CAS or failure?

A very special card from me today. I had originally printed this digital image and accompanying sentiment (Hamlet PigWit Think Spring) by From the Heart Stamps onto watercolour paper to do some watercolouring, but when I showed it to my husband he said it might be fun to leave the image completely uncoloured. Now that set me thinking...

I've seen others use uncoloured or largely uncoloured images a few times, and although I admired the crafters who did this, I didn't think I would have the guts to do it myself. Until now...

Since I wasn't going to do a lot of colouring, I printed the image again onto Neenah solar white cardstock and only coloured in the clover with 2 green Promarkers. I rounded the top right corner and popped the panel up using some foam tape. And now I'm debating with myself if the card is just fine as is or whether I should have added a little more colour...

My husband likes the card a lot and thinks it's just perfect. So what do you think of my card? Is it CAS or a failure? Would you add more colour?

Anyhow, I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

From The Heart Stamps - March stamp of the month challenge

Dynamic Duos - DD96 (I was going for green and pink, but ended up using green and white)

Cards in Envy - Anything A2 goes (no bulky cards)

CAS3 adding texture to one-layer card

Day 9/10 of the OCC Clean and Simple Cards 3 was all about creating textural effects on one-layer cards.

I used the following sketch from CAS(E) this sketch for my lay-out:

I kept this card very simple. I sprayed 3 colours of Promarkers (turqoise, marine and petrol blue) using the Tim Holtz spritzer tool and the Tim Holtz Bubble stencil, after masking the part where I wanted to stamp the sentiment (Petals & stems by Avery Elle). After stamping the sentiment I used a banner die to add some texture by embossing the die instead of cutting it. To finish the card off and to create a litle movement, I added some silver sequins.

I'm also linking the card up for the following challenges:

AEIheartU - 3 Ombre/gradient

Cards in Envy - Anything A2 goes

I ♥ ProMarkers - 212 Anything goes
CAS on Sunday - One-layer wonder
Less is More - 164 Use 3 of something
(3 colours, 3 sequins, 3-word sentiment LOL)

Merry & bright

I played a little more with my Wplus9 quilt dies. To celebrate their 4th anniversary, Wplus9 are challenging us to stretch it, i.e. to try something new. After seeing so many wonderful projects using glitter, I decided to give it a go myself, with the pastel glitters by Silhouette that arrived last week.

Well, the glitter adhered everywhere, except to the sticker sheet I had been using. Next, I tried using a piece of (old) laminate, but it seems that the adhesive is (no longer) strong enough, so only a thin layer of glitter stuck to the laminate and the blue/aqua colour wasn't really visible. To correct this, I coloured the back side of the laminate with a turquoise Promarker. I love the stained glass window look. The die cut frame and the sentiment (Christmas Wishes set by Wplus9) are heat embossed using Versamark ink and silver embossing powder (Ranger super fine detail).

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Wplus9 - Birthday celebration week 4: stretch it

Merry Monday - 97 Sparkle and shine with aqua/white/silver
ABC Christmas Challenge - D for die cuts
Crimbo Crackers - 59 Blue and white
Christmas Card Challenges - 14 Heat embossing
LoveFest2014I at SCS - Die crazy, hosted by Simon Says Stamp