Happy Little Stampers November 2017 CAS Challenge

Good evening

I can't believe we're now into November and back with the new monthly challenges over at Happy Little Stampers!  Today marks the start of the November CAS Challenge and it's a pretty easy one this month...

and fabulous for me as it means I've got a another Christmas card in the bag!  Don't forget that if you play along you could be in with a chance of winning a $20 gift coupon to the HLS store, here.

And I'm also getting really excited as in just over a week I'll be off to the Happy Little Stampers Craft Retreat organised by my fab HLS Boss Lady, Kylie.  I'm also looking forward to meeting up with some lovely ladies I met last year, and meeting more online buddies for the first time.  

Ok back to the challenge, here's my DT card...

I started with a piece of standard copier paper, folded it in half and drew and cut out a bauble shape to use as a mask.  I placed the negative space over the edge of my card base, used a circle die cut from a post-it note to mask the moon and then blended the sky and snow banks with Distress Inks, using curved pieces of paper as masks as I travelled down the card.  With the last snow bank mask still in place I stamped the tree in black ink.  All that was then left to do was stamp the bow and string, and the sentiment in the same black ink.  And although this looks quite complicated, it took me about 20 minutes from start to finish!

Materials used:

• Ink: Distress Ink - Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserves, Black Soot; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Stamps: Card-io - Vintage Christmas (tree); Uniko - Christmas Sparkle (bow and string); Happy Little Stampers - Christmas Joy (sentiment)

Edited to add:

I've had such a great reaction to this card here, and on Instagram, so I'm offering my card up to participants to CASE over at Chasing Holiday Mojo with Sweet Kobylkin.  Can't wait to see if you give this technique a go. CASE away :) x

Challenge entries:

AAA Cards - CAS Game #102 - Ink Blending
Crimbo Crackers - Challenge #144 - Quick and Easy
Daring Cardmakers - Blended Backgrounds





So, why not use this as a chance to get another Christmas card or ten made!  You have until the end of the month to play along and can enter as many times as you wish, just remember to keep your projects clean and simple.

And don't forget the numerous other monthly challenges which run each month, these will all be kicking off over the next few days.

Thanks so much for visiting today.