Grateful for You for The Paper Players

Hello friends!  This week at The Paper Players the lovely Joanne has chosen an autumnal color combination for our inspiration.

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I'm also joining the lovelies at Inkspirational with their gorgeous mood board inspiration.  I was inspired by the leafy photo and the fall colors.

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I had many, many ideas for these colors but in the end, I played around with messy, wonderful mica sprays to create my card.  And yes I did have orange and brown fingers for a day lol!

Right off the bat, I have to say the photos do not do justice to the beautiful colors and shine of the background.  I began with a half sheet of mixed media paper from Vicky Boutin and used two brown and two orange Distress Mica Sprays on the paper, adding water so they would mix a bit then set it aside to dry.

When it was dry the colors had mixed more than I anticipated.  Don't get me wrong, it was really pretty but the browns had dominated the oranges.  I put the panel in my Misti, arranged all the leaf stamps, then used a brown pigment ink to stamp.  That didn't show up well, so ended up gold heat embossing the leaves then used gold metallic paint to add splatters.

Next, I poured a bit of the mica spray onto a palette and used a small brush to paint the lightest orange over some of the leaves and I was so happy with that small step! When everything dried a second time the panel was die cut, wrapped with some gold twine and matted onto a dark brown rectangle before adding to the 5"x 7" ivory card base.  The sentiment was also gold heat embossed, die cut with the matching die and added to the card front along with some copper-ish gems.

We would love to have you share what you create with these colors this week!  The challenge remains open until 3 pm EDT Friday 10/18.  In the meantime, please take a moment to see all the beautiful cards my talented teammates have created for your inspiration over on the challenge blog linked above.

Thanks for visiting and take care!

Stef

• Simon Says Stamp Autumn Leaves and Graceful Florals (sentiment) stamps and die
• Waffle Flower A7 Frames rectangle die
• Spellbinders 5" X 7" Matting Basics A die
• Rangers Jack-O-Lantern, Mulled Cider, Crooked Broomstick and Fallen Acorn Distress Mica Stain Sprays
• SSS Ultra Fine Gold embossing powder
• Altenew Gold Metallic paint
• HoneyBee Stamps Fall Is In the Air gems

Grateful for You

Hello friends!  Today I'm sharing a card created for the challenge over at The Paper Players.  This week Anne Marie is hosting the theme challenge and chose a perfect one for this time of year, which is to give thanks.

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I went with a very fall-ish color palette because the colors this time of year (and the cooler weather) make my heart happy!  

I decided to color on kraft cardstock, which produces a more muted result.  The leaves were stamped in a random fashion on the panel, leaving room for the sentiment, then colored with Copic markers.  All the stamping was done with Gina K Chocolate Truffle Amalgam ink, which is Copic friendly.

 

With the coloring complete, next came the ink blending, which was done around the edges of the panel, leaving a center "glow".  I didn't want to trim down the panel, so I adhered it to a card base measuring 5.75" x 4.5" and called it good.  When I go to mail it, an A6 size envelope will work perfectly.

With so much going on in the world right now, for me (as I'm sure for many) it helps to remember all that I have to be grateful for, including you, my crafty friends!  Thank you for taking time to stop by and please take care!

Hugs,

Stef

Stamps:  Sunny Studios Elegant Leaves

Paper:  Neenah Desert Storm and Natural White

Ink:  Gina K Chocolate Truffe, Simon Says Stamp Cappuccino 

Copics:  R59, 46, 08, YR07, 68, 65, Y28, 26, 15, YG 17, 03, 01, BG75, 49, 15

Autumn Greetings for Sunday Stamps

Hello and welcome!  It's time for a new challenge at Sunday Stamps and this time it is a new color combo to spark your creativity! 

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I'm also playing along with the Anything Goes Challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

I decided to make one last autumn card and chose to use brown, yellow and orange.  

I started by die cutting the large maple and oak leaves from watercolor paper, then used Distress Mica Stain sprays in Flickering Candle, Jack-O-Lantern and Crooked Broomstick to color them.  The brown didn't really show, I think I used much more of the other two colors.  While the leaves dried, I stamped and die cut the sentiment and worked on the background.

Since the brown spray didn't show adequately, I decided to incorporate the color into the background.  I had the die cut leaf background in craft that was left over from another project but it certainly wasn't dark enough.  I die cut another out of Soft Suede but it was too dark behind the leaves, so I used it as a shadow to the craft layer.  I adhered them together, trimmed off the excess brown, then added it to an ivory card base.  The yellow oak leaf was adhered directly to the panel and the maple was die cut twice more from Soft Suede, layered together then added to the card front after tying on a bow of Early Espresso Baker's Twine.  With the sentiment adhered, I then finished thigs off with a few satin gold baubles.

Thanks for taking time to stop by!  I hope you'll use the link above to see all the beautiful cards by the other DT members and hopefully join us - you'll have until Friday, November 11th.

Take care!

Stef

Stamps:  Grateful Florals (Studio Katia/Simon Says Stamp)

Paper:  Hero Arts Antique Ivory, Stampin' Up Soft Suede, Neenah Desert Storm, Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor

Ink:  Versafine Clair Acorn

Other:  Flickering Candle, Jack-O-Lantern and Crooked Broomstick Distress Mica Stain Spray, Simon Says Stamp Large Stitched Maple and Oak Leaf dies, Honey Bee Autumn Splendor A2 cover die, SU Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Trinity Stamps Gold Satin Baubles

With Thanks

Hello and welcome!  I have a card that I made for the Paper Players, where the lovely Joanne has given use a great sketch to play with and the Double D Leaves Challenge.

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Double D - Leaves

I started my card by inking up and Copic coloring a number of leaves so I could have options as I tried to fit them onto the card.  

After the coloring was complete all the leaves and the sentiment were die cut.  Next a piece of teal cardstock was die cut with my favorite deckle rectangle die and added to the ivory card base with foam tape.  The piece under the leaves is supposed to look like reflections in water but I think it works quite marvelous as a trellis of sorts!  It was die cut from Early Espresso card stock and adhered directly to the teal panel.

Next the die cut leaves and sentiment were added with thin foam tape and the bit of bling came in the form of some antique gold sequins.  Pretty quick and easy!

Thanks for visiting, I always appreciate it! 

This is the first of two posts today, so come on back by a bit later to see the second card if you have a chance. 

Take care!

Stef

Stamps:  Autumn Leaves, Mandy's Flowers (both Simon Says Stamp)

Paper:  Ivory (SSS), Early Espresso (Stampin' Up), Caribbean Sea (MFT)

Ink:  Gina K Chocolate Truffle Amalgam, Versafine Clair Pinecone

Other:  Autumn Leaves dies, Reflections Die (Altenew), Antique Gold Sequins (Altenew), Deckled Rectangle Frame die (Waffle Flower)

Copics:  R59, 46, 27, 14, YR23, Y19, 15, 11, YR18, 14, 04, E19

Thankful for The Paper Players

Hello friends and welcome back!  It's time for a new challenge at The Paper Players!  This week the fabulous Ann is hosting our monthly color challenge and has picked some beautiful autumn colors to spark your creativity.

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I'm also joining the current challenges at Freshly Made Sketches and, for my first time, Festive Friday.

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(CAS, embossing, sparkle, circles)

My card is indeed very CAS.  The card base and panel were made from watercolor paper because I like the warmth of the off white color for fall as well as the subtle texture.  

I pulled out the Elegant Leaves stamp set to use and found I already had two leaves colored with Copic markers that matched up nicely with Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze.  The large part of the sentiment was from the same stamp set and was stamped on the die cut rectangle panel, then the leaves were adhered along with a linen thread bow.  The smaller part of the sentiment was stamped on Ivory card, die cut with a small circle die, then layered on a slightly larger Cinnamon Cider circle.

To assemble the card, an embossed strip of Mossy Meadow was adhered directly to the base, then the die cut main panel was added to the card with fun foam for a bit of dimension.  It seemed a little bare, even for a CAS card, so I added a few sparkling clear sequins around the panel.  The leaves were also treated with an aqua shimmer pen for some additional sparkle.  This card was a breeze to put together and thanks to Jen Timko for the great sketch!

Thanks so much for visiting, I really appreciate it!  Be sure to use the link above to check out the new Player's challenge and links below to see the beautiful cards by the other DT members.  I hope you remain safe and healthy, and have a great week ahead!

Stef

Jaydee
LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater
Joanne James
Laurie Schmidt

Anne Marie Hile
Ann Schach
Allisa Steinlicht

Stef Perry (that's me!)

Mary Deatherage

Stamps:  Elegant Leaves (Sunny Studio)

Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Cinnamon Cider, Neenah Solar White, Canson XL

Ink:  Gina K Chocolate Truffle Amalgam, Versafine Clair Acorn

Other:  Stitched Rectangle die (SSS), Nested Infinity Circle dies 8 (Hero Arts), Elegant Leaves matching dies, Boho Chic embossing folder (SU), Linen Thread, Copic markers