CASology!

I knew exactly what stamp set I was going to use for this challlenge!!!  Go check out Snapping Monsters, and after you are done "oohing" and "ahhing" over her stuff, click on the link to her Etsy shop.  Hope she still has some of her stamps in stock!

Anyway, here is the little card set I came up with for the current CASology challenge:

Warm.

Cool.

All together now...

This is the first card I made in this sitting.  I scribbled and I liked it, but then I added water to fill in the palette spots and actually don't like it as much as when the crayons just showed the texture of the paper.  

Here's the CASology graphic:

Supplies and notes:

• Andrea's stamps inked with Ranger Archival in Jet Black
• All Distress Crayons having color (i.e. not the Vintage pack)
• The paper is letterpress paper.  It feels like watercolor paper, but the fibers are not as bonded together-- it's a little softer, if you will.  Think about what letterpress paper would be like...
• The yarn on the two hemi-palette cards is from a purchase from Andrea's shop!  She was very generous with her wrapping, and I probably had 2/3 yard, but it is now gone.  Thanks!

Here are som efun pix of the process:

This is how I laid out my colors.  It looked so cool that I snapped a pic.

This image shows my first attempt prior to adding water.  I liked it like this, but imagine the possibilities!  Paints, pens, inks...

The stamp set itself is awesome... I've used it a lot, and it has provided much art-therapy!  Here are some cool pix of a cool play-date I had with them weeks ago:

Indescribably beautiful!

DI... mo' betterness...

Does anyone remember the first Batman movie with the Penguin (Danny DeVito), when he taped together all of those shredded documents?  I remember.  That's how I feel looking at this: like the little fat Penguin on Batman.

OMG, how cool is this???

If you'll notice the color wheel in mid-upper right, you'll see that I painted and individually cut the colors from the first picture, which is how I ended up with the stencil in the third picture... what a bonus bi-product!