Lawn Fawn Deer

This is the first card I made yesterday for the CAS-ual Friday's Fall Colors and a Leaf challenge.  I thought this was too busy, but looking at it again, I don't think it is, so I'm submitting it after all.  I'm not generally a fan of brown, but I'm having fun playing with it lately.  I'm also submitting it to Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes challenge.

This card again uses the stuff I won from Lawn Fawn.  I love the maple leaf sequins.  And yes, I know, birch trees don't drop maple leaves, but that's what I had so...

I started by stamping the deer on white cardstock and colouring it with markers.

I used brown cardstock for the base, then cut a piece of patterned paper to go on top because I wanted something to wrap the brown and white hemp twine around.  I attached the paper to the base, then added the shimmery dark orange leaf sequins and the fussy cut deer to the card with pop dots.  Lastly I glued on the blue sequin.

I Love Fall

This is the second card I made for CAS-ual Friday's current challenge: Fall Colors and a Leaf.  I thought the first one turned out a bit too busy for a clean and simple card, though looking at some of the other entries, maybe it would have been ok.  Anyway, I'll post that card tomorrow.  For today, I've definitely got a CAS card.

Since it's a fall theme and I just won some fall oriented things from Lawn Fawn, I decided to play with them.

I started out by scoring three lines on the bottom of the cardstock for the ground.  I stamped the tree in brown and then the leaves in various colours.  I'd actually planned to put an animal next to the tree (either the racoon - which didn't end up fitting the colour scheme - or the fox - which would have) but in the end decided that the card looked fine without anything in the middle.  I stamped the sentiment to give the card a bit of balance.

CAS Just Because, Flower

I made this card for 2 challenges, CAS-ual Friday's challenge to use kraft and text and Simon Says Stamp's anything goes.  I don't normally use kraft, but I remembered this tutorial by Jennifer McGuire for a technique called ghost stamping.   

The idea is to stamp your image with white pigment ink and when it's dry, to stamp over it with a coloured dye ink.

I added a sentiment and voila, a quick, clean and simple card.

CAS: Shimmery Joy

I made this card for CAS-ual Friday's 100th challenge, which is a tic tac toe board.  The line I picked was "kraft - bling - emboss".

I started with a piece of kraft cardstock.  Kraft isn't my favourite colour to work with but I took inspiration from these cards by Jennifer McGuire.

I started out by stamping a flower from Close to my Heart's Delight set, in white pigment in on the kraft.  Originally I was going to do the black and white square on the challenge board, but realized it wasn't in my line, so instead of doing a raised layer on the flower embossed in white and popped up, I decided to emboss over the white with red glitter embossing powder.  This gave the card a nice Christmas feel (maybe I don't need to buy a mistletoe stamp after all).

I masked a part of the flower so the black ink I used for the stem wouldn't get on it, then stamped and embossed "JOY" (from a cheap stamp set I got at Michael's).  To finish off I added a bit of the bling the challenge required.

I love the shimmer of the red embossing powder.