GD CAS Mix Up February

Hello, hello! I'm thrilled to be making another guest appearance at the CAS Mix Up challenge this month, after this card of mine was selected as the top pick for the December challenge.

For February, we have another fun challenge for you:

I decided to kill two birds with one stone when I realised that I would be guest designing at two different challenges at the same time (see this post). I took the die cut JOY from my brushos panel to create a super CAS card, adding a stamped sentiment and a die-cut felt heart. After all, February is Valentine's month.

I used:

Cardstock - Neenah solar white, Crafter's Companion watercolour card
Brushos - Ultramarine, Emerald green, Turquoise
Love how these crystals give you get flecks of other colours as well
Dies - new Joy die by Concord and 9th; new heart die from a nested set by Crafter's Companion
Stamps - In bloom: Frenchy's festive florals by Winnie & Walter
Felt from my stash

Here's a close-up of my felt heart. Love the warmth this adds to the design.

So now it's over to you. Why don't you pop over to the CAS Mix Up challenge blog to check out the inspiration by the DT and see how you can play along? In addition, you will also find a few video links to help you get started on using felt, canvas or cork on your CAS cards.

I'm also linking up my card at:

Uniko - #45 Something old, something new

(new dies, older stamps & brushos, old felt)

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

Jingle Belles - Text me

ATSM - #277 Make your mark

So happy together (1)

My husband has three female colleagues who are all celebrating their wedding anniversary either today or tomorrow, so I was put to the task to create a few appropriate cards. I didn't have any appropriate stamp for the occasion (honestly, since I haven't been stamping for that long) so I had to do some shopping (terrible task, I know lol) and found this lovely Karen's Doodles' stamp. I printed it out a few images in different sizes and started colouring them last weekend with my new Spectrum Noir pens. I had seen some amazing colouring over at linda's rainbow crafting cabin using only 2 colours from the Essential collection (99 and 109) and thought this might be an excellent way to start practising the use of my new markers. Incidentally, she also has a few great tutorials on using these SN pens. I added a touch of light pink (have to look up the number) for the female giraffe and of course some pink and wine red for the ribbon. I'm quite pleased with the result, esp. since this is the first time I used any type of alcohol-based markers. So far I have only used a few sticker markers on my cards. At least this has given me the confidence to try some other colours as well. Hopefully, I'll have some play time this weekend.

For the first anniversary card, I used this week's sketch from the Totally Gorjuss blog and used it to create a CAS card on some cream cardstock.

Materials used:

Cream cardstock

Image – Karen's Doodles

Lace/ribbon – from my stash

Frame - brownish metallic cardstock (does not really show in the picture)

Sentiment – Studio Light (didn't have any Happy Anversary stamp,

so I'll be adding that to my shopping list, lol)

Ink – Walnut stain distress ink

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss – Sketch

Ooh La La – Anniversary

Sir Stampelot – It's a frame up

Catch the Bug – Anything goes

Colour Create – Pink, brown and white/cream