Hello, crafting friends!
While romping about in the countryside with Eva, I'm definitely seeing some beautiful coloured leaves swirling about and lots of bright berries too. Very inspiring for cards!
The panel on this card started off with the Birch Trees stencil from Funky Fossil. I held it over a scrap of card stock and used a pale orange alcohol marker to add colour. While the stencil was still in place, I over-stamped the colour with a tree from White Christmas (retired) by Stampin' Up.
When the stencil was removed I coloured the trees with alcohol markers and added detail with a black fineliner pen. Then came the fun! I chose some tiny leaves from an ancient Clearly Besotted set called Flower Arrangement and stamped them in gorgeous autumnal colours. When those were done, the panel was trimmed with a Heffy Doodles stitched rectangle die
I stamped a few more of the leaves directly onto the card base, using the panel as a guide. Then I stamped more of the leaves on scrap card, cut them out and popped them up for a bit of dimensional interest. The sentiment is from WPlus9's Strictly Sentiments 2, cut out with a stitched rectangle die.
EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD
So happy that this card was the Diamond Winner at Color My Heart Color Dare and a Librarian's Choice at The Library Challenge!
CHALLENGES
I was inspired by a few of the many autumn-themed challenges out there! The trees and falling leaves were from the Library Challenge's fabulous book cover; the colours from Color My Heart Color Dare's stunning inspiration graphic; I fell in love with the sketch from Fab Friday; and I made an autumnal scene as per this month's Autumn Glory theme at Stamping Sensations.
AND IN OTHER NEWS
The leaves are beginning to drop now, and some of the trees are looking very autumnal, but you can see from this photo taken this morning...
... that there's still a lot of green around. Eva, who was on Squirrel Patrol, had scampered on ahead and had disappeared around that corner; I called her and am delighted to report that her recall was absolutely spot on - which is quite impressive under the squirrelly circumstances!
You have created a very lovely card and using two of my favourite companies! Thanks for playing along with Color My Heart Color Dare. X
ReplyDeleteThis is just amazing - love all the details. I thought it was a paper at first until I read your description. Glad to see Eva is on the case of the squirrels - I need her here!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, Vicky. There's still a lot of green around up here too xoxo
ReplyDeleteWhat a stunning Autumn card design.
ReplyDeleteHugs Diane
Clever arrangement Vicky which makes for a lovely card. x
ReplyDeleteLove your fabulous autumnal colours,the leaves and stencilled background are gorgeous
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute design! Love the little leaves floating over the card front. Thanks for joining us at Fab Friday, hope to see you again soon!
ReplyDeleteWas dreading to read on to see who you were romping with, breathed a sigh of relief. Fabulous design, super colours and great dies and images.
ReplyDeleteKath x
Wow, Vicky, thanks so much for sharing your process - amazing results! Thanks so much for playing at Fab Friday!
ReplyDeleteAn inspired creation with all those lovely rustic colours Vicky. thanks so much for joining in with our 'Autumnal' theme at Stamping Sensations challenge.
ReplyDeleteB x
What an awesome autumnal card Vicky. LOVE how you stamped a few leaves outside the edges of the focal point. Superb.
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Wow ~ What a perfect fall card ~ So many bright colors and layers of design. I really like the way you stamped some leaves directly on the card and had some pop and swirl around the sentiment. Eva is in her element amongst the leaves and furry creatures ~ Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI love how you layered all the different elements and colors on your main panel! Very pretty scene! Thanks for sharing at Fab Friday!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful, Vicky! I feel like I've taken a walk in the Autumn woods! Not much color here yet.
ReplyDeleteReally like how you created this lovely card. Thanks for joining Stamping Sensations. Anesha
ReplyDeleteStunning card Vicky, gorgeous colouring of the stencil, gorgeous colours also. You have a well trained dog, wish others were. Our old Jess was the same it makes things so much easier to go out with them and enjoy them too.
ReplyDeleteFaith x
Wow I LOVE your card! I like the perspective of the trees and the colorful leaves you added. Thanks for sharing at Color Dare.
ReplyDeleteOMG...Gorgeous birch tree and Autumn leaves card design, Vicky. I thought the background for your stamped leaves might be a beautiful designer paper...actually it was a beautiful designer background...by you! TFS your woods that you and Eva walked in too:-) Our leaves are falling too. I do love Fall:-) TFS Love and Hugs...Nancy
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful card - I read your process avidly as I do love the layered effect you've achieved. (May have to get that stencil!) Thanks for joining The Library.
ReplyDeleteThis is just lovely Vicky - so much depth and interest to those trees and the colourful falling leaves are fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI really like the trees and the stitched edges. Thank you for joining us at Colour Dare Challenge, I hope you can join us again soon.
ReplyDeleteThis has been featured as a ‘Librarian’s Choice’. Thank you for sharing it at The Library.
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