CASAF... (STAMPlorations, ATCAS, Moxie Fab)

... as in "clean-and-simple-artsy-fartsy".  Cuz that's how I described my style back in my Moxie Fabber of the Week interview, all the while thinking that the two really don't go together.  Hmm.

Well hear ye, hear ye - Make a CAS card and make it grungy.  Huh?

Kylie heads off to Europe and leaves us with a challenge like that! Proves that there is room in the world for CASAF!

Well the first thing that came to mind was my STAMPlorations Holiday Artsy stamp set. And as I was admiring the cards in the gallery I stumbled upon this card from Loli.  And in her post, talking about "creatividad", she included this photo.

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Me gusto muchisimo! It'd make me so dang happy to think that my brain looked a little like this. Had to share it with you!

So I took my stamps, lotsa Distress Paint, the current sketch at STAMPlorations and this is what happened.  And before you ask, one line in the copy under "right brain" in the ad reads "I am the sound of roaring laughter" which instantly brought Katy Perry to mind. Thus my sentiment... figure I can add "it's your birthday" on the inside later.

Took a scrap of watercolor paper (note I left it the shape it was - left brain) and heat embossed my hand-lettered sentiment before smooshing the panel into some spritzed yellow Distress Paint. TIP: Use an embossing pen to hand-letter a sentiment.

When dry, hit it with some purple, pink, orange and green paint then spritz and watch the magic (right brain) happen. TIP: You can stop the magic anytime you want (left brain) with a dab of paper towel.

Repeat for another layer. Remember, I was going for the feel of the "right brain" in the ad.

When dry, I pulled out the stamps, splotched some paint onto my craft sheet and stamped with it. Used the block shape and a brush stroke stamp.

Then some yellow "coffee stains" and after I dried them I repeat stamped the wavy brush stroke at the left, hit it with water only there and let the paint flow.  A la the ad. (very right brain - you OCDers are freakin' out about now)

Waste not, want not, ya know? TIP: Mop up the leftovers with scrap CS or tracing paper.  I also re-heat-embossed the sentiment cuz Distress Paints don't really work with the emboss resist technique even if you wipe the embossing up after every layer.  TIP: Do your embossing after the panel is finished ;) Then came the three graphic strips (left brain)  and voila!

Hooking up at the Moxie Fab Handwriting challenge too. Thanks for sticking around for my oration on CASAF!  Have a good one.

Supplies for ROAR:

Paper:  CS Bringmann, watercolor paper

Stamps: STAMPlorations, chaos Alexandra Renke

Ink :  Versafine

Tools: embossing pen

Other: Distress paint, black embossing powder

watercolor fun (SSS, CMCC, KIS, WW)

Had some fun with the use-your-embossing-folder-like-a-stencil-used-as-a-stamp technique. Confused? Check out this video from Splitcoast to see what I mean.

Are you back?  Well I did this technique with the Flower Corner folder from Hobby Solutions and Distress Paints in Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmelade, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves and Peeled Paint.

It's kinda like playing with gelli plates and monoprinting like I did here.  Except let's call it duo- and tres- printing, may we? You get a lot of bang for your buck if you keep spritzing the paint left on your folder and making more prints.  Print #1 was made into a card which was just accepted for publication in Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking November issue.  So please meet prints #2 and #3...

#2 has a bit of splotchiness going on on the left side.  I spritzed the folder with a water and bronze Perfect Pearls mixture and the splotches are from where there was a lot of water.  But in the spirit of the watercolor trend, that's what I was hoping for. I heat embossed this wonderful sentiment from Winnie and Walter onto colored CS and fussy cut it before adhering it with foam adhesive.

On #3 I incorporated tidbits of the third print I made from the folder (simply onto a piece of cheap white CS). I punched one inch circles from the print and stitched them onto a CS panel which I had stamped with some delicate blooms using Distress Inks.

TIP: I inked up the sentiment with pink and purple and stamped it onto my panel and then freaked cuz it was way too dark. I quickly spritzed the stamp and stamped over it... twice... and it got the nice glimmery and watercolory result I was hoping for.

The inside.  Love the versatility of the W&W Big and Bold sets - so many sentiment possibilities.

I'm playing all around the neighborhood with these cards:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Keep it Simple #39 - Watercolor
Colour Me #18 - Anything Goes using 5 colors
Winnie and Walter - Join in and Win

Appreciate your visit.

Supplies for:

Paper:  CS Bringmann, watercolor paper

Stamps: Winnie and Walter, blooms We R Memory, Autumn Leaves

Ink : Distress Paint and Ink, 'Versamark

Tools: embossing folder Hobby Solutions, circle punch,  sewing machine

Other: black embossing powder