Thursday, October 25, 2012

Simply Autumn

The leaves are changing & falling in a major way, but I rarely have luck portraying the beauty of this season in a card. So I decided to try my hand at the "Autumn" challenge at Less is More (but I entered 6 challenges, not 5 (I thought it was 5 plus theirs) so it's ineligible, which always happens to me over there).


I used a "letterpress" technique to stamp/deboss the fence; the shape is actually a wooden shape (which I received from Linda as part of a City Crafter swap). Basically, I inked the wooden shape with brown chalk ink, carefully taped it, ink-side-down, onto my cardstock (with removable tape), and ran it through my Bigshot using the sandwich of: multipurpose platform, wooden shape, cardstock, extra piece of cardstock, one embossing pad, and a clear plate on top. Because the wood is so thick, I had trouble with getting a good embossing without the paper cracking, but it "stamped" great!

The leaves are embossed/cut with Spellbinders dies. I used craft foil for the copper leaves. The sentiment is stamped with brown StazOn, using a stamp from an Adam Prescott/Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine set.

The stamped portion is adhered to the card base with foam tape, so that it pop up a little bit (like I see the pros doing). I'm very happy with the results; just because it's "clean & simple" doesn't mean it was easy!


Inspiration/Challenges:
Cardabilities Sketch #61: Sketch
Critter Sketch: Embossing  
Divas by Design Challenge 58: Use some Orange
House of Gilli: Embossing, wet or dry
Simon Says Stamp: Autumn Leaves


Update: I ended up sending this, along with a completed repair order, to the State Police. Hey, working in Traffic can't be fun; and everyone deserves a card!

Thank you for visiting,

10 comments:

  1. This is a gorgeous card but sadly you have linked it to too many challenges for us at Less is More where we have a maximum of 5 which may be combined.
    Do join us again as we would love to see more of your lovely work.
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    Less is More

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  2. I don't know anything about the letterpress technique, but the result is fantastic! The fence with the lovely autumn colored leaves makes such a beautiful decoration on this CAS card!

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  3. What a fab card, thanx for joining us at Critter Sketch, hugs, marion

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  4. Pretty fall card! Thanks for playing along at the cardabilities!!

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  5. Gorgeous card! LOVE how the letterpress fence turned out, WOW! :) Thanks for participating in our 'Autumn Leaves' challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp challenge blog! xo

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  6. Great card...I hope you'll link up at 52 Card Pickup this week!

    http://www.oldbackporch.com/2012/10/52-card-pickup-week-43.html

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  7. Fantastic card! Leaves look so pretty! THank you for joining us at Cardabilities!:)

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  8. Lovely card. Thank you for joining us at Divas by Design this week.
    Sarah-Jane xx

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  9. very stilish ♥ thanks for playing along at Cardabilities ♥ Petra

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  10. Great card, pretty leaves
    Thanks for joining us at Divas By Design
    Hugs
    Kat xx

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