Cool Cityscape

Playing with CAS Watercolor, Less is More today and all these beautiful cool colors:

Used an Altenew cityscape die to dry emboss on the left side of a white cardbase. Added strips of color graduating the length from the bottom up. Brushed them with a damp paint brush to smooth them out. Stamped the sentiment and called it done.
  

Selfie

This is a slightly different card post because Time Out's challenge is to pick a personal wardrobe item to inspire us.

This is mine...

...which my daughter crocheted for me and that I wear every single day during Winter. It used to be yellow (my favorite) but, I've washed it so many times, it has faded and looks a bit disreputable. Still it's my favorite scarf and I love having a warm neck. Here's the card:

A selfie...and, yes, all that grey hair is mine. Concord & 9th provided the stamps, Copic, the colors, embossing folder is Stampin' Up's and the frame is from my snippets. Done.

Nude-y Cutie

This little Stamping Bella lady is my entry into the Day of the Month  Bubble Bath Day challenge. It's taken me this long to be brave enough to show a card with a hand-drawn bathtub and faucet (can't believe I don't have one in my stash). The nude-y cutie had to be masked a bit but I think she looks OK stepping out of the tub, twirling her sponge. The sentiment is from The Stamp Market....other than that, it's all hand-drawn and Copic colored. Just a few embellishments and call it done.

Double Hearts

Celebrating the two year anniversary , that's right 2, of one of my favorite challenges, the Twofer Challenge, conceived by none other that a popular Darnell. Since Valentine's Day is imminent, this one will be for...

...and this is my entry:

I used a Hero Arts cover die, both the negative and positive parts, to achieve these looks. No stamping was done on either card. See below for individual details. I did notice that the rules for the challenge indicate that the layout of the cards must be different. I hope the use of these dies is enough to still qualify.

I use the positive diecut hearts to create a freeform heart on a Penny Black diecut panel of patterned paper (it's my 2020 resolution to use up some of the ton of it in my stash). Applied some hearts direct to paper and others with foam tape for dimension. The "valentine" Hero Arts word die was cut from Tonic red foil paper and the subsentiment is from Simon Says. A few of red foil circles complete the card.

Used the negative diecut panel as a stencil and applied Nuvo gold Glacier and red Glitter paste on a white panel, set it aside to dry. Meanwhile, diecut a Simon Says' sentiment out of glitter cardstock and it's shadow layer out of red vellum. Glued them together and added foam tape to stick it to the, now dry, panel. Also added the subsentiment strip. Attached to a panel of gold foil cardstock and, then, to a top folding A2 cardbase. Added some red jewels for even more shine. Sorry none of that shows up in the photo.

Snowflake Kisses

It appears I'm already back to Christmas Cards, as you can see. Couldn't resist Christmas Kickstart's Penguin Parade challenge.  So, using a very old Mama Elephant stamp/die set, I Copic colored and cut out the penguins, etc. In addition, the MFT pool die was cut for a skating rink. Set all aside, then masked and ink blended the Northern Light sky. Once that was done, added Copic shading on the snow, arranged the diecuts and created a glitter storm for highlights. Used white pen for the star and some itty-bitty snowflakes, as if it had just stopped snowing. Stamped an appropriate Penny Black sentiment and called it done.

Such a Fungi

Today I'm working with fungus...specifically Altenew's "shrooms". This card is going into the CAS Mix Up challenge. 

Partially diecut the stems out of an A2 watercolor paper, then the circle which created an odd looking aperture panel. On a separate scrap of paper, I lightly stamped the mushroom heads. Using Distress inks I watercolored stems/heads and set all aside to dry. Meanwhile, watercolored white tissue paper (thank you to Loll) with varied ink colors, sprayed it with shimmer and set it aside to dry, too. (See Loll's technique video, here.) Stamped the Altenew sentiment and fussy cut it out. Once everything was dry, attached the background to the apertured panel popping up the stems, watercolored brown ink under the stems for ground. Popped up the sentiment. Diecut the mushroom heads and used foam tape to attach them to the stems. Sounds complicated but it was quite simple.

Nailing It

Dude!...had some fun with CASology's "Repeat" challenge. I'm sure this isn't what they wanted but I'm entering it anyway. Avery Elle provided the image and sentiment (now retired)  of this "boarder" which is Copic colored and dotted with snow spray. Hope it's not too busy for a CAS challenge. I'll also be linking it up The Male Room's "Anything Goes" challenge.