CAS Mix It Up Things with Wings

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I stepped a wee bit out of my comfort zone with the CAS Mix it Up challenge for this month:  Things with Wings!

So here we go, although I am not sure if the watercoloring is the "main element"...oh well!:

I had a piece of 3" x 6" Very Vanilla cardstock already scored for another (unused) project, and a piece of watercolor paper already cut to this size, so I thought I'd used them together. I heat-embossed a Tim Holtz butterfly image in black, then added a watercolored background to each one.  I chose blue, green and purple so I could play with the Seize the Birthday challenge:

I used Mint Macaron, Balmy Blue and Highland Heather inks with an aquapainter and just blended them into each other:

I did a bit of speckles with some Highland Heather ink.  The background looked a little blah, so I coated it with some Wink of Stella.....that really jazzed it up a bit!  Too bad you can't see how awesome it looks here!

I added a sentiment from a really old Crafty Secrets bird set, but I thought it was appropriate since it was about wings!

I added a birthday sentiment on the inside and it's added to my stash!

Thanks for visiting today!

The kids went to Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island recently:

It's a pretty amazing place!  Check out that driftwood!  It's hard to imagine how huge these pieces of wood are!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hold on to Hope (ret), For the Birds, Garden Notes (both Crafty Secrets), Butterfly Melange (Tim Holtz)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Watercolor, Purple Posy (ret)
Ink	Versamark, Stazon Black, Highland Heather, Mint Macaron, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dijmensionals, Black Embossing Powder
Tools	Aquapainter, Heat Tool, Wink of Stella

AYSI238 Pink Poinsettia

Happy Friday, peeps!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and I just LOVE this one...look at these gorgeous colors: 

I had an idea in my head as soon as I saw the colors, but it didn't quite work out as I had planned, but I kept at it and I think it turned out okay.  I wanted to use a poinsettia from the Poinsettia Petals stamp set to stamp off the edge, but the one I chose was a little small for the effect I was trying to achieve:

This really looks better in real life than in the photo!  Anyway, I heat embossed the poinsettia with black embossing powder, then watercolored it with Petal Pink and Flirty Flamingo, adding some gray to the background.  It looked a little puny, so I added some berries.  Still puny.  So then I added the "greenery", or maybe I should say "pinkery" and it filled in a little better.  

THEN I realized I got a black smudge on the face of the card, so instead of stamping a sentiment, I used a Concord & 9th diecut, but the smudge showed through, so I backed it with some glimmer paper.  Finally, I added some speckles, rounded the edges and adhered some gray sequins.  Phew!  

And the reason I wanted to stamp off the edge was because the CAS Mix It Up Challenge this month is stamping off the edge, and the CAS Christmas Card Challenge is to use non-traditional colors:

       

I hope that you'll find something to inspire you with our colors this week...they're so pretty!  Share your creation with us at the As You See It blog...we can't wait to see it!

Thanks so much for popping in--enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Poinsettia Petals , Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, Basic Gray, Sparkle Glimmer Paper
Ink	Memento, Versamark, Smoky Slate, Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Basic Gray
Accessories	Sequins (from my stash), Dimensionals, Black Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Aquapainter, Heat Tool, Wink of Stella, Season of Cheer Dies (Concord & 9th), Corner Rounder Punch (ret)