Watery water lilies

Hello, crafting friends!

 

Happy Saturday to you and welcome to some crafting fun courtesy of Addicted to CAS! I am in charge of the hostess trolley for the next two weeks and I hope you will come and join me :) The word I've chosen to inspire you is Water.

Yes, I invite you to have a good old rummage about in your stash for anything watery! Here's my take on it:

A sympathy card for my stash - not one I actually need, thank goodness. I started by masking off a rectangular area on a card panel and sponging blue-green inks into it, fading out towards the bottom. After wetting my hands with water and clapping over the inked area, I left the panel to dry before removing the mask. Meanwhile, the flower image was stamped in pale blue on a scrap of card, coloured with coloured pencils and fussy cut.

I trimmed the card panel to size with a stitched rectangle die by Heffy Doodle and cut the edge of the water lily image with the same die. The image was lined it up with the edge of the panel over the inked section. The sentiment is from Waffleflower's Lighthouse, stamped in a dark green, and I added a few pearls before attaching the panel to a card base.

So now it's your turn. Do hop over to the Addicted to CAS blog to check out all the wonderful samples my teamies have made to inspire you. You'll find the Linky Tool at the bottom of the post and can use it to link up your own creation when you're ready. Have fun - and don't forget to keep your cards nice and clean and simple!

CHALLENGES

I'm joining in with the Anything Goes challenge at Retro Rubber with this card. I can't find the release date of the stamp set I used but I've had it for several years and it wasn't a new when I bought it! I'm also linking up at Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge where the theme is Water.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

A friend of mine thought I could do with a chuckle the other day and sent me this info on the latest 'designer' breeds of dog:

Hope it makes you laugh too :)

Sending hugs,

Swan lake

Hello, crafting friends!

It's time for another fun challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches where we alternate between colour combinations and sketches each week. Shannon is hosting this month and this week she has come up with a great sketch for you to try:

That little cluster could be anything you like as long as we can clearly see three shapes. I opted to turn the sketch 90 degrees and chose a stamp set that had popped into my mind on a recent walk, The Riverbank by The Craft Consortium.

I stamped the swan onto a card base, masked it off and then masked off all but the central strip of the sketch, which was to be my river. Pale blue ink was sponged into it and then all the masks were removed and I used coloured pencils to add detail to the swan and the strip of water.

The lily pads were stamped on a separate piece of card stock, coloured with coloured pencils, and cut out with sharp paper snips before attaching to the card base. The sentiment is from Uniko's Simply Said Blocks.

So now it's your turn! As always, there's lots of inspiration to be found at the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge blog, from the design team and from our special guest designer Deborah, so head over there and check it out. You'll find the Linky Tool there too, ready for you to upload your own creation. Don't forget to keep your design nice and clean and simple with lots of white space, and above all have fun!

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up with Stamping Sensations where the challenge is to make a card using your favourite style of crafting and complete the phrase 'I love...' In my case, it's definitely CAS, using masking, sponging, stamping and colouring - and there's often a bit of fussy cutting in there too! I'm also joining in at We Love Chocolate Baroque where the theme is 'Hand-coloured or Paper-pieced image.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Apologies for the quality of the photo but this really made me laugh and I wanted to share it with you, so I took a quick snap. Sometimes when I'm busy doing something, I'll get that feeling of being watched, and when I look round this is what I might see:

Eva loves tissues and can't resist stealing them from the coffee table or sofa. She takes time to shred them and then fixes her eyes on me with so much energy that I look round. I usually say something like 'Oh Eva, you are a minx!' but in a teasing tone so that she knows I'm not cross. Her ears go down and her tail starts wagging because she knows she has now 'earned' some attention. She has many different ways of asking for attention!

Sending hugs,

Rocking my inner Monet!

Hello, crafting friends!

Back in early summer, I enjoyed walking along the riverbank with Eva and was amazed at all the waterlilies in the river this year. The ones that grow here are a beautiful bright yellow and they are the inspiration for today's thank you card.

The Riverbank stamps from the Craft Consortium illustrates the lilies so well. I've inked them up today and stamped them at the bottom of a card panel, colouring them with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and trimming the panel with a stitched rectangle die by Heffy Doodle.

The card was finished with a sentiment from Stampin' Up's Painted Petals and a sprinkling of clear gems.

EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD

Delighted that this card was deemed a Rocker at the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge!

CHALLENGES

It's a delight to welcome a new challenge into Blogland! Nancy Leppek from Scrapperatheart.com has set up Color Hues to inspire us twice monthly with a colour duo - and I am so here for it!! This fortnight's challenge is green and yellow so I shall link up there with this card. I'm also joining in with Watercooler Wednesday, where the theme is Anything Goes With A Feminine Twist, and Allsorts, where they're looking for hand-coloured images.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Ok. I give up.

I have given her the blouse to be her very own.

Sending hugs,