…but in this solemn darkness…

Sharing a card featuring the gorgeous Botan Peony from Picket Fence Studios.

 

Now this is a big stamp but I wanted to play along with some of the awesome CAS challenges out there so I left part of the stamp off my paper when I stamped it up.  But I still managed to not do my measurements right so my stamped element ended a wee bit big and hanging over the right edge of the card when I placed all my elements to follow the sketch at CAS on Friday.

 

And I deliberately kept the peony down in the left-hand corner so I could play along at AAA Cards.  It’s why my sentiment is off from the placement in the sketch although still down the bottom, just more lefty than righty.  I’m also rocking the optional element from AAA Cards as I masked off my white layer to add in the silver stripe in the same embossing powder I used for my image and sentiment.

 

I’m also playing along at Festive Friday where they are celebrating National Simplicity Day.  Of course, that provided one of the many prompts to choose from being CAS, which I’ve got covered.  I’ve also used a single image, geometric shapes (lots of squares and rectangles on my card) and a floral theme.

 

I added in a sentiment from the Penny Black Sprinkles and Smiles set that I thought worked really well on a card headed to a friend I haven’t seen since iso started.  We’re in the midst of planning our first nuncheon since restrictions have eased and getting to sip tea, eat cake and chat with a dear friend like her really is bringing on the happy!

 

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Silver

Inks & Paints etc

Altenew Color Brush Markers ~ Midnight Violet, Moss, Rubellite & Warm Sunshine

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

Uniquely Creative Paper ~ 190gsm Bookingford Watercolour

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Magenta Madness

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Kraft-Stock Metallic Jewels ~ Purple

Stamps

Penny Black ~ 30-297 Sprinkles and Smiles

Picket FenceStudios ~ F117 Botan Peony

Challenges

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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box…

Sharing a QCAS card featuring one of the sentiments from the It’s Going to be Okay set by Picket Fence Studios and a butterfly from the Butterflies set by Darkroom Door.

This card is going out to a friend and colleague who is finding social distancing at home with her parents, husband and two young kids a bit fraying on everyone’s nerves.  The inside note references the drink I’ve promised to take her for as soon as social distancing rules are lifted.

The layout of my card is from the sketch at AAA Cards and I’ve used a butterfly so I could also play the optional twist of it flies.  My sentiment is embossed and the butterfly was done by spritzing the stamp with water after inking to give a watercolour effect.  I added in some sparkle (hard to see in the pic) to the detail on the butterfly’s wing given it’s all the one colour.

And I’ve stuck with the one colour so I could also play along at CAS on Friday for their black, white and one colour challenge; my one colour being blue.  I added in a few tiny blue gems because I’ve kinda fallen into following Kristina Werner’s capsule crafting, basically all this social isolation stuff has made incredibly lazy so I’m using whatever is left on my craft table and these gems haven’t moved off since I made the first card with them a few weeks back!

As I’ve added a butterfly to my card, I’m also linking it up at Addicted to CAS for their current animal themed challenge.

All the challenges I’m entering are CAS themed and you don’t get more CAS than this card or quick either.  If I’d skipped out the layering of cardstock (I couldn’t though because I love the weight it adds that screams handmade card to me!) and embossing this would be a matter of minutes card.  As it is, if it took me 10 minutes it was only because my ATG ran out midway.  And you can’t get better than that for a mid-week craft session especially when the result is pretty striking (if I do say so myself) and I know will brighten the day of the recipient.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Embellishments

PortaCraft 2mm Rhinestones ~ Blue

Inks & Paints etc

Gina K Designs Ink ~ Amalgam

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Broken China & Salty Ocean

Uniquely Creative Glitter Brush Pen ~ Clear

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Island Breeze

Bellbird Paperarts Cardstock ~ 300gsm Cotton Blend

Stamps

Darkroom Door ~ DDRS025 Butterflies

Picket Fence Studios ~ S111 It’s Going to be Okay

Challenges

CAS on Friday #177 ~ Black, white and one colour

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…the other only colour

Sharing a card featuring a stunning stamp from the Let’s Shake Our Tail Feathers set by Picket Fence Studios.

I chose this stamp so I could play along in the current the eyes have it challenge at Country View.  I know there’s no face or optical eye on my card but the patterns on peacock feathers are known as and, indeed, are some of the prettiest eyes you will ever see.

I embossed the stamp to let me enter The Paper Player’s challenge.  The gold embossing really suits this image.

To add in my colours on the feathers I dusted on some of Stampin’ Up!’s Pigment Sprinkles.  I think the colours worked beautifully and they also match with those from the inspiration photo at Sunday Stamps.  The eyepopping colours work really well with the border of black, also one of the featured colours in the inspiration photo, and the overall effect really is bright and bold.

I combined one of the sentiments from the same Picket Fence Studios set with part of a Penny Black sentiment (the it’s your birthday) embossed in the same gold on a scrap of black cardstock.  Really happy with how this turned out and it’s actually early for a March birthday so yay for me!

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Stampin' Up! Pigment Sprinkles ~ Bermuda Bay & Granny Apple Green

Inks & Paints etc

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Classic Cardstock ~ Licorice & Purple

Bellbird Paper Arts Card ~ 300gsm Cotton Blend

Stampin’ Up! Specialty Designer Series Paper Noble Peacock ~ Pretty Peacock

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Kraft-Stock Metallic ~ Gold

Stamps

Penny Black ~ 30-297 Sprinkles and Smiles

Picket Fence Studios ~ BB114 Let’s Shake Our Tail Feathers

Challenges

Country View ~ The Eyes Have It

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