Here's Cheers!

Hello and Welcome to my Saturday Post for

Just Us Girls

It's our Photo Week and our Host this Challenge is Lisa

choosing a very Summery Photo.

There's nothing nicer than relaxing by the sea 

with a cool drink is there?

I got the stamp set I used here as part of a package

such a long time ago and it fitted perfectly

 for this week's challenge.

I simply heat embossed my cool drink, 

coloured the centre then carefully went 

about inking up my sky and sea background even adding

some breaking waves with a white pen. Then came the sand

and I used a new paste I  bought at a craft show recently.

It is Metallic Relief Paste by Cadence in Champagne and has

a nice gritty texture.  I coloured my fruit and bubbles,

some with glossy accents 

and the bigger ones with Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Backed it with matching card stock and on to my card base.

Pop over and see where our Guest Marlena and the Team

went with our Photo and come join us in the Gallery.

You could be our Chic of the Week and in the running

as our Guest Designer in August. 

Hope to see you there.

Thanks for dropping by

Make a Wish for CAS Mix Up Challenge

Hi and Welcome. Today's post is for the current challenge at

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge

and my good friend Mac is hosting.

I started out by inking Tim's Peacock Feathers Oxide ink

onto my glass mat, wetting it and smooching

with a piece of plastic to try and get an ombre effect

on to acrylic painting paper. Unfortunately it isn't showing

up as nicely as it is IRL. I then heat embossed

my STAMPlorations Feathery feathers with

Colour Blast Deep Water Embossing Powder

and die cut. I then die cut the leaves (Kaisercraft)

with the same paper and flourish (Gina Marie)

To ground my die cuts I painted 

Colour Blast Shimmer in the same Deep Water colour.

Added my sentiment from the same stamp set

then attached my slightly popped feather and die cuts. 

Added a butterfly, wee bow from Waffle Flower

 and a pearl to the centre 

Just to finish it off I added some splatters.

Attached this to  my base. If you look closely 

you can see this paper has a lovely light texture

I thought added a little something.

Here is a close up showing the texture and

lovely shimmery embossing. 

My Mix is - Ombre Technique, stamping,

heat embossing, die cutting and painting.

Thanks for dropping in today.

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