Green Mistletoe and Canadian Olympic Team Colours

First up today for the Double D Challenge, they are offering the option of a St. Patrick's Day theme or a green, white, and gold colour theme.  I have no need of St. Patrick's Day cards so went with the colours.  And they are ideal colours for a Christmas card (of which I have need of many).

I stamped and watercoloured the mistletoe branch on mixed media cs and then carefully cut two narrow strips out of the panel on a diagonal.

I bordered each of those three pieces with dark gold cs and added fun foam to the back of each of them.

I carefully lined them up on the card base and drew pencil lines between them, then took them off and set them aside. I put the card base in my MISTI and stamped the two sentiments between my pencil lines. When the sentiments were dry, I erased the pencil lines and added the three image sections to the card base. Last step was adding some Stickles to the berries.


And another colour theme challenge is over at the Male Room where they are asking for team colours.  I went with the Canadian Winter Olympics Team's colours of red, black, and white.

This stamp seemed ideal since it mentions "winter".  I'm not a big sports fan but I do watch a lot of the Winter Olympics.

A very CAS card - stamped, watercoloured, bordered in black, and popped up on fun foam.

Thanks for stopping by today.  More CAS Christmas tomorrow!

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - white and dark gold cs, mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Stickles, watercolour paints, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Stamplorations
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - watercolour paper, white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam

Christmas Cocoa

Reminder time for the CAS Christmas "Holiday Treats" challenge!

It's been a lovely warm week of summer weather here in Vancouver, so it's hard to think about drinking cocoa right now, but I do love this image:

Forgive the poor image - I find shimmer card stock very hard to photograph.

I stamped the image in archival ink on mixed media cs.  I started by watercolouring with my Gansai Tambi paints - they include a shimmery gold paint that I used on the background.  I did not get a very deep red on the cup and saucer so went over it with a red Intense watercolour pencil and got a much richer colour.

I decided to make the cup look more festive so I die cut some tiny holly leaves and berries out of shimmer paper and created a patterned band around the middle of the cup.  I went over the berries with Glossy Accents to make them more shiny.

I trimmed the image to have a narrow border of the mixed media cs, then added it to a piece of red shimmer cs, and popped that up on fun foam on a cream (very pale gold) shimmer card base.  It really matches the pale gold watercolour wash on the background of the image.

Looking forward to seeing what holiday treats you come up with between now and September 24th.  There's some more inspiration over at CAS Christmas from the rest of the Design Team and September's Guest Designer, Birgit (Rapport fran ett skrivbord).

I'm also linking my card up at Christmas Cards All Year Round where they want Christmas or winter food or drink.
 

Supplies:

Stamps - Stamplorations

Ink - Archival Jet Black

Paper - mixed media cs, green and red shimmer paper, pale gold cream shimmer and red shimmer cs

Size - 4.75" square

Accessories - Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, Intense watercolour pencils, Memory Box tiny holly leaves and berries dies, fun foam

Winter Chill

A very straightforward card made with a few challenges in mind:

SCS CAS Challenge "Take the Chill Off" - a card depicting how you would  take the chill of winter off.

The Paper Players "Sweet Treats".

And Jingle Belles "Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding" - any kind of holiday food or drink.

I stamped my image on watercolour paper, coloured with Inktense watercolour pencils, trimmed it and mounted it on cream cs. Added the sentiment, bordered in black, and used a blue card base.

It's making me want to curl up on the couch with a good book and a pot of tea (can't stand coffee!).

Supplies:

Stamps - Stamplorations

Ink - Archival Jet Black

Paper - watercolour paper, black, cream, and blue cs

Size - A2

Accessories - Inktense watercolour pencils

Cup of Christmas Cheer

Squeaking in at the last minute for Merry Monday's Inspiration Challenge:

I have a great new stamp that seemed perfect for the challenge.

I stamped and watercoloured, trimmed the panel, and popped it up on some Christmas sentiment dp.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps - Stamplorations

Ink - Archival Jet Black

Paper - watercolour paper, linen cs, unknown dp

Size - A2

Accessories - Gansai Tambi paints, fun foam