The Eagle - The Paper Players #252

The theme of this week's challenge with The Paper Players is the Great Outdoors.  After all it is summer and what a better time to connect with nature.
I bought this Eagle stamp when I was in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago, and thought the image would be perfect for this challenge.

• The base card is Basic Black cardstock, layered with Crumb Cake carstock embossed with the Boho Chic embossing folder.  Before embossing I stamped the image of the single tree from "Lovely as a Tree" multiple times near the bottom, using Old Olive ink.  The images didn't turn out as well as I hoped.  The idea was for the Eagle to appear to be flying over the forest.
• On the left hand side I adhered a piece of Go Wild DSP pack, sponging the edges with Crumb Cake Ink.
• Near the bottom, horizontally, I embossed a piece of Basic Gray cardstock with the Woodgrain folder and sponged the edges with Basic Gray ink.
• The Eagle was coloured with ink pads and an Aquapainter, using multiple shades of browns and rusts.  The head was highlighted with a white gel pen.
• The image panel was sponged with Crumb Cake ink and then matted with Basic black cardstock.  It was adhered to the card front using dimensionals.
• The embellishment is an Eagle feather.  I stamped a feather "Four Feathers" stamp set, using Versa Mark  and Crumb Cake ink and embossed it with Clear embossing powder.  It was die cut using the Feathers framelits.  I attached it to the upper left corner using a glue dot and tying some linen thread in a bow around the top.  Another glue dot near the bottom kept it from sliding out of place. 

The sentiment on the inside says:  "Even a little bird can FLY like an Eagle"

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Secret Garden - a Case from the Spring Catalogue

Happy Christmas Eve everyone!  Hope this season finds you happy and healthy.

What a treat not to have to cut out flowers and leaves. The Secret Garden stamp set and coordinating secret garden framelits easily cuts the stamped flowers and leaves.

I cased this card from page 17 of the spring catalogue.  The only change I made was the designer paper - plus I put sponged some crumb cake ink on the woodgrain folder.

You'll have to excuse me if my notes are a bit short today.  I just cancelled Christmas dinner because both my son and I are down with the flu

Stamps: Secret Garden, Sassy Salutations
Inks: Primrose Petals, Gumball Green, Summer Starfruit, Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse, Versa Mark
Papers: Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Natural Ivory, Sycamore Street DSP, Gumball Green
Accessories: Woodgrain folder, Ovals framelit, Secret Garden framelits, dimensionals, pearls, clear embossing powder

Fall Leaves - Thank You & Embossed glitter ribbon

I was making an Autumn wreath and had some leaves left over - and I never like to throw things out.
So, I made a card, which was inspired by a card made by Selena Kempton over at Stamping 411.

Technique:
The Autumn Accents die was used to cut out some leaves in Summer Starfruit, Old Olive, and Soft Suede.
The leaves were folded in half and laid at right angles in the Woodgrain folder and embossed.  They were then sponged with Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red, Lucky Limeade and spritzed with water to blend the colors.  After they were dry, they were spritzed with gold smooch.  Two acorns were cut -one in Old Olive and one if Soft Suede.  The top of the soft suede one was cut off and glued to the Old Olive one.  After sponging with soft suede ink, Crystal effects was applied to the bottom half of the acorn.  When dry it too was spritzed with gold smooch.
While the leaves were drying I prepared the rest of the card.

The card base is Island Indigo, layered with Very Vanilla and then a layer of Early Espresso core'dination card stock embossed with the Woodgrain folder and sanded.
The designer paper is from Orchard Harvest.

Ribbon: The white Organza ribbon was first colored with a Crumb Cake marker, then covered with Versa Mark ink and sprinkled with Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  The ribbon was heat embossed very carefully as the ribbon will melt.  The ribbon did wrinkle a bit, but I just pulled it to straighten it out.
Sentiment: From Itty Bitty Banners and die cut with the coordinating framelits.

The leaves were layered and attached to each other and the card using dimensionals.

Thank you Selena for your inspiration.

Falling Leaves - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #79

The weather is definitely cooler!  Can you feel Autumn in the air?  I thought I would take a break from making Christmas cards and make some Fall/Thanksgiving cards and to do this, I used the sketch challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday here
I have been fascinated by the Autumn Accents die and have been trying different things to give the leaves dimension and I think I succeeded.  But, I'm ahead of myself.
Here is the card:

 

Technique:

After die cutting the leaves in different colors, I folded them in half and laid them at an angle in the woodgrain folder.  The edges were sponged with Early Espresso, and then the leaves were spritzed with gold smooch.  The acorn was made by cutting the top off a Soft Suede one, embossing it with the Square lattice folder, and then attaching it to the top of the Summer starfruit acorn.  I learned this technique from Frances Martin (Frenchie).  The leaves and acorn was attached to a 2 1/2" circle using dimensionals.

Stamps: Grateful Greetings (retired)

Inks: Early Espresso

Papers: More Mustard, Crumb Cake, Comfort Cafe designer paper, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, Summer Starfruit, Very Vanilla

Accessories: 2 1/2" circle punch, Autumn Accents die, Woodgrain folder, Square Lattice folder, Neutral buttons, 1/4" Early Espresso grosgrain ribbon (retired), dimensionals, glue dots, gold smooch