It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge:

And here is my take:

I figured I really should do some sort of seasonal card, so I went with snowflakes. Since I wanted a CAS card, I kept the pattern paper to a minimum. I love plaid – and chose a pattern that was dense without a lot of white showing. I also wanted darker colors so the white snowflake would stand out.

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A Little About the Challenge: This weekly challenge is posted on Thursday, and alternates between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge:

And here is my take:

When I designed this sketch, I wanted a dripping/draped feel to the image. While I didn’t use a conventional floral image, my card is pretty much what I envisioned.

I love this quilled image set. To stamp this, I first used a light grey ink, then stamped with solid images – not everywhere, but most. Then I re-stamped with Versamark and gold embossed the outlines.

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A Little About the Challenge: This weekly challenge is posted on Tuesday, and alternates between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge:

And here is my take:

When I was picking colors for this challenge, I thought soft wintery colors would be good for the first January challenge. Of course, when I went to stamp, that is not where my mind ended up, lol.

I used distress inks to watercolor. I had to mix the Velvet & Perserves to make a Sugarplum equivalent (though, since it is just that slim section between the pink and blue, it might not have been necessary).

Originally, the sentiment strip was done with Sugarplum, but it was too bright for the sunset scene. I ended up taking that apart and trying again. Thankfully grey is now an acceptable neutral color for this challenge. It was the perfect accent!

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A Little About the Challenge: This weekly challenge is posted on Tuesday, and alternates between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

I had fun with the latest challenge (taking a previous color challenge and making a holiday card). This time, I chose to use:

And here is my take:

When I was thinking of this season, I really loved this color scheme as it felt very winterish to me.

I don’t have the Thoughtful Branches / Beautiful Branches bundle from Stampin’Up (kicking myself now for not getting it!!). Thankfully, my mom was willing to bring hers when she came to visit for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, she’s took it home with her.

I did a bit of partial die-cutting to create the scene. I cut the tree so that the bottom was still attached to the card stock. I placed the hill die where I wanted it and marked the tree trunk with tape; then I cut from the left up to the tape and again from the right to the tape. I like the look of it all as one piece. I did die-cut a second tree (just the tree) and glued it to the back of the scene for added dimension.

When I glued the scene down to the blue panel, I didn’t glue the branches so that they would feel free to blow in the breeze, as is right.

The sentiment is silver embossed.

To finish it off, I added a bunch of silver balls to the tree.

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A Little About the Challenge: This weekly challenge is posted on Thursday, and alternates between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge:

And here is my take:

Lately I have been inspired by abstract-type art, where the subject is implied by color and small accents. [Like this one and this one.]

I decided this sketch lended itself to that style quite well. I had lots of ideas, but settled on a snowman. I had to add the branch arm though, because without it I kept seeing sweater (which honestly I still sorta do, and now you do too ;).

The buttons make this too bulky to mail, but I liked ’em too much not to use ’em.

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A Little About the Challenge: This weekly challenge is posted on Thursday, and alternates between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge:

And here is my take:

This is our 200th Challenge! And we’re celebrating – complete with prizes!! Make sure you play 🙂 One of prize sponsors is Lawn Fawn. I pulled out an oldie but goodie of theirs to make my card with: Blissful Botanicals. I love the whimsy feel of the images.

I needed a thinking of you card, and the blues of the challenge fit right in.

The sentiment is die cut 3 times and layered to get the dimension.

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A Little About the Challenge: This weekly challenge is posted on Thursday, and alternates between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).