Saturday, January 30, 2021

CAS #182 cards

 I am back!  I have been making a few cards for the clean and simple challenges- on and off- I had been posting to Instagram- but thought I would try to resurrect this blog!


    Here are a few cards I made-



Ink blending with Distress inks-  old wood mounted HA stamp.

Postage stamps-  Kaisercraft stamp- embossed with versamark/ black embossing powder; distress ink background.



Paw prints! Pretty simple- die cut the heart and used the background as a stencil to ink.



Ink and stamped background using distress inks- blocked off in strips. stamp is another old Hero Arts wood block mounted one.

So much of this is a learning process-  I scanned these cards- but wonder if I should have used a colored background.  Or, maybe photos would be better.  



I love this sentiment and image together- another old wood block mounted HA stamp; and HA sentiment. 


Last one-


Probably not so CAS- since I covered the background with color1- Used distress oxide inks- they blend so nicely!!

Have a good day- thanks for looking.  

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