Fungi for a Fun Guy

Hi Everyone.  Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun and this is a masculine card today.  I haven't used my Chocolate Baroque stamps for ages, so decided as we are still in Autumn to get out Autumn Edges which is a set of five stamps which can be used to edge or frame a card, as in the case of the rows of leaves (silhouette and outline), and then a row of fruits and berries, and then there are three trees in a row (in leaf, leaves dropping and bare) and these fungi which both lend themselves to being the main image which is what I have done here.

I love the different shapes and so I did several in red and yellow (with added spots) for Fly and Honey Agaric, and then some more regular types in shades of brown.  I stamped and heat embossed using Versafine Vintage Sepia and WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder, and I coloured them with my Lyra Graduate Pencils which I haven't stopped using lately and I'm really loving them.  I added some bits of white using a gel pen for the white spots and on frills, and also on some of the caps and stalks.  I decided to keep it simple and I masked off the edges and added some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to the sky background trying not to make it too smooth for a bit of variation, and finished by adding a sentiment again using the Vintage Sepia Ink and Clear Gloss EP.

Before I go I would like to introduce and thank a new follower called Angela whose blog you will find here.

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I am entering the following challenges:

Dutch Card Lovers Challenge - No. 378 Mushrooms.

Stamping Sensations November Challenge - 'Get Ready for Christmas' /Anything Goes.
We Love Stamping November Challenge - Christmas Characters/Anything Goes.
Allsorts Challenge - No. 754 Friendship/Anything Goes.
Happy Little Stampers Birthday November Challenge - Anything Goes.