Another leafy Birthday Wishes card

 

Honorable Mention

at The Card Concept

The rain finaly came to Israel... so it means we're having a little bit of autumn! I love autumn colors, and this card is no exception.

I started with a dark green cs, and die cut in with a stitched woodgrain pattern. The same die I used for the white cs in the middle.

My sentiment was stamped directly on the white cs, with crimson ink.

I matted the white square with a dp in moss/sage color, and die cut along thin leaf from this dp.

I die cut two big leaves, one in crimson and one in yellow. I then adhered the 3 leaves on the white cs, and add a bow with tripple dark green twine.

The whole panel was adhered to a white cs basis.

I would like to enter it to the challenge at The Card Concept:

I was inspired by the colors of green and red, with a hint of yellow, to create my clean and layerd card.

It also goes for the 'Birthday' theme at Addicted to Stamp and More:

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Joy, with pine cones

One of the winners

at Freshly Made Sketches

Today I would like to share with you this rather CAS card, made for several challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #512 - sketch:

Time Out Challenges #201 - Simplicity:

Happy Little Stamppers - anything goes with dies:

I used a spotted die cut for the white panel. I adhered a dp strip for the wide strip in the sketch, and a thin stitched ribbon for the thin one.

I die cut the pine cones from a kraft cs, and inked it with distress ink (tea dye). The pine needles were cut with a die cut from a dark green cs, and the other leaves were cut from a sage dp.

I die cut the Joy word from the same dark green cs and adhered it with foam to the panel.

Once everything was in place, I adhered the panel to a green dark cs basis.

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Best Wishes with a wintery scene

Hello dear crafty friends!

I made this card for the current challenge at Less Is More, which asked for a silhouette:

To make my background, I did some ink blending with TH ditress inks - Dusty Concord, Faded Jeans and Black Soot.

I sprinkled some white Lindy's Gang mist and stamped the sentiment in Hero Arts Navy ink.

It also goes for the following challenges:

Double D challenges - Trees:

SimonSays Stamps Monday Challenge - Trees

SimonSays Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make your own background

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Thanks - a recipe for neutrals

One of the FAV 

at Tuesday Morning Sketches

On one hand, making cards in neutrals colors can be very challenging. On the other hand, these colors make a very elegant combination. And who doesn't love a card in neutrals colors?!

So I took inspiration from the challenge at As You See It challenge blog, whith a recipe for a neutrals card: to use an embossing folder, a ribbon or a twine, a die or a punch, one sentiment - and all that with neutrals:

I chose to work with the neutrals colors white, vanilla and kraft - for my cs, and brown ink for the sentiment.

I followed the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches #631:

The banners, the feathers and the tag - where cut with dies. The white stitched banner was embossed using dots embossing folder. 

I tied a bow around all the feathers with a jute twine, which also was used to tie a knot on the tag.

A one sentiment 'thanks' was stamped on the tag, and I adhered it beneath the feathers.

It goes also for the 'thanks' challenges at SimonSays Monday challenge, and SimonSays Wednesday challenge.

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A CAS card in pink

 Happy Friday!

CAS card usually means lots of 'white space', but it doesn't have to be only in white color!

As long as you keep your card uncluttered, minimum layers and embellishments - you can use any color you like.

And so I did with this card.

I used the colors from Global Project Design #317, which asked for pink, blue and mint:

The design follows the sketch from CAS Colour & Sketches #445:

I stamped the rose flower in some pink hues and then fusy cut it. The leaves were die cut from a water color paper, that first was sprayed with Lindy's Gang Mad Hatter Mint shimmer mist.

I die cut the stitched and scalloped banner from a blue dp, that has like white light spray on it.

I adhered it to the PINK cs basis, and on it I adhered the flower with the leaves. A few translucent 3-d drops and my card is done!

I'm still not sure for what occasion I'll be using this card - a birthday, an anniversary, a good luck card, etc., so I didn't add any sentiment at the moment.

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A pile of leaves Thank You card

 

Happy Friday to all! 

This week, Lynn from The Color Throwdown #668 offered a very striking color combo - rust, brown, blue and gold:

I stamped a pile of leaves in brown, rust and blue, and a small 'thank you' sentiment in brwon. 

I added some gold sequins as embellishments.

The panel was matted with gold shimmer cs, and then I adhered it to a dark blue cs basis.

Leaves are the main focal object of my card, and it's a perfect match to the current challenge at CAS on Friday, which aked for leaves.

It also goes to the two Simonsays Stamp challenge, Monday & Wednesday, where the theme is thanks.

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Thank you, full of roses

 

A CAS 'Thank you' card, in only two colors - brown and orange.

I took a piece of scrap and die cut a circle, and used it a homemade mask, blending 3 different shades of orange.

I then stamped the roses in Ranger's archival sepia ink. The sentiment (Doodlebug's) was stamped with Ranger's archival coffee ink.

I would like to enter it to the following challenges:

Color Hues - brown & orange:

Addicted to CAS - circle:

SimonSays Stamp Monday challenge - thanks

Happy Little Stampers stencil challenge:

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This life is pretty amazing

The minute I saw the colors at TGIF, I thought of a beach scene:

I think this colors combo is so dreamy!

I used two distress inks (scattered straw and tumbled glass), and a ranger's archival ink (tea rose) to create the background. Then I die cut a stitched rectangle.

I'm not sure how, but in the end I didn't go on a beach scene, rather preferred to stay with a powerful statement (TH Stampers Anonymous stamp), inked with ranger's archival ink (jet black).

I added some butterlies (Kaisercraft stamps) as a whimsical element, again with the black ink.

I adhered the pannel to a folded vanilla cs basis, and that's it.

I would like to enter it to the 'Precious' challenge at Time Out challenge blog, as life is something very precious, and hence my inspiration for this card.

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A row of autumn leaves, just for you

 

Never get tired of those beautiful autumn leaves, so when I saw the sketch chllenge at Paper Craft Crew, I immediately thought of a row of falling leaves:

For the colors, I took inspiration from The Color Throwdown #667, where Lori asked for orange, peach, pink and red:

I die cut the bigger leaves and colored them in the challenge colors, then I die cut some smaller leaves, and colored them with rust color, kind of brownish orange.

I aranged the leaves on a kraft cs, and adhered the assembling on a white cs.

I stamped the sentiment in red and die cut it with a stitched tag die, added a red twine, and attached it with dimmentionals.

As a final touch, I added some pink enmel dots, and my card is done!

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Happy Birthdy card, in Christmas colors

The color challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches, is very Christmasy: 

I really love this color combo, but I don't celebrate Christmas, so I went for a birthday theme card. 

I was also inspired by the colors of the card to CASE at Global Design Project:

I loved that crimson background, and used a Cart Bella paper from 'Home for Christmas' collection. I also loved the bi-colored leaves, so I did the same on my card.

Last, but not least, I was inspired by the 'Add Leaves' theme at The Flower Challenge:

I think my card came very ellegant. What do you think?

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