CAS Mixup - Paper Towel - Oh Happy Day!

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A fun challenge at CAS Mixup ... use paper towel.  Since I had no inky paper towels on hand, I made some by inking a card panel with two colors (Broken China and Peacock Feathers) of Distress Oxide ink, spraying liberally with water and sopping up the rich colors with a folded paper towel.  This resulted in 4 paper towel offspring (the paper towel is 2-ply).  The first one with the richest colors was used that was glued to a piece of card stock.  Before die cutting the butterfly, the panel was inked with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with clear and sparkly EP.  The paper towel and the heat embossing created an interesting texture that is very sparkly.  A die cut was used to make the perforations.  The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed following the lines of the perforations.  The die cut butterfly was adhered using foam tape.  The panel was adhered using foam tape to enable more definition to the perforations.

Enjoyed this mixed media challenge.

Processes used - paper towel, water coloring, die-cutting, stamping, heat embossing.

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Card Stock - Michaels
Dies - MFT; ArtC
Ink - Ranger - Distress Oxide; Versamark
Other - EP; gems

CAS Stencil - Smile

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Playing in the CAS Stencil - Alcohol Lift/Alcohol Inks challenge.  On an AI background in my pile the ink was lifted using rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball dabbed through a sunflower stencil. A section of the alcohol-lifted panel was selected for the card. A die cut sentiment was added. The overlay panel was raised using foam tape. A pierced die-cut frame was added for interest.

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Marilyn

Card Stock - Michaels
Dies - MFT
Stencil - The Crafters Workshop
Alcohol Ink - Ranger and/or Copic Refills
Other - Rubbing Alcohol

Twofer - Garden

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Today, it is play day at Twofer - Garden Challenge. My conventional entries include a Cutting Garden (Hello There) and a Container Garden (Happiest of Birthdays) using 3 stamps on each from the MFT Doodle Blooms (retired).  (If only one stamp is allowed, the default is to the largest bloom.) In the Cutting Garden the centers of the blooms were embellished with gold sequins. All images were colored using Prismacolor Pencils. For the Container Garden the blooms were stamped/masked.  The container was created using a (present) stamp from a MFT birthday collection.

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Marilyn

Card Stock - Michaels; MFT
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT

Markers - Prismacolor Penceils
Other - Sequins

CAS Watercolour - cheers to you

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Just picked this peony bouquet from my garden for Darnell's birthday!  The celebration is on the CAS Watercolour Challenge blog. This bouquet was created by stamping and masking, dabbing Distress Oxide inks with a dauber and cotton swab in two shades of pink Distress Oxide ink, spitzing with water to make the colors run/blotting with a paper towel, then painting with clear Wink of Stella to make the colors run a little more. The leaves were colored using the same process (although no WOS on them). The bouquet was masked to blend the back ground then lightly spritzed. The sentiments were stamped over the bottom of the bouquet. Extra sparkle, of course, was created using silver sequins.

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Marilyn

Card Stock - Michaels
Inks - Ranger - Distress Oxides; MFT - Hybrid
Stamps - Hampton Arts
Other - Sequins

CAS Stencil and Mixup - Thinking of You

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Playing in the following challenges:
.. CAS Mixup- alcohol lift, plus stamping, die cutting
.. CAS Stencil - alcohol lift alcohol/alcohol ink
Placed the flower stencil over a red AI panel in my pile. Lifted the ink with rubbing alcohol and cotton ball until almost white. Then using a blending tool, sponged Wild Plum ink through the stencil petals. The flower center is Ranger AI Dandelion.  Lifted the stencil and noticed that some of the alcohol seeped under the stencil during the lift off process ... this worked OK ... added lighter color definition around the flower.

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Marilyn

Card Stock - Michaels
Other - Yupo and striped DP
Ink - Ranger, Copic Refills; MFT - Hybrrid
Stencil - ArtC

CAS Mixup - Celebrate

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The CAS Mixup designers have a fun challenge to use "baby wipes" in our card process. In addition to the "baby wipes" and stamping, the card includes die cut and heat embossing. My baby wipes were transformed into "stamp pad" with the application of dye inks in Red Hot, Orange Zest, Ripe Raspberry. The flowers were stamped on the stamp pad then onto card stock a number of times. Then, the flowers were over stamped with Versamark Ink and heat embossed using clear EP with some sparkle EP (the two have become mixed in my container).  Using the companion dies, the flowers were die-cut. The center of the flower was stamped and heat set. The card was completed with a large sentiment and clear sequins. 

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Products:
Card Stock - Michaels
Dies - MFT
Stamps - MFT; Ranger
Inks - MFT; Versamark
EP - Hampton Arts

CAS Mixup - just because ...

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Stopping by to play in the CAS Mixup - Metals challenge for October.  My card includes aluminum foil, smooshing, die cuts, stamping.  The faintly colored metal burst was die-cut from the leftover piece of aluminum foil that was used to scribble Sharpie markers then blend with alcohol to smoosh the background panel. I like how the wrinkles in the foil give the burst a slightly distressed look The colors of the Sharpies are purples, pinks, oranges, yellow.  Both the foil piece and background panel had waited a couple of months to be used!! To make the foil burst stand out from the smooshed panel, it was adhered slightly amiss to a black "patent leather" (it looks like that) circle die cut.  A small die cut heart from the same smooshed panel paired with a purple colored gem was added ... just because it seemed to work. The sentiment was stamped a few times in hybrid black ink for a rich and crisp look.

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Note:  This is a color palette that is not my norm.  Also, for future ...glue the foil to card stock before cutting, because it is so fragile.  (There was no foil crumpling or tearing ... just had to carefully pick it off the cutting plates.)

Card Stock - Recollections; Ranger - Yupo
DP - Recollections
Dies - MFT
Markers - Sharpies
Ink - MFT
Stamp - Hero Arts
Other - Rubbing Alcohol; gem