I’m back with my second card today – this time for our new challenge at As You See It and it’s a seasonal one as we want to know what your favourite thing about autumn is. For me, it’s the gorgeous changing tones in the leaves and so I immediately reached for Clarity’s Elementree stamps (which I’ve now realised I used one our last challenge too – can’t keep a good thing down!)
I took the sketch from Sunday Stamps for my layout and both Inspire.Create & Make My Monday have helpfully got autumnal themes.
So, having cut a piece of card to fit an A6 card blank I stamped a row of the leaves in ‘potting soil’ Archival ink. I then coloured them with a waterbrush and Distress Oxides (‘carved pumpkin’, ‘barn door’ & villainous potion’) – I smooshed the ink onto one of Clarity’s mix mats which made it easy to pick up with the brush.
I managed to get a bit of a smudge on the background, so decided the best way to disguise it was to splatter more of the ‘carved pumpkin’ across it by tapping the waterbrush! I then simply added the sentiment from Linda’s Lilies stamp set and attached the topper to the A6 card blank.
We’re predicted to have a beautiful autumn in the UK this year after the hot summer – there are already some lovely rich red tones in the trees in my neighbourhood.
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Stunning card, Deborah!
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What a gorgeous Autumn leaves design! Great sympathy card!
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thanks so much x
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Beautiful! Isn’t this a glorious time of year?!
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I love autumn leaves!
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Beautiful colours and so nicely done.
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thanks Johanna
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WOW! Stunning!
I am also in agreement the changing colours of the leaves always brings me so much joy. Not so keen on the wind and the rain that ruins the getting out to see them more though! 🤣
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thanks so much! I agree about the storms!
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WOW! The colors on these leaves are beautiful!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Inspire.Create!
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This is just stunning. How you achieved those colours is magical xx
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thanks – very Kind! Just a bit of watercolour blending x
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This is so beautiful. Thanks for joining my theme at Make My Monday. Love Dawn x
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Those leave stamps are gorgeous!! And your coloring of them…perfection!! Such a beautiful take on our “Squared Away” sketch challenge!! Thanks for playing along with us over at Sunday Stamps. Deb Horst, DT #SSC370
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What a beautiful spray of leaves and I love the splatter, not matter how you got there. 😉 Thanks for playing over at Sunday Stamps.
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Your leaves are so beautiful that they took my breath away! It was super to see (and read) how you did them. What a fabulous stamp set!
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Thanks so much Jan x
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The colours on these leaves are just beautiful Deborah – so perfect for fall. I love the texture detail of your stamps too. Gorgeous! Welcome back!
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thanks so much Joanne x
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These leaves are positively realistic! Such a lovely layout for the sketch too!
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Thanks so much LeAnne x
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