CAS(E) This Sketch

I hope you are having a good Monday! This heat is very oppressive and I hate to wish the summer away, but these temps in the 90's are getting old!  I've been transitioning my home decor to fall, so that gives me some reassurance that cooler temps will soon be here.

I made this card yesterday but never got it posted to my blog. I get better photographs during daylight, so that's another reason I procrastinated.

 

I'm playing along with the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. I'm truly sticking with my goal to whittle away at my leftover pile and this gelly roll background is a great example of something I created probably two years ago or more with some acrylic paint. It reminds me of an abstract plaid and the green is a fave shade of mine.  I had this extra sunflower (dies by The Greetery) already water colored, so it was a quick and easy way to get a needed sympathy card put together. The zig zag border dies are by My Favorite Things and the sentiment is from Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Background set.

Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting...      ~Wanda

CAS(E) This Sketch

It's Thursday which means one of my fave challenges has a new sketch for us - CAS(E) This Sketch! I tweaked the diagonal line a bit and gave it an angle rather than a squiggle - haha!  I try to make an effort to use up extra die cuts, water color or gelli print panels, etc. when I go to start a new project.  It doesn't always happen but today I chose this really old gelli print paper which has some bluish green/gray acrylic colors on it.

The sentiment is from Flourishes' "Tulips For Friends" stamp set (company is no longer in business) and the butterfly is a die from Cheery Lynn Designs called Exotic Butterfly Med.#1. I only adhered the body and antennae since I wanted the wings to look dimensional. The stitched edge is the "Stitched Basic Elements" Die-Namics by My Favorite Things. A trio of white matte enamel dots completed this quick project.

That's it for now! Our water has been cut off for several hours so that plumbers can fix a leak under our house. I have a real admiration for anyone who has to crawl the entire length of the house in a minimal crawl space to get to the problem area!! I'm thinking black snakes...spiders...well, you get the idea!

Mojo Monday

Good Monday everyone! Hope you are ready to kick off the week with another great sketch brought to us by Julee for the Mojo Monday challenge! I had several leftover pieces of gelli plate printing that I created last winter and thought the colors would work to add a pop of color to the kraft card base!  I tore the edges then sponged with Tea Dye distress ink.  I used 3 different Verve stamp sets:  Button Best (flower), Bloom and Grow (leaves), and Simply Amazing (sentiment).  I also used 3 different Verve dies: Amazing Adjectives, Elegant Leaves and Petal Points.  I added clear Wink of Stella glitter pen to the entire flower to give a subtle hint of shimmer.  

We'd love to see how you interpret this challenge!  You'll want to post your creation on the Mojo Monday blog.  If you need more inspiration, check out the design team's creations below:

  Julee Tilman (Owner)

Justin Krieger
Lori Tecler
Marisa Ritzen 
Sarah Bigelow
Teresa Kline
Wanda Cullen (you are here)

Inspired Be...All the Little Things

Isn't this such a gorgeous photo of autumn leaves?! Hope it inspires you to play along with the new Inspired By...All the Little Things challenge #29!  I love the warm color palette that nature brings to us in October and thought it would be fun to do some Gelli plate printing for this challenge!  It's always a messy and daunting task yet I always love the end results and wonder why I don't do it more often.

I used orange, green, gold and red acrylic paints and brayered over the Gelli plate, adding the Tim Holtz burlap stencil for the first step.  I like adding a hint of metallic gold paint as well, so used this

with a different TH stencil (bubble) for the second step.  After that was dry, I die cut a trio of leaves (Sweet 'n Sassy's Season of Change).  The subtle French Script (retired SU) background stamping was done by partially inking up the stamp with Cajun Craze (SU) ink.  I then inked up Concord and 9th's Lace Leaf background stamp with Crushed Curry (SU) ink.  The leaves were popped up using foam dots and the sentiment was layered with black then metallic gold cardstock - die by Concord and 9th.

The challenge linky will close on Friday, October 28, at 12:00 pm (PST), so be sure to check out all the inspiration over on the Inspired By blog, and link up your creation!  Speaking of grateful, I'm so glad you stopped by and hope to see you in the gallery!

Dare to Get Dirty

In case you haven't heard...it's the week for the Dare to Get Dirty challenges - hosted by the Dirty Dozen gals - over on Splitcoaststampers! Many of the member companies are giving away wonderful prizes and only the fan club members who play along are eligible to win!  I'm posting two cards that I made for Heather's (DTGD14HousesBuiltofCards) and Stacy's (DTGD14JBgreendawn) challenges.  I can't go into detail here, so you'll have to head over to the link on the home page on SCS to get the details and view all the other gallery entries.

And here is my second card...

I had some fun with gelli plate printing on both of these cards!  Lots of textures and some mixed media fun going on!  Thanks for stopping by...

Solitary Rose

I'm posting my CAS card that I created yesterday for SCS CAS challenge to use a colored background rather than a neutral card base. I went really bold with this retired Pink Passion CS from SU.  I had some gelli plate printing fun on Sunday afternoon, so the strips you see are one of the sheets created by mixing pink and gold acrylic paints with Hero Arts tweed pattern stencil and TCW Mini Basketweave stencil.  I die cut the rose and leaves using MFT's Rose with Overlay and Layered Leaves Die-Namics.  This was a very quick and easy card to throw together!  I'll add a sentiment later to fit the occasion.  Thanks for stopping by...

CAS Gelli Print

Good Friday everyone! I have a quick and simple card today...using a scrap from my gelli print pile that I created months ago. This large fern image was "stamped" by brayering acrylic paint on a gelli plate, then placing a 6x6 Mini Ferns stencil by TCW over the gelli plate and pressing paint to the stencil using the brayer again.  I then picked up the stencil and "stamped" it onto white CS - resulting in the above background.

The layout is for the current (CAS)E This Sketch Challenge.  I'm also playing along with the Free 4 All challenge on SCS today that has us reviewing all of the 2013 challenges and picking one.  I chose the 6/28/13 challenge to "Think BIG" (use a big embellishment or stamp).

STAMPS: Blooming Button Bits (PTI).
ACCESSORIES: Jute twine, Wood veneer leaf, Fishtail Flags Die-Namics (MFT).