Hello friends. It’s time for our next challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and we’re back to colours this time round. Suzy’s given us a fab palette of autumn shades (although they’d work with floral and lots of other designs too). I decided to make an autumnal birthday card for my friend, Shirley using the new Open Alphabet masks & Build a Background stamps collection from Clarity.
Staring with a piece of Clarity’s 3.5″ stencil card, I positioned the S mask on it and lightly brushed ‘carved pumpkin’ Distress Oxide over it to outline the letter. I then started adding the background using one of the images from the ‘sun & moon’ build a background set (I thought it looked a bit like a flower)
I then built the rest of the background around the letter using the ‘leaf silhouettes’ stamps in ‘carved pumpkin’ and ‘candied apple’. Obviously, when you then remove the mask, you’ve got a lovely white letter outlined.
I added one of the Bijou Retro Sentiments with ‘watering can’ Archival ink across the centre, then popped the topper onto a piece of Indian Summer companion paper. I used one of my favourite square embedders to emboss a frame onto the front of a 6×6 card blank and sat the topper within it.
I’m so pleased with how this turned out – I think these letter masks are going to be really useful! How will you use our colours at CAS C&S? You’ve got until Monday 27th October to play along with us and we’d love to see what you create. Meanwhile, I’m off to share this card with Seize the Birthday for their ‘anything goes’ option, together with the ‘autumn’ theme at both The Four Seasons and Stamping Sensations.
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So pretty! Loving those colors!
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it is a good palette, isn’t it?
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This is so creative Deb and love the Fall colors! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
DarleneFour Seasons Co-Owner
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Beautiful stamps and colours, such a lovely way to personalise a card. Thank you for joining in at Stamping Sensations.
Chris
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So cute! And what a great way to personalize a special greeting! I’m now going to be digging through my supplies to see what I could use to CASE this! TFS!
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Thanks Amanda!
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What a neat way to personalize a card. Beautiful colours too.
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Thank you x
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A delightful CAS card in Autumnal colours, may thanks for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations and We Love Stamping Autumn themes.
B x
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Love those vibrant colours xx
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thank you!
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So pretty, Deb xoxo
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thank you Em x
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The colors are perfect! What a gorgeous CAS design!
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thanks so much Vicki x
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What a great design so beautiful and creative! Thank you so much for sharing with us at the Four Seasons challenge!
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You are your creativity does it again! Such a fun and great way to personalize a Birthday card. Thanks for being in our gallery at Seize the Birthday.
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thanks so much Nancy x
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Such an interesting effect, using the mask and creating negative space. The square border really sets off the design too. Lovely, Deborah!
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Thanks Rachel x
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This is so effective Deborah – I love the way those autumn leaves highlight the negative space of the S. Fabulous!
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Thanks Joanne x
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This is so pretty and I love that initial mask. Wonderful! Thanks for sharing it with us at Seize The Birthday.
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