Cas Christmas Card Challenge - November is Critters Month

Hi Everyone it's time for CAS Christmas Challenge. This month Barb has asked us to look for those Christmas Critters. Welcome Valerie (Le Scrap de Vava) our Guest Designer for this month, don't forget to head over and say hi.

My little critter is a mouse from Pink Ink Designs. I watercoloured this cute image and added detail with pencils. I added a little water colour and a little stenciling around him and a pearl pen added a little dimension to his hat.

I should have used heat embossing for the image to create a dam for the watercolour but forgot and the red bled a little on the hat and the cane.😠

If this happens just pull out a little undiluted bleach and a fine brush and pull out the colour. 

I find with red bleach does the best job, water will pull most out but always leaves a pinkish residue.

I die cut the image using the stamplorations crazy double running stitch frame die.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Pink Ink Designs, Penny Black Sentiment
Paper: Watercolour, 110lb White
Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturn
Accessories: Pencils, watercolour, stencil, Pearl Pen, Frame Die.
Techniques: Watercolouring, stenciling, pencil colouring

Twofer Dogs

Hi Everyone, I wanted to join in with Darnell's Final Twofer Challenge, this month's theme is Dogs/Cats so I rummaged through my stash of dog stamps and pulled out a Colorado Craft Christmas set.

The first is a Christmas card is the stamp with a sentiment from the same set coloured with pencils.

My second is a fun card which I inked up the top portion of the stamp and then used some tape on the presents under the dog so I stamped just the dog. I then masked the dog and stamped the toadstool. 

I had to use the sentiment from Pink in Dog stamp set to go with this. He looks really guilty and the Rabbit knows what he did 😏 When I stamped the dog I forgot to include his tail so had to add my own (oops)

Card Recipe
Stamps: Colorado Craft, Lavinia, Pink Ink (Sentiment) Kitties Kits (Grass)
Paper: 110lb White, Black
Ink: Versafine Clair
Accessories: Coloured Pencils
Techniques: Pencil Colouring

CAS Christmas Mid Month Reminder

Hi Everyone, there's still time to play along with CAS Christmas Card Challenge.

You have until August 24th to find some Decoration and play along.

I used a Gelli print from my stash and stamped the IndigoBlu Snow Globe (I thing they may have discontinued this stamp) then stamped the cute little Penguin from Pink Ink Designs (We Three Kings Christmas Series). I used my Posca White Acrylic paint to go over the white areas of the the penguins and then fussy cut the globe and popped it up on some foam strips on this 5"X5" card.

A Really simple card 😀

Here is a close up of the Penguins.

Card Recipe
Stamps: IndigoBlu, Pink Ink Designs
Paper: 110lb White. 65lb White
Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturn
Accessories: Posca White Acrylic Paint Pen, Gelli print background.
Techniques: Gel;i Plate Printing, Stamping

CAS Christmas Mid Month Reminder

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to let everyone know, if you haven't heard from me recently it's because my mum passed away from Dementia on Tuesday. It's been a tough week but I know she is now at peace 💓

It's time for CAS Christmas Mid Month reminder.

I'm hosting CAS Christmas this month and my challenge is to pull out some of your stamps which have berries with the foliage.

I'm using a stamp I just picked up from Pink Ink Designs, aren't these little mice adorable. I  used  the mistletoe sprig to go with the kissing mice 😍

I coloured my image using pencils and framed it using a piece of acetate that I cut using one of my rectangle dies. I lightly blended some colour around the edge. When I was done I added some pearl white pearl pen to the berries.

The Sentiment is from Stampers Anonymous

Card Recipe
Stamps: Pink Ink Designs, Stampers Anonymous Sentiment
Paper: 110lb White, Mixed Media, Black
Ink: Memento Back
Accessories: Pencils (Lyra/Caran D'ache/ Prismacolour) Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Rectangle Stencil
Techniques: Pencil colouring