Challenges at ATCAS and LIM

A little late this week but here are my cards for Less is More challenge week #169  with a sketch and Addicted to CAS challenge #37 with the code word 'Grunge'.  Firstly here is the sketch:

and my first card adheres pretty strictly to the sketch I think.  I made a circle from gold twine, added a die cut scroll, after sponging the background area using a Memory Box border die as the stencil, then overstamping with circles from Stampin' Up! Happy Watercolour to accentuate the circles - and to meet the 'grunge' criteria.  I also stamped the lines from Gorgeous Grunge by SU, after stamping off first.  The sentiment comes from another SU set, from their Sale-a-Bration catalogue, called See Ya Later.  I just masked off the clouds and raindrops above the words. and the line below, to keep the sentiment simple.

After I had made this card I kept having a rainbow in mind, with it being an arc of a circle - a bit of a stretch maybe, but I'm giving it a go.  The clouds at the sides echo the sketch,  and I used the same sentiment as before.  Puddle splats from the Gorgeous Grunge SU stamp set provide the grunge element here.  I adhered the raindrops from a Sweet 'n Sassy die set which included the clouds, and coated the drops with Glossy Accents.