Have a Great Day

I die cut a long rectangle in the front panel to display my bright 'ghosted' piece - sponged and blended Distress Inks - Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon and then lay my sentiment and spritzed with water, quickly lifted the stencil and let it dry.  I was then muffed about how to use it and thought it looked like tyre tread marker so stamped and embossed my car image and used Twinkling H2Os to give it a racy metallic finish.  I popped it up with foam tape also my stamped sentiment.
I am playing along at CAS Stencil March challenge - Ghosting Technique and also at The Male Room challenge #106 - Gorgeous Greens.
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Love and Best Wishes

With my second card this afternoon, I am playing along with the Fusion Card Challenge for March - Mint... love this colour and finding this stenciled background in my stash (it looked pretty uninteresting) but I gave it a trim and then white embossed my stamped sentiment on a matching banner that fitted nicely with this months sketch and finished off attaching a small die cut sprig and I'm really happy with the result.

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Happy Birthday

Enjoying an afternoon of watercolouring with Distress Oxide inks... I stamped my image in grey on a folded card for the single layer challenge at A Place to Start March challenge... also to include a matching envelope.
Then stamped and embossed my sentiment in silver EP.

I am also playing along at Stamplorations CAS Card challenge for March - Anything Goes with a twist of Coral Pink -- well mine is more Coral Orange.
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Birthday Wishes

Third Birthday Celebrations at CAS Mix Up this month... congrats to Loll, Bonnie and the team, a wonderful effort and lots and lots of inspiration.

 This month the challenge is Faux Stained Glass at CAS Mix Up, so after watching a couple of videos available on the blog - I gave it a go....

I die cut my panel three times with the last one I was able to give it a quick run through the Cuttlebug without cutting through entirely (my plates are getting a bit worn)... so adhered some double sided tape to the back and a backing piece. Next I coloured that panel with DO inks (you don't have to be too careful but make sure not to get colour on the background) and also gave the background a very pale blue wash to help highlight the white on the die cuts. Then I adhered one die cut on top and used Nuvo Crystal to fill in the coloured areas for my stained glass (here I found you need to be sure the ink is dry or the colours may bleed) - that's why we have a second die cut to finish it off - to hide messy bits - you can add more layers of die cuts for a more dimension.

To finish I used a rich cream card and stamped and embossed my sentiment in black and then attached my stained glass panel.  I am also playing along at Watercooler Wednesday WWC#211 - Kath's Feminine "Anything Goes" challenge.  Thanks for visiting, I really appreciated it - happy stamping.
CAS Mix Up elements - stamping, faux stained glass technique, heat embossing, die cuts

 

Joy

"Butterflies" - Spark Joy ..... for me, so I thought to keep my card simple with an embossed background on metallic cream paper onto a cream card. Then a simple shiny gold die cut "Joy"  and a fussy cut gold embossed stamped butterfly on cream card, finished off with a single green gem.
Green is so not my go to colour hence the single green gem.... My inspiration for the challenge at The Library #27 - Spark Joy by Marie Kondo.
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Happy Birthday

Three aspects from different challenges inspired this card today..
Addicted to Stamps challenge #171 - Anything but a Square card... I haven't made a round easel card for ages so I used some elements from my stash - die cut lacy circle, die cut orange/red/yellow watercolour background, four stamped flowers which were created by scribbling watercolour pencils directly onto a very slightly misted stamp before stamping and fussy cutting.
Next the Birthday theme at Just Us Girls Word Week #477, for my sentiment.
And then the colour theme from the dahlia flowers on the Inspirational photo at Just Add Ink #446 challenge.
And lastly I'm joining in the Pixie Snippets Playground challenge #347 - using elements from your stash.
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Best Wishes

Time for a quick post this morning for Watercooler Wednesday WWC210 - Heidi's "All About Occasions" challenge, and using the layout at CAS(E) this Sketch #311.
Stamped my image with grey ink and used Distress Oxides to watercolour it, then trimmed it and curved the corners... selected a matching red to layer the panel and some pink DP for the background. To finish simply added a stamped sentiment and attached with foam tape.  Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it... happy stamping

  

CAS Stencil March challenge

Welcome to CAS Stencil March challenge - Ghosting

If you're not sure about this technique there are a couple of videos on the CAS Stencil blog to help you out... it's not too difficult so hope you find time to join in the fun.

I made a background using Distress Inks- Carved  Pumpkin, Barn Door, Brushed Corduroy - sponged onto white card, then laid on my stencil, spritzed with water and removed the stencil quickly, let it dry.  The background area shape lead me to use a die cut oval in my cream card front, then I traced around the inside of the die onto red card and cut around the pencil line to give a layered oval.  To finish I added a fussy cut stamped cat on a DO scrape and then my stamped and clear embossed sentiment...die cut with a stitched rectangle die.

There's some wonderful inspiration on the CAS Stencil blog, from the design team girls, please pop on over and check them out - I'm sure you'll be wanting to give it go...

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