the Beauty of Autumn

Happy Last Monday of August. Can you believe it's almost September?!! While I'm not really ready for August to be over, I am definitely ready for some Fall weather. I think Fall is my most favorite season, though there are things I really like about all four seasons. Variety is nice.

My card today was created in honor of Fall.

I began by stamping the silhouette leaf image with various TH Distress inks onto white CS. While that dried, I used the same inks and stamped the open Leaf image onto another piece of white CS and die cut the panel with a Fawn Lawn stitched Die. Before adding this panel to the card base, I sponged some of the Fossilized Amber ink along the edges of the white card base since I couldn't find any CS in my stash that matched any of these colors. I did the same thing to another panel before layering the silhouette leaf panel to it. This sketch is from this week's sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. To complete the card, I stamped the Beauty of Autumn greeting with the same inks, stamping just a portion each time so the inks overlapped a bit. After die cutting the greeting some of the Amber ink was sponged along the edges.

Once I had every thing put together the white areas looked too bright, so I sponged some of the Amber ink onto my craft mat, added some water and splattered some of it onto the card. It really does pull it all together.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings,

shelia

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