Orange and Black for Color Hues

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's time for another challenge from Color Hues.

This month our talented Tracey picked our colors.  She chose....

Aren't these perfect colors for October?

Originally I was going to do something with pumpkins but when I opened a

surprise package from Michele, I knew I needed to go in another direction.

Recently Michele posted this card when she was our Guest Designer and I loved

that little bird and that she used vellum for the background.  So I CASEd 

her card using the new Color Hues colors.

I had some trouble figuring out how to put all those die cut pieces together!

So I got out some Press & Seal and put everything back together on the die.

After that it was smooth sailing and I LOVE the results!

Now let's go and see what my talented friends and our

fantastic Guest Designer Annette have done to inspire you.

Your card and or project can use ANY HUE of the TWO Colors selected for you, 

and of course, neutrals are welcome.  

Our Neutrals are: white, black, grey, kraft, brown, cream, and metallics. 

Remember that green is not a neutral. 

I hope you'll create a card using Orange & Black and add it to the gallery at

Color Hues.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on October 29.

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge and the overall

 winner will have the opportunity to be a future Guest Designer.

Most importantly, just have fun!

Edited to add:

Double D Challenge - Windows 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Nature's Dance (SB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo, Rusty Hinge (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black, Pumpkin Pie, Pale Papaya

Other:  Bird Watch Inlays (C9), Nature's Dance die (SB), Oak Forest EF (SB), Essential Arches die (SB)

Enjoy!

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Golden Baubles

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Two more Christmas cards.

I had some more embossed vellum from several years ago.  This vellum has gold

embossing instead of silver.

I've used gold foil and glimmer paper to cut some Curio Attic Ornaments

from the Greetery. 

Sorry for the glare.  It's so hard to get a good photo of foil or glitter!

Challenges:

Peace on Earth #121 - See bottom left on mood board below

Krafty Chicks #841 - ATG Christmas

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Matte Gold Foil (SSS), Print Vellum (ret SU), Gold Glimmer

Other:  Curio Attic Ornaments, Curio Divider & Details Die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangle Labels, Botanicuts: Pine Bough die (all Grtry), Foiled Sentiment (Alt), Joy die (Elizabeth Crafts)

Enjoy!

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Silent Night

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I hope you had a good weekend.

I had some patterned paper pieces sitting on my desk and when I saw Jen M's sketch

at Freshly Made Sketches, these pieces just screamed "use me".

Here's the sketch...

Another piece went for this one...

I dipped the edges of the patterned paper in VersaMark and then in gold

embossing powder and heated it up. A very subtle edging.

Just a few hours left to join in.  Hope to see you in the gallery!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Sing a Song of Christmas (Grty)

Ink:   Night of Navy, VersaMark

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, White Texture, Gold Foil, Patterned paper

Other:  Nativity (AE), Gold EP, Star of Wonder die (MB), Subtle EF (ret SU_

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Jewish Celebrations (ret SU)

Ink:   Encore Gold

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Patterned Paper, Scraps of Gold and Shimmery White

Other:  Menorah Die (AM), Gold EP

Enjoy!

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Spooky Hugs

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With fall comes Halloween.

This jack-o-lantern die was in a box from a friends downsizing.  He's a scary one!

When I added some leftover gray ink on the yellow background his eyes

were really scary.  I'm not sure the googly eyes make his less or more scary!

He's going over to Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge then into the mail and

off my desk.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Life of the Party (TH)

Ink:   Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Buttercup

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black, Scraps of yellow and peach

Other:  Thinlits Jack-o-lantern (TH), Spiderweb EF (SU), White EP, Betterpress Sentiment

Enjoy!

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Acorn Almanac for Fun

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I was recently quite taken with a stamp from Unity.

Trying to get the look I wanted, I ended up with several cards.

So grab a cup (or glass) of your favorite beverage for a lengthy show.

This was the first one.  I stamped with Sepia ink and embossed with a new to me

matte clear embossing powder on mixed media paper.

The camera is seeing it much darker than it actually is.  The border is Cajun Craze-

more rust than brown and the leaves and acorns are lighter too.

The second one was done the same way but embossed with gold. This one has a border

of dark brown.  I used acetate to smoosh some ink into the background on both of them.

I didn't like the embossed caps on the acorns so I stamped some more acorns with

black ink and colored them in, fussy cut and popped them up.

The third ended up being my favorite.  It was the second attempt.  The first attempt

was a mess.  More on that later.

This time no embossing.  Just stamping, coloring with Zigs and my waterbrush. 

I did a wet on wet wash around the mage and added some splatters.

I added a bow (not as wonky as it looks) and some little copper punched circles.

Again the actual colors are lighter.

Finally....

I'm not even sure if I would send this one.  It's the result of trying to die cut 

before the splatters dry.  Those little splatters became ugly smudges!

I salvaged some of it.  You can see the results of cutting before drying.

And the worst got cut off.

It was a fun play with this stamp set and not all on the same day.

I hope you have some fun creating this weekend.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Acorn Almanac (Unity)

Ink:   Versafine Sepia, Encore Gold, Vesafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Natural

Other:  Zigs CCRBM, Matte Clear EP, Gold EP, Deckle & Stitches Nesting Dies (Unity), Essential Arches Dies (SB), Stitched Circle Dies (SSS), Oak Forest EF (SB)

Enjoy!

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