Hi everyone, I was so excited to be asked to play along at AAA Cards as guest designer this week!
I love CAS cards, although I do like to dabble in mixed media and messy techniques lol!
The theme is Christmas, so it's the perfect opportunity to build up your stash.
I must say a big thank you to Jane for helping me with the technology,
as I'm a bit of a technophobe!
It's been quite a while since I made some metallic embossed ornaments, coloured with alcohol inks. The last ones were quite small and since then I've managed to buy some larger ornament dies (2nd hand SU) and I think they'll work well hanging on a Christmas tree!
I diecut the adhesive backed metal sheet, then ran it through my cuttlebug with a flourish embossing folder.
Then the fun began with pouring on some alcohol inks, stream, wild plum and citrus. I love how the inks blend to create new colours.
Once I was happy with the coverage I painted on a coat of glossy accents to seal in the colours.
I diecut some black card as a backing layer to give the ornament a neat finish when it's hanging on the tree.
I'm also linking up to the let it shine challenge at Less Is More.
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and to the CAS challenge at Addicted to Stamps & More,
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also the challenge at Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge, where it's a christmas theme,
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and to Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies challenge.
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also the challenge at Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge, where it's a christmas theme,
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl1NGHnuTZIUOo_sN3qrIs49UwXOa1N_dkbCyHSq-9bAYzSLIB3NYsxCvCs2ykVhkiIZ1hPyUDJivr18ej95WRwJHAZz4BHdmMW6JxmJpzacvXiHDXPdwo1uiuuugvdWyVDaSdgIHJsCg/s200/CAS+November.png)
and to Happy Little Stampers anything goes with dies challenge.
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Supplies:
Stampin Up delicate ornaments thinlits; Quikcutz metal sheet; Kaisercraft flourish embossing folder; Ranger alcohol inks; silver paper; sentiment sticker; silver cord; glossy accents.
Thanks for visiting,
Cathy x