CAS Challenges

As part of the Design Team for CAS Christmas and CAS Watercolour, you'd think I'd always manage to take part in our sister challenges, CAS Stencil and CAS Mix Up, but some months time just gets away from me.  With all the extra time we spend at home these days, I decided there was no excuse, so here I am, sneaking in under the wire with cards for them.

First up is CAS Stencil "Gilding Flakes".

I love gilding flakes but do they ever make a mess, floating here there and everywhere.  But I ended up with a card I'm really happy with.

I used a TCW musical notes stencil on white cs.  I sponged some Flitter Glue through the stencil, removed the stencil, and added the gilding flakes, rubbing them into the glue, and then buffing off the excess with a scratchy pad.  I stamped the sentiment in copper (in hindsight, I wish I'd heat embossed it to make it stand out a bit more) and bordered the panel with copper shimmer paper.

The gilding flakes are really beautiful but hard to photograph so here's a close-up taken in different light to show all the wonderful colour variations.



Because it's a Christmas song, I'm also linking it up to CAS Christmas "Christmas Song".

And because it's music, The Male Room "Music" challenge.

 
If any of you can read sheet music (I can't!), let me know if I got the image the right way up - it was hard to tell as the stencil didn't have any treble clef things.


Now on to CAS Mix Up "Bleaching".

 

Here's my card:

 

I took a piece from my box of backgrounds that I'd created by smooshing purple Distress Oxide inks on watercolour paper.  Purple suits pansies so I stamped and heat embossed a pansy stamp, then took and old paintbrush and some bleach, and painted over the flowers and leaves, blotting the colour up with a paper towel.  I left it as is rather than painting in any other colour.  I die cut a circle out of it, then created a small stitched circle frame, popped it up on fun foam on a rustic card base, added a bit of Stickles to the flower centres, and die cut the sentiment out of a bit of leftover purple smooshing.

Thanks for stopping by, and happy creating.

Supplies for card 1:
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Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Holly Berry House pansies
Ink - purple Oxide inks
Paper - watercolour paper, rustic cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Lil Inker stitched circle die, bleach, Tattered Lace sentiment die, fun foam, Stickles