WLS OCT Autumn Colours

Good Morning everyone

I should be back from holiday but just in case the ferry was delayed this is hopefully another scheduled post..............    

Welcome to October.  A new theme over at We love stamping which is 'Autumn' picked by me, my 2nd fav month after spring.  Ive gone with a full on autumn design with the colours and lots of leaves and also used lots of older stash too which is always nice

6x6 dark brown cardbase.  I took a piece of white card and tape inkylicious leaf aperture mask/stencil to it, wet the leaf with water and sprinkled on brusho powders and a little copper pixie powder, I removed the mask/stencil and splattered some of the same colours all over the background and put to one side to completely dry. 

I then stamped lots of small leaves using multi generation inking so that some are more faded into the background.  I then removed the stencil & stamped aall&create 'autumn' stamp over the whole background again with multi generation stamping.  I stamped the 3 Lavinia crows sitting on the darker autumn words, I used versaclair fallen leaves so not quite as dark as black and goes nicely with my dark brown cardblank.  Inked the edges and adhered to my brown card base. 

Here you can see the light hitting the copper pixie powder.   

I found that the with the mylor stencil being so thick i couldn't stamp my leaves right upto the edge so I did another version below and this time i drew around the leaf stencil onto copier paper and cut out the leaf but kept the frame this i then used to mask the outside so i could stamp into the leaf and right upto the edge - hope that makes sense😁

Version 2 - background made the same way with exactly the same brushos and pixie powder, this one came out much darker and crisper.  I stamped Lavinia cat with versaclair fallen leaves as well as the autumn word.  I stamped some tiny spiders and snails to finish. 

again showing the light hitting the pixie powders.  I doodled on little spider lines with a fineliner pen - adding a little spider just in front of the cat - my old cat has always been a good spider catcher!

and a 3rd card below which started out as me just cleaning my stencil by rubbing it onto a piece of white cardstock so unlike version 1&2 its the outside i added the colour too this time rather than the leaf aperture 

Top left shows how the leaf stencil printed onto white cardstock and bottom right is the card i made with it.  The inkylicious leaf stencil comes in 2 parts you have the leaf aperture but also the leaf shape mask so it was this piece that i placed over the leaf to mask it so that i could add more colour to the surrounding background.  I used ink pad and a sponge and added colour around the leaf.

I removed the mask and stamped a few leaves into the middle to soften the stark white.  I then stamped Mr Crow and the lovely sentiment with fallen leaves versaclair ink.  I stamped the crow a 2nd time onto white, cut him out and decoupaged onto the base image with glue gel, adding some glossy accents to his eyes and goggles to finish. 

The quote reads 'Into the forest I go to lose my mind & find my soul'

I decided it needed a few leaves so dug out my bag of die cut leaves and added a few.  These I have die cut over the years when have scraps left over, they come in ideal for projects like this where i just want the odd leaf.  I also have a bag of all green leaves for more spring/summer projects.  I tend to die cut them in front of the tv of an evening with my little baby blue die cutting machine on a lap tray.

These are the prizes this month for the lucky winners.  So hop over to We Love Stamping to join in - if the autumn theme isn't for you then we always have the anything goes option too, as long as some stamping is included.

Items Used:

Inkylicious 'ornate leaf' stencil & forest quote stamp

aall&create stamping 'dashing crow' 'seasons'

Lavinia Stamps 'crow set' 'mooch' 'mini leaf 1' 'vine stamp'

Cardio Majestic stamps 'bugs & snails'

Various other leaves from old magazine freebies 

Brusho powders 'gambage' 'lime' 'leaf green'

Cosmic shimmer pixie powder 'copper' 

Kaleidacolor ombre ink pad 'cappuccino delight'

Various leaf dies

Hop over to We Love Stamping to see more inspiration from the DT and to join in. 

 (yes the ferry was cancelled twice due to storms but we are finally home!)

Thanks for stopping by. Emmax

I love to enter card 1 in the following:

https://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-challenge-season-of-autumn.html

https://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2024/09/564.html - autumn leaves

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2024/09/sos531-im-leaf-ing-it-up-to-you.html

https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-171-autumnal-colours.html

  

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-2024-anything-goes-fall.html

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-119-autumn-andor-halloween.html

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/week-801.html

 

Flourishing Foxgloves

Good Morning everyone

Today is a small batch of cards made using a pink ink foxglove stamp,  this was the first outing for it and while it was out and I was colouring in I did a few of them....

The first card i made was for a family friend in France who sent a lovely present back for me with my parents

5x8" kraft card base.  I stamped the foxgloves onto white card and watercoloured with distress inks, i splattered some of the same inks on the background and mounted the panel onto the base card.  I stamped 3 lavinia stamps bee, 2 direct onto the topper panel and one onto spare white card, all watercoloured with distress inks.  The 3rd bee i cut out and added with glue gel on top of the foxgloves, adding a light touch of glitter glue to all the bees wings.

I die cut my sentiment from white card, adhered to a strip of kraft card and added that to the base.  I did a second version of this card saying hello which i forgot to take a photo of.

Just a close up, i added some dots to the foxglove centres with a posca paint pen.  Distress inks used - picked raspberry, wilted violet, seedless preserve, evergreen bough, rustic wilderness, wild honey & Lemonade

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Version 2, i decided to leave the foxgloves white and add the colour around the outside, i used my derwent inktense pencils for this and drew around where i wanted the colour and then blended out with water

5x8" white card base.  Once colouring my foxgloves and adding splatters with the same colours i cut to fit the card front, matting onto a layer of purple satin card and then the base.  I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set onto the offcut of white card after i had cut my base card to size, matted onto more of the purple satin and then the base with foam tape.  I stamped 2 lavinia butterfly stamps on white, watercoloured in contrasting tones of yellow/orange, cut out and added to the card with glue gel, leaving the wings free.  Touches of glitter glue on the butterfly wings and the sentiment strip.

Version 3 

 we have some apricot foxgloves in the garden so coloured these similar

5x8" white cardbase.  I watercoloured the foxgloves with distress inks - dried marigold, honey, bundled sage, evergreen bough, forest moss, shaded lilac, violet, blueprint. Matted onto burnt orange satin card and then the base.  The butterflies coloured in a contrasting purple. 

Just a close up, you can make out the burnt orange satin better here, it really comes to life when the light hits it. 

Items Used:

Pink Ink stamps 'flourishing foxglove'

Lavinia stamps butterflies

Chocolate baroque bee stamps

Derwent inktense pencils

Alpha dies - unknown brands

Anna-marie birthday print card

Ranger stickles glitter glue

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you all have a brilliant week. Emmaxx

Id love to enter my first card in the following:

https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-90-anything-goes.html

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http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/02/week-714.html   I Love pink ink stamps & foxgloves

 

Lightbulbs

Good Morning everyone

I made these cards before Christmas using a lovely stamp set from aall&create i bought in the black friday sale. 

Slimline black card base.  I first stamped the lightbulb image onto white card and watercoloured with distress inks, i stamped a second image and cut out the lightbulb, larger flowers and butterfly and decoupaged them onto the base image with glue gel.  I then added glossy accents to the bulb.  I matted this panel onto black.

I cut white card slightly smaller than my base card and stamped the floral part of the stamp onto the top and bottom corners with grey ink, using some small sentiment stamps i stamped either side of the floral corners again with grey ink.  I added splatters using the same inks i used to colour the image and then mounted the topper panel with foam tape to finish. 

Version 2.  This used a soft cream pearl cardstock for both my base card and the topper panel.  I made the topper panel the same was as card one but this time for the base card i used lavinia butterfly stamps watercoloured with distress inks and a little leaf stamped with green distress ink.  The pearl of the cardstock still shimmers through nicely.

and version 3   This time i stamped directly onto my cream pearl base card, I still decoupaged the bulb, flowers, butterfly and a couple of the larger leaves.  I added soft stencilling to the outside using oxide inks salvaged patina & cracked pistachio.  Stamped the sentiment from the set to finish.  It reads 'You are like a wildflower, beautiful, fierce & free'

Items Used:

aall&create stamps 'filaments & feathers' #621

mini word stamps

Lavinia stamps 'fairy bugs' 'mini flutter'

Lavinia stencil 'foliage'

Distress Inks & Oxides

Glossy accents

Thank you all for popping by.  I hope its a good week for you. Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the first card in the following:

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-247.html

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Blue thistlehogs

Good Morning everyone.

I decided to use some of the kraft card blanks a friend sent me with the pink ink thistlehog stamps, although since Steph said she thought they looked like bats i can see that they are a bit batty too😀 being magical creatures they come in any colour but today they are very blue with very glittery wings😁

5x5" kraft card base.  I stamped the thistle hogs onto kraft card and watecoloured with oxide inks tumbled glass, salvaged patina & dried marigold, added touches of white posca pen to highlight and cut them out.  I stamped it again onto more kraft card and stamped lavinia stamps 'spiral of dreams' stamp in grey, i die cut into a stitched square and mounted onto a larger square of kraft card which i had coloured with the blue oxide inks and then adhered to the base card.  I gently curved the thistle hog and decoupaged him onto the base with glue gel.  

Stamped greeting and diamond stickles glitter on the wings to finish.

Version 2.  I stamped the thistlehog twice once direct on the base card & again onto more kraft card and again watercoloured with the oxide inks and cut out.  Stamped the  believe sentiment direct on the base and splattered on some of the oxide inks to the background and inked the edges of the base card after rounding the corners.

I then added the thistlehog with glue gel.  

Items Used:

Pink Ink stamps 'thistlehogs'

Lavinia stamps 'sprial of dreams'

Inkylicious stamps 'believe'

Sentiment stamp dream

Distress oxide inks tumbled glass, salvaged patina, dried marigold

Ranger stickles diamond

Kraft card

Not the best photos but i did catch these of my new baby hedgehogs this year in the porch last night.......... they don't have wings like the thistlehogs but they are still soooooooooooooo cute, they would easily fit in the palm of my hand

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you all have a good week. Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/ltccb-69-anything-goes-ltccb-68-winner.html

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https://thefairyandtheunicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-2022-challenge.html

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Easter Bunnies

Good Morning everyone

Today is an Easter cards made using the fab aall&create rabbit stamp and brusho backgrounds.  Spring is certainly with us with rabbits digging in the vegetable plot and pheasants nesting in flower bed😁

6x6 white scalloped cardbase.  I first made a few brusho & pixie powder backgrounds, once dry i die cut into squares and stamped the rabbit in place and a spring verse around it.  I stamped the rabbit again onto white paper and cut out just the rabbit and glued to the base image so that he stands out.  I then used lemonade oxide ink on the flowers, being opaque its just enough to help the flowers stand out from the background.  I used evergreen distress inks to add some detail to the leaves and then added shadow with grey.

I worked out where i wanted the topper on my base card and then stamped the easter sentiment around the edges and then added my topper.

Just a close up, sadly the photos don't show the amazing shimmer of the pixie powders in the background.  I did make a few versions of these.

Items Used:

aall&create stamps 'in the wild'

Lavinia stamps 'words of spring'

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

Tattered lace square die

Brusho's

Cosmic shimmer pixie powders

Distress Inks & Oxide inks

CraftUk ltd scallop card blanks

Thank you for stopping by once again. The scaffolding is all finally up so ready for the roofing team to arrive.... Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-spring-challenge.html

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http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-2022-spring-is-coming.html

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http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-challenge-springeaster.html

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https://friendship-challenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-76-die-natur-wird-grun.html

 

Bookmarks

Good Morning everyone

I had lots of small strips of white card left which i thought would be ideal for bookmarks.  As part of my using old stash i dug out my much neglected ribbon box too.  I used a funky fossil paper pad which had gelli print backgrounds and is lovely to stamp on.

Set 1 A side.

I cut patterned paper to fit my white card strips and stamped little scenes on them, here i used mostly lavinia stamps.  And some doodled details with black and white gel pens.  I added tim holtz chit chat stickers with positive messages.  

Laminated, hole punched and ribbon added in co-ordinating colours. 

Set 1 B side.  This is the back of the above 3 bookmarks.

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set 2

Set 2 A side

Here i used the same woodware floral stamp by stamping it onto the paper and then cutting to size, i put half of the stamped image on the front of the bookmark and the second half on the back.  Details added with acrylic paint pens.  Positive quotes added again

Set 2 B side - this is the back of the above bookmarks

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set 3

Set 3 A side.  

Some pink ink stamps used here with the fungi & flying keys

Set 3 B side.  Showing the back of the set above

Items Used:

Various Lavinia stamps - hares, fairies, house, crows, hedgehogs, fox, owls

Pink Ink stamps 'thistlehogs' 'brock' 'shitake'

aall&create stamps 'bouquet border' #162

Woodware stamps 'wild meadow'

Funky Fossil paper pad 'kaleidescope'

Staedtler Coloured fineliner pens

Posca white pen

Grey alcohol markers

White card

Laminator

Thank you for stopping by once again and all your previous comments.  I hope you enjoy the rest of the week and weekend, although the weather doesn't look too good - ideal for staying in the dry crafting.  Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://riverofcreativity.blogspot.com/2022/02/river-of-creativity-challenge-10.html

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https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/02/challenge-49.html

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