Distress Ink to color the sky above and sidewalk below.  The sentiment is from Pinkfresh Studio. 

It looks like most of the US is going through some bad weather conditions.  I hope you all keep safe if you are in the path of any of the snow, wind, rain or flooding. 

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CAS Watercolor May 2020

I kept getting my May CAS challenges mixed up.  That is why you'll see a Christmas card for the CAS Watercolor challenge - Night Sky.

I used Brushoes to make my sky and then splattered some gouache for stars.  The church is from Sunny Studios colored with Distress Inks.  While I was playing with Brushoes I made another background with different blues and made a similar card.

Still colored with Distress Inks, this church has a more saturated color and I used gel pens for the lights.  Since I cut the panels in half I have enough to make two more cards.

Thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful day!

Addicted to CAS #127

Welcome to another year at Addicted to CAS.  Our host Stephanie has chosen this as her word for this challenge.

I had all kinds of ideas but none of them were Clean and Simple and since this IS a CAS challenge I had to think even harder.  Please remember to keep your cards CAS.

I stamped and clear heat embossed the staff from CPD across the bottom of my card and added the sentiment from the same set.  The little church is from Sunny Studios that I colored with Zigs and mounted on some coaster board to give a little dimension.

Our guest designer Sue Symens and the Design Team have some wonderful cards to inspire you in this challenge.  Head on over to Addicted to CAS and check them out.  And if that's not enough incentive, Happy Little Stampers is sponsoring all our challenges and you can win a gc to their store. We hope to see your card in the gallery.

CASology #274 and 25 Days of Christmas Tags - 4

I think things computer related are all in working order now so I pulled out one of my favorite tiny stamps to make a CAS card for CASology - code word "Tiny".

I've been adding some of my Christmas tags to the end of my blog posts.  I hope that's okay with Tracey and the DT.  I'd hate to miss out of any of those fabulous prizes because I didn't follow the rules.  Today's tag was inspired by this one on day four by Audrey.

The challenge was sponsored by Reverse Confetti but I don't have any of their stamps so I used a new one from Sunny Studio.

I colored the church with Zigs and added a little tree from ME.

I have a lot of tags to go look at since I'm way behind on Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags and Loll also has a mixed media tag challenge.  You'll see more tags from me popping up here in the next few days.