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Happy Thursday ...... This week is flying by ..... and surprisingly, I've managed to blog everyday in December so far .... whoo hoo!!  We're only six days in I know ..... can I keep it up all month? ....... I doubt that very much.   Lets see how far I get shall we. Today I'm playing along with this month's CAS Mix Up Challenge  .....   and yes, I'm still making Christmas cards! The theme this month is Emboss Resist ...... one of my favourite techniques and I've teamed it up here with Brushos I started out by stamping the snowflakes onto white cardstock.  I used a blue ink and a silver and heat embossed both with a clear powder, so that the colours wouldn't run when I spritzed with water later The larger snowflakes were stamped using Versamark and then heat embossed in white.  I added the sentiment onto the bottom and heat embossed that in silver. Now for the fun bit ....... I sprinkled Cobalt Blue and Turquoise Brushos onto the card, keeping the powder...

Happy Wednesday ....... It is Wednesday isn't it ........ I never know what day of the week it is after we've had a Bank Holiday! It's full steam ahead in the craft room too ...... talk about multi-tasking!  I'm trying to get things finished before the weekend.  I'm off on my little trip across on Saturday, for the Happy Stampers Festival at Port Sunlight and I need to take some stuff with me. It'll be a long day ..... but so worth it! Last weekend we had our monthly crafty get together. We had a lovely day ..... we spent most of it chatting, mainly about what we're all going to be buying at Port Sunlight!! We did manage to get some cards done though.  Here's a quick look at what we were doing ...... We were playing around with a faux bleached look .... using Distress Inks and Distress Oxides and plain old clean water. You know, I never get fed up with how these inks react with water, and depending on what cardstock you use the effects can be quite diffe...