CAS Christmas August Challenge - Pine

 Hello everyone.  The August challenge at CAS Christmas starts now and this month’s prompt is PINE.

Using newWintry Forest layering stencils from Pinkfresh Stufio, I created a forest of pine trees.

There are six stencils in the set, and all together it covers an A2 size card front perfectly.  To keep my card CAS (clean and simple) though, I used only stencils 3-5 and started about halfway up on the card.  Took a Bristol stitched panel from my stash and with a blender brush, ink blended Salvaged Patina distress ink over the stencils.  Increased the amount of ink applied with each stencil to get an ombré look.

Splattered with white gouache paint for snow.  Once completely dry, stamped the sentiment (retired) with Versafine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed with clear glitter embossing powder.  Mounted it onto a white card base to finish.

Easy-peasy.  And you’re in for a treat this month as we have not one, but two guest designers joining us.  You can see what Elizabeth (Paper Sweetness) and Lucie (Lucie G Cards) have created, along with the design team, over on the challenge post HERE. Thank you for dropping by.

CAS Christmas June Challenge - Wreath

Hello everyone.  CAS Christmas card challenge is back after a short break!  We are sad to see Cathy step down from the design team, but are delighted to welcome Lisa Elton (My Paper Tales).  This month’s theme is WREATH.

Here’s my card.

The pine needles were die cut from scraps of Bristol paper using Pine Needle Trio dies from Memory Box (MB).  Arranged and glued the pine needles onto a ring that was also die cut from Bristol paper using MB Circle Basics dies.  Backed the opening with MB white woodgrain paper then die cut the berries from alcohol marker friendly cardstock using MB Mistletoe Bundle.  Coloured them with Copic Sketch markers, then added a highlight dot to each berry with a white Gelly roll pen. 

Didn’t have a bow die I like (need to remedy that with some retail therapy 😉), so decided to add a cardinal (retired) instead to keep with the red and white colour scheme.  It was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on alcohol marker friendly cardstock and coloured with the same markers used for the berries.  The sentiment from the same set was white heat embossed on black cardstock.  Fussy cut both the cardinal and sentiment out, then assembled the card onto a Bristol stitched rectangle panel from my stash to finish.  

Ready to work on your Christmas cards?  Sue (Sue’s Card Craft) is our guest this month.  If you need more inspirations to join us, click HERE.  Thank you for stopping by. 

Challenges:

Christmas Craft Creations - May Challenge: Two Colours (red and white)

Christmas with the Cuties - #60 Anything Cute and Christmas optional candy cane or red and white 

Merry Little Christmas - #44 Anything Christmas Goes 

Double D - White with One Other Color Only  (white and red)

Holly and Ivy Christmas - #117 Anything Christmas Goes 

Winter Wonderland - Flying High at Christmas 

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Candy Cane and/or Red and White 

CAS Christmas October Reminder - Christmas Birds

Hello and welcome to the reminder post for the October Christmas Birds challenge at CAS Christmas.

I couldn’t let this challenge pass by without using my favourite little penguin from now closed down Winnie and Walter (WW)!  I paired him with new NBUS sentiment stamp set Naughty and Nice from Scrapbook.com to create this fun card. 

A panel was die cut from X-Press It cardstock using A2 Stitched Rectangle Set 1 die from My Favorite Things.  Stamped the penguin and sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  Coloured the image in with Copic Sketch markers and Polychromos pencils

Next, stamped the sentiment onto masking paper to use as a guide to hand cut a thought bubble stencil.  Adhered the DIY stencil over the stamped sentiment on the panel and applied SU! Sahara Sand dye ink with a blender brush.  Stencilled the three little circles as well using a WW stencil and a detailed blending tool.  A warm grey Polychromos pencil was used to add shading to them.  Clear shimmer added to the hat brim and pom pom finished off the card.

For more inspirations from my team, head over to the challenge post HERE.  The challenge ends on October 24 PST.  Thank you for visiting.  Have a wonderful day.

Challenges:

Merry Little Christmas - #29 Anything Christmas Goes 

Jenn Shurkus - Get Cracjung on Christmas Anything Goes 

Crafty Animals - #43 Anything Goes Animals 

Watercooler Wednesday - #293 Tristan’s Challenge All About Occasions 

NBUS #19 - new sentiment stamp

Krafty Chicks - #529 CAS (Clean and Simple) 

CAS Christmas October Challenge - Christmas Birds

Hello there.  The new challenge at CAS Christmas starts now and this month’s theme is Christmas Birds.

I was searching for my favourite penguin stamp from now closed down Winnie and Walter (WW) when I came across another of their stamp set that I never got to use yet and is perfect for this challenge.  Here’s my card.

On a piece of X-Press It cardstock die cut with the Wrapped Stitch Rectangle from Memory Box, the cardinal was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  Masked it to stamp the birdhouse followed by the branch then coloured in the scene with Copic Sketch markers.

Masked the birdhouse next and blended Tumbled Glass distress ink with a blender brush starting in the corner and fading out.  Didn’t need to mask the branch since it’s darker than the ink.  Black heat embossed the sentiment from a different WW stamp set with clear glitter embossing powder, then added snow with a white gel pen to finish.

Our guest designer this month is Anita (Stampin with Anita).  To see what she and my team have created to inspire you to play along, head on over to the challenge post HERE.  The challenge ends on October 24th PST.  I appreciate you stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

Challenges:
Merry Little Christmas - #27 October Anything Christmas Goes 

Jenn Shurkus Get Cracking on Christmas - Anyrhing Goes Christmas 

Watercooler Wednesday - #291 Fifth Week Anything Goes 

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 

Krafty Chicks - #527 Week 1 Stamp Act 

Crafty Animals - #43 Anything Goes Animals 

Christmas 24 - #19 Winter Birds 

CAS Christmas November Reminder - Warm and Cosy

Hello everyone. There is still a week left to enter our Warm and Cosy challenge at CAS Christmas.  

So what could be more warm and cosy than a crackling fireplace and the smell of fresh baked cookies wafting through the home?  And that scene was the inspiration for my reminder card.

So how adorable is that excited little mouse? 🤗   Started by stamping mama and son mice with Copic friendly black ink on a stitched Copic friendly piece of cardstock.  Masked them before stamping the fireplace.  Masked the fireplace and the floor, then blended Real Red and Soft Suede dye inks with blender brushes to create the wall.  I wanted to use warm colours. 

Masked the wall and “baseboard” next, and blended Sahara Sand dye ink for the floor.  Removed the masks and coloured in all images with Copics.  Black heat embossed the sentiment and added clear shimmer to the flames to finish.  

If you need more inspiration to play along, head on over to the challenge post HERE and check out what our guest Bobby (Bits & Pieces) and my team have created.  Love to see what you come up with.  Thank you for visiting.  Have a merry Christmas and we’ll see you next year for the next CAS Christmas challenge.

Challenges:
Merry Little Christmas - #16 November Anything Christmas Goes
Gerda Steiner Designs - November Share Your Designs
Watercooler Wednesday - #247 Marsha’s All Abut Occasions
Crafty Animals - November Anything Goes Animals
Send a Smile 4 Kids - Happy Holidays or Anything Goes 4 Kids
Penny Black and More - November Christmas

Craft Stamper - November Take It Make It
Uniko - #56 Christmas optional twist Tree

CAS Christmas August Reminder - Glitter

Happy Saturday everyone.  Just poppin' in with the reminder post for this month's CAS Christmas Glitter challenge.

I just couldn't help myself and made another critter no peeking card.

Stamped the peeking bear image with Copic friendly black ink on Copic friendly cardstock.  Coloured with Copcs then masked it.  Applied Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers distress ink with a mini blending tool to the background.  Spritz with a DIY shimmer spray for some sparkle.  Black heat embossed the sentiment (retired) with clear glitter embossing powder.

Die cut the hexagon frame twice from white scraps and once from white glitter paper then stacked them.  Adhered it over the image piece and trimmed away the excess with scissors.  Next took a dark gray panel from my stash and blended Black Soot distress ink at the top before splattering with white acrylic paint.  Assembled the card onto a white top folding card base and added clear shimmer to the purple areas to finish.

Are you ready to join in, if you haven't already?  For more inspirations from my team and our guest Michelle (Seashell Creations), click HERE.  The challenge runs for one more week and ends on August 24.  Thank you for visiting.

Challenges:
Merry Little Christmas - #13 August Anything Christmas Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - #234 Dawn's All About Occasions
Sweet Stampers - #35 Dies and/or Punches

Addicted to Stamps and More - #354 CAS

The Cat's Pajamas - #360 Clean and Simple

No Peeking Til Christmas

Hello there.  You must know it was bound to happen.  My favourite little penguin is back!  I actually had another card done, but it was too similar to a previous one, so I made this one instead.

Last weekend at a crafty playdate over at Christine's, we played with gouache (pronounced like squash, but with a "g" gwash) paints.  These are thick, opaque paints which can be diluted with water.  I don't know about you, but I cannot get a bright white when colouring with a white color pencil on color cardstock.  Well, problem solved. After stamping the penguin on Toned Tan paper with black ink, I used a small brush to paint the white areas with white gouache.  The white is actually white!...  except for the areas where shading was added. 😉  I made sure to use my MISTI so the image can be re-stamped.  Because this is not watercolor paper, very little water was used.

The rest of the colouring and shading were done with Polychromos pencils.  The sentiment (retired) was white heat embossed on black cardstock then die cut out with an elongated speech bubble die (retired).  Snow was added with a white gelly roll pen to finish.

That was fun.  Thank you for visiting.  Have a wonderful last week of July!

Challenges:
Christmas Kickstart - #15 Festive Things with Wings
ABC Christmas - N is for No Peeking
Send a Smile 4 Kids - Christmas in July 4 Kids
Crafty Gals Corder - #196 Christmas in July
Simply Less is More - #400 Small Images

CAS Christmas March Reminder - Deer

Hello there!  This is the reminder post for our first birthday Deer challenge at CAS Christmas.

   

 Here's my card.

I love using critters as letters in sentiments and this little reindeer looked like a "Y" to me, so that's how this card came about.  The reindeer was stamped with Copic friendly black ink on a scrap of X-press It cardstock, coloured with Copics then die cut out with the matching die.

The background was created by ink smooshing Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink with a piece of acetate on a stitched rectangle die cut from Bristol paper.  Merry was die cut from white and black scraps and offset.  Christmas was black heat embossed with clear glitter embossing powder.  Clear shimmer added to merry and Crystal Glaze added to Rudolph's nose finished off the card (wasn't able to capture in the photo).  Oh, and Rudolph was popped up on black fun foam.

Chrissie from Simply One of a Kind is our guest this month.  And did I mention there are a couple of prizes up for grabs?  For details and more inspirations, head on over to the blog HERE.  The challenge ends in a week on March 24.  Hope you will play along.  Thank you for visiting.  

Challenges:

Christmas Kickstart - #6 Moves on Hooves

Merry Little Christmas - #8 March Anything Christmas Goes

Love to Craft - #32 March Anything Goes

Watercooler Wednesday - #212 Tristan's All About Occasions

Masking a Playroom Scene

Hello everyone!  Winnie  and Walter (W&W) turned 5 last month and celebrated with a Birthday Bash of fun challenges ending tomorrow.  I started out with a simple baby nursery scene card in mind, but it morphed into a full blown playroom! 😂   Here's my card.

I love stretching supplies, so when W&W's February Leading Lady Rosali altered a couple of stamps to create a Yeti family, it inspired me to stretch a couple of Christmas sets and have the snowboarding yeti hang up his snowboard for a ride on his rocking horse in his playroom!  Images were stamped with Copic friendly black ink on an A2 X-press It cardstock panel and coloured in with Copics.  I had to do some strategic masking because the yeti's right leg had to be in front while the left leg was behind.  Not only was there masking directly on the stamp, mask modifications (pictured below) were required to achieve this scene.

Had this not been a masking challenge, it would have been easier just to stamp the images separately and hand cut them out.  Anyway, the floor area was masked off next and Minty Mint dye ink was blended on with a Clarity brush through a Ticking Stripe stencil to create the wall.  Masked the wall and the "baseboard", then sponged on Kraft ink for the floor.  The sentiment was black heat embossed with clear glitter embossing powder.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I would have called it done for a simple nursery scene, but thought it looked too empty.  I decided to take it a step further and added a couple of stuffed animals and a tennis ball to create a playroom.  The images were stamped again with Copic friendly black ink on scraps of X-press It cardstock, coloured with Copics then fussy cut out.  Stacked a couple of pierced white rectangle frames from my stash then assembled the card onto a white top folding card base to finish.

I had a lot of fun with this one.  Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges:

Winnie & Walter - Take Four with Rosali Altering Stamp Images with Masking

Winnie & Walter - Take Three with Rosali Build a Scene with Masking

Winnie & Walter - Take One with Rosali Use Masking with Stencilling

Winnie & Walter - Five Challenge with Shay (5 images and 5 stamp sets - Winter Woodland, Dog-gone Cute, Welcome to the Family, Nutcracker Kisses and Yetitide Greetings)

Winnie & Walter - 3+Stamp Set Challenge with Kelly (5 stamp sets used - see above)

Watercooler Wednesday - #212 Tristan's All About Occasions

Love to Craft - March Anything Goes