CAS Santa...............

Two challenges inspired me to make this card.

The card had to be Festive, CAS, Santa theme and be on one layer.
Update .... I madeHeadliner at The Paper Players for this card...
Thank you so much absolutely delighted and thrilled x

This is my card.

I masked and used distress inks to blend inside the square.

I die cut the mittens to use as a stencil, using red pigment ink.

I used white puffy paint for the top of the mittens. 

I hadn't used this before and it is fun.

The pegs have been stamped with a very cute stamp and I drew in the clothes line.

I used my dipping pen and white pigment ink for the snow and also stamped a few snowflakes.

The sentiment has been stamped in black ink.

The card is Festive, CAS, Santa Theme and on one layer,

so I would like to enter my card into the two challenges .......

Simply Less is More - Santa..One Layer

The Paper Players - Create a CAS Christmas Card

Crafty Hugs x

Autumn

             Autumn.....One Layer

Update...Absolutely delighted to have been Hi-Lighted at 

One Layer Simplicity Challenge for this card...Thank you so very much xxx

One layer cards are a challenge in itself and Autumn ones I think are tricky.

I see Autumn as beautiful autumnal colours, leaves and trees. 

I see them as 3D and not flat so this was my challenge.

I tried to do something similar from this inspiration

https://pennyblackinc.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/autumn-dance/

I used a clearly besotted leaf stamp for mine.

I blended distress inks, flicked water and tried (badly) to do splatters.

I wanted to leave white around the leaf but not quite so contrived as the one I've got!

That was because I had to keep mopping up my 'bad' splatting!

I used gold mica to hi-light the leaf and to do some of the splats.

I enjoyed trying the new technique (to me) from the inspiration link above.

I didn't realise you could use distress stains to stamp with.

I have used ink pads and the markers before

but always thought the stains to be too runny, so a lesson learnt.

I am entering the card into 

Simply Less is More-One Layer-Autumn

and

One Layer Simplicity-Whatever the weather

Crafty Hugs x

Wishing......

    Wish you were here

Update...I am thrilled and honoured to be a 'Cut Above' 

at The Paper Players with this card, thank you very much x

I have made this card using a colour theme, 

technique and on a one layer challenge.

I die cut the mini maple leaf using Poppy Stamps Maple Leaf Border die 

out of scrap card and used this as my stencil.

I sponged the colours from The Paper Players Colour 

Theme Challenge, using the stencil.

The sentiment is from a Clearly Besotted stamp set.

The gold has been embossed around the edges to give the appearance 

of another layer but it is a One Layer Card.

The colours on my blog don't look like the challenge colours 

but that always seems to be a problem for me and my camera!

The Paper Players-Colour Challenge

Simply Less is More-One Layer-Title Wishing

Craft Barn-Stencils/Masks

Crafty Hugs x