Tuesday, November 6, 2012

MC Nov/12 Leaves - Trees Are

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One of the challenges is to use silhouette images... I wasn't in the mood to color them which is what I usually do with them, so decided to use them to remove color using water. Love the ghost like images it leaves.

I sprayed my white cardstock with Dylusions Lemon Zest, then Fresh Lime, a bit of London Blue and a touch of Black. Added a touch of water just to get some areas moving more. Lightly tapped a paper towel to the wettest spots - didn't want to remove the intensity... then dried.

Lay my 4 silhouette leaves (Flourishes "Falling Leaves") onto an acrylic block, misted with water and stamped, holding the stamp in place for a count of 10 seconds, lifting, allowing the water to work it's magic for a couple seconds, blotting with a clean paper towel and drying. Repeating the process several times till I had enough leaves on my background. Used a black Zig Writer and outlined parts of the images to give a shadow effect.

Stamped one of the leaves with Versafine Toffee and embossed with Queen's Gold. Stamped my sentiment (Quietfire Design) with the Toffee and embossed with an off white embossing powder.

Trimmed my piece down and ran the edges into the Toffee stamp pad and embossed them with the gold. Adhered it to the front of a Kraft card 4.25"w x 5.5"h

Tied some twine on the left side.

And it fits for these challenges:
Cupcake Craft Challenge  #217 use Kraft
MIM Challenge  #70 Autumn using Kraft & Twine
Everybody Art Challenge  #212 Embossing
Flourishes  #194 use a Flourishes Silhouette stamp
Papertake Weekly  Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown  123 Autumn Leaves
Stamp with Sarah Kay  #180 Autumn




12 comments:

Mynn xx said...

Oh, wow!!! The coloring of this card is stunning! LOVE the amazing detail, too! Thanks for joining us at MMM! :)

Fliss said...

A beautiful inky creation Yogi. Love the embossed detail and the twine tie.
Thanks for joining in with the MMM challenge this week.
Fliss x

Louise said...

Wonderful card and great colours,thank you for joining us at Cupcake this week and good luck.
Louise xx

Brodders said...

Fab Krafty card :) Thanks for playing along with us at CCC -Jane x

Shannon White said...

Jsut Beautiful! Love the pretty leaves and colors you chose and the sentiment is just wonderful! So glad you could join us at Tuesday Throwdown! 8-)

Jacqueline said...

Beautiful - thanks for joining in at MMM this week - Jacqueline xx

Karen W said...

Very pretty and I love your colors. Thanks for joining us at Flourishes!!

Crafting Vicky said...

WOW this is totally stunning. I really love the technique that you have used.

Thanks for joining us as Tuesday Throwdown this week. Hope to see you again next week. DT Crafting Vicky

Quietfire said...

Beautiful Yogi!!

Suzi B said...

Thank you for joining us at MMM with this striking card... it puts me in mind of a fairy grotto :)
Suzi B x

Cazro said...

A pretty card, lovely leaves. Thanks for sharing with us at MMM. Caz

Unknown said...

Very pretty and stunning! Thank you for playing along at the FTTC.