Sunday 21 October 2012

Shades of Autumn

 
New picture with a third rose leaf added - looks better now!

Yesterday I went for a little stroll with hubby and the dogs up on Goss Moor.  It was surprising how much green there is still around, albeit more muted and olive in tone, and every now and then a splash of scarlet red from fallen leaf or berries and a little bright yellow from the wild evening primrose flowers that seem to bloom right up 'till winter.

This afternoon I've let hubby take the dogs on his own to the beach as I'm feeling tired, and instead I've been having a play with my new mini hot glue gun.  I diecut the flowers from 3 different autumnal shades of HOTP card using Marianne die CR1202 - the advantage of the HOTP card is it's thin enough to shape and has a beige back so no white underneath to show up.  I've inked the edges of everything with Versamagic Sahara Sand chalk ink just in case, and once the layers were shaped and stuck together I added a gold bead with my Wacco pearl maker pen.  I found an old seed head stamp and stamped a design on a square of Eco board then used Versamagic chalk inks in Tea Leaves (green), Mango Madness (orange), and Malted Mauve (dusty pink) to colour, edged with a gold ink pen then fixed my flower on.  To pick up the green I cut a strip of the HOTP card to go across my base kraft card, a couple of rose leaves from LRO162 to slip under the flower, added the text, a little butterfly from LRO158,  and more gold beads.  It's for the Less Is More challenge so I quit at that!

Crafty Cardmakers and Allsorts blog challenges are also for autumn colours, and the Anything Goes challenge is to make your own embellishments - done that!

17 comments:

  1. Very crisp and elegant Annie but a perfect autumnal creation.

    Thanks so much for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge this week.

    B x

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  2. Lovely card Annie, what subtle shades
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    Less is More

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  3. Simply gorgeous hun, I love it. Hugs Sxx

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  4. So pretty and elegant Annie. I love the design and papers. Plus, that flower is fabulous!

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  5. Very pretty, Annie. Love the inky panel and soft colour palette.

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  6. What an exquisite card! Your soft colours are just beautiful!

    love Mags B x

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  7. Smashing CAS card and loving your colour palette x

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  8. The lettering with the pearls is delightful & I love that little stamped & inked panel behind your flower. Very effective indeed. Take care of yourself.
    Paula (PEP)

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  9. Gorgeous Annie, beautiful colours and a great design.
    hugs
    wynneth
    x

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  10. This is gorgeous Annie I love the design and the flower and colours are beautiful. Caroline xxx

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  11. A beautiful card. I really like the colours you've used and the flower looks stunning.

    Thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers.

    Feebsy
    xx

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  12. Gorgeous Annie. Lovely colours and very elegant.

    Kat xx

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  13. So impressed with the muted colours that you have used, FAB card.

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  14. What a beautifully soft card! LOVE the colors--so elegant! Thanks for joining us at CCM! :)

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  15. Beutifully soft muted tones this is such a calming colour pallette beautiful!

    Thanks so much for entering our Autumn colours challenge this week at Allsorts

    Emma xxx

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  16. A lovely simple card - thank you for sharing it with us at Crafty Cardmakers

    Jackie

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  17. gorgeous card - so beautiful
    Many thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers this week
    Hugs
    Doreen xx

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