OMG I can't believe I was a winner at Craft stamper's magazine

Hi everyone, I just found out I was a July's winner at Craft Stampers Magazine's monthly challenge.  I was picked as July's winner with this card.  This is so awesome because-
1- I will be guest designer
2- I will have a 2 page spread in Craft Stampers Magazine How Cool is that😅
I can't help doing a happy dance 😀

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Pretty Butterfly die

I'm just posting a card to the CAS Watercolour challenge before it ends on July 24th. There still time for all of you out there to enter if you haven't already done so, and even if you have you can always post another.  If you are looking for inspiration head on over and you will find some amazing cards from the participants and the design team, you won't be disappointed.

Here is my card, it's just waiting for the right sentiment.
The  watercolour background is smooshed Distress Oxide inks on Water colour paper, I then Die cut the butterfly (purchased from Aliexpress) out of 110lb white card stock and navy blue.  I inlaid the navy blue in the white, and love the pop of colour framing the smooshed DOX inks.  The main panel was cut with the  Crazy Double Running Stiched Nested Rectangle die from Stamplorations.  Finally I added some green and blue sequins to match the watercolour panel.
I'm also entering this for Less is more no Stamps, and the Butterfly Challenge #82 matching pairs of which I have two.

Card Recipe
Stamps: None
Paper: 140lb watercolour, 110lb white, Michaels Navy
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Accessories: Distress oxide inks, sequins, Butterfly Die Cut from Aliexpress
Techniques: Inlaid Die cut, Smooshed watercolour background

It's time for July's CAS Watercolour Reminder

I can't believe it's only 2 week to my summer vacation (or at least time off from work)  and also the CAS watercolour mid month reminder.

For this card I created a background using brusho's spritzed with water then scrunched some cling wrap and lay it over then let it dry.  The cling wrap give a great marbled effect where the cling wrap touched the card when it's removed after drying

The butterflies are a die by memory box really allows lots of the colour to come through,

Come join us over at CAS Watercolour with your butterfly cards

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Happy little stampers sentiment, Ali express small butterfly
Paper: 110lb white, coated card
Ink: distress Oxide, Ranger archival
Accessories: Memory box butterfly die, Brushos's,cling saran wrap
Techniques: cling wrap and brusho's background, Die cut

Another Crafty Day

This card is from last weekends get together with crafty friends Loll, Susan and Trina (my crafting closet),  We were trying the this technique which uses Gesso and Distress Oxide inks which was introduced to us by Susan from a blog called Country View Crafts. Of course any techniques using DOX is a must try as we all love the effect you get with them.  We miss read the instructions, not surprising because chatting, laughing and crafting make your brain go fuzzy 😏

Susan has a great example on her blog comparing what we did and what we should have done with the technique so I won't go into too much detail.  This is definitely on my to do list on another day the next time following the instructions more carefully.

For my background I used vintage photo, fossilized amber and a little broken china.  I used my craft mat to add some ink of the pad and spritzed with water, I tapped my mixed media card stock on the craft mat to pick up the colour and heat dried between layers.  Once got the depth of colour I then painted some watered down gesso over the DOX inks and dried it with a heat gun.   I used a penny black stamp which I used a direct to stamp technique with the DOX ink pads (picked raspberry and peeled paint) and spitzed with water.  This is nothing like it was supposed to look like but I love, the background looks very vintage and the water caused the DOX inks on the flowers to pool.  I distressed the edges and mounted the card on an A2 background.

I'm entering this for Craft stampers magazine anything goes. Penny Black Saturday Challenge "Flowers" and Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge Distress it.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Penny Black Effulent, Stampers Anonymous
Paper: 110lb linnen (off white), 140lb Mixed Media
Ink: Distress Oxided ink
Accessories: MISTI, Gesso, Distress Oxide, Distress tool
Techniques: Direct to Stamp, Gesso background

Crafty get together card

I have this ever growing box of backgrounds and swatches or snippets all ready for future use all which have been created during crafty get together's with crafting friends.  It's so much fun getting together with friends trying out different techniques, you never know what you are going to come away with.

This card is some left over acetate with alcohol inks and tissue paper from a crafting retreat back in May of this year with Loll (Stamping with Loll), Susan (Cardmakers Garret) and Nancy (Scandy Nancy creates).
We smooshed the alcohol inks on the acetate, and when it was dry we glued the tissue paper to the AI side.  The tissue paper gives more texture to the inked surface, such a cool effect.  I die cut the coffee cup using a stamplorations die and mounted it on black card to give it more of a dramatic colour.
I used brown/yellow/blue and gold inks, you can see the slight shimmer of the gold in the image.  It's so hard to capture this in the photo but the colours really cool IRL

I'm entering this into the following challenges:- CAS Mix up, Stamplorations anything goes,

 



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Stamps:Tim Holtz
Paper: 110lb white, Acetate, tissue paper, Michaels black
Ink: Ranger archival
Accessories: Alcohol inks, Stamplorations die
Techniques: Alcohol inks on acetate, die cut

Tissue paper play 👍

I was so happy to see CAS Mix up was playing with Tissue Paper for this months challenge, I just couldn't resist pulling out some of my previously played with tissue paper.
A while back I tried geli printing with tissue paper, the prints were in my stash for a few months so it was a great time to pull them out.  I also thought I would play along with the CAS Watercolour challenge and make my tissue paper into a butterfly, Snippets Playground with my snippet of tissue paper
I die cut some white card stock with the tissue paper stuck to it with the solid portion of the Stamplorations Butterfly and then cut the top layer of the butterfly in white, IRL  you can see the gold and blue of the geli print background peaking through.
My background is an old technique revisited, "Block Watercolour Stamping", check out the turtorial Jennifer McGuire posted today.
 One thing I learned put a weight on the block to allow the colour to soak into the watercolour paper.

I love that irregular edge where the colour hasn't soaked into the paper.

Here is my swatch of Geli print, there's lots left for other projects, don't you love that 😅

Card Recipe
Stamps:Tim Holtz Sentiment
Paper:110lb white, Crafters Companion Watercolour
Ink: Ranger Archival
Accessories: Distress Oxide inks,, Stamplorations butterfly, acrylic block, tissue paper, gelli plate, Stamplorations wonky stitched edge frame
Techniques: Tissue paper, gelli plate print, Block Watercolour print

Fly away Butterfly

July is butterfly month at CAS Watercolour challenge.  If you have time drop by and check out the challenge there are some amazing cards by the rest of the team.

I used Lolls awesome splat technique after masking the butterfly, then painted he butterflies using  ArtGraf watercolour, it's a graphite based watercolour.  I'm looking forward to trying some gray monochrome images with this product.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Tim Holtz
Paper: 110lb white, black 140lb watercolour
Ink: Ranger Archival black
Accessories: ArtGraf watecolour Graphite, Distress stains, Clear wink of stella, Cutplorations crazy double running stitch.
Techniques: Watercolouring