We Love Stamping

 The theme for the We Love Stamping Challenge for October is **Autumn** or of course *Anything Goes* and it so happens that the theme for Stamping Sensations is - you guessed it - **Anything Goes** or *Autumn Colours*.  I've decided to take my card along to both challenges this time as it seems to fit the criteria and there's a limit to the number of Autumnal cards I need in my box.

I started with a square of white stamping card and a circle mask so that I could put a faint line of ink to guide me in placing the leaf stamps for which I used a selection of yellows, greens and brown with a touch of orange for the berries.  I then decided to pop the little owl in amongst the leaves and he was coloured using pencils before being masked so that I could add a light dusting of yellow in and around the wreath with a some orange concentrated on the leafy area.  The final touch was to add some purple to highlight the edges (more Halloween than Autumn I guess, but - hey - artistic licence 😉).  As usual with this style of card I dithered over adding a sentiment but have left it blank for now.

The usual opportunity to maybe win a prize at the end of the  month

Stamping - All using Lavinia stamps
Inking - Distress Ink and Versafine Clair
Colouring - Polychromos pencils

Allsorts Challenge #801

 The theme for the current Allsorts Challenge is **Falling Leaves** or of course the usual *Anything Goes* and there are great prizes too as well as Design Team inspiration if you follow the link.  For my card this time I've splodged various Autumn colours onto some scraps of cream card before die cutting the leaves, adding a little gilding in places.  The base card is also cream, topped with a cream square and a die cut circular motif  using kraft card with three of the leaves added.  A few of the smaller 'fall-out' circles were also gilded and scattered around and a die cut 'Hello' in the centre.  Sadly the gold doesn't show up too well in the picture 🙄

 Circle Motif - unbranded die from Amazon
Hello - die from Gummiapan
Leaves - Leaf Fragments dies designed by Tim Holtz

Autumn Themes

 There seem to be lots of Autumn themed challenges around at the moment so I brought out some of my leafy dies to see what I could come up with.  In actual fact I wouldn't call this an Autumnal card because it's just a CAS one using a single leaf die with a scrap (snippet) of card out of my bits box.  It was only a small piece and I think it was probably coloured using Pixie Powders, some of which include mica for a bit of glimmer.  I cut a square of card to fit the card blank and used a cutting die to emboss, followed by cutting a couple of frames using two smaller sized dies from the set.  One of the fall-out circles was embossed with an embossing folder and the leaf simply added to the centre.  I still have quite a few leaf dies to play with so hopefully there will be some more suitably coloured cards to follow, watch this space 😉

Circles - Pierced circle dies from Creative Expressions 
Embossing Folder - from my collection but not named on the actual folder
Leaf - from Tim Holtz Sizzix Artsy Leaves die set