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Autumn Pumpkins

Posted on August 30, 2016 9:44 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Today’s Color Challenge (CC598) is perfect for a fall card…cajun orange, curry yellow, chocolate & garden green. The dessert is to make a fall themed project.

For my autumn/Thanksgiving themed card, I started w/ the cute little pumpkins. Yeah, I know just stamping & coloring would be the normal way to go. Sigh…but I remembered seeing some pumpkins w/ another image on top & that stuck in my head. Once stuck, it’s there until I try it. So just in case you’re interested, here’s my practice sheet. I practice on copy paper all the time & usually save these for masks later on.

I did some doodling, masking, etc, but finally decided on masking the bottom & stamping the solid leaf (on the mid right) w/ brown ink on top of the pumpkin. After coloring a few to see how they’d look, I noticed that since it was copy paper, some of the color bled out when I added the shadow underneath & I liked it! It kind of looked like a reflection so I also tried to recreate that on the “good” version (upper left, above the watermark). The brown stamped leaf on the top of the pumpkin didn’t work out so well, so I went over it w/ a white gel pen & added the dots.

For the background, I stamped the sunflowers in the upper corner & the leaves in the lower left. I had to do a little out of the box to keep them intact. And while I was at it, I also cut around the parts that went into the main image so I could lift them on top. Sigh…I know it would be simpler to just do them separately & glue on top. But apparently I like to choose the road less traveled. Or the one that needs a machete to get through, lol.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Fall Pops, Leaf Pops Solid, (inside –Happy Thanksgiving )

Paper: Staples #110 white, dp (Basic Grey – Green at Heart)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, cocoa (Kaleidacolor melon melody- inside)

Accessories: Serendipity Autumn die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, stitched rectangles

Fall Pops 1372QCL	Leaf Pops Solid 1329QCL	Happy Thanksgiving 1127D	Autumn die 065DD	Copic Sketch Markers
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Basic Grey Green at Heart
Stitched Rectangles Die Set

Autumn Tree

Posted on November 14, 2015 11:22 PM by Julie 1 Comment

A big congrats to Jo, the newest Featured Stamper (FS458) on Splitcoast! She has such a lovely gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the colors & fall theme, but I used different images, a little different layout.

To make my clean & fairly simple card, instead of having a long greeting flag across the bottom like Jo has, I used a layout I’ve used many times because I just love the narrow panel. Usually I’ll inset it, like a window, but this time I thought I’d change it up & have it on top. I cut all the panels first & attached the narrow one w/ temporary adhesive, then stamped the tree. I removed the long narrow panel & stamped the leaves (using the splatter bg) w/ the four colors of distress ink. The pile of leaves was stamped at the bottom & colored w/the same inks & I added the greeting. Then I added a piece of card board behind the narrow panel & put it back.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Summer’s End Tree, Splatter Bg, Autumn Leaf Pile, Beauty of Autumn

Paper: X-Press It white, black

Ink: Versafine onyx, Distress inks mustard seed, fossilized amber, ripe persimmon, spiced marmalade

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A&B

Summer’s End Tree 036M	Leaf Pile 575F	Splatter Bg 855H	Beauty of Autumn 704D
VersaFine Inkpads	Distress Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card
AC color card stock	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132

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Happy Fall Scarecrow

Posted on November 4, 2015 11:59 AM by Julie Comment

The Sketch Challenge (SC565) on Splitcoast is an easy one. I did tweak it a bit by flipping it upside down & using the long rock fence in place of a separate horizontal band. So while the sketch is easy, my card was a bit more difficult due to all the masking I had to do. This is also for Kathleen’s HYCCT1512, Make it Tasty. Plenty of tasty pumpkins on my card!

This fall scene is all on one layer but the rock fence, the scarecrow, the pumpkins & the crow on the branch are all separate images. The scarecrow & pumpkins were stamped first, masked, then the wall was stamped. I had to do the wall twice because the wall image has a gate but I wanted to leave that part out. Then the crow was stamped. I used a reverse circle mask & sponged in the sun & colored everything else with Copics. Two little fussy cut leaves were added along w/ the greeting.

Here’s the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, be sure to check out the DRS Thursday Challenge..That’s Tasty! Have a food item on your project. DRS images are not required & there’s a nice prize up for grabs! You still have until 6:30 tonight to enter!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Split Scarecrow, Fall Fence (pumpkins only), Raven (crow), Stonewall, Happy Fall, Y’all Greeting – (inside- Scarecrows & Cornrows Greeting, Open Leaf, Tall Wheat)

Paper: X-Press It white, harvest gold

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (for over stamping after coloring), Kaliedacolor Melon Melody (for sun), (Distress inks scattered straw & rusty hinge used on inside)

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, Misti