Sunday, September 16, 2012

Basket of Fall leaves

Beautiful autumn day here, if a bit on the warm side. Nice breeze-great for drying sheets on the line! They smell soooooooooooo good when you make your bed! No excuse to stay inside and craft, so just taking a little time to post this card today.


Not sure I like exactly how this one turned out. And now seeing it on the computer I know why it just didn't seem right to me-The 2 BIG green circles! They should have been on opposite sides! And maybe I should have mounted the basket on some kind of a background. Oh well, it is what it is, I guess-I know if I try to change out the panels I'll mess it up. I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches (below). I will also enter this in the Tuesday Throwdown#115 (use gems in your artwork), and Jay  Gee's Nook challenge #23  using this inspiration grouping(below). While the colors of the dots are not the same colors as the inspiration photo, as soon as I saw the IP, I thought of this paper. Works for me!
Anywhooooo- It's pretty simple. I love this new 6x6 paper pad I picked up from Echo Park-Sweet Summertime-Flower Garden-such pretty papers. I cut the panels out with Spellbinders Classic Labels small & large. The basket of leaves-I have no idea where I got that. It's a diecut, and I'm thinking it's made with a Cuttlebug or Sizzix die and the leaves are a punch. I added some lines to the basket with a Memento Rich cocoa marker to give the basket some dimension. Also added some Stickles to the leaves for sparkle-Maybe it's frost on them ;). I stamped the sentiment from Sweet n' Sassy Stamps Happy Birthday Words with Versamark and added MS Ebony embossing powder. I embossed the yellow strips with a Cuttlebug folder (have no idea the name-it's one of the first ones I bought way back when I started all this crazyness!). I added three rhinestones to balance it out. 
      

Okay, time to go take the sheets off the line and start supper! Yup, I have to cook again! Man, if only we didn't have to cook & eat, just think of all the time we could spend crafting!!!

7 comments:

  1. What a sweet birthday card. I love the basket of leaves. Thanks for joining us at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

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  2. Fun fall card! Great colors! Thanks for playing along with us this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

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  3. I absolutely love your basket of leaves (love that they are nice and sparkly!)...it is the perfect embellishment for the sketch! Thank you for playing along with us at Tuesday Morning Sketches!

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  4. What a fun fall card! I just love that basket of leaves. Isn't it amazing how just those few extra lines drawn on the basket make such a big impact on the overall design--fabulous! Thanks so much for joining us at Tuesday Morning Sketches this week! Hope you play along again!

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  5. Oh, I love the bright colors on this! What a wonderful, cheerful card! Thanks so much for sharing it with us at Tuesday Morning Sketches!

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  6. Great take on both these challenges Jackie and I love the happy colours of this card. Thanks so much for joining us at Jay Gee's Nook :)

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