I've got a CAS card of a sweet little chickadee with some berries for The Paper Players "CAS Favorite Holiday Image" - I love birds on Christmas cards and have many bird stamps. It's also for Time Out Challenges "Your Favourite Holiday to Celebrate" (Christmas is my favourite holiday) and Sweet Stampin' "Use Red for Remembrance" (the only colour in my card is red).
Very CAS and very quick to make - stamped, watercoloured the berries bright red, trimmed
with a stitched rectangle, bordered with red, popped up on fun foam, and
Glossy Accents added to the berries.
My second card took longer to make. It's for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown that wants a winter scene. I've got a white (i.e. snow covered) winter village against a very frosty sky.
The background uses the mixed media smooshing (see this tutorial on SCS). I used a few shades of blue and one of purple Distress inks, tapped them on my craft mat, added a bit of white shimmer paint and a bit of iridescent medium, spritzed all with water, and smooshed and dragged my watercolour paper in it. The village die cut and card base are white shimmer cs.
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Magenta chickadee, Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Memento Rhubarb Stalk
Paper - white and red cs, watercolour paper
Size - A2
Accessories - red watercolour paint, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, Glossy Accents, fun foam
Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Distress Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky, Dusty Concord
Paper - watercolour paper, white shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - village die, Tsukineko Frost White liquid paint, Windsor & Newton Iridescent Medium
