The fifth Tuesday of the month means "Timeless Tuesday" which is a double challenge on the CAS Colours and Sketches Challenge Blog. We are reaching back into the archives and pulling out an old sketch as well as retired SU colours, hence the "timeless" part of the name! Right At Home's Sweet Stitches Die Set is used for the sentiment and flowers. Copics were used to create the ombre look for the sentiment, flower centers and the band behind the panel. A scrap of patterned paper was scalloped across the bottom.
It's a "Make Your Mark" challenge week on the Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge Blog. I pulled out my Copics and colored up this cute unicorn from MFT's Magical Unicorns stamp set. The background is called Watercolor Background from Right AT Home Stamps and the sentiment is from Avery Elle.
hopping this morning and to my great surprise on Joan's blog, Dear Paperlicious, I discovered there was yet one more National Craft Month challenge! Wooo! My next stop was the Right At Home Blog to read the details! The last challenge: use a background stamp. This caused a bit of a quandary for me - I've been trying to feature Right At Home products this week, but I don't have any of Nicole's background stamps. Earlier in the week, I created a background sheet using RAH's Abstract Florals for this card and scraps were still on my desk, so I put them to good use on today's card with RAH's Cup of Joy stamps and the one of the Script Greeting dies. Covering my bases, the coffee cup is stamped with a Happy Birthday background stamp from MFT.
One of the National Craft Month challenges Nicole Baez had at the Right At Home Blog was to recreate an old card design. My original card was made in October 2017 and used Right At Home's Abstract Florals stamp set and watercolors. This one combines the stems and leaves from Abstract Florals with some flowers, the sentiment, and a stitched frame from Find the Beauty Die set. The paper is from Doodlebug.
I spent some time in my craft room this afternoon playing around with one more entry for Right At Home's week long celebration of National Craft Month. There have been challenges and opportunities for winning prizes all week. This challenge a card with lots of white space.
. . . and another entry at the Right At Home Shop's celebration's for National craft Month. Today's post is about trying a watercolor technique. I have to admit, I'm a little reticent with watercolors. I think part of my reluctance is not giving enough time to play with them and then there's the hard time with letting go of control of the results!! This card turned out okay, though. 
Fiona's colours for this week's CC&S challenge made me long for a hot summer day. When I was blending the Pumpkin Pie and Rose Red inks, all I could think about was orange and raspberry sherbet!!
Inspired By All the Little Things #82/ - Photo
It's a sketch challenge week on the CAS Colours & Sketches blog. At first, I thought I would use balloons for this sketch, but Right At Home's Abstract Floral stamp set called to me instead. I pulled out my Distress Inks, watercolor paper, and my spray bottle and went to work! After stamping the first layer and letting it dry over night, the outlines and details were stamped with SU! inks. The sentiment was on my desktop from a different card (because I sampled different colors of embossing powder and the orange was a reject for that card, but perfect for this one!). I'm not so crazy about all of the dots in the background - there are too many of them, but once they're stamped you can't take them back! Lesson learned!
I have to admit, this month's Stick It Down sketch challenged me! The good news is pulling out all of my stamps to find "the one" and going through my hoarded pile of paper unearthed some fabulous "finds" - right in my own stash!! 
You know those stamps you must have when you see someone's card online? That was the case for me with Altenew's Vintage Flower Set. It has been in my collection for over a year and has never been inked. I can't even remember the card that called out, "Buy this set, now!" I've pulled it out before, but the three layer stamping just sent me over the edge! 
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Beverly has a great sketch for us to play with this week on the CAS Colours & Sketches Blog. This one pushed my thinking a bit. I used a little creative license with the larger circle, trying to keep my layered flowers and bottom leaf to mirror a circle-ish shape. The flower representing the smaller circle is stamped directly on the card front the others are layered on top using foam dots. The strip of paper along the left side was in my scrap drawer and really pulls in all of the colors from the flowers. The card to the right is actually my second card, and one I went back and remade because I decided my original (seen at the bottom of my post) wasn't really CAS because it was too layered. Maybe I was obsessing too much; maybe Patricia, Beverly, or Karen were channeling me - for whatever reason, it was a good exercise to go back and revise!
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| My original, layered design. |
