Life is a BEACH!

Hi there and Welcome to today's post for the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge to feature Birds

at The CAS Watercolour Blog

I was looking for something a little different

for my second card for this challenge and remembered 

I had a couple of flamingo sets.

I started by inking a craft mat with

Tim's Spun Sugar spritzing with water 

and smooching, then the brighter colours of

Evergreen Bough and peacock Feathers.

Stamped the palm tree and sentiment also in the

Evergreen Bough. 

The palm trees always have coconuts 

so added a few with Gold Liquid Pearls

and a few fell on the ground.

My 'Fashion Conscious'  Flamingo is from

 Inkadankdo's Flamingo fun 

inked with Altenew Red Cosmos colours, 

 heat embossed in white, fussy cut and popped.

Added a touch of colour to match the coconuts

with a scallop die from MFT.

My Mix is Water Colouring, Embossing, 

Stamping and Die Cutting.

Hope you like my Fun Flamingo

and to my overseas friends I hope

your weather warms up and you can 

get to paddle your feet at the Beach soon.

Thanks for dropping in

Case-ing Therese Calvird

I had the pleasure of meeting the 

Outstandingly Creative Therese Calvird a few months ago

and just love her work and videos. They are always 

amazing and Therese is so easy to listen to

 and watch on YouTube.

I decided that I would case one of her cards as I have had the

Altenew Peony Stamp set for an age but have resisted inking it

up until now that I have bought the dies to go with it. 

You can find her beautiful card Here.

You will see I have case-ed it closely changing just a few things.

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This card was made for my BFF Carole and without her

I would maybe never have gone down the path I

am now glued to. Carole celebrates her birthday

a few days before mine and each year we spend

hours creating something special for each other.

So here are the products I used - 

Altenew Peony Bouquet Stamp/Die

(for my NBUS)

Altenew Red Cosmos

Memento New Sprout/Pistachio 

We R Memory Keepers Embossing Folder

Bazzill Card Stock (birthday present from Carole)

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations Fond Expression 2

(perfect for my special friend)

cut from MFT stitched die

Gems are SU

WOS on the centre flower. 

(See close up above)

Darnell has her 10 day NBUS Challenge 

up and running with amazing products

for the Lucky Ones to Win.

All the awesome schtuff is Here
I am dropping this card over there!

Thanks so much for popping in.

Till next time Cherrio from