It's finally starting to feel like fall, my favorite season of the year. A couple of different challenges inspired me to make a fall-type card.
This week's inspiration colors for Off the Wall Craftiness (OTWC28) were goldish yellow, white and brown. (See the inspiration photo at right below.) And this month's SmArt Word challenge is "brown" so those colors immediately made me think of doing fall leaves.
I used this week's CPS sketch (CPS188) for the layout, which made me want to use a quote in the center. I chose this one from SmArt Works -- it's actually part of a birthday set, but "revel in the gift of time" seems so appropriate to fall to me. The sentiment is stamped in chestnut roan chalk ink
I stamped the 
oak leaf (SU) in cadmium yellow chalk ink repeatedly on white paper, then cut the curves. I decided to distress the edges, both to add texture and because hand-cut curves look, well, uneven.
oak leaf (SU) in cadmium yellow chalk ink repeatedly on white paper, then cut the curves. I decided to distress the edges, both to add texture and because hand-cut curves look, well, uneven.I stamped another oak leaf in the chestnut ink, colored it with pencils and added gold microbeads to the acorn. It's cut out and popped up (see detail photo).
Sandy, I really really like this! Thanks for joining in the fun and playing along with us at OTWC and Good luck! :-)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! I knew it was otwc colors immediately- great take!
ReplyDeleteWhat a very cool card!!! Thanks for playing at OTWC and good luck!!
ReplyDeleteGreat use of 'brown'... and a super idea for mini beads. Thank you for entering October's smART-Word Challange.
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