CD Sunday Challenge - Art Nouveau

Doesn't time fly! This is my final week as Guest Designer and I must say, I have thoroughly enjoyed myself looking at all your wonderful creations. Our theme this week is Art Nouveau, and for this card I have used the Peacock Summer Party CD by Artylicious for the papers. The main image comprises an ornate screen stamp by StampCamp and a lovely lady stamp from Debbi Moore which has been embossed and decoupaged in front of the screen. The mount behind has been stamped with a Clarity flourish and embossed with cosmic shimmer Arctic Pearl ep. The corners are punched with a punch from Stampin Up which I must confess I find extremely hard to use. The swirl flourish is from Marianne Creatables and the flowers are moulded from punched pearlescent paper with tiny gems for centres. A co-ordinating irridescent purple and gold ribbon completes.

I apologise for the dark photograph but we have not had many days good enough to take a decent picture with my little camera.

Thanks for stopping by and I do hope you will join us this week at CD Sunday Challenge. You will be made very welcome.

Autumn Card

The autumn colours in my part of Scotland have been spectacular this year. I wanted to make something for my October card swap with Creating Rainbows forum that reflected the lovely bright autumn foliage.

I have used the Jacob's Coat technique and coloured the base cream card with various autumn colours and then stamped the large tree stamp from StampCamp with VersaMark and then clear embossed it. Chocolate Chip (Stampin Up) is a very dark brown dye ink and I rubbed this all over the image and then wiped off the areas that were clear embossed. This showed the foliage colours through.

As distressing was part of the card swap, I tore the edges of the image and coloured them with a lighter brown ink. This was mounted onto another piece of card that had been similarly coloured and overstamped with a willow stamp from A Stamp in the Hand and the sentiment from I Brake for Stamps.

I do hope you like my card, I really enjoyed making it and it does reflect the superb colours this year.
Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to leave a comment - I enjoy them all!