CAS(E) This Sketch #286

CAS(E) This Sketch gave me a chance to use my NBUS  'Hooray' die from MFT.

I had this shaving cream marble panel in my WTDWT drawer and thought it would make a celebratory background for the Glossy Accent covered word die (which is actually the same color blue).  I tied in the yellow (pun intended) with a balloon from SSS, also covered with GA. 

So glad you dropped by.

CASE The Designer Day

Two of my favorite designers have cards to CASE on challenges.  The Flower Challenge has several designers to CASE and I chose Karen from Snippets. She always does wonderful floral cards with beautiful backgrounds and fantastic sentiments.  You have to check out her blog if you haven't already. This is her card for the challenge:

Like Karen, I took an unfinished background for my card but left it in one piece.

The background was left over from my shaving cream marbling. I put it in a frame and added die cuts from the same TH set that Karen used.  I thought this worked well for a sympathy card so I added the sentiment from PTI.

My next card is my CASE of the one Hannelie of Desert Diva did for Time Out.  Hannelie does some of the most magnificent cards using her Silhouette, all very creative.  Check out her blog to see more work like this one she did for the challenge.

I did a sort of a reverse CASE, coloring the flower and making the background black and white.

The PB lily was stamped on watercolor paper that had been cut with PIT's Tipped Tops and colored with DIs.  A sentiment from HA and some splatters were added before mounting it on black and white stripe paper.  I like this one so much I may do it in other colors.

I will also sent this one to CAS Watercolor.
ETA:  And at CAS Mix-up.  I don't know why I didn't originally do this. Thanks Nancy for telling me it qualifies.

Thanks for dropping by today.  I hope you've found some inspiration.

CAS Mix-up for January

I played around the other day with liquid colors for a card for the CAS Mix-Up challenge and things kind of fell apart so I'm going with a background I made a while ago for a marbling challenge.

I used liquid food coloring and shaving foam to do my marbling and this is probably one of the last few because the colors are pretty well mixed together.  I think it looks like a stormy sky - perfect for a sympathy card.  I added a TH wildflower die cut ( my choice) in chocolate and a sentiment stamped to match from CF.

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CAS Mix-Up for September

I finally got a chance to make something for the CAS MixUp challenge. Thanks, Bonnie, for telling me I could use food coloring with shaving foam to make my marbled card since I don't have any reinkers.  My hands got messy but my card turned out great and I have at least 10 more backgrounds I can use for other cards.

This background is the second one, before all the colors got really mixed up.

To meet the challenge I added the daisy die cut from PB (my choice), colored it with Zigs (second choice) and stamped the sentiment, also from PB.  Since I cut the panel in half I made a second card just for fun.

I just changed the sentiment and the flower, using blue cs this time.

It was so much fun to see what different looks you get each time you smoosh your paper into the foam.  Thanks Bonnie and Loll for giving us a way to learn new techniques and stretch our creative minds.

Thanks to you for dropping by to see what I've been up to.