It Looks Like Fall

Hi everybody.  I was delighted to have be chosen as one of the Top Cuts over at the Cut It Up Challenge recently and was invited to be a Guest Designer for one of their challenges, and I chose this one with the theme of It Looks Like Fall.  I used the centre piece of a scalloped die set from Crafters Companion called Inverted Stitched Scallop Circle, and a set of Sizzix Leaf Fragments which are being used for the first time, and also a Craft Concepts Woodgrain Embossing Folder and a Dutch Doobadoo Birch Trees Mask, and lastly a Chocolate Baroque set of stamps Autumn Poppy and I used two of the different toadstools from the set.

I started by embossing the Birch Trees mask onto a piece of white card cut just a little smaller than the 6" square white card and I adhered it.  I then went on to the circle using a snippet of white card and embossed it with the Woodgrain EF and ink blended using several of the brown Distress Inks on it to bring out the pattern.  I moved on to the Leaf Fragments cut from more snippets of white card and used lots of different Distress Inks blended on them until I was happy with the look.  I continued by stamping the two different toadstools onto snippets of white card using Versafine Vintage Sepia Ink and added the Distress Inks using a waterbrush and cut them out.  I was only going to use the Fly Agaric type ones which do look a bit pink in the photo but I did use a red ink, and I also used a Posca pen for the white markings. but then decided to add a few more of the other shape I liked and cut them up to fit around the red ones.  Finally I added the birthday sentiment stamped using the Vintage Sepia Ink and heat embossed with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder, and cut into a fishtail banner also using another snippet of white card.

The Cut It Up Challenge lasts for two weeks and I hope you can go over there, and perhaps enter a card which would be great.  Thank you for visiting my blog and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

We Love Stamping Challenge - Sept. '25 Make it Cute/Anything Goes.

Stamping Sensations Challenge - Sept. '25 CAS/Anything Goes.

Snippets Playground Challenge - No. 515 Where we use our snippets of paper and card etc.

Allsorts Challenge - No. 832 Trees, Leaves and Plants/Anything Goes.

Die Cut Divas Challenge - Sept. '25 Anything Goes.

Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge - Anything Goes/Layers.

NBUS Challenge - No. 78 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.