Sadly, the school holidays are drawing to a close. They always go so quickly! Ada and I went to see the new Mamma Mia movie tonight, and we both loved it. There may have been a few tears shed! I resisted the urge to sing along - I'll save that for the DVD! - but I came home in a great mood, so I decided to take advantage by making a card for the latest CASEing the Catty challenge. This week it's the Holiday section of the Annual Catalogue. I have yet to start my Christmas cards, so this was a great opportunity.
The card I CASEd is on page 101 of the catalogue. It's one of those eye catching, WOW! cards that I've been dying to try since I first laid eyes on it. I'm hoping I did it justice, as it really is an amazing card.
I started by sponging Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and Blueberry Bushel ink on water colour paper and then spritzing with water. You can see the green layer where the colours ran together, but it's also on the catalogue card, so I didn't try to 'fix' it. After it dried I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment, moon and stars. I had to curve the sentiment on the block a little, as it was a tight squeeze when it was straight.
The houses were cut from Silver Foil paper - it's the devil to photograph without any reflections, but it looks amazing on any card. I couldn't quite work out how the SU Concept Artist had cut their front layer, as it didn't match any of the dies in the set. It must have been some fancy Big Shot trick, but far to tricky for me to work out at 9PM on a Sunday! The row of houses works well enough. It's popped up on Dimensionals to give the card some depth.
The piece I'd originally cut from the front didn't have enough length on the bottom, so I put it to work on the inside. I sponged the same colours on some Whisper White card stock, spritzed and dried the piece. The technique doesn't work as well as it does on watercolour paper, but it's good enough for my purposes.
So now I can say I've started my 2018 Christmas cards. Who knows when I'll make more, but at least I have one in my stash now!!
Bye for now,
Tina
Tina you definitely did the CASE justice and absolutely a WOW card. I think I would agree not a card for mass production. I recently saw the Mumma Mia movie but sang along, bit too loudly though, not to embarrass my son's wife who I went with. I cried at the baptism scene. Xx
ReplyDeleteI cried like a baby! So sad, but so beautiful.
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