Autumn Colors...

The new Monday Craft Your Passion Challenge sponsored by Stamp Fairy starts today with the theme "Autumn Colors".  The CYP Design Team has some incredible inspiration waiting for you - and you can find those, the challenge rules and the due date HERE.   

I chose to use Molly/Sept.  (Thank you to Stamp Fairy for providing the images for the Design Team) and liked the idea of  her jumping into a pile of leaves - that says fall colors to me.


TECHNIQUE

I've started with papers from an Autumn collection, distressed the edges with a Tim Holtz Distress tool and also inked them with Distress Inks.  The two DPs were then matted on a chocolate brown CS.  "Molly" was printed out three times, colored with Copics, fussy cut, sculpted (dry embossed) from the back and finally layered using foam tape.  The leaves are punched out of scraps, rolled through a corrugator and the top of the edges are inked with the Distress Ink.  The pile of leaves was glued or layered with foam tape to achieve the depth.  Finally the SU sentiment was stamped, punched out and matted with SU punches.

inside

The inside was layered with left over papers from the front layout.

This card should be eligible for the following

CHALLENGES:

One Sweet Challenge - Fall Colors
Crafty Sentiment - Anything Goes
PaperTake Weekly - Child's Play
Paper Pretties - Distressed
Simon Says Wed. - Emboss It (focal image dry embossed from the back to sculpt it)
Sisterhood of Crafters - Devine Digis
613 Ave C #37 - Anything Goes with optional Happy Fall Y'all
ABC - V for Very Cute (no more than 10 other challenges)
OSAAT #181 - Autumn/Fall
Beyond Grey #39 -  Fall colors (used Pumpkin, Yellow & Kraft colors - inspired by the gourd colors in the photos)

SUPPLIES

IMAGES:  The focal image is "Molly Throughout the Year September" from Stamp Fairy;  the sentiment is from Stamping Up.

PAPER:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# Cover Wt. used for the image; DP is from Recollections "Autumn Mat Stack"; base CS is stash.

EMBELLISHMENTS: Word window and mat for the sentiment is from SU; leaves are punched with Family Treasures punches.

INKS:  The stamped sentiment was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black;  "Antique Linen" Distress Ink was used on the edges and on the embossed leaves; the image was printed on a Canon PIXMA printer & colored with Copics:

May you color with abandon, create wildly and always make what amuses you!

~ginny