A CAS Basket and a Mixed Media Background

Two very different cards today.  One a CAS card, and one definitely not CAS - lots of mixed media playing around.

For Simply Clean and Simple where the theme is "Baskets":

Stamped and coloured with coloured pencils and then centred in a snowflake frame embossing folder.

And for Try It on Tuesday "Make Your Own Background":

I had a piece of cardstock that I'd used to mop up leftover blue and grey ink after I'd done some smooshing.  I stamped a grid stamp and the Birthday Wishes sentiment on it trimmed it down to fit an odd-sized card base I had.  Then I took another bit of the same leftover ink on, stamped with various stamps (including one that mentions the dragonfly), did a bit of random stencilling with paste, and then layered the two background pieces, and topped with a stamped and fussy cut dragonfly.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black basket, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Ultimate Crafts snowflake frame embossing folder

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps -
Ink -
Paper -
Size -
Accessories -

Handles and Snowflakes

I'm back to Christmas cards with this post.  

Here's a card for the Double D "Something with a Handle" challenge.  Usually their wonderful mood boards inspire my card but this time I had to skip it and search my stamps and dies for a handle.  I found a lovely NBUS stamp so I can also enter it in Darnell's NBUS Challenge, and it's between the 25th and the end of the month so can enter it in Rudolph Days March Challenge.

Stamped, watercoloured, trimmed with a hemstitch die, bordered with dark red cs, and put on a cream card base.

And today's twofer is for Christmas Kickstart "Snowflakes are Winter's Butterflies":

I've been using Jennifer Maguire's technique a lot lately (seen in this video).

I embossed bright aqua blue foil cs with the snowflake embossing folder, then sanded the raised part, exposing the white cs underneath the blue foil layer.

I added two snowflakes die cut from sparkly cs. The sentiment on the top right is a wax seal that I made while at a friend's house.

Double D "Something with a Handle"

NBUS Challenge "Never Before Used Schtuff"

Rudolph Days "Anything Christmas"

Christmas Kickstart "Snowflakes are Winter's Butterflies"

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black basket, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, dark red and cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Spellbinders hemstitch rectangle die

Supplies for card 2:
Paper - white cs, aqua blue foil cs, sparkly white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - snowflake embossing folder, snowflake die cuts, wax seal