It's a 'Onefer' for 2 CAS Challenges

It's nice to put Christmas card making aside 

and play with a few of my favourite challenges at

CAS Mix Up December Challenge and

CAS Watercolour Challenge

I started my emboss resist with SU Bliss
heat embossed in silver. My background resist is
from Nuvo Solar Flare Shimmer Powder
mixed with water. I then added some texture with a
hexagon stencil with white crackle paste.
I heat embossed my STAMPlorations
Trendy Butterfly 2 then added colour from
Lindy's Tiffany Lou Blue Spray
Colour Blast Deep Water Shimmer
and a touch of the Nuvo Shimmer Powder.
Added a sprinkle of WOW Midas Touch
Embossing Glitter to the middle of the butterfly

and here's a close up -

fussy cut and slightly popped
to my stitched background.
Attached to white card base.
My Thanks a Million stamp
(for the CAS Watercolour Challenge)
is from STAMPlorations Fluttery
heat embossed in Silver.
My Mix for the CAS Mix Up Challenge is
Emboss Resist, Stamping, Texture, Heat Embossing.

Thanks for dropping in

Love reading your comments!

A Christmas Themed CUTploration Challenge

December is here and Christmas is just

a few weeks away. Just in case you are running late

with your Christmas cards the CUTplorations Gals

have added their makes Here to inspire you to

finish them off with this photo below.

Here is my take.

The first thing I noticed was the poinsettia's 

and have made a card using that flower but

as I had a new Christmas stamp I had not inked

I went with that for this post. 

You will see the other one a little later.

I knew when I decided to use Kraft card stock I wanted

texture on my Large Christmas Candles

Here's a close up so you can get a

good look at how it turned out 

After heat embossing them with Lawn Fawn

White Embossing Powder I coloured them with

Tim's Distress Inks in Mowed Lawn/Crushed Olive

Carved Pumpkin and Festive Berries.

The texture I used on my candles was

DecoArt White Crackle Paste.

(Love the result I got)

The lit candle and berries were painted with

Fresh Orange Metallic Paint from

Finnabair Art Alchemy

The sentiments are from  Homespun Christmas.

Of course I had to add falling snow which was

splattered using white paint.

This was then cut with the

Crazy-Double-Running-Stitch-Rectangle-Nesting-Dies

to finish my card.

Would love to see your creation over at

STAMPlorations and you could be

a Lucky Winner by following these Rules.

• Create a project inspired by the inspiration photo for the current month. You can create any type of project -- card, ATC, altered project, mixed media, art journal page, scrapbook page, etc. -- but make sure you use die cuts (any brand) and at least one STAMPlorations product. (A STAMPlorations product can be a stamp, stencil, thin metal die, or even a page from our coloring book. If you don't own a STAMPlorations product, you can still join by using the free digital stamp we are offering here.)
• You must display the challenge graphic in your post (if linking from your blog) and link back to the challenge post post (not just the main blog) in order to be eligible to win (and receive the corresponding prize).

Thanks so much for dropping in

Your comments are so encouraging.