Sunday, July 10, 2016

CAS-ual Fridays July Release Day 1

Hello and welcome to the July Release for CAS-ual Fridays!  Hold on to your seats folks, because this is going to be one fantastic ride filled with beautiful holiday stamps and dies that I know you're going to love as much as I do!  Today we're featuring 2 new stamp sets and 1 new die set, Bring on the Snowflakes, Snowy Sayings, and Funky Flakes Fri-Dies.



 I have 3 cards to share with you today!  My first card uses Bring on the Snowflakes and Snowy Sayings.




To make this card I stamped the various snowflakes using Shaded Lilac, Cracked Pistachio, and Tattered Rose distress inks.  I used the technique where you ink up your stamp and then spray lightly with water and then stamp.  I added some PTI Smokey Shadow ink splatters to the card, and stamped the sentiment from Snowy Sayings on Smokey Shadow card stock and embossed with white embossing powder.  I added some clear sequins to the card to finish it.  I love these non-traditional holiday colors, don't you?





This next card uses the Funky Flakes Fri-Dies and Snowy Sayings stamp set.





To make this card I started with a piece of 4 1/4 X 5 1/2" white card stock.  I removed the Funky Flakes Fri-Dies from their package but didn't cut them apart.  I placed the dies on the white card stock and cut, then moved them to another position and cut again.  I did this until I had cut snowflakes from the entire sheet.  Next I used the snowflake cut piece as a stencil.  I placed it on another piece of 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 white card stock and started coloring in the snowflakes with various distress inks and my ink blending tool.  The colors I used are Scattered Straw, Shaded Lilac, Cracked Pistachio, and Tattered Rose.  I used some post-it masking tape as I was ink blending, being careful to keep the colors separate.  For the next step I cut some more white snow flakes and placed them over the stenciled snowflakes, but askew so as not to cover up all that wonderful color.  At this point I decided to add some Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor over top of everything.  I used #95, silver, although to me it looks more like a sparkly white, or pearlescent color.  After that was completely dry I added some white snowflakes over some of the pearlescent snowflakes, but not all of them as you can see.  I finished the card with a sentiment from Snowy Sayings, stamped with VersaMark ink and embossed with liquid platinum embossing powder.

I hope those instructions are clear, and if not the next card might help you visualize things a bit better.  I really loved the way the stencil that I used for the above card looked with all of the pretty colors on it, so I decided I need to make a card with it!  It's bright and funky, but I really love it!





Yep, that is what the snowflake stencil looked like after I was done applying color to my second card.  The straight lines throughout are a result of the post-it tape that I used to protect the snowflakes as I was coloring.  To make this card I simply trimmed the "stencil" and placed it on a white card base.  I added some gold sequin trim, and stamped the sentiment from Snowy Sayings on some striped vellum and embossed in gold.  Funny how this was just a leftover scrap but it's my favorite card from today!

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for more fabulous holiday inspiration!


 

25 comments:

  1. Love these. I, too, love non-traditional colours for my Christmas cards (as you can see in my last post on my blog). I was especially intrigued by your last card. Really love the look of that one.

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  2. Such pretty color combos and cards!

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  3. Wow your cards are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
    Crafty hugs,
    Dawn
    DesignsByDragonfly.blogspot.com

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  4. Fantastic cards Diane. I love the soft color choices you made. I think my favorite is the card you made from the dies before you cut them apart. Great idea :)

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  5. You've used these new products perfectly on all these card. Each one is a work of art...and clever you, using both the positive and negative of those dies. You're an amazing talent.

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  6. Gorgeous colors on these beautiful cards!

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  7. The cards are beautiful.
    Love the stenciling. Hadn't tried
    spraying water on my inked stamps - have
    to put that idea to use.
    thanks for tips on some new techniques.

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  8. Absolutely gorgeous snowflake cards and I love the color choices.

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  9. Oh wow! Such amazing release!!! Your snowflake cards are breathless!!!

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  10. Beautiful cards! I also love your "stencil" card! I love these snowflakes!

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  11. WOW Diane, these are fantastic. Very clever! TFS!

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  12. I love your use of pastel colors on these cards!

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  13. What amazing cards!! I LOVE the colors you used for each. That stencil card at the bottom is so cool!! I need to try this!

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  14. Beautiful cards Diane! Lovin' all the snowflakes!

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  15. Wow, fabulous snowflake designs! They all are so gorgeous and the colored stencil makes such a fun card. My favorite is the second one though. Love the soft colors, white snowflakes and that awesome sentiment!

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  16. Your various techniques result in a set of cards that are absolutely magical and gorgeous! Love your colour combinations...
    ~carol

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  17. I love the all but the last one is so fun...filled with colour and a touch of whimsy.
    TFS and hugs,
    Karen

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  18. Love these soft and pretty cards, gorgeous color combos!

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  19. Gorgeous work on
    this card. Loving
    the colors.
    Carla from Utah

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  20. Wow, I can't decide which card I like best - I love them all!

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