A Leafy One Layer

Happy Monday to you :0)

I was wondering what stamps to use for today's card and a quick browse around the challenges helped me to decide so I've opted for a quick, one layer 'off the edge' stamped card.....

I've used Avery Elle's Modern Leaves in a gorgeous green, blue and sandy colour palette and teamed it up with a sentiment from Avery Elle's Brushed stamp set, I adore the scripty font which goes so well with the sketchy-ness of the leaves :0) 

I find these random style stamped cards quite tricky and I'm still not sure that I've acheived the look of 'random ' but practice helps and in this case I do think that Less is More so I walked away before I overdid it ;0)

                                             

Don't forget to join in with our sketch challenge this month, the details can be found here..... if you made an order over the weekend with all the new stamps and restocks in store, we'd love to see you put them into action and our challenge is the perfect reason :0)

Jenny x

Fresh hues

Hello.

Have you seen that the design team are all playing along with this fabulous colour pallet from Design-seeds.com 

Tara has set up a linky on here blog post here if you would like to join in :)

I absolutely love these colours together the graphic gave me so many ideas i could have made so many cards using them.

As it is i stopped at 3 lol.

All of my cards use stamps from Avery Elle ...Lots of which  are now in the shop ...snap em up quick if you haven't already the set i wanted sold out super quick :(

First card and i have used masking to make the panel. I used the circle stamp from Modern leaves and used the back and front of the stamp so some are patterned and others are plain. The flowers and leaves are from Petals and stems and stamped in pink and red i just wiped some of the red ink of before stamping directly over the pink.

Again using the same colours i used a small leaf from Modern leaves.

Kept this really CAS just adding some pink liquid pearls.

Less stamping on card 3.

I used washi tape in the same colours and used the sentiment and frame from framed fonts.

The sentiment was stamped in the colours they have shown up a lot paler than irl.

Hope your enjoying the colours we are using and we would love to see what you do with them.

Thanks for ,looking.

Autumn Leaves

Good Morning all - Tara here with my Sunday slot and this week I've gone all autumnal just in time for this last flash of summer we're all getting.  Hope the sun is shining on you today as it's glorious here in Sunny Sheffield!

I was inspired by the current challenge at CASual Friday's to feature shades of autumn and at least one leaf on your project - and as I have my new Avery Elle stash winking at me, it would frankly be rude not to play with the Modern Leaves set now wouldn't it.........

I wanted to make the big scribbled leaf the main feature on my card so I took a piece of white card smaller than my base and a selection of autumnal shades of ink and just went to town with random stamping.  If like me you find "random" a bit hard to do - follow the rule of 3 and stamp your leaf 3 times in each colour in 3 places and before you know you'll have covered your card ;-)

For my sentiment - also from the same set - I embossed it onto my base card with mustard EP from American Crafts and then added a shadow effect - this is super easy when you've embossed as you simply stamp again in a darker shade over the top but just to the left with a dye ink and then wipe it off the embossing.  Here's a close up.

My focal element is a flower die cut from brown felt (HA framelet) and 2 sets of leaves die cut from mustard felt with my Wplus9 Folk Art Florals dies again.   I hand stitched some tiny seed beads to the centre of the flower and added some streaks of orange stickles to stop the focal element being "flat" and finished with a few blobs of stickles around it to draw the eye in.

That's all from me today - off to the dreaded Ikea again - wish me luck!