The Still Woods

Hello!  Diana here with a very fall card for this week's Colors of Fall challenge. The best thing about fall are the gorgeous colors (and warm drinks, sweaters, cool air, apple picking). Yep, I love fall.

To make my fall color card, I started with the Memory Box Garden Birch Trees stencil taped to white card stock. I then masked off a curved piece of copy paper and sponged in some hills. I then sponged the rest of the card with Squeezed Lemonade. 

Next, I covered the hills and misted my paper with a Spritzer Bottle. I then added my color bursts Alizarin Crimson, Orange, Lemon Yellow, Pthalo Green.

So that it would look like individual leaves, I did not squeeze my bottles but just shook it out onto my stenciled paper. I wanted individual drops of color and not too much blending. Because I had already sponged the background yellow, I wasn't worried about covering up any white with the color bursts.

I then cut out the birch scene with Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A, and then also some green card stock with the largest die, to have a double mat against my Kraft base layer.

Though I hesitated to cover up my background, I did just enough to be able to see that it was a wooded background. I used two of the dies from the ODBD Vintage Flourish Pattern for my focal point.

By using Vellum as one of my matting layers, I was able to have a mat for my Scripture stamp, and yet still see my background. The verse was done with White Detail embossing powder and then I added a twine bow.

Thank you so much for looking and I hope you get a chance to play along!

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Thanks for stopping by!!! Until next time...

Memory Box stencils, Garden Birch Trees	Squeezed Lemonade Distress Stain	TS, Spritzer Bottle	Alizarin Crimson Color Burst by Ken Oliver
Orange Color Burst by Ken Oliver	Lemon Yellow Color Burst by Ken Oliver	Pthalo Green Color Burst by Ken Oliver	Spellbinders dies, A2 Matting Basics A
Our Daily Bread Designs dies, Vintage Flourish Pattern	SNS embossing powder, White detail	Heavyweight Vellum

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Up Up and Away

Hi!  Diana here to share with you my take on this week's Purple Challenge at CCNS.  I don't think I would have ever tried making a bike purple until this challenge but I'm pleased with how this card turned out.

I first used the Memory Box Brand New Bicycle on a lavender foil sheet from Spellbinders Jewel Tones foil pack. When cutting out these foil sheets and the die is intricate, I first glue the sheet down to white card stock. I find that this gives the foil more weight and is less likely to bend or wrinkle when removing from the die. I also die cut seven balloons from a light purple card stock using the balloon die from Our Daily Bread Designs' Happy Birthday set. To add dimension to the balloons, I sponged Shaded Lilac around the edges of the balloons and added a bit of white with a white gel pen. To make my background, I used the large stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things' Blueprint 13 and sponged Broken China over masked clouds to create my sky scene. Before adhering the balloons and after the gluing the bike down, I used a ruler and a black Micron Pen to draw 7 lines up from the bike. The balloons were glued on and the last two were popped up with small Joy! foam pads. I stamped the sentiment in black pigment ink and clear embossed.

Thank you so much for looking and hope you can play along. I would love to see your take on this week's challenge!

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Thanks for stopping by!!!   Until next time...

Brand New Bicycle	Happy Birthday by Our Daily Bread Designs	My Favorite Things dies, Blueprints 13	Jewel Tones Assortment Craft Foil by Spellbinders
Tim Holtz Ink Stain, Shaded Lilac	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Sprays, Broken China	SNS embossing powder, Clear detail	Joy! Foam Pads Small

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