April Showers Bring May Flowers!

Happy Friday! Time for a fun new challenge over at the CAS-ual Friday's Challenge Blog :) This week we are all about flowers!

I was inspired to use the Truth Is stamp set once more because it is my all-time fav. CAS-ual Friday's Stamp set.  Only I decided to play with ink smooshing this time.  I started by stamping my flowers and sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black Ink (in hindsight I should have waited and stamped them after I was done with my Oxide smooshing because the Oxides dull the black ink).  

On a piece of Bristol Smooth card stock, I used Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral and Squeezed Lemonade Oxide and a little of the Picked Raspberry Distress Ink only to intensify the pink (all applied with my stamp set backer acetate).  

I then added color to my flowers with my Zig Clean Color Brush Markers in coordinating colors. I then went over all of the black stamping with one of my 0.5 black markers to remove the filmy overlay that the Oxides left. I used my 1/2 inch corner chomper on two of the opposing corners. Added my panel to my Avery Elle grey card base.

I then added my Studio Katia Iridescent Bubbles and some Nuvo Black and White Crystal drops.

Join us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog for the chance to win $25 worth of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and, drum roll please... Michelle with double the prize if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps!

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

Michele's 50th Birthday Bash!

Happy Friday crafty friends! Today, I am super excited to be hopping along for Michele's 50th Birthday Bash! Michele is the owner of CAS-ual Friday's Stamps and we are blog hopping to celebrate 50!

You have the chance of winning one of 5 $50 dollar gift cards! One winner will be chosen from the CAS-ual Friday's company blog and four others will be chosen randomly from comments on the various blog hop posts. Good luck and enjoy the hop!

The entire list of blog links can be found on the CAS-ual Friday's blog. You will have arrived here from the super talented Virginia Lu's blog.

My project features some of my favorite CAS-ual Friday's products! I knew I absolutely wanted to use my Truth Is stamp set these flowers make my heart flutter! And I figured what's better than a rainbow to bring in a big birthday!

I started by stamping my blooms with Catherine Pooler's Lime Rickey Ink (all of the inks used on this project are by Catherine Pooler) on the side of the panel so that I could accommodate the Birthday from the Shenanigans stamp set.  I then stamped my sentiments, I used CP Midnight for the happy and the sentiment on the bottom of the panel and a mix of the CP pastel collection for the birthday. These inks stamp so smoothly that it was easy to create a rainbow with the birthday sentiment.  

I then stamped and gold embossed a series of the blooms on a separate piece of Neena 80 lbs card stock so that I could color with my Copics in rainbow colors.  I then used the Truth Bloom die and die cut all of my flowers. I used foam tape to give some dimension on all the blooms and cut the excess on the sides. I topped off the project with a mix of Lucie's Little Things Rainbow gems and some black Nuvo Crystal Drops for the flower centres. 

Your next stop on the hop is the super talented Michelle Wallace. Don't forget to leave a comment for the chance to win! Enjoy :) Happy Birthday Michele!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Everything Turns to Gold!

Time for another CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!!! This week, the challenge turns gold for CFC165!

I actually used watercolour paper for the texture and more yellow-toned colour. I like the warmth it added with the gold instead of pure white.

I used the Truth Is set for the flowers and the sentiment is from MWAH. I used my Misti for stamp placement and to be able to stamp multiple times with my VersaMark Ink. I felt this was a good idea due to the texture on my watercolour paper.  I added fine gold embossing powder to both the flowers and sentiment.  I added a little Copic shading to the blooms using Y26 and Y28.  For those of you familiar with Copics and the Y28, it has an actual gold tone/shimmer (best way I can describe it). I used the more deep yellow Y26 to blend slightly. I like the way it turned out! I then die cut a gold glitter frame and offset the watercolour top panel for the glitter to show through slightly.  

I then die cut some hearts from the CAS-ual Friday's Fun-Fetti Fri-Dies and placed them with some sequins to finish off the card!

Join us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog for the chance to win $25 worth of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and, drum roll please... Michelle with double the prize if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps! 

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

CFC150 Thanks Twine!

Time for another challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays Woot, Woot!!!  The theme is Thanks Twine for CFC150.

I love CAS-ual Fridays Stamps for their clean lines and the sentiments are fabulous. This flower from Truth Is is my all time favourite, it is so stained from use lol!!!  I stamped my Thanks from the Thanks sentiment set twice, first in Versafine Onyx Black and used clear embossing powder then stamped it a second time with VersaMark ink slightly offset and used clear embossing again to give the shadow effect.  I then stamped the full flower from the Truth Is and stamped the only the top flower portion a second time and Copic coloured them. I blended Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon Distress inks on a Neena Solar White 80lbs and added flicks of black and gold watercolour paint. I then die cut the second set of flowers and added them with foam tape. I added my black and white twine to the smaller flower and finished it off with sequins and the "a bunch" also from the Thanks stamp set :)

Join us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog for the chance to win $25 worth of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and, drum roll please... Michelle with double the prize if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps! 

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim