Mid term CAS at Fantasy Stampers

Morning all.

Something different today as Jan has decided to include a mad challenge inspiration post at Fantasy Stampers and I said why not. Anyway after being inspired, I got ready to send her my card when I realised it didn't have any stamping on it except the sentiment!!! So I had to start again. Rather rushed I sought inspiration from a card I saw ages ago but don't know whose it is, some people don't watermark their cards. So apologies for not referencing them, here is my take.

I'm still in thank-you card mode for Nich, just a few to go but I have until the end of August to finish.

The panel was stamped through a mask using a Hero Arts 'Thank You' definition stamp. I'm afraid the MB butterflies make another appearance, this time in Nich's favourite colour. Thank you was a polymer freebie, love the script but it will not stick to my block!

OK, that's about it if you you haven't already been to the main site, why not pop over and join in.

I shall enter the following challenges -

Crazy for CAS - butterflies

PS - There is still time to join us at Cardz4Guyz for our DIY theme

ATSM 2nd birthday

Good afternoon peeps.

It's a glorious day again here, too hot for me at the moment, I'm not one who loves to be out soaking up the rays. So just taking a few minutes to post while the heats at it's worst.

Over at Addicted to Stamps and More it's their second birthday and 100th challenge, woohoo and a round of applause to Kylie and the rest of the team. It's a great challenge and I always try to take part if I can. This week it's a photo inspiration:-

I have been studying this for awhile, then along came this weeks challenge at Less is More . This week they are challenging us to use -

WATERCOLOUR

Well I just couldn't refuse to take part and after playing around I decided to combine the two challenges and came up with this card.

What you may say has it to do with watercolour, well if you look closely at the rainbow panel you will see a subtle pattern. This was created by spritzing a Happy Birthday definition stamp with water then laying the inked panel, made by blending DIs, on top and pressing down then gently removing it and leaving to dry. The water acts as a bleaching agent and removes the ink to leave the interesting pattern. I tried using acrylic stamps with this technique but it wasn't as successful as the rubber stamp. 

The panel was laid down on an A6 black base card and then I used a Memory Box 'Fresh Foliage' diecut and Spellbinders D-Lites sentiment 1 Best Wishes in white card on top.

OK, that's about it. Hope you can join in over at ATSM for their birthday celebrations.

You still have time to enter the Anniversary Challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.