CAS Watercolour Card Challenge - hello

CAS Watercolour Card Challenge is celebrating their 1st birthday. 
Happy happy 1st birthday to the wonderful hosts, Bonnie and Loll, the inspiring Design Team, and the guest designers for the year!

I always appreciate their dedication to the challenge - organizing a fun and stimulating challenge every month, sharing with us their inspiring cards twice a month or more, and writing sweet and encouraging comments on entries, etc.
It takes me almost a whole weekend just to make a card or two, take pictures of them, and write posts (even though I enjoy doing it). So I can't imagine how much time and energy they spend on running the challenge. 
Thank you so much for your wonderful work, Loll, Bonnie, Nancy, Susan, Karen, and Christine! 


Here's a card I made for the CAS Watercolour October Challenge today.

The challenge theme is fall leaves.

When I looked at Susan's beautiful card on the challenge site, I thought I wanted to try the technique she used -  dabbing inks onto the stamps, then spritzing with water before stamping onto watercolour paper. Thank you, Susan, for the inspiration!
I really liked how the impressions turned out. Dabbing inks and spritzing water before stamping added more interest and depth to the impressions.
 

I used the Pop-Up Die Cutting technique (I don't know what it's officially called.) for the sentiment. I die cut the sentiment from the stamped watercolor paper, and also die cut 4 sentiments from dark brown cardstock. I layered the 4 brown sentiments under the watercolor one, and popped it back onto the open sentiment space.

Thanks for dropping by!


Stamp: French Foliage (Stampin' Up!)
Paper: Canson Watercolor Paper (140 lb), Early Espresso (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Distress Ink (Ranger - Fossilized Amber, Crushed Olive, Mowed Lawn, Blueprint Sketch)
Accessories: Die-namics A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX (My Favorite Things), Hello Honey Cuts (Honey Bee Stamps), Perfect Pearls (Ranger - Copper, Bronze)