Tag It on Less is More

This is at least the third version of this card!  I've changed the color, the embossing, some gold embellishment...and finally decided I was going to stop.  The tag was the one constant: it's cut from a piece of Brusho colored cardstock.  And I really wanted to use that butterfly.  The card began as a green one with some gold rubbed on the embossing.  Didn't work.  That piece was also cut with a fancy rectangle die.  Now I've settled on this autumn-toned card with dry embossing texture behind the tag for Less is More #382

CAS Watercolor

1. Must be CAS design (including open space) and follow challenge theme
2. The main part of your design must include watercolouring or a product that uses water. 

For this CAS Watercolor challenge, I used Brushos in turquoise and a lot of water to "watercolor" this design:  the flower image is an old SU! one, as is the "joy" sentiment.  The frame is a Rubbernecker design.  

February Love

Please follow the challenge rules:

1. Must be CAS design (including open space) and follow challenge theme
2. Must include watercolouring or any product that uses water.
3. Include link to challenge in your entry post
4. When linking to challenge, link to your entry post

This is a newer card challenge for me, and I love the idea of watercolor!  The month of February for CAS Watercolour features Love, so I dry embossed one layer, used Brushos and water on a strip of cardstock. which was then cut with Sizzix hearts.

Flower Challenge -- an older die or stamp

The newest card challenge for me is The Flower Challenge. For this particular challenge, I dug in the many drawers of floral stamps to find one of my most favorite:  the Impression Obsession "ruffled bloom."  I used Brushos in Brilliant Red, soaking the heat-embossed image on watercolor paper. The sentiment is from Stampabilities, stamped before the card was dry-embossed.  Challenge met.

Less is More with Turquoise and Lilac

Two of my favorite colors, turquoise and lilac, are the key to this week's Less is More challenge. After a few fumbles, I was able to achieve the color combo with Ken Oliver's Brushos and Liquid Metals.  The image is an old one I found buried in a drawer.

Less is More with a Flourish

Less is More is featuring flourishes this week.  It's a new year and it's a one-layer card with a flourish somewhere on it.    I do not do very well with one layer, so creating one is generally quite frustrating.  It was the same this time:  I made two different cards with gold-embossed flourishes but didn't like them.  Then I decided that I wanted to use my Brushos--another technique I struggle to use.  My first attempt went straight into the wastebasket.  My second one resulted in a rather interesting watercolor look, so I tried again on watercolor paper.  Then I pressed the card with an iron.  Finally, some color I could live with!  I flicked some Black Soot drops onto the completed surface.  The little flourish is from Inkadinkado and the sentiment from Hampton Art Stamps.