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For today’s Color Challenge (CC759) on Splitcoast, the colors are mango, rose & pear. To be honest, these colors are not on my go to list & I don’t have these colors, so I came as close as I could. 

For my card, I first inked a craft sheet w/ distress oxide inks, misted then pressed my paper to it. After I dried it, the leaves were stamped, masking as I went. I pressed some mini Distress inks to a solid version of the leaf, spritzed it then stamped it inside the outline leaves. It still didn’t look right, so I used a paintbrush & some embossing ink & painted inside the leaves & clear embossed them to make them stand out a bit more. The green pear top layer was die cut & the window was cut using my resizing technique to make it longer than a std rect. The 3 little leaves are from a couple of small punches. The fall part of the greeting was stamped & the hello is a double stacked die cut. 

Here’s the inside: 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Open Leaf 584D	Fall Leaf w Acorn 471F	Med. Silhouette Leaf 701D	Goodbye Summer 350F 207G	Hayrides Harvest 624H
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Versafine Clair ink
AC color card stock	Ranger Embossing Powder	Distress Inks	Distress Oxide Inks	Inkssentials Craft Sheet
MFT Hello & Thanks dies	Sm. Pumpkin/Leaf punches EK Success

For the Inspiration Challenge (IC721), we have Flags on a Stick. They have some really fun, really nice flags & for my card, I was inspired by THIS Halloween flag. I thought the decorated birdhouses were really cute.

For my Halloween card, I die cut the houses & ghosts out of white, the tree, crows & fence out of black & the tiny pumpkin out of orange. To me it seemed simpler to cut the houses in white & color them instead of cutting a bunch out of different colored paper. The die I used for the birdhouses is actually one multilevel roofline spooky house. I cut it out twice then cut apart the house to make my 3 birdhouses. On the yellow one, I colored the stars thru a stencil.  I used a 3/8″ circle punch for the holes, colored them black & put them back in. Then I just put all the pieces together on a white front where I had already stamped the greeting frame.

Here are the Copics (& 1 orange Tombow) I used. This may be the first time I’ve used that black Copic!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Happy Halloween Frame 1067	RN Bats & Spiderwebs die 5216-01D	RN Spooky House die 5216-05D	RN Wrought Iron Fence die 5215-07D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Spooky Tree die 5216-06D	RN Scarecrow die 5216-04D	RN Ghosts die 5216-02D	RN Pumpkins & Ivy die 5215-05D	RN Stars Stencil 4006
Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	AC color card stock	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Tombow Markers

It’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge (FS658) this week, so a big congrats to Laura! After much browsing, I chose THIS card to case. I kept the layout, but flipped it & used die cuts instead of stamps on mine.

For my autumn card, I die cut all the scarecrow pieces out of different colors, added a bit of shading w/ some Prismacolor pencils & put them all together. I added a fence & some corn stalks. The greeting was stamped onto a shortened stitched pennant.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

RN Splatter Leaves 3019	RN Scarecrow die 5216-04D	RN Corn Stalks die 5215-03D	RN Picket Fence die 5152-01D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Nested Banner Stitch dies 5151D	Versafine Clair ink	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock
Prismacolor Pencils