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

GD HLS Watercolour challenge

Hello there! I'm so excited to be guest designing for the February watercolour challenge over at Happy Little Stampers, after winning the December challenge with this card. Woot!

For the February challenge, the theme is 'Anything goes' with the option of 'Hearts'

The inspiration for my card came when I was looking at the supplies from a recent crafty haul. It contained both the Peace die (MFT) and the Joy die (Concord and 9th). And since the optional theme is 'hearts', this automatically made me think 'Peace, love and joy'. Easy peasy.

I used Brushos (ultramarine, turquoise and emerald green) and watercolour card to create my background panel. After my panel had dried, I used my go to stitched rectangle die (SSS) to die cut my panel and then die cut the words from my brusho panel and again from a scrap of white cardstock. I adhered the panel flat onto my white card base and inlaid the white die cut letters. For the love part of my sentiment, I adhered a green heart gem from my stash that really picks up the green colours in my background.

Do pop over to the HLS blog to admire the creations by the HLS DT members and to see how you can play along.

I'm also linking up my card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

January Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas goes

and I'm also popping over to the

Snippets Playground

 since I used a scrap piece for my die cut sentiment

Jingle Belles - Text me

Snowman in blue and brown

I've been too busy with work this week to do much crafting, so I've had to pass up on a number of challenges that this card would have been perfect for. Winter Wonderland was asking for cards for men/boys, but I have just discovered that the deadline was earlier today.

Materials used:

Stamp - Marianne Design

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Border - Silhouette design

Sentiment and brown/white snowflakes - Silhouette design

Other snowflakes - Marianne Design die

Paper-pieced scarf - DP from my stash (probably DCWV)

Brads - BasicGrey

Brown and blue colouring - my new Spectrum Noir pens

(didn't have any suitable brown cardstock, so I made my own)

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

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Non-traditional colours

Christmas Cards All Year Long - 4/9: stamping, textured paper, metal embellishment, stripes

Ooh La La - No backing paper

CHNC - Christmas birthday or Anything goes

Clean and Simple Stamping - Fall To Layout 154 (sketch)
Aud Sentiments - Anything goes
Christmas Card Challenge - Glitter (optional)