CAS Mix Up January's Monthly Picks

It's been another successful month at CAS Mix Up with lots of amazing entries!  We appreciate you taking the time to share your creativeness with us.  Thank you!

Below are just a few of the outstanding entries from this month, along with our "Pick of the Month".  We hope you enjoyed playing along and that you'll come join us again for a new challenge in February.

Our Top Pick for January

Marcia

We loved the gorgeous alcohol ink pinks against the stark white of the fuchsia die cut.
And those stacked hearts make the perfect background!
What a wonderful mix of media using liquid color, while still keeping true to the CAS style!

Congratulations, Marcia
Make sure to grab the "Top Pick" badge below.

And more Outstanding Designs

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Congratulations to Linda, Maura, Viv, Jenny, Rahmat, Nance, Sue, Maria F., and Bobby!

Make sure to grab your badge below.

February's challenge starts in a few days.  See you on February 1st!

CAS Mix Up January Reminder

We're already half way through January!!  We hope you are having a great month!  Just a reminder that our challenge runs until January 24th.  If you haven't had a chance to play yet, there's still time and we'd love to see you in our gallery.  And we want to thank those of you have already played.  Lots of amazing cards have been entered!

We are defining liquid colors as any color medium that comes in liquid form.  It can be Alcohol inks, Re-inkers, Stains, Paints, Sprays etc.  Use an old favorite liquid medium or try something new. 
Mainly, have fun with it!

January - Liquid Colours videos:  

Alcohol Inks with Yupo Paper by Loll Thompson (5:49)
Tim Holtz Distress Stains by Joggles (8:35)
Watercolor with Re-inkers by Kristina Werner (8:01)
Distress Paints by Kristina Werner (6:36)
Baby Wipe Technique by Beate/Splitcoast Stampers (2:23)
Baby Wipe Stripe Technique by Beate/Splitcoast Stampers (2:34)

Please only enter Clean and Simple Mixed Media cards 

and please follow the challenge carefully.

Thank you.

More samples from DT

Bonnie
(Host)

Using Stamping, Alcohol Ink and Acrylic Paint (as my liquid color), Stenciling, Die Cutting, Splattering and Heat Embossing

Loll

Using stamps, Shaving Cream Marbling with Re-inkers (Liquid Colours), Die-cuts, and Shaping

Nancy

Stamping, Distress Ink Refills Liquid Colours, Die Cuts

Susan

Using Stamping, Sprays, Heat Embossing, and Die Cutting

Julia

Using re-inkers and rubbing alcohol on Ranger Specialty Stamping paper, stamping, paper piecing and rhinestones.

Joanna

Using Alcohol Inks (Adirondack), 90% rubbing alcohol Splatters, Stamping, Heat embossing

Challenge is open until the 24th.

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CAS Mix Up January Challenge

Happy New Year!  Thanks to all of you who participated in our challenge last year.  We hope to see more of your wonderful creations in 2017!

Thanks to all that entered last month's sponging challenge.  Julie B. was our top pick for the December Challenge.  She designed this amazing card!

You can see all the gorgeous cards from last month's challenge on our December Pinterest Page.


On to this month's challenge ...this month I'm the hostess.

We are defining liquid colors as any color medium that comes in liquid form.  It can be Alcohol inks, Re-inkers, Stains, Paints, Sprays etc.  

Use an old favorite liquid medium or try something new. Mainly, have fun with it!

Please enter only Clean and Simple Mixed Media cards.
Thank you!!

Welcome Trina (My Crafting Closet) as this month's Guest Designer.  She won our November masking challenge  with this beautiful card.

Our sample cards for this month...

Trina

(Guest Designer)

Using Stamping, Re-inker Spread, Heat Embossing, Fussy Cutting, Die Cutting and Splatters

Bonnie

(Host)

Using Stamping, Distress Stains, Acrylic Paint, Die Cutting, and Embossing Paste with Stencil.

Loll

Using Liquid Colours (Ranger Alcohol Inks), Floating Alcohol Ink Technique,
Inlaid Die-cutting, stamping

Nancy

Using Stamping, Alcohol Inks on Yupo Paper, Die Cuts and sequins

Susan

Using Alcohol Inks on Yupo, Stamping, and Die Cut

Julia

Using Stamps, Alcohol Inks on Yupo, die cut and sequins.

Joanna

Liquid colours (Winsor Inks), stamping, die cut, vellum & heat embossing

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We are also providing a few YouTube videos for you to watch if you'd like.

January - Liquid Colours videos:  

Alcohol Inks with Yupo Paper by Loll Thompson (5:49)
Tim Holtz Distress Stains by Joggles (8:35)
Watercolor with Re-inkers by Kristina Werner (8:01)
Distress Paints by Kristina Werner (6:36)
Baby Wipe Technique by Beate/Splitcoast Stampers (2:23)

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- Challenge open until 24th.

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