Toile Blossoms and Lavender Silhouette

Two non-Christmas cards today.  First up for Try It on Tuesday "Summer Blooms", Time Out "Mother Nature", Seize the Birthday "Anything Birthday", and Triple B "Birds, Butterflies, or Blooms".  

Multiple stamping of the images from an old SU set called Toile Blossoms, leaving space in the centre for the sentiment.  Then watercoloured, trimmed, bordered with dusky pink and grey/green.

My front garden is blooming with so much lavender right now - it made me want to do a card with a lavender theme.  My only lavender stamp is a silhouette one.  So I created this card for CAS on Friday "Flowers".   

I decided to play with bleach for the background. I masked a rectangle on a piece of white cs and sponged two shades of Distress ink in the rectangle. Then laid a stencil that looks a bit like lavender over it and gently sponged with bleach to lift the colour. It seeped under the stencil a bit - if you look closely you can see how it weirdly caused the ink colour to pool around the openings in the stencil and I lost a lot of the definition. I added a bit of subtle splatter with black ink. I removed the masking tape and stamped the lavender silhouette over it and added a vertical sentiment and a bit more splatter with white acrylic paint. Then trimmed with a stitched rectangle and popped it up on fun foam on the card base.

      

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SU Toile Blossoms, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, dusky pink, grey/green, and off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Spellbinders rectangle layering dies

Supplies:
Stamps - Magenta Lavender Silhouette, unknown sentiment
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Milled Lavnder and Spun Sugar
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Memory Box stencil. white acrylic paint, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, fun foam

Weekend Cards

A couple of cards from me, one Christmas, one a sympathy.

Cardz 4 Guyz wants a masculine card with gingham and the Double D challenge wants trees so this fulfills both:

I had a perfect scrap of green gingham dp to go with a Christmas tree.  The tree is stamped and heat embossed, then decorated with a few stick-on stars and tiny dots.  It's popped up on fun foam on top of the dp for some dimension.

The second card is for Less is More "Silhouette".

I decided to create a shadow background for the silhouette using the same stamp.  I put the wildflower stamp in my MISTI and inked up with Distress Weathered Wood, then spritzed with water and stamped onto watercolour paper. I moved the stamp over and repeated twice more.

Then I used black pigment ink and embossing powder for the clear sharp black silhouette of the flower and for the sentiment.

Cardz 4 Guys "Gingham, Checks, or Plaid"

Double D Challenge "Trees"

Less is More "Silhouette"

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Art Impressions tree, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - ColorBox Evergreen
Paper - cream cs, gingham dp
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - TH wildflower, PTI sentiment
Ink - Distress Weathered Wood, Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, ivory cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, fun foam, Spellbinders layering rectangle die

Silhouette Skaters

It's time to remind you to enter CAS Christmas's January challenge "Silhouette".  Here's my reminder card:

Loll taught me how to do Eileen Godwin's great technique of creating a geometric sponged background with some stencilling over it - perfect for a silhouette stamp.

Check out Eileen's video here.

I created the geometric pattern with pale wintery shades of blue and lilac Distress inks, then stencilled some snowflakes over it.  I put it in the MISTI and stamped the image of children skating and the sentiment.

Then popped it up on fun foam over an angled scrap of black cs to reflect the angles of the geometric background.

You've got until January 24th to link up a clean and simple Christmas card featuring a silhouette.  There's more inspiration from the Design Team over at CAS Christmas.

I know Christmas is only just over, but it's never too early to start making them for next year!

Supplies:
Stamps - Impression Obsession skaters, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocture, Distress Weathered Wood, Shaded Lilac, Victorian Velvet, Stormy Sky
Paper - white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Carta Bella snowflake stencil, fun foam

Tiny Reindeer Silhouette

Welcome to the first CAS Christmas Challenge of the new year.  Here's hoping 2021 is a better year for all of us.

This month's host is Julia and she would like us to use Silhouettes.

I wanted to keep it really CAS so used a very small image.  I pulled out a small leftover piece of background and started with that.

I think the scrap was made by smooshing with Oxide inks.  It was the perfect size for the small reindeer die.  I used the sentiment to ground him, then popped it up on fun foam on an embossed background.

We'd love to have you join us at CAS Christmas.  For more inspiration, check out the cards by our fabulous Guest Designer, Pat (Colourful Card Creations) and the rest of the Design Team.

Supplies:
Stamps - A Muse sentiment
Ink - various blue Oxide inks
Paper - white cs, scrap of background
Size - A2
Accessories - small reindeer die, Cuttlebug embossing folder, SU label punch, fun foam

A CAS Masculine Card and a Horse Silhouette

Another Twofer today!  I seem to blog in fits and starts!

For the Paper Players challenge:



I seem to have had a run on masculine cards lately.  Not my favourite to make as I find them difficult.  For this one, I pulled out a globe die.

I created a background for the globe with blue brushos sprinkled and spritzed on coated cs. I die cut the globe out of mixed media cs and smooshed it in various green and brown Oxide inks. I glued it to the blue background and trimmed away the excess blue.

I used a star stencil and embossing paste to create a background panel, added the globe to it, attached it to a linen card base, and finished off with two Tim Holtz rub-ons.


And today's second card is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown:

 

I went with a white silhouette:

I used a piece of designer paper for my background as it has perfect dots of snow on it.

I topped it with a die that creates a perfect scene of a silhouette of horse, trees, snowy hill. And added a sentiment.
Wishing you all a safe and healthy day! 

Supplies for card 1:
Ink - various Oxide inks
Paper - mixed media cs, coated cs, linen cs
Size - A2
Accessories - globe die, blue Brushos, embossing paste, star stencil, Tim Holtz rub-ons

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Memento Danube Blue
Paper - white cs, Kiwi Scrapbook dp
Size - A2
Accessories - Starlitt Studio die, sentiment label die

Brown and Black Sympathy

Squeaking in under the wire at the Color Throwdown challenge:

They seemed ideal colours for a masculine sympathy card:

I love silhouettes on backgrounds I create so decided to do another one for this challenge.


I masked a rectangle on some coated cs and brayered with Frayed Burlap ink. I flicked some water on it with my fingers and got one very big wet droplet that lifted all the colour where it landed and a few other nicer splats.

Then I stamped to silhouette of wildflowers and grass with Staz-On ink. I trimmed the panel down, leaving a narrow white border, and popped it up on the card base with fun foam.

Supplies:

Stamps - SU Just Believe, Great Impressions sentiment

Ink - StazOn Black, Distress Frayed Burlap

Paper - white and coated cs

Size - A2

Accessories - fun foam

Delicate Silhouette

It's time to remind you that it's mid-month and you only have until September 24th to enter the CAS Watercolour challenge:

My reminder card uses a very delicate silhouette:

I did a wet smooshed background on tissue paper using Oxide inks.  See Loll Thompson's video on tissue paper watercolouring for the technique.

I then trimmed it and glued it to cs.  I stamped a delicate silhouette sprig on it, framed it, and popped it up on the cardbase with fun foam.

Check out the other wonderful creations from our Design Team and our very talented Guest Designer, Birgit, (Rapport fran ett skrivbord) at the CAS Watercolour blog.

Supplies:

Stamps - Stampendous sprig, Great Impressions sentiment

Ink - Distress Oxide inks (Twisted Citron, Broken China, Salty Ocean), Versafine Onyx Black

Paper - white cs, tissue paper

Size - A2

Accessories - Dienamics Peek-a-boo window, fun foam

White Silhouette

I can't believe it is September and that means summer is basically over!!  The new challenge for CAS Watercolour is:

My first thought was that a silhouette should be black but for our challenge, it can be black, white, metallic (gold, silver, etc.), navy, brown, etc.  I was glad it could be white as I had this wonderful die cut of children heading off to a birthday party that I wanted to turn into a simple CAS card that didn't involve colouring the die cut.

The background was made with blue brushos sprinkled on watercolour paper, then spritzed heavily to get good coverage.  For added interest, I splattered a bit of darker blue brusho that I'd watered down on an acrylic block.

I stamped a sentiment onto the silhouette, glued it onto the brusho background, and trimmed the background to fit the silhouette.  It's popped up on fun foam for some dimension.

Head on over to CAS Watercolour to see the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team and this month's Guest Designer, the wonderfully talented Birgit of the Rapport Fran Ett Skrivbord blog.  You have until September 24th to link up your card.  Please be sure it is clean and simple, and includes some kind of watercolouring and a silhouette, either stamped or die cut.

Supplies:

Stamps - Savvy Stamps Happy Birthday

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - white cs, watercolour paper

Size - A2

Accessories - blue brushos, Spellbinders Party Kids die