CAS(E) This Sketch

There's a great new sketch happening on the CAS(E) This Sketch blog and it was perfect to get another Christmas card done! I had a pile of these die cut trees left over from another project, so sponged the edges with blending brushes and layered them over another leftover rectangle that I splattered with blue gold paint from Gansai Tambi Starry Color paint palette. Patterned paper is from the "Merry" 6x6" pad by My Mind's Eye. It coordinates with Spring Moss CS by Papertrey Ink.

STAMPS: Hand Lettered Holiday (WPlus9).
PAPER: Merry 6x6 pad (My Mind's Eye); Spring Moss (Papertrey Ink); Gold Mirror (Altenew).
INK: Bermuda Bay, Lucky Limeade by SU.
DIES: Hand Lettered Holiday (WPlus9); Tall Pine Trees (Frantic Stamper); Pierced Feature Frames (PTI).

Thanks for stopping by!                                ~Wanda

Color Throwdown #570

Yours truly is hosting this week's Color Throwdown challenge and I hope you'll enjoy working with turquoise, orange and gray as much as I did! I went with a pretty literal take on the inspiration photo as well by giving the illusion of a snow globe (though the snowman is bursting outside of the globe - lol!) I stenciled with Peacock Feathers distress ink over the Frosty Flakes stencil by The Greetery. I then dry embossed the Softly Falling folder by SU.

The image was colored with Copics, highlighted with a white gel pen then fussy cut. The sentiment and banner die are from the Sentiment Suite: Christmas stamp set and the Sentiment Suite Basics die set by The Greetery.  

We'd love to see how you interpret these colors! If you need more inspiration, check out the rest of the design team samples below. 

  Amy Rohl

 Amy Rysavy
Barbara Anders

 Broni Holcombe  

Jodi Collins 

 Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put 

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen (you are here)

~Wanda

Mojo Monday Sketch

I am in full howliday mode - lol! Yes...I am one of those that loves to have the decorating done BEFORE Thanksgiving! We go out of state over Thanksgiving and it seems when we return home, time just FLIES by so quickly and I don't want to think about my house in an uproar at that point. Speaking of howlidays, I once again used an image I had colored earlier for Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Coloring Challenge. It's from a punny stamp set - Deck the Howls - by My Favorite Things. I used the layout that Julee Tilman created for the last Mojo Monday sketch challenge of 2019. It's a fun one!

I paper pieced the dog sweater and colored the rest with Copics and highlighted with a white gel pen. I added Glossy Accents to his nose. The splatters are from adding water to a dried up jar of Copic opaque white until I had a thin enough consistency to splatter it with a small brush.  The jingle bells make this difficult to mail, so it will be a hand delivered card for someone. 

My lighting wasn't great at 5:30 PM, but I'm going to go ahead and post several of my decorating "spots".  The first is my kitchen island centerpiece.

Next is the dining room server display.

My third spot is a corner in our family room with a couple of snowmen from what I've collected for many years.

You can quickly see I have a gold and green overall color scheme going on! 

That's it for now...thanks so much for stopping by and commenting!
                                                                    ~Wanda

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge

I wanted to play with the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch challenge so I could use this ornament die shape that I got last year and never used! It was perfect for one of the doggy images with the punny sentiment from MFT's Deck the Howls stamp set.  The plaid panel was cut using MFT's Blueprint 27 die set. The Pinpoint Shaker Ornament die is from Poppystamps.

The patterned paper is from Lawn Fawn's Perfectly Plaid Christmas 6x6" pack. Images were colored with Copics.

Freshly Made Sketches

Squeaking in under the wire here with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge! I had this wreath leftover from a previous project, so added a couple of leafy sprigs and jingle bells then layered the sentiment on top. The lavender panel has vellum over a "too bright" scrap of purple. The vellum toned down the color so that it matched this beautiful patterned paper. I'm not a big fan of purple, but seems like it's popping up often here lately!

STAMPS: Woodland Wreaths, Hand Lettered Holiday (WPlus9).
PAPER: Feels Like Frost 6x6" pack (Stampin' Up); Grape Soda (Reverse Confetti); White (Papertrey Ink).
INK: Wild Wasabi, Garden Green (SU); Grape Soda (Reverse Confetti). 
DIES: Woodland Wreaths, Hand Lettered Holiday (WPlus9).

It's a very dreary, rainy Monday and has been hard to get motivated this morning! Thanks so much for stopping by!    ~Wanda

Paper Players CAS

Happy Sunday everyone! It's clean and simple week at The Paper Players challenge blog and Jaydee has also chosen a North Pole theme to inspire us! Ironically, the day I made my card was unusually blustery and cold in VA, so I was led to use this snowflake embossing folder in my background along with a leftover piece of gelli print work from a long time ago.  I pulled out some stamps by Paper Smooches that were fun to color and paper piece!
I did some ink blending using Coastal Cabana (SU) and Falling For Blue (WPlus9) and used that to paper piece the scarf and hat band. The sentiment was white embossed then die cut with a banner die from MFT's Blueprint 27 set. A plastic snowflake that's been in my stash several years topped it off! 

STAMPS: Freezy Fellas (Paper Smooches); Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches). 

We'd love to have you play along with us!   For more inspiration from the rest of the design team, you can check them out HERE.                                                                                   ~Wanda

Fusion Card Challenge

 

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a great week! If you have some free time, we'd love to have you play along with us at Fusion Card Challenge. I used both the sketch and the thanks theme from the photo. It was a very simple design and I started by adhering 3 die cut snowflakes over this patterned paper.

Here is what I used:
STAMPS: Warm Winter Wishes by Flourishes (company is no longer in business).
PAPER: Altitude 6x6 pack by BoBunny; Tropical Teal by Papertrey Ink.
INK: Tropical Teal (PTI).
DIES: Snowflake Trio (WPlus9); Blueprint 27 (My Favorite Things); Stitched Circle STAX (My Favorite Things); Sentiment Suite Basics (The Greetery).

For more inpiration, check out the rest of the design team's cards HERE. Hope to see you in the gallery!                       ~Wanda