CAS Mix Up Guest Design Spot ...

Good evening and how exciting is this ... I'm guest designer over at the CAS Mix Up for the May challenge - this is just one of the joys for being the March monthly winner!  I'm hoping to delight and inspire you all to join in with the challenge ... and the theme this month is:

This is my card:

I began by die cutting a small panel which I then stamped and heat embossed these beautiful rananculus flowers (one of the stamps sets I was able to buy with my winners voucher from Simon Says Stamp).  I loosely water coloured the flowers.  I splattered the background before stitching the panel to the card, added a sentiment and considered the card finished.

I used:
Simon Says Stamp - Sketch Rananculus
Distress Inks - Mustard seed, Dried Marigold, Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn
UNIKO - Simply Said
WOW White Embossing Powder

It is a great challenge as it encourages the use of different mixed media techniques in a CAS kind of way.  Each month the designers create some fantastic cards to inspire us to join in ... why not pop along this month and have a look, even better why not enter!

Enjoy!

All about teal ...

Exciting times ... I'm this week's Guest Designer over at "Less is More" ... the invitation was part of my reward for winning the monthly prize in January ... an invitation I just could not refuse.  The "Less is More" challenge is one of the first that I entered and I am most confident when creating CAS cards.  When Sarah sent me the details I was really pleased as it is colour challenge week ... and the colour one of my favourites - Teal!  I hope my card inspires you to join in with the challenge and remember to check out all the brilliant designs from the Design Team.

Here is the design that I came up with:

Why is it that when you have loads and loads of rolls of washi tape you never have the right colour or pattern for your project!!  So my first step was to create washi tape using tissue paper, lots of stamps, ink and various widths of double sided tape ... I now have even more washi tape!

I used:
Indigo Blu - Poppy Heart Dinkie Stamp
Stampin Up - Bermunda Bay and Coastal Cabana Inks
                    - Gorgeous Gunge Stamp set
Crafter's Workshop - Chickenwire Reversed Stencil
Poppystamps - Stick Frame die

Thank you to all the Designers at "Less is More"

Enjoy!