Waxed Leaves

 HI all and welcome to a new Fusion challenge.  I was a bit stumped with what to do for this challenge but then I saw the most amazing technique by Dawn Woleslagle from WPlus9 and I was immediately inspired to create this card.  

When I saw Dawn's video, I immediately set out to buy the stencil set she used.  I had it in my cart and was about to push the button when I thought to check my stash and guess what?  I already had it and had never used it!  Doh!  Anyway, I set about creating the background following her video and using colours from the inspiration photo.  In keeping with the autumn theme, I die-cut and stacked some leaves and then randomly added foundry wax to them before heat-setting.

To keep the sentiment matching with the foundry wax, I gold embossed it onto black and then finished with some gold pearls.

Thanks for visiting.  Please check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Essential Sentiments (MFT)

Ink:  Versamark, Matcha, Wintergreen, Seafoam, Whipped Honey, Shea Butter, Tiara, Sauna, Ginger, Terracotta (Catherine Pooler)

Cardstock:  White, Black

Dies:  Fall Leaves (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Winter Wonder BG Stencil (Honey Bee Stamps), Antique Gold EP, Warm Pearls (Honey Bee Stamps), Statue Foundry Wax

Cheers

Karren

Gold Shapes

 Hi and welcome to the newest challenge from the Freshly Made Sketches team, where our sketch hostess this week is Narelle Farrugia. 

I went very CAS with my card, using gold hot foil  to mimic the sketch elements and a simple stamped and stenciled flower for the centrepiece.  The sentiment is also hot-foiled with black foil.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you'll check out the wonderful cards made by the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Build a Garden:  Nature's Magic (Altenew)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K) Do-Si-Do, Coral Cabana, Samba, Glitz, Matcha, Sage (Catherine Pooler)

Cardstock:  White

Dies:  Build a Garden:  Nature's Magic (Altenew), Hot Foil Frames Circles (MFT), A2 Layers (Waffle Flower), More Sentiments Hot Foil (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Gold Hot Foil, Black Hot Foil

Cheers

Karren

Plaid Poinsettia

Hi all!  Today was a public holiday as a memorial day for Queen Elizabeth II and I spent some of the day in my craft room making a card for a few challenges.  I chose the sketch from The Paper Players, the Christmas metallic challenge from Happy Little Stampers, the Christmas in September challenge at Sweet Stampin' and the current Tic Tac Toe challenge where I pretty much played with every square except Splatters!  But I'll go with Foliage/Plaid/Berries

I stamped and stenciled the wreath before die-cutting it but then wasn't happy with the colours I'd used. This wreath was already done and in the stamp packet, so I decided to use that as it had more traditional Christmas colours.  The hot-foiled plaid background was also already done so you'd think this card would have been quick to put together, wouldn't you? Ha!  Not for me as I second- and third-guess every step.

 

The sentiment was silver-embossed on black cardstock and die-cut with the co-ordinating die before I put all the elements together on a Cranberry Cocktail card base, which matched the berries.  I added some yellow Nuvo drops to the centres of the poinsettias and Copic-coloured some pearls to try and match the cranberry colour.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Poinsettia (Pink Fresh Studio), Poinsettia Bouquet (WPlus9)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K Designs), Versamark, various Altenew inks for the stenciling

Cardstock:  Cranberry Cocktail, Black Licorice (MFT), White

Dies:  Poinsettia (Pink Fresh Studio), Poinsettia Bouquet (WPlus9), Triple Line Diamond Hot Foil Plate (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Poinsettia stencil (Pink Fresh Studio), Silver EP, Silver Hot Foil, Pearls, Dandelion Yellow Nuvo Drops

Cheers

Karren

The Window

Hi!  It's my turn to create the sketch this week over at Freshly Made Sketches and I made it easy on myself because I already had this card made but unposted, so that was my starting point for the sketch! 

I actually made this card for a few challenges about a month ago, but I was too late and the challenges had closed, so rather than just post it anyway, I thought I'd be smart and save it for when it was my turn to be sketch hostess 😄. Most of the elements in this card are from The Greetery.  I used the window to create a shaker element and kept to tones of gray and peach (which were the challenge colours for the challenge I missed!).  I stamped the window onto a white panel then die-cut the outside and inside with the co-ordinating dies before creating the shaker element.  Once that was done, I put the window back in and added some foliage and brickwork as well as a simple sentiment.

Thanks so much for visiting.  I hope you'll check out what the design team has done with my sketch and also have a go yourself.

Products used: 

Stamps:  Fresh Air (The Greetery)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Gentleman's Gray, Rock Collection (Altenew) Bellini (Catherine Pooler)

Cardstock:  White, Acetate

Dies:  Fresh Air (The Greetery)

Accessories:  Sequins

Cheers

Karren