Nature Gives to Every Season....

This Autumnal card was made for the upcoming C.R.A.F.T blog challenge.

The background was made using caramel, lettuce and rust colours from our alcohol inks range:

The oak leaves and acorn swirl came from our beautiful Art Nouveau Cricut cartridge:

I cut all the layers out at 6 inches in various shades of brown and green card and then layered up.

I stamped the sentiment, then die cut it using the Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Fourteen

Before taking the shape out of the die, I blended distress inks around the edges:

The card was then matted and layered up onto a 6 inch square card and decorated with some faux pearls.

I hope you  like it!

Mel x

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Autumn Sunset

I made this card for the October edition of Craft Stamper which is on sale now. The theme was Autumn.
It was hot and sunny when I made this card, but now I can feel the Autumn in the air!
One of my favourite stamps is the Clarity Stamp Birch Trees, which looks beautiful if you repeat stamp it to create a forest effect. In order to brayer the background sunset without turning the Birch trees orange, I coloured the trunks using my clear Versamark pen, then heat embossed them using clear embossing powder. This creates a resist which you can brayer over. The doodled line around the edge of the image creates an effective frame.
Mel xxx Pin It Now!