Thursday, September 26, 2013

Celebrating fall

Back with another fall card, just because I love fall.  For the center image on this card, I colored the stamp with a variety of fall-colored markers, right on the stamp, lightly spritzed and stamped it on watercolor paper. If you apply a fair amount of water, you get a really soft, watercolored look. I barely got this stamp wet, and since the lines are so fine anyway, I got just a slight mingling of the colors and a slight broadening of the outline. 

The sketch is Freshly Made Sketch #105.

The image stamp is by Stampcraft. Sentiment is from Mark's Finest Paper, stamped in either Creamy Caramel or Sepia (had both on my desk, and I'm not sure which one I used). The paper is Paprika from The Paper Company. It sounds kind of silly, but it's by far my favorite shade of orange.

I'm entering the card in these challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches, sketch #105
Loves Rubberstamps Challenges #71, Fall colors
CASology #63, Autumn
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges, Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #99, Anything goes

7 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous! Love that watercolor look you achieved on the background pieces! :) Thanks for playing along over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

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  2. Lovely colors!!
    Thanks for joining Loves Rubberstamps Challenge!

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  3. Oh my but your leaf is a work of art! The colours are amazing! So glad you joined us at CASology this week!

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  4. Love how your focal leaf seems to glow! Such a warm, beautiful card! Thanks for joining us at CASology this week!

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  5. This is wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing with us. There are so many challenge blogs out there, and so...it means A LOT when you take the time to stop by our blog and share with us. Please know that it is never taken for granted. It blesses us to have you share with us, and we are grateful - more than words can express. We hope you will play along with us again soon. Have a great week!
    Blessings to you,
    Karen
    Word Art Wednesday

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  6. Beautiful card! Your background is so pretty! Thanks so much for joining our challenge over at Loves Rubberstamps! :)

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  7. Wow! This is really beautiful! I love the unique way that you used the sketch. Very creative. Thanks for sharing with us at Freshly Made Sketches!

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Thanks so much for taking the time to comment!

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