International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :). Come on over an join us with you artwork :)
Challenge #21
AUTUMN COLOURS
AUTUMN COLOURS
A simple but effective creation. I was in the mood for stamping a silhouette image and have had this Sheena Douglas stamp for a while and not used it so today it saw the light of day. I know I said simple but the trials and errors I had making the background ended up taking me a good 2 hours lol. I first tried on some stamping card I got on my holidays down under several years ago (with being a useless stamper I hardly used this rather nice card so most of it has spent the last 7 years hiding away). Anyway, one side of the card is shiny and the other matt and I had no idea which side to use. Opting for the shiny side I set to work with distress inks and WOW what a result, mega interesting. Then came the stamping and using a stamping tool to get everything position just right I moved on. Grrrrrr, the shiny side of the paper kept sticking to my stamp and pulling it off the stamping too. First attempt in the bin. Then I tried again and I have no idea what I was playing at but that ended up in the bin too. They do say 3rd time lucky and using my cheap white card I stopping trying to be so careful I succeeded. So simple in reality and without the hiccups I would agree. With such a beautiful tree and the vivid autumn colours I decided on the most minimum of embellishments, 3 black gems, just could not resist putting them on hahaha.
Challenges entered:-
- Allsorts W,3E - Colours of Autumn
- Crafty Calendar M,3E November - Autumn Colours
- Quick Quotes - M (First Friday of the Month), E1, SIO - November - No. 81 - Fall Colors
- Moving along with the Times 2W,3E #58 Trees (W1 of 2)
- Tic Tac Toe Challenge - W, E3 - #23Tic Tac Toe*
- Artistic Stampers (M, P1, E3, must use rubber stamp) November - Use a Quote
- The Crafty Addicts M, 3E, #41 - Anything Goes Autumn Colors
- Double D Challenges - 2W, 1st /3rd Wed of M, E3 - Fall/See Mood Board* (W2 of 2)
- Shopping Our Stash W, C13 - #328 Autumn Color Challenge*
I love trees and with this beautiful background the tree looks perfect. Hazel x
ReplyDeleteWell, you certainly came up with a lovely result after all that trial and error. It is frustrating when you have a vision in your head that doesn't want to come out on paper! LOL. I LOVE the sentiment. I have had to learn this the hard way over the past two years!
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Chriss
Gorgeous background and fabulous tree stamp and sentiment! WOW! Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Double D Blog, Feeling Fallish Challenge, Donna, DT Member.
ReplyDeleteBEAUTIFUL background for your tree! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Double D ‘Feeling FALLish’ challenge! We hope you’ll come back often.
ReplyDeleteDarlene
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A stunning tree and a really gorgeous backing making one super card.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining our 'Colours of Autumn' challenge this week at Allsorts.
Kath x
So beautiful, thanks for joining us at MAWTT. Xxxx
ReplyDeleteA beautifully rich and vinbrant backdrop to the lovely silhouette tree, many thanks for joining us at Allsorts challenge this week.
ReplyDeleteB x
Lovely scene you've created, I love the silhouette of the trees!
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing along with the SHOPPING OUR STASH crew this week for our Autumn Colour Palette challenge!!
Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Crafty Calendar, good luck!!! Amy DT
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! Not many times does a card make me stop and really think about what it says, but this one is so vibrant and the sentiment so true...Love it! Thank you for joining us this week at Tic Tac Toe Challenges!
ReplyDeleteI'm always a sucker for trees, but this is just striking. Thanks for sharing about that challenge-- never heard of it and I'm going to go visit, and thank you for visiting SOS!
ReplyDeletestunning card, beautiful colours!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining my theme at Allsorts Tracy x
ReplyDeleteI love the autumnal colour scheme - the bright colours are a wonderful contrast to the black of the silhouette. Beautiful card and beautiful sentiment - thanks for sharing with us at MAWTT, Emma (DT)
ReplyDeletegorgeous card! thank you for sharing with us at Quick Quotes this month!
ReplyDeleteAlicia
Beautifully created! Thanks for joining us at Quick Quotes!!
ReplyDeleteLove this card! Great use of Fall Colors! Thanks for joining our monthly challenge over at Quick Quotes!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, love the fall colors. Thanks for joining us at Quick Quotes.
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