CAS Watercolor - September

I had my card all made for the CAS Watercolor challenge and then - head slap - I didn't watercolor the violet.  That's what I like about some of the Altenew stamps.  You have the option of watercoloring with the outline stamps.  I went with the same design and just substituted the flower.

I used Wilted Violet Distress Ink to color it and to stamp the Altenew sentiment.  I saw Amber Rain Davis use small strips to accent her CAS designs here and loved the look so I implemented her idea on my card.

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CAS(E) This Sketch #323

It's retro sketch time at CAS(E) This Sketch 

and the first go around I made this -

with this sketch.

I didn't think about it until now but 

how crazy is it that I stuck with the fruit theme. 

The layered berries are from Sunny Studio and the sentiment from PB.  I placed them on an embossed background and then thought it needed something to add more of the blue and purple so I inked a thin strip of paper to run down the side. Oh and I added some Glossy Accents to the cherries and blueberry.

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Time Out #134

I've been trying to think what I could do for the Time Out challenge.  They want something playful and I just wasn't feeling it.  Then I remembered a card I made as a thank you for my granddaughter's robotics coach who is retiring this year and thought it was a great card to use.

You'll have to excuse the photo.  I sent the card to my DIL to deliver to the recipient and forgot to take a picture.  This is one from her phone.  She zoomed in so there's no border but the color is fairly good. The image is one from Katzelkraft that Cornelia was kind enough to stamp and send to me.  I colored it with Zigs and placed it on an action wobble.  The background is made with an MFT cloud stencil and Distress Ink.

You may need an explanation of this card.  The robotics team is called Stryke Force and their colors are blue and yellow.  As you can see in the photo below the drivers wear the pilot helmets.  That's my granddaughter Kjerstin in her yellow tennies with the robot.

They were the reigning World Champions and just competed in the 2019 World Championship in Detroit last week where they lost in their field finals.  They did however win the Excellence in Engineering award.

Kjerstin is only a sophomore so there will be two more years of learning, driving, having fun and meeting other teams.  I hope I can handle it.  I never thought I'd get so excited for a robotics competition.

The Card Concept #109

I bought the pineapple set from Concord and 9th when it was on sale a while ago so I could enter a challenge.  Now I'm using it to enter the Pineapple Party at The Card Concept.

It took a while to decide what to do with the pineapple but then I remembered seeing a painted sign with one on it.  I made my own shiplap by scoring the cardstock and running the edge of my ink cube across it for a Clean and Simple look.

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Just Us Girls #475 - Color Week

Are you ready for some color?  Just Us Girls host Maria has chosen these colors for the challenge.

I must say I struggled with this because I didn't want to make any more valentines.  After days of thinking about it, an idea came to me in the wee hours of the morning.

I see cards where the flowers are stamped around the edges but I rarely do that.  Using the Altenew wildflowers in the challenge colors around the edge of my card worked just as I imagined. I cut an MFT scalloped oval to stamp my PTI sentiment on and popped it in the middle.

What will you do with these colors?  I hope you'll make a card for our gallery for a chance at being Chic of the Week.  The Design Team and guest designer Lisa Elton have some beautiful cards to inspire you.

Twofer Card Challenge #12

One of my favorite things is the prompt at the Twofer Card Challenge this month.  Birds.  And one bird in particular.  Owls.  So of course I had to include one on my card for the challenge.

The first card is a thank you.

The owl and fox from Gerda Steiner were stamped on Desert Storm and colored with PolyChromos pencils.  The background was inked with Distress Inks and splattered with white paint for stars.  After all owls are nocturnal.

The second card is a birthday card.

Where's the owl you ask?

Here he is!  I made a double slider card so he could hide in the tree until it was time to wish someone a happy birthday.  The tree was made by inking a woodgrain embossing folder with Black Soot DOX.  This was so much fun to make and will probably go to my great grandson on his 6th birthday in April.

So there you have it.  Two cards using the same owl in two different designs for a thank you and a birthday card.

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CASology #325

It's a new year and my head is bubbling over with card ideas.  I just have to make sure to keep the challenge deadlines straight once I get a number of cards done all at once.  Tiny post-it notes come in handy believe me.  Today's card is for CASology and their cue word "Fresh".

Trying to eat more healthy in the new year, the first thing that came to mind is fresh fruit and these Sunny Studio fruits look so realistic.  I added a sentiment from MFT to ground them,

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CAS Mix-Up, Watercolor and Christmas

Time is running out now that the CAS challenges are cutting short for the holidays.  I didn't even get a chance to play along with them in November so I'm going to post all three cards together in order to make the deadline.

First CAS Mix-up where the prompt is emboss resist.

I had my PTI Meadow Greens on my desk for another card and knew they looked wonderful white embossed against a bright background.  In this case I used Brushos, with stamping and die cutting.

Next is 'Thanks' for CAS Watercolor.

An older stamp from Penny Black was watercolored with Zigs and backed with an MFT scalloped oval.  The sentiment is also PB.

Last but not least is the one for CAS Christmas using stars.

I still have a wreath I made similar to this and it was my inspiration.  I cut the SSS wreath in two colors of brown to make it fuller, then added the gold foil stars.  The bow is a NBUS die from MFT cut from gold foiled polka dots.  The gold heat embossed sentiment is from HLS.

Congratulations to Loll and Bonnie who are starting a new CAS challenge in January.

You and your wonderful design teams have made making CAS cards so much fun.

CAS Watercolor - October

Congratulations to CAS Watercolor on their 2nd Birthday.  My how time flies.  I couldn't miss the chance to play on this special occasion.

I struggle with color challenges.  This is not my best work, which I shouldn't admit, because it's already in the mail to someone special.  Recipe: a popped up PTI frame, PB die colored with Distress Inks that were also used for the background.

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AAA Cards #125

There's a fun challenge over at AAA Cards.

It took me a while to think of a TV show that I could make a card for but then I had a ping as Bev would say.  Can you guess the show?

The second part of the sentiment was printed on the computer and then the NBUS wonky square from MFT was cut from the panel.  After gold heat embossing the 'thank you', the cut was placed back in the panel.  Leaves from MFT were cut from green and foiled on the tips. Any clue yet?

I don't watch any of the new comedies on TV but there are a few channels that show some of the older ones that my husband and I enjoy.  One of them is Golden Girls.  This is their theme song and the leaves are a tribute to the palm trees in Miami where the show takes place. 

Inkspirational #167

Inkspirational has a Popsicle photo to base our cards on this challenge.

I looked and looked at the photo because I couldn't decide where to go with it.  I finally focused on the bar with the fruit in it and did a fast watercolor card.

The citrus slices from Concord and 9th are white heat embossed on watercolor cs that was cut with a die from PPP.  Distress Inks were swiped across and then liberally sprayed with water. The sentiment was computer generated and the whole thing placed on a HA canvas background done in Fog.

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January CAS Watercolor and The Flower Challenge #16

Here I am.  Late to the party again.  Two days left before both the CAS Watercolor Challenge and The Flower Challenge close.  I've had both cards made or partially made for days but got busy and haven't posted.  I'll remedy that right now.

For CAS Watercolor:

I spent one evening stamping and masking a bouquet of Altenew flowers on Bristol so I could color with my Zigs.  The next day while searching for a sentiment I looked at the card and thought "Oh no.  It's supposed to be CAS." In order to keep it that way I opted for a tiny sentiment from PB.  I hope that's enough white space.

For The Flower Challenge:

I hope this uses enough of the spotlight technique.  Only small portions of the Altenew flowers are outside the die cut circles and uncolored but I hadn't used these flowers in a long time and wanted to make a card with them.  Not quite the look I was going for but I'm happy.

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