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All is Calm, All is Bright

31 Jan

Good morning!  I spent the weekend organizing and sorting my stamps and set aside a few sets that I’ve owned for awhile but never got around to using!  My goal is to use all of the stamp sets in that pile at least once this year!  So the set at the top of the stack was Neat and Tangled Scandinavian Prints and I had a few minutes yesterday for some CAS watercoloring!

All is Calm All is Bright by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Simon Says Stamp

I love those trees…lots of fun patterns, shapes, and sizes!  I wanted to keep the watercoloring loose and relaxed.  I stamped the trees with versamark and heat-embossed them with white embossing powder on watercolor paper.  Then I used my Gansai Tambi watercolors to color each tree with a different shade of green.  While it dried I adhered gold glitter paper to my card base and trimmed down the watercolor panel.  Finally I stamped the sentiment with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder.  Easy peasy! 😉  And I really love those trees…I envision a set of those cards with various colors…pink or purple trees would be awesome!

All is Calm All is Bright by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Simon Says Stamp

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to make and share more of my daily cards that I create but often forget to share on my blog or social media.  I hope that you enjoy them, too!  Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

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Neat and Tangled SCANDINAVIAN PRINTS CHRISTMAS Clear Stamp Set
Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 COLOR SET
Silver BLACK VELVET Brush Size 4 Round 300541
Tim Holtz Idea-ology DECO SHEETS TH93219
Arches HOT PRESSED WATERCOLOR PAD 9×12 inches 012890
EK Success POWDER TOOL Applicator 54-04002
Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001
Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER GOLD Ultrafine Detail GoldEP4
Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER WHITE Fine Detail WhiteEP2
Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200 Wagner
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kuretake gansai tambi, neat and tangled

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  1. mjmarmo says

    January 31, 2017 at 9:45 am

    THese are beautiful!

    Reply
  2. conil says

    January 31, 2017 at 10:52 am

    I love this CAS card.

    Reply
  3. Michele F says

    January 31, 2017 at 11:33 am

    This is fabulous, Jess … and I like your idea for using those unused sets! sadly, I have a few, too!
    =]

    Reply
  4. Celeste Goff says

    January 31, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    What a beautiful clean and simple card Jess!

    Reply
  5. Samantha Johnson says

    January 31, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    I really like this, the watercoloring really looks great with this set.

    Reply
  6. Miriam Prantner says

    February 3, 2017 at 11:15 am

    Love this! Such a wonderful CAS card and I love that big of sparkly behind!

    Reply

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