My card here won a challenge at the CAS Mix-up Challenge in October, and I was asked if I'd like to be a Guest Designer for the first post of 2022. Of course, there was no hesitation before saying yes! I was thrilled to be asked.
Each challenge at CAS Mix-up involves some kind of mixed media and/or a technique. The challenge this round is "Loose Watercoloring." If you know me well, "loose" isn't something you'd typically associate with my card making. Luckily, however, the hosts of CAS Mix-up always include links to a variety of ways you might complete the challenge.
I definitely took advantage and watched all the videos for this technique. I tried three different takes on loose watercoloring, and ended up with this which I like quite a bit. It's a much quicker method of watercoloring, and yet allows you to stay CAS - another requirement for the challenge.
I embossed one of the images from Honey Bee's "Winter Anemone" in gold on Altenew's Watercolor paper. I added a heavy wash of clean water over the entire image, and then dropped in some pink and green watercolors from the Altenew 36 Pan Watercolor set and set it aside to dry.
I went back in with some more watercolor to brighten them, and then die cut the image. You can see that there's no need to worry about staying inside the lines with this technique.
I layered the floral on an oval die cut with Ellen Hustson's "Essential Ovals" die, and dry embossed five lines on the card before adhering the floral with some dimensional tape. The sentiment from Pink and Main's "Special Day" was embossed on black and trimmed out.
Please go take a look at what the designers at CAS Mix-Up have to show you It's sure to be a lovely gallery with lots of wonderful takes on this technique.