Autumn Colours

This week I entered a card in the the Allsorts challenge blog. The theme was Autumn Colours.

Here is my entry

I am seriously into clean and simple designs at the moment!

For this card, using the Spellbinders Fall Foliage set,

I die cut a leaf from a sheet of white card and then embossed it. I inked my sentiment with rainbow ink pad and stamped it next to the leaf aperture. I pricked holes around the edge of the white panel using a pricking tool.

Using the same rainbow pad, I inked a large sheet of white card with a brayer and matted the topper using foam pads to give dimension.

And that is it - super-quick and simple!
Mel x


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Icecream Colours Challenge

This week we entered the Allsorts Challenge - with the theme of Ice Cream colours.

This is our entry

It is a very simple card but does use up quite a bit of card stock!

After matting and layering the coloured cardstock, I stamped a sentiment from the Creative Expressions Sincere Sentiments stamp set onto white cardstock.

 I then embossed the card with the new Couture Creations Early Songbird embossing folder

Using colours from the backing card, I coloured in the birds and swirls with Copic markers.

The card was finished with a Creative Expressions pearl swirl

- it doesn't need much else!


Mel xxx



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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone - hope you have recovered from the festivities!
This week we are sponsoring the Penny Black at Allsorts challenge.
The theme is Love and Hearts.
Here is our submission:

I decoupaged the main image - the beautiful Penny Black "Love is the Message" stamp

I matted the image onto a die cut layer using Spellbinders Nestabilities Heart Squares

I threaded some Vintage Ribbon around the edges:

The flourishes were die cut using Spellbinders Bird Flourishes:

They were cut from the Creative Expressions Foundations Paper range:

I layered my topper onto white card which was embossed using one of the new Couture Creations embossing folders - Vintage Plumes:

 I stamped a sentiment and die cut it using Spellbinders Fancy Tags Three:

I hope you like it!
Mel x Pin It Now!