Christmas in July!

Hello crafty friends,

How are you all today?

I got a great deal at Spotlight a few weeks ago, Heidi Swapp Christmas embellishments were on sale. This pack has the cutest stuff - vellum die cuts, acetate snowflakes and titles. Last year, despite my best intentions, only managed a couple of Christmas cards, so this year made an early start.

For our second post this month at Lulupu, the team has decided to showcase CAS cards. CAS is definitely out of my comfort zone, but once I started, found it hard to stop. Today, I'm sharing three cards from the lot I made, hopefully managed to find a balance between CAS design and my love for mixed media art.

 

For all my cards, the background was created by using gesso + white sand texture through a stencil. Gesso ensures that the texture paste gets a bright white color on drying to match the white card stock.  

On this card, the tiniest amount of watercolors were used through a waterbrush to infuse some color before embellishing with gold stars, title and vellum snowflakes.

 

On this one, as there is a contrast already between the texture paste and kraft card stock, no paints were needed, just some embellishments. 

I usually make a few card bases together and experiment with different techniques and color combinations. One such piece of card stock was used to cut the three Christmas trees and another such piece was used to mat the card on.The words have been heat embossed with gold embossing powder after stamping with versamark watermark stamp pad.

Thank you for visiting today. 

Don't forget to visit the Lulupu blog and check more CAS cards from the rest of the team.

Cheers,

Kripa

Products used from the Lulupu store:

Essentials - Mr. Huey's Watercolor Set

Koi Water Brushes Medium

Gold Super Fine Embossing Powder 1oz Jar

Krafty Smooth Value Pack Cardstock 8.5"X11" 25/Pkg

VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad 1

Gesso - Sakura Acrylic Tube

Heat It Craft Tool Europeon Version

 

CAS Card - Gold and Black

When I first read the challenge at Beyond Grey Challenges, I nearly jumped - Black and Gold...... so trendy...right! A gazillion ideas went through my head as always - vellum, wood veneer, confetti (shaker card), sequins,  chevrons, stripes, white on white texture background, a glitter bow..... and the list is endless really.

So, I cut out several pieces of water colour paper and went to town with gesso, texture paste and twinkling H2Os. Here are two of the completed cards. 

Both cards have been made in exactly the same way, except the base of the blue card is black and the pink one has a white card base. The Polaroid frame has been made using a chevron black washi tape on white cardstock. Also, linking both cards to Simon Says Stamp - Keep it Simple Wednesday Challenge. 

Ive one more post today - another card..... here is a sneak peek. See you all soon. Cheers.