Mid Month Reminder - August CAS Christmas Card Challenge - 12 Days of Christmas

I'm here today with my Mid Month Reminder for the August CAS Christmas Card Challenge.

I used a different stamp from the same stamp set as my first challenge card -  another partridge in a pear tree design from the retired set Scandi Doodle Christmas by Waltzingmouse. 

I gold embossed the image onto watercolor paper cut with a Stitched Mats Circles die from Lil Inker Designs and then water colored it with my Kuretake paints. It's so easy to watercolor when an image is embossed - the paint stays inside the embossed 'lines' as long as you don't have too much water on your brush!

I layered  the circle to a Nordic Frame from the Greetery and then onto a white card base.

We hope you will join us at CAS Christmas Card Challenge -  you can link up your card through August 24th!

I'm also linking my card to:

Jingle Belles: Cardstock Christmas

Christmas Crafts All Year Round

Use Fall Colors

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

Anything Goes

 

Stamps:  Scandi Doodle Christmas - Waltzingmouse (retired)

Paper:  white - PTI, Watercolor paper - Canson.

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Stitched Mats Circles Dies - Lil Inker Designs, Nordic Frames - The Greetery, Kurtake Water Color Paints, paint brush, water, Gold Embossing Powder - Ranger.

A Neutral Thanks

Karen's color challenge this week over on Split Coast was to use only neutrals - white or ivory - well I couldn't decide so I used both!

 To set off the neutrals I used a lot of texture - the embossed background, the Tim Holtz Alterations wreath die and the wonderful L'll Inker Designs bow die. I bought the bow die SO long ago and never used it (I'm saying that a LOT lately!) and decided now was the time to get it out! and I just love it - what a great bow it makes and it's SO simple! 

The Thanks is from Waltzingmouse.  It's nice to have winter Thank You's on hand!
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Stamps: thanks from Dainty Doilies Large set - Waltzingmouse

Paper: white, vintage cream - PTI

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: glue dots, foam tape, L'il Inker Designs Small Bow Die, Holiday Wreath - Tim Holtz Alterations, square lattice embossing folder - SU