Addicted to CAS Challenge # 25

Hello everyone - can't believe it's time for another challenge at Addicted to CAS but it is and your hostess for this challenge is our esteemed (and very talented) leader Kylie.  The code word she has chosen is:

Sponsor

Digi Darla Designs

 Prize will be 5 images of the winners choice

Now I know one layer isn't everyone's favourite technique but here is my offering for you.

For this card I've made up a 5" square card blank from black ribbed cardstock.  I've stamped my Woodware JGS169 Christmas Date stamp using Versamark and embossed it in fine gold e/p.  I've coloured the number, leaves and berries using pearl paints and then added red Gloss Gel to give dimension to the berries.  You can really see the ribbed cardstock on the coloured numbers.

I decided to make a second card using a different method of using Versamark.

 

I took a card blank and embossed the two largest layers of my Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Eight.  I then took a sponge and used my lightest blue Pan Pastel to sponge the centre of the embossed area and between the two dies.  Next I put the bauble and bow stamps from Clearly Besotted's Signature Christmas Additions set and the sentiment  from their Holiday Sentiments set, inked up with Versamark ink and stamped into the central area.  I then took my sponge and put a darker blue Pan Pastel on it and sponged over the stamped image and suddenly it appears!  I'm not quite sure why the background colour appears blotchy but it doesn't IRL!!!

 

I've added some clear glitter glue to the centre of the bow and the stars on the bauble.  A very quick and simple card.  Don't forget to pop over to Addicted to CAS to see the amazing cards the DT have made for this challenge.

Have a great weekend.  Happy crafting.

Less is More - Week 82 - Colour Brown & Pink

Hi Guys - well this week's challenge over at Less is More is:

Being the first of the month it's colour week and we have chosen two for you....

Brown & Pink

Now, I made this card a couple of days ago and I have taken so many photos of it - tried to fiddle with them - that I am pretty sick of the sight of it.  For some reason, and I don't know whether it is because it's a pearlised card or what, the colours were awful.  Anyway making the best of a really bad job here is my offering!!!

I started off by embossing a nestie on the front of my card and then I stamped the main focal image from Stampin Up Mixed Bunch using Versamark ink.  I've then sponged over with pan pastels in pink.  The edging around the centre is a clear border stamp that I attempted to shape on the acrylic block so I could stamp a half circle at a time.  I've then gone over this with brown pan pastels.  The sentiment is from SU Heard from the Heart and stamped using Versafine Sepia ink.  I've then used Liquid Pearls to add the finishing touch.  Definitely not pleased with the finished result but it's taken me more time to try and photograph it than it did to make (shows eh????) and as I'm in the middle of a melt down because my printer is playing up and I'm in the middle of two commissions...............everything's hunky dory!!!!  lol

Hopefully back with a better example for the next LIM challenge.  Probably won't be back til next week as we have a busy weekend and we're cooking for a mass of people on Sunday - so fingers crossed for the weather.


Happy crafting.

Less is More - Week 81 - Theme

Well, looky here...........I might not have got my first card posted very early for this week's Less is More challenge but here I am again with another one!!!  lol

Just to remind you, this week's challenge set by the lovely ladies is TEARING ........ and it can be as easy or complicated as we wish.  So yesterdays card was pretty simple so I thought I'd have a go at tearing my paper for masks and also tearing some backing card as well.

Now a really strange thing happened to me - I decided to use my Pan Pastels on a piece of Clarity coated cardstock, so I tore my paper masks and started off using blue for the sky - beautiful, then I used an ochre shade for the furthest hills - again no problem.  BUT........ when I went to use a green for the nearest hills nothing happened!  So I tried again, and again, and again..........still nothing.  It sponges very well onto normal paper but where the other colours came out really well on the coated cardstock the green absolutely refused to even minutely colour the card!!!  Now if anyone out in Blogland can help me with this I would be really interested to know why this happened.  So determined to carry on I had to use Distress Inks to finish off the background.  Then I have used a mixture of stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque (Eastern Grasses and Tall Trees).  For the trees in the distance I just masked and stamped the top of the trees in the foreground after taking off some ink so it appeared to be further away.

I used a silver edge marker pen around the scene and matted it onto some ribbed black cardstock which was torn on two sides.  I've mounted this onto an 8" square card blank and added the ribbon.  The sentiment is from Heartfelt Expressions (HCPC 3474) and stamped directly onto the base card.  The final addition was some matching pearls.

Thanks for dropping by.  I love reading all your comments and popping over to your blogs to reciprocate.