Another Challenge to Enter!

This one is over at AAA Cards and is "blending."

This is actually on a cream card base, and the image is directly on the card base, so it qualifies as pure "clean and simple" as well as featuring the blending technique. It takes several passes with the die-cutting machine to get the acetate to cut all the way through all the way around, but acetate does make nice reuseable masks. For this I used the Spellbinders' Deckle Edge. The inks used for blending are from the Memento line of Tsukineko products: New Sprout, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves, and Cottage Ivy. The Hero Arts "grasses" image was stamped in Tsukineko's Versa Fine "Olympic Green."

CAS on Sunday

I'd love to participate in this challenge at the CAS on Sunday blog, but I have the awful feeling it might be too many layers to be strictly "Clean and Simple."

This card was one of a number of similar cards in what's essentially a single design in different colorways. The cupcake tower image is from Peddler's Pack and was stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black ink on what's probably a generic white cardstock, but might even be Neenah Solar White. There are three shades of purple Bazzill card stock, with Hero Arts' "Envelope" background stamp inked with VersaMark on the light vertical strip, and the three light "ribbon" strips stamped with an Inkadinkado background stamp also inked with VersaMark. Nothing was popped, and the card ended up going to a BFF for her birthday.

Does it qualify as CAS with so many layers?

Oddly enough, that's not the first essentially monochrome birthday card I've given to BFF-M!

52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge

While blogsurfing today, I checked in on this blog, and decided I could easily play along.

I don't remember the manufacturer of the "confetti" paper I used for the image layer and the card base, but the olive green accent layer is from one of the Michaels house-brand collections. The green image is by Power Poppy inked with Tsukineko VersaMagic "Hint of Pesto," and the barely visible background stamp is Impression Obsession's Cover-a-Card "Pine," inked with Tsukineko VersaMagic "Cloud White." I also used my MISTI stamp positioner.

I'm posting this to 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

Update!

Well, sort of. I saw another card-crafting challenge I wanted to play along with, so here's another:

I'm entering this one into 52 Christmas Card Throwdown's 52CCT17-15 Triple Time Challenge. I'm not sure what white cardstock I used, nor which red ink (although that was probably Ranger's Cranberry), nor what dark red cardstock. The stamp, however, is a Peddler's Pack background stamp.