Simply the Best

I love how this came out - I used freezer paper for a mask. I cut the freezer paper with the PaperTrey butterfly die and ironed it onto the watercolor paper.  I then watercolored around and over the mask using the wet on wet watercolor technique.  I carefully lifted the mask off when the panel was dry and stamped the sentiment (from Technique Tuesday). I added a few gems and mounted it onto aqua mist card stock and added a thin black strip to make the watercolor panel pop.

I am submitting this to:

CASology - Watercolor

Addicted to Stamps and More - photo inspiration

Happy Little Stampers August CAS Challenge - Masking

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Congratulations

I finally used this NBUS stamp set from The Ton. I really like the set - the main image is a plain dress. Then you can add the trim (flowers) to the bodice and the bottom. I wanted to keep this really CAS so after I stamped the image with gold Encore pigment ink I added some small gold flakes from the PaperTrey Make It Market - Shaker kit instead of adding some sequins. I love the fonts that are included in the set as well.

I am submitting this to the CASology challenge #200: CAS.

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Celebrate

This card is for the following challenges:

CASology - Circles
CAS(E) This Sketch
Less Is More - Something shiny

I used a metallic red card stock to cut the circles and sentiment from after I adhered some Stick It to the back of the card stock.  The circles die is from Simon Says Stamp and the sentiment die is from Winnie & Walter.

         

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Make a Wish

This is my homework from one of the Online Card Class - CAS4 Day 2 lessons.  I really like how this came out and it was fairly quick and easy once I had the idea in my head.  The
border die is from Lil Inkers and the balloon and sentiment are from Clearly Besotted.

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:
CASology - Cue Card is Birthday.
showCASe Your Style Challenge - Inspiration Photo
Addicted to Stamps Challenge #129 - CAS
Inkspirational Challenges -Ombre
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

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A Break from Holiday Cards

I am so glad to be done with all holiday card making now.  I took advantage of the SCS color challenge for this week - black, white and honey.  I made the first card with the CASology challenge in mind - cue card LIGHT.

I had a few of the Paper Smooches skyline die cuts left over from my last project so I used them here and cut the sun from PaperTrey patterned paper.  The sentiment is from Altenew.

This next card is a case for the SCS Featured Stamper from this week.  The stamp set is from Technique Tuesday and I paper pieced the chickies with patterned paper from PaperTrey.  I think these chickies are so cute!!

Yesterday I had lunch with my blogging/stamping friends Darnell and Kim.  It was very fun as always.  These two keep me laughing!  Here's a picture of us:

Darnell, Me and Kim

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Another Silver Happy Hanukkah Card

Here is another Hanukkah card I made to send out this year.  I brought this glittery paper back from my friend Georgia's house when I went to Nebraska in January.  I will submit this card to CASology for the cue card challenge: SILVER:

I am also submitting this to CAS(E) this Sketch:

and to Just Us Girls:

and to AAA Card Challenge:

The card base is Recollections card stock and I don't know the brand of the glittery papers.  I used PaperTrey dies for the Star of David, the tilted panels and the sentiment banner.  The sentiment is also from PaperTrey.

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Silver Happy Hanukkah

The CASology challenge this week was perfect timing for me.  I am finishing up my Hanukkah and Christmas cards and the cue card is SILVER:

This stamp set is from Casual Fridays and I stamped it with silver ink and embossed it with silver embossing powder.  The "flames" were done with gold ink and gold embossing powder.  This was a very quick and easy card to make for multiple card making!

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Shiny Happy Birthday

I created this card for the CASology challenge - cue word is Shine:

I used last week's CAS(E) This sketch for this card and realized it was last week's not the current one.

I gold embossed the die cut several times to build up a nice amount of gold and I embossed the sentiment - it is so shiny!  Also I used sparkly and shiny embossing powder on the butterflies after I cut them off of the die cut.

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Welcome Little Baby Bee

This is one of my favorite baby stamp sets to use - PaperTrey's Baby Button Bits.  This is a one layer card that I created for the CASology Challenge Cue Word - BEE.

I painted in the wings with my clear Wink Of Stella glitter pen and the button is from my stash.

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Just a Note

This is for a few challenges:

Less Is More - Flowers

CASology - Flower

The Paper Players - Clean and Simple Florals

One-Layer Simplicity Challenge - Fabulous Florals

Fusion Card Challenge 

I used the black outline flower image from Rubbernecker Stamps.  There are three more steps to this set but I decided to put to use some of the information that I learned in the Online Card Class - Watercoloring for Cardmakers.  I took a clean wet paint brush and painted water over each flower, one at a time.  I then added a pink ink (wet on wet) then a washed out red and then a undiluted red - all wet on wet.

For the Fusion challenge I concentrated on the colors - black, red and white and since there was music I used the sentiment "Just a Note".

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Bring on the Happy

I took a break from class to make this card for the CASology Challenge: Cue Card - Metal.

I absolutely love this balloon die from Whimsy Stamps and I used it with gold metallic sparkly paper and then again with black paper to make a shadow.  I used a sentiment form Hero Arts and finished it off with gold sequins.  Can't get more metallic than that!

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CASology 93 Guest Designer

I am thrilled to be a guest designer this week for the CASology Challenge.  I want to thank Melissa for this opportunity and thank Kimberly for choosing my card as a winner!

The Cue Card is ELECTRIC:

I thought about what to do for this word for a while with several ideas coming to mind.  I finally settled on this idea: "our chemistry is electric".  The electric "heartbeat" was cut with my Silhouette Cameo. The stamped image of the couple is from Unity and the hearts and sentiment are from a Woodware USA set.

Here is another view of my card:

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Garden Close Up

This is my second post for today - for the ATCAS challenge post please scroll down.

This is for the latest CASology challenge - Cue card is GARDEN:

I am also submitting this to the pre-class gallery for the Online Card Class: Watercoloring.

I dry embossed the roses on watercolor paper, then brayered Versamark ink over the raised areas and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I then used my Inktense Water color pencils and an aquabrush to color in the flowers.  I mounted the painted panel on top of the card front that was dry embossed with the same folder.

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Just a Note...

I needed to make 60 Thank You notes for the volunteers at my temple.  My temple's name is Shir Ami which means "song of the people" so I thought this Sizzix flowery treble clef embossing folder was perfect.  The sentiment is from a retired Mark's Finest Paper set and I curved it on the acrylic block before stamping it.
Timing of these is perfect...this week's CASology challenge cue word is Note:

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FBW260 Color Challenge - Brown; CASology Cue Card - Brown

Welcome to Flutter By Wednesday 260.  This week's challenge is to use the color brown along with your butterfly or fairy.  This is actually the second card I made.  I wasn't crazy about the first one.  Using brown was quite a challenge for me - but that's what this is all about, right?
Remember if there are 50+ entries in this week's challenge Danni will be giving away a prize - so you might as well create a card and link it yo the Flutter By Wednesday blog.
I used three shades of brown markers and colored directly onto the dogwood image and butterfly image before stamping.  I used vanilla card stock instead of white.
This week at CASology Challenge blog the cue card is BROWN!  So I am submitting this card for that challenge and to Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes.

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Summer Camp Week 3 Day 2

Today was technique day in the class.  This is a case of Jennifer McGuire's card showcasing embossing die cuts.  I happened to have the die cut Butterfly Tendrils from Simon Says Stamp that Jennifer used in her video.  I die cut this out of white card stock and rubbed Versamark over it and embossed it with gold embossing powder.  I did this 3 times to make the die cut look metallic.  I die cut it again out of white card stock and cut off the butterflies.  I used purple inks from Memento to color them and then I used Versamark on them and embossed them with some Pixie Dust embossing powder which looks different colors as you move it around.  I gold embossed the PaperTrey sentiment and used a LifeStyle embossing folder on the right panel.
I am submitting this to CASology: Cue Word is Gold

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