Maple Symphony

Happy Monday! Today I'm up at Poppystamps with my first fall card of the season! I love leaf stamps and dies especially when I can ink them up in colourful Distress Inks!

For all the details on this card please stop by the Poppystamps blog here!

Wishing you a great week!

Fall Leaves

I just had to make one more card for the Simon Says Stamp Tic Tac Toe Flickr Challenge because I wanted to get inky with some stamped leaves.

Here's the Tic Tac Toe Board.  I chose the line on the right with leaves, embossing and glitter.

I used Hero Arts Scattering Leaves stamps and Distress Inks to create the background.  The thanks is from a Simon Says Stamp die and I glittered it with Glitter Ritz in Poppy Orange.  I used three dies from the SSS Frames set for all the white die cuts and ran the rectangle piece through my Vagabond with the Cuttlebug Forest Branch embossing folder.

There's a new Clean and Simple Challenge on Virginia's View Challenge and I have debated on whether or not this card qualifies as CAS.  The background is a little busy but I do have a lot of white space so I will enter and Virginia can decide if it falls under CAS.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you get a chance to get a little inky today!

Leafy Gratitude

Another card using Penny Black's Tweet Tweet stamp set.  There's so many great images in this set.

For this card I used the leafy stamp on vellum.  I inked up the image with three different ink colours and created a border and added a swirly sentiment.  For some added texture I used Stampin Up's Square Lattice Embossing Folder on the card base.  It really adds some great texture to the card but of course getting a decent picture of that was next to impossible.

This photo shows the texture a bit better, though the photo quality is poor.

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Kraft On

I have a couple of cards to share with you today. The first one is for CAS-ual Fridays Kraft On Challenge.

I punched out a bunch of butterflies from kraft card stock and adhered it to a kraft card base. For the coloured butterflies I inked up some glossy card stock with alcohol inks in shades of blue and added a bit of shimmer with some mixatives and the sentiment was stamped on vellum.

My next card is for the Simon Says Autumn Leaves Challenge.

This card has a white card base with a white vellum overlay that is attached to the card base with just the twine. The leaves were inked with Distress Inks and stamped onto the vellum and I used a die to emboss a frame around the sentiment.

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Leaves

I like this time of year, it lets me indulge in one of my favourite obsessions...leaves. In particular, fall leaves in all their glorious colour.  I could spend hours inking up leaf stamps with Distress Inks, spritzing them with water and stamping them on watercolour paper and that's pretty much what I did yesterday.

With so many inky leaves I just had to make another card.

 But I made a couple of small changes in the second design.

Well it seemed only right to add another one into the mix.

Then I thought a fourth card would make this a great gift set and I forced myself to stop there  : )  but I could have made more...

What I love about this is that no two leaves are ever the same just like in nature...sigh.

Each card is a little different from the others.  Some have distressing, one has deckled edges, the brads and sentiments vary but they all have sparkly Glitter Ritz strips which are just so pretty.  I wish it showed up better in the photos.

I'm entering these cards over at the Hero Arts September Challenge and over at Moxie Fab Worlds Repetition Challenge. There's still lots of time to enter a project for each challenge.

Wishing you an inky day!

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