Autumn colours

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for the We Love Stamping Challenge I was very thrilled and honoured to have won the Guest spot for October with this card.

The theme is Autumn colours. I started with choosing my stamp, a feather, then decided to make a stamping stencil, for use with my stamping platform, to enable me to make a wreath shape, but I then went further and made it a star shape. Which actually turned out to be a wreath shape when finished, who would guess that, not me!

Anyhow, I die cut a frame to stamp onto, and stamped the feather in white ink and clear embossed it, turning the shape to stamp in each point. After which, I shaded the shape with DO's.

I dry embossed around the star shape, although it can't really be seen. A die was used for the stamped sentiment in matching ink, to add on top of the feathers. Then a die was cut, slightly bigger, into a frame and was used below the sentiment, shaded with the same colours. I stamped another feather using DI's, shaded again with the same colours. I then clear embossed it and added it as the front detail. 

This is the most involved stamping I think I have done, so I have to thank Brenda for the push to get me trying things.

star shape stencil - my own, cut with Cameo

feathers stamps, sentiment stamp and feather die - magazine freebies  SCP#231

frame dies - Sue Wilson square noble die

inks - Distress Oxide and Inks squeezed lemonade, fossilized amber, spiced marmalade, abandoned coral

 

 

I also added a touch of gold glitter pen to parts of the feather and around the shape, I hope you can see the shine of it?

A Note

Hi Everyone, my card today started with a note to a friend, but I got a phone call and it has ended up as a sympathy card. I really should have more in my stash.

I went for a CAS style, I very much wanted to add more, but sent it as it was.

feather - magazine freebie cut in blue and gold mirror card

dp - a Pixel & Co collaboration free paper

yellow & blue card - The Works

sequins - Dovecraft

sentiment printed on computer - Tattered Lace pindot oval die

I used this sketch

Sympathy post

HI Everyone, I had sad news recently of my first cousin who lived in Florida, she was one of the GI brides, she had been suffering with Alzheimer's Disease and had been looked after with love and real caring by her wonderful husband.

I have another 3 cousins (her brother, sister and half sister) and their families (most of whom sadly we don't know) Stateside, in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, 2 who are now in their 80's, the younger we had in the UK last year. It was so sad to speak to the elder ones, knowing we will probably not see them again and both not in the best of health.

Anyhow on to my card for them. I sent each of them Husband and Cousins the same card, but different inside. I kept it with simple layering for the post.

I coloured and paper pieced the image in PS, cut out with a die and layered onto black paper. I embossed with a wall embossing folder to carry on the wall in the image.

I thought it, an image with a British post box, would be apt for them all.

Image Di's Digis
Embossing folder Die-sire
DP's Pink Petticoat

Floral sympathy

Hi Everyone, a sympathy card today, thankfully not because I need one, but want one for my "ready for box!"  Anyhow, I am in the digi colouring mode, so went to see what I could do and thought a different style and found this in my files from Create with TLC, the sentiment was also right next to it in my files, so that's what I went with.

I laid it all out in PS using the sketch from Outlawz, then coloured the flowers, I couldn't find paper to match the colours I had used! why do I do that? so I added overlays onto the colours of the strips. printed it out and layered the pieces. Added the die cuts and some Borealis gems. I die cut the image and black card to layer it and to surround the background..

Image and sentiment Create with TLC.
Die cuts Tattered Lace.
Papers background Overlay MeloVrijhof  at Pixelscrapper
first strip overlay Snickerdoodles
second strip overlay Sheila Reid at Pixelscrapper
3rd strip overlay Snickerdoodles

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/wednesday-sketch/forum/topics/wednesday-sketch-challenge-february-17 Sketch Challenge

Sympathy Card

Hi Everyone, my DT card for Deedee's Digis today is for the sponsored challenge at Clear it Out. The theme for the challenge is Sympathy with embossing. My card has a butterfly from the "Fluttering By " kit by Deedee, I used a freebie embossing folder which was on a magazine, which I haven't used and have had for an absolute age. The orange ribbon is something I don't use often either. I decided to use the colours of the butterfly for the background paper and ribbon.

DP is by Melo Vrijhof at Pixelscrapper

Another Sympathy card

Hi Everyone, I'm sorry, another sympathy card, I am still surrounded by the sad phase I have been in the last couple of weeks, this time another neighbour.  Paper Garden Products came to the rescue again, with everything including the cut file for the frame in the Water Colour Blossoms kit.

http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/challenge-39-anything-goes.html  Anything Goes