Hobby Art Shore Scenes card

Hello friends! I hope you've had a good week and are ready for the weekend. I really don't know why I still look forward to weekends when I'm fortunate enough to be retired but it pleases me to have some days in the week that are different, and I don't feel guilty if I abandon the jobs I started in the week.

I'm still chasing my mojo around and it is a very elusive creature these days, but I did sit down to play for the first time at the CAS Mix it up Challenge.  I love CAS designs and this challenge asks you to include other media in the design. This time the theme is to use watercolour and a beach theme.

I came up with this card using Hobby Art Shore Scenes stamp set. 

This is a scene builder stamp set that I bought after seeing Jenny Mayes use it at the Port Sunlight Craft Show and it has been sitting in my NBUS pile ever since. It turns out that scene building isn't as easy as Jenny made it look lol! 

 

Anyway, I had a go and used watered down Distress Inks as my watercolour medium, and added a bit of Hero Arts sand embossing powder on the beach. I raised a white panel over the scene using an MFT die that I thought reminded me of a porthole if you closed an eye and squinted, and I embossed the card with a PTI impression plate to add a bit of texture.

I'd like to play along at

CAS Mix Up Challenge - August watercolour

NBUS Challenge #17

Inspired By Challenge - Punny sentiments

Make my Monday Challenge #129 - on the beach

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

Hugs

Carol x

Hobby Art Rocky Robin Christmas card

Hello everyone, and welcome to the final challenge of the year over at ABC Christmas Challenges. We are celebrating 10 years of the challenge and thanks go to Samantha and Helen who put in all the work behind the scenes.

Our themes for this month are 

Z for Zigzag 

and/or

Y for Yuletide

and our hostess is Samantha who has this lovely gift for the winner.

I came up with this card

I used a stamp from HobbyArt called Rocky Robin and used my Ziggies to watercolour him and the background. The panel was cut with MFT wonky rectangles.

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn Winter Sparrows, and the embossed background used the Crafter's Companion party embossing folder. To make the zigzag strip I used a stamp from Paertrey Ink's Noted stamp set, and to finish off, I added some glitter to the snow on the log.

It's hard to believe that the year has whooshed by so fast! I hope you have enjoyed the themes we have brought you and that you now have a pleasing stack of cards to send out. Don't forget to join us in January for our 11th year and to make a start on Christmas 2021!!!

As always, you'll find some fabulous inspiration from my talented Teamies over on the ABC blog, so why not visit them and leave some festive cheer.

Thanks for stopping by.

Shopping our Stash Challenge #41- - Happy Holidays

Cardz4Guyz Challenge #234 - Christmas critters

Animal Friends December Challenge - birds

Hugs

Carol x