Beautiful Autumn for Card Class

I've decided that I really like this type of card with this central panel as you can make it look so varied by either stamping, adding die cuts, some dry embossing with a lovely folder and of course water colouring that you can see in the same type of card in my tantalizing stamper post. 

This version is a card we made in my online class this week. I send kits to everyone and they follow along using what they have at home with the kit I have supplied. It's great fun and we have a lot of chatter and lots of giggles.  We're always open to welcoming more people to the group as it's definitely a case of the more the merrier.  

So I used the colours Terracotta Tile, Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso and Soft Suede and stamped lots of images from the Stampin' Up! Beautiful Autumn set.  To create the outer splatter patterns I used the corn grain stamp but used second and third generation ink and also used a couple of markers for ink splatter.  

 I also added a flourish of Bumblebee gingham ribbon prior to adding my simply stamped sentiment also in the set onto a stitched circle die cut.  

The measurements for this particular card are as follows. 

Card back in Terracotta Tile  14.8 x 10.5cm

Embossed layer in Vanilla 14.3 x 10 cm

Card fold in Terracotta Tile 28.9 x 7cm scored on the long side at 14.8cm

Stamped layer in Vanilla 14.3 x 6.5cm 

The great thing is that you still have room to stamp inside and write sentiments. One of the card club ladies wasn't happy with her embossing layer so she moved the folded panel to one side and that looked great too.  Here are most of the cards.

It's simple to do so I hope you'll have a go. Via my other share you can also link to Linda in my team to see where I got the idea and the beautiful version she did with Forever Fern. 

Have a fabulous weekend and remember to ........

Keep safe and keep stamping.

Hugs Zoe x

Beautiful Autumn 

Beautiful Autumn Bundle

Christmas Time is Here meets alcohol markers

WOW WOW WOW I am loving all the different techniques you can use with this amazing stamp set Christmas Rose.  It's part of a bundle of products that Stampin' Up! released this month and it is awesome.  Today my card is coloured using Stampin' Blends aka alcohol markers.   You need to stamp your image in black Memento ink, although I have to confess I mistakenly stamped this with black StazOn but it has held up ok and I only realised half way through colouring so soldiered on and I think it is ok.  I used a multitude of colours and shades which I blended to create texture and add some light and shage.  The leaves have several greens used and often if you start some areas with the ivory pen you can then shade ontop and blend different colours really well.

I've also used the overlooked Christmas Countdown set to add some gold embossing detail and also the very popular Stampin' Up! Very Versailles set for the text embossing.

The rose image was stamped onto water colour paper and I also stamped it onto copy paper and fuzzy cut it out to create a mask so that I could then add sponging and also use one of the Basic Pattern Decorative masks to add sponged dots.

The artwork is then matted onto Early Espresso card and then onto a Cherry Cobbler card base on which I previously stamped some of the dot splodges for want of a better word, in Versamark before adding gold embossing powder.  It really adds to the richness of the whole card.

The sentiment is part of a hostess set in our winter catalogue called The Greatest Part of Christmas.  If you place a qualifying order or indeed host a Stampin' Up! party you could get choose this stamp set free as part of your order or hostess with the mostess rewards.

The Christmas Time is Here bundle is really pretty and has some gorgeous patterned papers and embellishments to coordinate with it also.

 Gold Sparkle enamel dots

gold sparkle ribbon

The dies coordinate with the large single rubber stamp as well as having border and embellishment dies and the same die cuts out one of the images on the papers making the coordination fab just as you would expect from Stampin' Up!

There is even a beautiful bangle that you can purchase as a treat for you or a lovely Christmas gift. 

I hope you like it and you can see more details in Zoe's online Stampin' Up! shop. 

Thanks for stopping by 

Zoe x

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