Colourful Butterfly

Hi everyone.  Time for the reminder post for CAS Watercolour.  There's just over one week left to play along before the challenge closes on Aug. 24th at midnight PDST.

Our host this month is Marcia and she has us creating colourful butterflies ... the gallery is full of amazing cards!  And we are thrilled to have Amy as our Guest Designer this month!

I started by stamping my butterfly with Versamark and heat embossing with Princess Gold embossing powder.  It has more of a yellowy-gold colour, which I love.

The butterfly was watercoloured with distress inks in light orange, dark orange, and pink (my favourite colours).  I wanted to add wink of stella but both my pens were dry.  I sprayed just a little glimmer mist onto my palette and used a brush to add over the butterfly.  Worked great.

The butterfly was fussy-cut and popped up on the card base.  A gold embossed sentment on black banner was added over top to finish the card.

Here's a close-up ... you can really see the shine of the embossing powder and a bit of the shimmer on the watercoloured bits. :)

Please check out the reminder post on the challenge blog to see the beautiful butterfly cards from our Designers, and wonderful Guest Designer, Amy.

Then come play along!  Hope to see you in the gallery!

Stamps: Flutterby (IndigoBlu); Many Everyday Messages (Hero Arts)
Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.); White card base (Neenah 110 lb.); Black card stock (SU!)
Ink:  Versamark; Distress inks:  Spiced Marmalade, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry (Tim Holtz)
Accessories & Tools:  Princess Gold Embossing Powder (Ranger), heat tool, water brush

Challenges:
CAS Watercolour August Challenge - Colourful Butterflies

Butterfly Love

Hi everyone.  Welcome to the reminder post for August's CAS Mix Up Challenge - Paper Towel, hosted by me! :)

The butterfly is cut from a piece of mop-up paper towel.  I picked one that had a lot of blue and purple, glued it to a piece of card stock, and then cut out this beautiful butterfly die that I won recently at the Memory Box Challenge.  I die-cut the butterfly topper from white card stock and tacked it over top, leaving most of it free flowing from the butterfly.  A piece of smooshed pale blue watercoloured panel from my stash was used for the background, along with a die-cut antique frame.  A simple sentiment was stamped in silver delicata ink.

My card has watercolouring, smooshing, die-cutting, stamping and paper towel  ...

Here's a close-up ...

I hope you'll have time to check out the reminder post to see the amazing, CAS Mixed Media cards using paper towels from our Designers and Guest Designer, Betty.  There's still over a week to play along.  Hope you'll join us!

Since I've used a watercoloured Colourful Butterfly on my card, I'm sending this over to August's CAS Watercolour Challenge as well.

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Jessie

Hanging with Jeremy

Stamps:  Many Everyday Messages (Hero Arts)
Paper:  Mixed media (Strathmore 140 lb.); White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.)
Ink:  Distress Inks:  Tumbled Glass (Tim Holtz); Silver Delicata (Tsukineko)
Accessories & Tools:  Paper towel used to mop up left over Lindy's Magicals, Flitter Side Butterfly die (Memory Box), Antique Frames die (Penny Black)

Challenges:
CAS Mix Up August Challenge - Paper Towel
CAS Watercolour August Challenge - Colourful Butterflies

Blended DOX Inks

Hi everyone.  Sharing another card made at the May ESCR (Eat, Sleep, Craft, Repeat) Retreat.  This blended DOX ink background with heat embossed white image technique was led by Linda (Lin's Craft Corner).  I really enjoyed trying out a combination of three shades of green / blue to create this background.  We all took lots of time with the blending to make sure it was smooth ... what a difference.  And the white flower just pops off the colours.  I thought it needed something else, so splattered water over top, using a paper towel to dry off exposing the light droplets pattern.  A simple white heat embossed sentiment on black banner finishes the card.

Here's a close-up ...

This is a fun and easy technique with beautiful results.  Thanks for sharing Linda!!

One more photo share from the retreat ...

Happy times.

(photo by Darnell)

(l to r)  Linda, Nancy, Colleen, Bonnie

Stamps:  special sentiments (Penny black)
Paper:  White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Black card stock (Stampin' Up!)
Ink:  DOX inks:  Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover, Peacock Feathers (Tim Holtz); Versamark
Accessories & Tools: sponges, white embossing powder, heat tool

In the Studio with Fran and Deb

Hi everyone  Had a wonderful day in the studio a couple of weeks ago with two of my dear friends that I have know for over 30 years.  We used to work together and we've always crafted together. :)

Fran and Deb came for a day of making pretty cards as well as lunch out to celebrate birthdays.  It was a lot of fun.  They started by creating three sponged cards.  Above is the sample card I made for them.  It uses a new-to-me stencil from Magenta that I HAD to HAVE after seeing my dear friend, Christine, use it on this amazing card!

Isn't this stencil fun and cheerful??  I used my new blending brushes and they worked perfectly for this.  Trina gave a set of these amazing brushes to each of us at the retreat. Thanks again Trina!

Before heading out for lunch, lots of card fronts were made by smooshing Lindy's magicals.  Once back, we made them into simple cards, using white die-cuts as the embellishment (similar to the cards made HERE).

Fran went home with eleven completed cards, Deb with nine!  Very successful (and fun!) day in the studio! :)

Here's a close-up of my stenciled sunflowers ...

I'm entering this into the CAS on Friday challenge #162 - Use a Stencil.

Stamps:  Happy Messages (Stampendous)
Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.)
Ink:  Distress Inks: Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade  (Tim Holtz); Black (Memento)
Accessories & Tools:  Three Sunflowers Stencil (Magenta), blending brushes, fine black marker

Challenges:
CAS on Friday #162 - Use a Stencil