April Mid Month Reminder - CAS Watercolour and CAS Stencil

I'm here today with my April mid-month reminder cards for both CAS Watercolour and CAS Stencil!

I used the Exotic Tulip stamp set from Altenew which has 3 layers of stamps for each tulip - I just used one of the detail bud tulips and a stem here.  I mixed yellow water color paint with water and brushed it right on the stamp and stamped it 3 times using my Misti

Here I'm showing how I place the clean stem on the panel where I wanted it to stamp

And here I've brushed over the stem with watery green paint, which I then flipped the Misti cover over onto the card panel and pressed down.

 I added some white watercolor splatter and 3 Frosted Flower Sequins from Honey Bee Stamps and adhered the panel to a white card base..

Here is my reminder card for Cathy's challenge to use Gilding Flakes with Stencils.  I was so excited to learn ways to use Gilding Flakes this month!

Look at the gorgeous mix of colors in these Autumn Leaves Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes!

I used Matte Gel for the adhesive, spreading it over a panel of black card stock with a plastic palette knife.

I carefully removed the stencil from the panel- not wanting to disturb any of the gel.

 I waited just a couple of minutes before placing the panel onto a piece of computer paper inside a pizza box (to contain all the flying gilding flakes!) and covered the panel with Autumn Leaves Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes. 

 (if you wait too long, the gel will dry and the flakes won't adhere to it)

I laid another piece of computer paper over the panel and pressed down with my hand over the whole panel to press the flakes into the gel.  I removed the top piece of computer paper and left the panel to dry for several hours. (you can leave it over night)

I used a sponge to rub over the panel to remove the loose gilding flakes and was left with a beautiful panel of stenciled gilding!  You can really scrub with the sponge to get the flakes off the black spaces as the gilding is really stuck to the gel and won't get rubbed off.  I put the brushed off flakes back into the jar of Gilding Flakes to use again later. 

(Don't put any flakes that are sticky with adhesive back in the jar.)

I die cut the panel with an older Movers and Shapers Mini Cabinet Die from Tim Holtz.  I adhered the die cut piece to a black panel and cut around it leaving just a small edge of black showing.  I stenciled lightly on a white card base using Antique Linen Distress Ink through the same AALL and Create Stencil and adhered the gilded panel over the stenciling.  I gold embossed the sentiment on an MFT die cut sentiment strip and adhered that over the panel with foam dots.

 You have until 4/24 to link up your cards to either challenge - so please join us!

See the CAS Watercolour Challenge here.     See the CAS Stencil Challenge here.

I'm linking my tulip card to:

Seize the Birthday

The Card Concept

My tulip card is Clean and Simple

Inkspirational Challenge

The Flower Challenge

Watercolor Card
Stamps:  Exotic Tulips - Altenew, Sentiment Staples: Birthday - PTI
Paper: Water color paper - Canson, white - PTI
Ink:  Obsidian - Altenew
Accessories:  watercolor paints yellow, green and white


Happy Anniversary Card
Stamps:  Hero Arts
Paper:  True Black, Whi - PTI
Ink:  Versamark, Ranger Distress Antique Linen.
Accessories:  Stencil #58 Autour de Mwa - Aall and Create, Autumn Leaves Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes, 3D Matte Gel Transparent - Finibar/Art Basics, Movers and Shapers Mini Cabinet Die - Tim Holtz/Alterations, Sentiment Strip Dies - MFT, Gold Embossing Powder, foam dots, sponge.