Autumn Days and Foxy Friends

Driving to my local town takes me along a tree lined road which is currently a riot of Autumnal colour. The leaves are beautiful montage of oranges, reds, yellows, with just a few greens, and still cling to the branches. A gust of wind will send them to the ground all crispy and crunchy, just inviting welly clad boots to stomp through them...

Today's card tries to capture Autumn on a card.  I tried a technique that I hadn't used before...the wet wipe technique.  Essentially you create your own ink palette using reinkers and a couple of folded wet wipes. Set the wet wipes on a non porous surface (like an empty stamp case) and add several drops of reinker.  I used three different colours and added a couple of drops of each colour...the colours overlap and spread and then you stamp using it just like an ink pad.

I had plenty of ideas that I wanted to try, so I covered a whole sheet of whisper white and some smaller pieces too. A stamped fox completes my first autumnal card - fussy cut so that he sits on his log!

I really enjoyed creating the backgroung paper for this card, and I have a few more cards to show you another time. Have fun creating your own Autumnal card and a walk crunching through the fallen leaves.

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Sending Good Luck Wishes...

My favourite colours are blue and purple and I love hearts.  Knowing this, it is easy to see why I am drawn to the Blooms and Bliss papers.  These double sided papers have a variety of styles from pretty florals to small patterns.

Today, I needed to send a "Good Luck" message and I knew that these papers would be a perfect starting point for the job.  Every two weeks or so, we have a team creative challenge, which this time is a sketch.  So, I now have papers, colour pallete and a sketch ready to make my card.

I hope you like the card and that the good luck vibes help the recipient with their important task.

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Tin of Tags Card

I have had so much fun making cards using the same sketch as a starting point.  Today, I am sharing another Christmas card.  Last time I used papers to create the images, but this time the stamps from the Tin of Cards provide the design.

The words are stamped and heat embossed using copper embossing powder.  I first saw heat embossing a (very) long time ago, but I still love how applying heat magically changes the powder to reveal the shiney raised finished image.  The copper metallic thread adds a little more sparkle.

Here are the two Christmas cards together...

Which do you prefer? Punching the pretty paper or stamping and heat embossing?

 

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Christmas down Candy Cane Lane

I adore the Candy Cane Lane papers in the Autumn Winter catalogue.  The images used are gingerbread men, gingerbread houses and candy canes...with the added bonus that the candy canes are positioned to look like hearts. The colours are muted and look like gingerbread, sweets and icing...perhaps I need to get baking!

I was reticent to cut into the paper with the gingerbread houses on...it looks too good to cut into...but at the same time I have promised myself that I will use my paper and not hoard it.  So, I took the plunge with my 2" circle punch and cut out one of the smaller houses.  Now I think it looks great layered up with coordinating cardstock circles with the finishing touch comeing in the form of an adorable Christmas trinket tied on to some Real Red stitched edge ribbon.

A few more of these will be made before too long I'm sure.  I wonder if you like the Candy Cane Lane papers as much as I do?

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