CAS Christmas Card Challenge Mid Month reminder

There's still time for you to join in with us at CAS Christmas Card Challenge and make a Christmas card with some Holiday Treats.


Birgit is our Guest Designer this month, Birgit and the rest of the Design team have created some amazing cards for your inspiration.

Here is my card, I used this really cute dog with his rawhide candy cane from The Old Island Stamp Company and the perfect sentiment from My Favorite Things (Happy Pawlidays)

I stamped him on Mixed media and coloured him with pencils, I put some glossy accents over his eyes but you cant see them in the photo. I used a postage stamp die to cut the image out and mounted it on kraft then dark brown

I hope you liked the card and I would love to hear from you.

Card Recipe
Stamps: The Old Island Stamp Company, My Favorite Things (Pawlidays Sentiment)
Paper:  Mixed Media, 110lb white, Kraft, Brown
Ink: Ranger Archival
Accessories: Lyra Pencils, Gamsol, Glossy Accents
Techniques: Pencil colouring

Pencils with Gamsol

During our recent crafting retreat Susan (Cardmaker's Garret) walked us through using coloured pencils with Gamsol.  I wanted to see what would happen if I used pencils on coated card, it certainly lightened the colours and made the colour move easily around on the card stock.

I used this cute guy from Katzelkraft, he's looking a little blue today.

I'm entering this for the following challenges

The paper players #396 Animal Antics

Addicted to stamps and more #294 CAS

Card Recipe
Stamps: Katzelkraft, Sentiment Tim Holtz
Paper: 110lb white, 110lb Coated card
Ink: Ranger Archival black, Ranger archival blue.
Accessories: Faber Castell pollychrome coloured pencils, gamsol
Techniques: Gamsol pencil colouring