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

 

Birthday Wheat

Morning Everyone

Today im sharing an Autumn Male birthday card, although i think you could also use it for us girlies that are into nature. 

6x6" kraft cardbase.   I attached a square of ivory card which has a light woodgrain pattern to it.  I die cut my birthday circle from the ivory card and attached to a kraft circle, a chocolate brown mirror card circle embossed with a leaf patten and a burnt orange mirror card circle frame, i attached these to my cardfront overlapping each other. 

I then die cut my wheat from chocolate, burnt orange, gold & copper mirror card and kraft card.  The die cuts have open ears so so help them stand out i added a plain one behind.  To get the plain cut i first die cut the die in kraft card and left that one in the die, i then cut the die again with another peice of card, this means that only the outside edge of the die cuts (more details in last photo) 

I then arranged 5 wheat ears, added a twine bow and 3 little chipboard birdies to finish.

Close up on my wheat.

This photo will hopefully make more sense of how i did the wheat, the left one is how the die cuts, to make a solid bottom layer i left the die cut in the die (middle photo) and cut again, this means it doesn't cut all the way through in the middle keeping the little bits attached as (right photo).  Some dies work better than others at this technique

Items Used:

Concord & Ninth leaf/wheat die

Birthday senitment circle die

Spellbinders circle dies

Chipboard birds

Payper box ivory woodgrain embossed card

CraftUk ltd Kraft card

Various mirror card

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you enjoyed some beautiful weather this week in among all the rain.  My new niece is tiny - as all babies are - we soon forget how small they are don't we.  My niece Alice has settled into school very well and enjoying it.  I hope you all have a good week. Hugs Emma

Id Love to enter the following:

https://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-119-autumn.html

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http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2019/09/ch-437-birthday.html

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http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-47-autumn.html

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http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-199-fall-colors.html

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https://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-122-for-men-in-your-life.html

Spring Greens

Good Morning everyone, i hope you are having a good week.  Thank you for your amazing comments on my last card the slider - honestly the die does the work so its easy.

Today im sharing the second card i made for my parents neighbour Harry, he is an avid gardener so i went with a green leaf theme and kept it CAS. 

I actually used my large oval dies to make this shaped card,  I folded a piece of white A4 in half and then over hanged the top and bottom of the oval die over the edge so it kept the spine in tact.  I then cut the other layers with smaller ovals.  I coloured a piece of white card with various green aquatints and added a touch of gold mica spray. 

I die cut a oval from white linen card and cut off the top and bottom, i then die cut my leaf die 3 times from the middle.  I then die cut the leaves again from gold mirror card, i added the white to the green and then inset the gold leaves, i then mounted it all on the base card. 

I die cut a white tag and stamped the greeting.  Although with the 3 leaves i had planned to have them top and tailed but after looking at it after id made it i thought if id cut all 3 leaves the right way up then could almost look like trees. 

A close up on the leaves, i love the gold against the green. 

Items Used:

Concord & Ninth layered leaf dies

XL stitched oval dies

spellbinders 'Valiant honor' die set 

clearly besotted sentiment stamp

CraftUk ltd white linen card

Aquatints

Gold Mirror card

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  Have a lovely weekend. Emma

Id love the enter the following:

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-396-cas.html

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Is anyone else finding since the change to the link up tool on many challenge blogs that the link up button is missing?  So many in the last couple of months ive gone to enter and just no link up button in sight?  Not sure if its only me with the problem or not? Thank you if you can help😀 x