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Friday 5 July 2024

CAS on Friday challenge - guest designer

Hello friends and welcome to Friday.  I hope you've had a great week so far and you've got some exciting plans for the weekend.  

I was lucky enough to win a recent challenge over at CAS on Friday and was offered a guest DT spot.  I excitedly accepted and today is the day that I can share my project for them.  The theme for this challenge is 'watercolour'.  I was going to go down my usual route of a background wash of colour and an image over top but decided to try something different.  After watching a couple of YouTube videos showing simple watercolour flowers I decided to give it a try myself.  My efforts are definitely not exceptional but I am over the moon pleased with the final outcome.  I hope you like it too. 
Here is my card:
A closer look at my flowers:
I decorated the inside:
I began by cutting a panel of Bristol smooth heavy weight card to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi palette and chose a pink, blue and green pan to use on my card.  Following one tutorial I saw on YouTube I added 3 small dots of concentrated colour with a small paint brush and dragged the colour out with a clean damp brush to create the petals.  I created 2 pink and 2 blue flowers in this fashion.  I know I should have done 3 or 5 flowers for perfect design but I liked the way my 4 flowers looked (and I didn't want to mess up my panel by adding one more lol!).  I added the stems using the green paint and added some leaves (although some were a little wonkier than others!).  I took a gold pan and added the centres to my flowers and also some splatter (spatter?) all over the background.  I stamped my sentiment and heat embossed with gold embossing powder (I did a little stamp surgery as the original sentiment was happy birthday bestie but I cut it apart between the birthday and bestie).  I then added the panel to an A2 card base using double sided tape.  No embellishments or anything extra as I loved it the way it was.  For the inside I took another panel of the Bristol card and stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I had practiced my flowers on a scrap of card and as they looked so pretty I didn't want to throw them away so I cut them into triangles and added them to the right top and bottom left corners with liquid glue.  A really simple card but a one-off original made by yours truly lol!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything florals goes optional mood board
Incy Wincy Designs challenge - round/circles and/or hand drawn/sewing (my flowers are hand painted)
Moving Along With The Times challenge - CAS (clean and simple)
Simply Clean and Simple challenge - CAS optional use a heart (happy 1st anniversary)
Triple B challenge - use at least one bloom, bird or butterfly optional mood board

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge over at CAS on Friday but remember it must be a CAS creation and you are allowed one entry only. You can read the definition of CAS here

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:
Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card (for card base)
Versamark - watermark ink pad
Versafine - onyx black ink pad

9 comments:

Diane said...

So very soft and pretty inside and out!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Simply Clean & Simple and Triple B.
Diane SCAS TB Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
{Simply Clean & Simple}
NEW {Love Those Pretty Papers}

Diane said...

Me again, thanks for sharing your lovely card with us at Beautiful Blossoms!
Diane BB DT
{Nellies Nest}
{Beautiful Blossoms}
NEW {Love Those Pretty Papers}

María said...

A fantastic CAS card and a great job with the watercolours, those flowers are great. Thanks for joining us at A Place To Start. Hugs, María.

Crafting Queen said...

Lovely elegant card. Anesha

Card Creator said...

Denise, this is so lovely. You always know how to knock it out of the park. Thank you for inspiring me and others here at My Time To Crafty

~Your Crafty Friend,
Tamara

MRS DUCK said...

Hi Denise
Lovely card. Thank you for joining in with MAWTT.
Best wishes.
Ang.

Scrapping4funChallenges said...

Fabulous CAS card! I love the watercolors.
Thank you for your entry at Scrapping4funChallenges.
Rachelle (owner)
https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com
https://rachellescreations.blogspot.com

Wendy L said...

So beautiful, love it, thanks for joining us at the MAWTT challenge xx

Helen said...

Beautiful CAS design.

Thanks for joining us at the Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog.

Helen x
DT