CAS Mix Up Guest Designer

I'm so honored to be one of the GDs for July's CAS Mix Up Challenge.  This month is the stencil challenge & the theme is Stencil Tracing.  I've seen some people do this technique, but hadn't really given it a try myself.  Gotta say--it's fun & easy!

I started with another of the Scrape Painting panels I made using DecoArt Acrylic Paint in Grape Taffy, Turquoise & Tutti Fruitti.  Then I laid SSS Square Dance Stencil over the panel & used a Uniball silver gel pen to trace around selected parts of the stencil.

I die cut a rectangle window in a silver panel & really love the look!  The PFS black die cut flower from Dainty Blossoms was stacked a couple high & glued in place.  The sentiment was made with clear stickers attached to a scrap of the silver paper & the only embellishment is a dot of black Pico Embellisher on the flower center.

I know lots of us have a collection of little used stencils, so why not pull them out & join the challenge!  You'll find all the details & lots of inspiration at CAS Mix Up.
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A Tag and 2 Cards

I probably wouldn't make tags except for Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags event every year.  So many great prizes & lots of inspiring ideas.  Many of mine end up as elements on a card. 

My first tag was inspired by Tracey's snowflake tags on Day 1.  I love the vibrant ink blending & the bells.  For my version I used Poppystamps Tunnel Tag die, Penny Black stamps from the 2008 set called Crystalline, silver trim from my sweet friend Rosemary & DO inks candied apple, abandoned coral & picked raspberry.  I'm also entering the PB Creative Christmas Challenge & PBSC.
 
Next is my entry for Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash.  I love their wreath dies & Rosemary let me borrow hers--that's a good friend!  I ended up with a very classic & CAS Christmas card, which I love. 

Because it was so simple, I made the card from white linen textured cardstock--hard to see in the photo, but a big difference in real life.  The little wreaths were colored with 2 green Tattered Angels shimmer sprays.  I ended up using a brush to get the color as dark as I wanted.  You don't waste so much, as long as you don't knock over the bottle!  Yes, I did, but luckily it didn't make it to the carpet.  I brushed on red TA to color the Heidi Swapp alphabet chipboard stickers made especially for shimmer sprays.  I'm also entering SSS Wednesday.

I needed to get my brother's birthday card into the mail today, so last night I made his card inspired by ABNH.  I always intend to enter the challenges & this time I made it.  The gorgeous color combo, perfect for Fall leaves, works great for a masculine card.  I haven't done DI smooshing for awhile, so pulled out dusty concord, barn door & spiced marmalade.  Usually I do one color at a time, but this time I let them do some mixing which gave me a bit of brown as well. 

The leaves are HA Autumn Icons Fancy Dies & they were so pretty I put the little pieces in place so more color would show.  The ivory card was lightly stamped with a HA background & dry embossed.  I blended some DI antique linen on the edges.  The thin frame from SSS Frames dies was cut from burgundy cardstock & stacked 3 high.  The hardest thing was trimming the 2 big leaves to exactly fit inside the frame, but I finally got it.  I stamped the HA sentiment in Versafine Clair Acorn ink.  I'm also entering SSS Wednesday & W2CB. 


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