Addicted to CAS - Challenge #13

Hello everyone - welcome to a brand new Addicted to CAS challenge.

This challenge is hosted by the amazing Kylie who is our much respected founder and leader at Addicted to Stamps.  Here is the code word she has chosen:

And we have the wonderful ladies over at

as our awesome sponsor for this challenge. If you are crowned our CAS Perfectionist, you will be entitled to choose 7 digis from their store!!!!

 

I have chosen to use Pleasant Poppies by Stampin Up on my card this week.  It is quite a large stamp and has three slightly separate groups of poppies so I chose to use just one group.  I masked off the part of the stamp I didn't want with tape before I inked it up and then removed the tape before I stamped.  I am sure there may be another way to do this but it works for me.  I coloured the image in with my Polychromos pencils and then die cut the word HAPPY from the image (All Occasion Dies).  I die cut the word twice more from white cardstock and then glued the three layers together and popped them back into the image which was popped up on the base card blank.  The sentiment "Birthday" is from Clearly Besotted "Happy Days" stamp set.  Corners of both layers have been rounded using my Corner Chomper.

Thanks for dropping by.  Please pop on over to the Addicted to CAS blog to see the amazing cards the rest of the DT have come up with.

Less is More - Week 119 - One Layer

Hello all from a very chilly and damp Somerset.  What a difference to last weekend eh?  Well, in between painting walls I managed to grab a crafty break to join in with the latest challenge over at Less Is More where Chrissie & Jen have set us this challenge:

This week it's everyone's favourite.. One Layer Cards and this week we would like you to use a

Coloured Card Blank

Yes that's right, none of your boring, white, ivory, black or kraft card blanks we want to see you add some colour.

I actually managed to make two cards.  The first one is on a 4" square kraft card blank and I used stamps from my Stampin Up Bordering on Romance set, inked up with black Versafine.  Now I don't know if you've tried to use coloured pencils directly onto kraft card but you normally end up with a very "flat" image.  I was given a great tip from Jo Austin of Docrafts quite a while ago.  The secret is to stamp your image and then colour everything in with a white pencil......then colour as normal over the top of this.  Not only does it give a bright finish you also get a sort of glazed finish as well but not sure that shows up in my photos.  I used Polychromos pencils.

My second card was very simple.  I made up a red pearl card blank and using Versamark stamped the three elements from the Stampin Up Fabulous You set.  I then used fine detail gold e/p and "Bob's your uncle"!!!  Again it is really difficult to get a good photograph of embossing on a coloured cardstock, especially the sentiment, as you have to turn it at an angle, but I'm sure you get the drift.

 

Oops..........I've actually just read the challenge rules and suddenly saw that Chrissie & Jen have said "none of your boring, white, ivory, black or kraft card blanks".............hope they forgive me as I have got quite a lot of colour on my kraft card!!!  lol  That'll teach me to read it more carefully next time!  But at least I have redeemed myself with the red card (I hope!).

Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and thanks for dropping by to visit.