It's a soggy wet day here in Vancouver and most of our fall leaves are off the trees looking pretty brown and dead. Hence the subdued look of my card for today's CAS challenge "Fall Foliage".
I used a large square acrylic block for the background - inked up with Ranger Lake Mist, spritzed with water, and pressed onto my cs. I then stamped one of the leaves, the splats, and the postage mark on top of it with the same ink.
Using Distress Brushed Corduroy, I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment and one of the other leaf stamps onto the background. The leaf looked kind of blah so I redid it on a scrap of cs and fussy cut it. I used a yellow marker and a waterbrush to tone down the white parts of the leaf. I used foam tape under it and layered it over the stamped blah leaf. A nice bronze border finished off the focal panel and it is popped up with foam tape.
Date: Monday, November 16, 2015 GMT Views: 2702
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Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Splitcoast Challenge Hostess Proud Fan Club Member
Registered: January 27, 2010 Location: Southern Ontario, Canada Posts: 51686
Mon, Nov 16, 2015 @ 5:14 PM
Awesome Susan - love the subdued look you gave your card. It is like watching the last leaf fall through the rain - truly wonderful. Thank you for joining in with the CAS challenge.
Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Mon, Nov 16, 2015 @ 5:47 PM
Your leaf is anything but blah! Love it and love the background with all the texture you created with your stamps. That frame with the bronze paper is gorgeous, Susan!
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28818
Tue, Nov 17, 2015 @ 6:20 AM
Beautiful! I love your distressed leaf and the bg on this card.
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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Registered: October 29, 2004 Location: Coos Bay, Oregon Posts: 24007
Tue, Nov 17, 2015 @ 3:12 PM
Simply Gorgeous Susan:-) I love your tone on tone background and your stamped and fussy cut end of Autumn leaf. French Foliage still my favorite Fall set. TFS my friend. Right into my fav's.