Happy Friday, all! It's time for a new As You See It challenge of 2026 and it's a fun one! It's a fill-in-the-blank, and we want you to use your newest craft purchase!
My newest craft purchase is some Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol! This technique of blending colored pencils with Gamsol has been around for a long time, but I never jumped on that bandwagon, so "Santa" very nicely gave some to me for Christmas (thanks, John!)! And since Wayne's birthday is today, I decided to use this technique on a Unity stamp set---a mug of beer! So here we go with my CAS creation:
I stamped the beer mug with Versafine ink, diecut it out, then colored the beer with Goldenrod and Spanish Orange Prismacolor pencils, adding a little Light Cerulean Blue to the mug itself and Black on the suds:
I added the sentiment to a Very Vanilla card and popped up the beer, adding some shading to the bottom with Pecan Pie ink. My Wink of Stella kind of "exploded" while I was trying to add some sparkle, so it is VERY sparkly, LOL! Here's the inside, using another sentiment from the same Unity set along with a Waffleflower Inside Sentiments Birthday set:
I am also entering this at the Addicted to CAS challenge, where they are looking for "glass"!
SO....what new goodies did you get for Christmas or just recently? We'd love to see what you create with them! Share them with us over at the As You See It blog! Can't wait!
| Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified | |
| Stamps | Friends are Like Seashells (for the bubbles; ret), A Cold One (Unity), Inside Sentiments Birthday (Waffle Flower) |
| Card stock & Papers | Thick Very Vanilla, Thick Basic White |
| Ink | Versafine Black, Basic Beige, Pecan Pie |
| Accessories | Dimensionals |
| Tools | Cut & Emboss Machine, A Cold One Dies (Unity), Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Blending Stumps, Wink of Stella, Aquapainter |
