Is this week's inspiration card cute or what?  I knew immediately what stamp I would use to meet this challenge.

"Snowy" is my all time favorite Penny Black snowman stamp!  I colored him with Peerless Watercolor including the background wash.  Unfortunately, I don't have the origin of the Winter diecut.  My favorite part of creating winter cards is the element of snow and that is my ultimate favorite product by Stampendous called Chunky White Deep Impression Embossing Enamel.  Distress Watercolor Paper by Ranger is the card front.  Glitter paper (my stash).

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LYN

My first impression of Michelle W's card this week was spotlight coloring!  I actually made two cards 'cuz I was on a roll and was home alone, so of course I was in my craft room happy place!

My first card leans toward Thanksgiving.  Simple as can be, but how I mounted it gives it an interesting border.  It's definitely a CAS card.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Fun Stampers Journey, Sentiment (Concord & 9th)
Paper:  Watercolor Distress Paper (Ranger), Card Base (Fun Stampers Journey)
​Accessories:  Peerless Watercolor Sheets, Versafine Onyx Black Ink, Staz-On Stone Grey, The Misti tool

My second card uses a larger stamp and covers more area.  It's freeing to just add color here and there  and the diagonal stripe pulls everything together!  Nice and flat for mailing!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Poppy Gems (Penny Black), Hello (WPlus9), Dearest Friend (Concord & 9th), Peppermint Stick Background (Catherine Pooler)
Paper:  Watercolor Distress (Ranger)
Accessories:  Peerless Watercolor Sheets, Versafine Onyx Black

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LYN

I love punny cards and couldn't wait to play.  I have a super busy rest of the week, so my card is quick.  Stamps:  Go Hog Wild (A Muse Studio), Papers:  Welcome Home (6x6 Carta Bella); Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black; Pencils (Tombow).

First impression of this week's inspiration was doodles!!!!  Yay!!!  I have a new watercolor pallet from Altenew that I wanted to try for this challenge.  Turns out, I didn't do much painting, so I'll have to create  more projects with them another time.  

Anyhoo, I Peter Sheeler'd my card design.  If you're familiar with him, he has a lovely watercolor pen and wash style that always appeals to me.  In the case of my card, I threw some color down first and then doodled as my second step.  A little white Uniball pen and Posca white paint pen accents added.  Doodling was done using a Saura Pigma Pen 05.  Watercolor paper by Strathmore and is a 5x7 card size.  Diecut word by W+9 Studio.  I used a Quicky Glue Pen to adhere the letters.  Black c/s by FSJ.

This week's Christmas card challenge.

I found this scrap panel in my stash so I started from there!  Simple stamping, adding some silver colored pencil and white Uniball pigment for snowy trees.  Glittery snow in the sky makes this simple little card a little magical. 

Supplies:  Stamps and sentiment The Stamp Market.  Versafine Onyx Black ink.  Memento Gray Flannel ink.  Quickie Glue Pen and Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter.

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LYN

Getting inspired with Stampendous stamps!

My card began with the background using a Stampendous Cling Mixed Mesh stamp and Antique Linen Distress Ink.  ​I separately stamped the floral and hummingbird images on watercolor paper (Arteza) using Versafine Onyx Black Ink.  Images colored with Peerless Watercolor Sheets and then fussy cut.

Here's a close up of the fussy cut flower that was mounted onto the background panel.  Hummingbird was mounted with 3M Foam Tape.  Sentiment (Stampendous) stamped using The Misti and Onyx Black ink.  Pearls are A Muse Studio.


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LYN

I loved this week's challenge by Anita because heat embossing isn't a technique I do very often.  After playing with a few design attempts, I settled on a smoosh watercolor background after heat embossing the image.  To my surprise, the smoosh covered only a portion of the card front panel but I rather liked the result!  So many options were swirling around my head about the area to the left of the embossed image...do I splatter?  do I tear the?  do I cut it?  Dilemmas for sure!  I ended up adding a seam binding bow, (adding mailing bulk) but it's such a pretty card, I went along with it.

Paper:  Canson
Stamps:  FSJ Greeting Bouquet, Sentiment (Unknown)
Ink:  Ranger Distress Oxide Worn Lipstick, StazOn Grey
Accessories:  Wonderlust WOW! Embossing Powder Inspired by Catherine Pooler, A Muse Gems, May Arts Seam Binding


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LYN

Adding water was right up my alley this week!  I began with a smoosh technique onto an acrylic block with 3 rows of Distress Oxides.  After liberally spritzing, I pressed the block onto Strathmore watercolor paper.  While drying the panel, I spritzed it to create water drops.

The sentiment was stamped using The Misti.  Rose was diecut onto watercolor paper and painted with Peerless Watercolors and then mounted with foam tape.

Supplies
Paper:  Strathmore Watercolor
Inks:  Distress Oxide - Broken China, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Versafine Onyx Black
Stamps & Die:  Stampendous Rose Cling, Stampendous Birthday Assortment Perfectly Clear, FSJ perforated Rectangle
​Accessories:  A Muse Studio Sequins, Quicky Glue Pen and FSJ Diamond Glitter

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LYN

​Here's this week's inspiration card by Tristan Dawes:
(Click on her card for the Muse Challenge #277 link)

I love the anticipation of my first impression of an inspiration photo and this time I saw, of course, a pretty blue flower and then I saw the diecut window!

I've been painting what I call 'blob' flowers on 5x7 Strathmore Watercolor paper this summer.  It's a wonderful exercise in being loose and free without over thinking.  After choosing a paint color (Koi)  and a #10 brush, I started at the top and worked down making shapes happen with a wet brush on dry paper.  While the flowers were still wet, I dropped in a second color. For the stems and leaves, I changed to a #6 brush and dropped in green at the base of the blob in hopes it was still wet enough to spread on its own.  Once dry, I added paint splatters in the darker blue paint.

Here's my interpretation of Trinstan's diecut window.  I glued several diecut happy (Sizzix) words together in black cardstock (FSJ) and finished the top layer with a wash of blue (Cerulean I think) watercolor paper.

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LYN

'Wow!  Am I on a roll posting to challenge sites this week!  Today I'm here on CAS on Sunday, which is part of CAS on Friday's blog.

Partial stamping is the technique on the watercolor tag.  A little glitter on the flowers added a pretty element.  Card background is a simple random wash on watercolor paper.  I don't have many embellishments here in Florida so I decided on a funky staple design on the tag. 

I had to resist adding more to this card.  It's a good thing I don't have my supplies here that I have in New York 'cuz this card would have turned into 'not a CAS card' knowing me!  For example, I really see an embossing folder or stencil design on the entire card panel.  Or, at the minimum, a stitched border on the card panel and the tag.  See, there I go...

Stamps:  Vintage Bird (A Muse Studio), Sentiment Just Because (Spectrum noir)
Ink:  Versafine Smokey Gray
Watercolor:  Koi Water Colors
Paper:  Arteza Premium Watercolor


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LYN