CASology Week #353--FEATHER

Talk about under the wire. I had my CASology entry ready to go but totally

forgot to write up the blog post. Duh! So it's less than a day until the deadline

and here we go...

Ah, feathers. I love them almost as much as leaves. I've done a few feathery cards

in the past but it's my first time using this Spellbinders feather.

I was going for a peacock feather and you should have seen the attempts

that ended up in the trash. "What are those big, black dots???" So I went with

an ombré feather with gold spatters. A Gina K Designs sentiment completes 

the card. Oh, and a rounded bottom corner.

And now I'm off to link this up. Thanks for stopping by!

Spellbinders Great, Big, Wonderful World Collection

My friends at Spellbinders sent me a die from their Great, Big, Wonderful World

Collection by Sharyn Sowell to play with. I gasped when I saw this die called

Peace Begins Here. It's huge! And beautiful. And did I mention HUGE?

Here's my larger than normal sized card I created with the die.

 I began by die cutting the image from watercolor card stock and purposely did not use a

shim because I wanted the pieces to stay as intact as possible for watercoloring. I wet the

entire piece with clean water, then used my Gambi Tansi watercolors and dropped 

color over the piece, letting it blend on its own and not being overly concerned about

the messy look. 

After it dried, I placed the die back on the piece and used a shim to cut out the image.

I planned to adhere it to a kraft card base, but didn't want to fuss with dimensional 

adhesive on the back. I die cut another piece from 65# card stock and adhered it 

to the back, then popped up the piece on the kraft card base with a spray

adhesive. I really like the subtle dimension from the lightweight card stock.

Sharyn Sowell's new collection of dies have a wonderful, homespun feel to them
that remind me of the art of paper cutting--so intricately beautiful.
Visit Spellbinders to see more of Sharyn Sowell's amazing collection of dies!