Come and watch us sing and play…

Today I’m sharing a CAS card featuring a Cheeky Monkey from Clearly Besotted.

I’ve made up this card following the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch, using ink to create the various elements.  I stencilled the two stripes and then used stamps from the Clearly Besotted set for the rest of the elements.

I tried some mirror image stamping, while it wasn’t an epic fail it wasn’t the best result either.  I just couldn’t get a good clean imprint of the stamp on my flat stamp to then transfer to the card.  In the end I had to outline it again with a marker to give it the same black outline as the right way round monkey.

My colour scheme comes from Hand Stamped Sentiments, I just swapped out Tim Holtz Distress inks for the Stampin’ Up! ones as I don’t have any of the latter.  I am not loving watercolouring with Reinkers, I am clearly not patient enough to let things dry as I have a lot of colour run!

I’ve gone with CAS and non-feminine images as this card is heading out to a male friend, a big kid at heart who tends to go a bit bananas even when it’s not his birthday.  Over at Creative Craft Cottage they are looking for projects for men or boys so I am entering my card there.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil ~ Mini Collection Set 15

Inks & Paints etc

Molotow Paint Marker ~ Signal White

Tim Holtz Mixed Media Archival Ink ~ Black Soot

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Mustard Seed & Squeezed Lemonade

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot & Fired Brick

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinker ~ Crushed Olive, Forest Moss, Mustard Seed, Seedless Preserves, Squeezed Lemonade & Tea Stain

Papers

Archers Paper ~ Smooth Watercolor

Stamps

Clearly Besotted ~ Cheeky Monkey

Challenges

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #185

Creative Craft Cottage #69 ~ For The Men/Boys

Hand Stamped Sentiments #244 ~ Color

 

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