I have been off work for the past week so I've much more time than usual to read various blogs, including some new challenge blogs which have been established during my extended break from crafting. The theme of the moment definitely seems to be 'autumn/fall colours' and this morning I decided to truly challenge myself by 1) being super organised and making my Nan's birthday card, even though her birthday is not until 7 Nov! and 2) use autumnal colours. This colour scheme is so far out of my comfort zone that I had to have a real hunt through my stash to find some suitable paper and embellishments - to be honest I had forgotten even buying the paper leaves and I think I won the flowers in some blog candy!
I have painted the image with watercolour pencils and shaded around the image with chalks. I originally stamped the Happy Birthday on to a circle but it looked too big so I chopped it down. I have again used chalks to colour this and edged the panel with the same ink pad I stamped the sentiment in. I originally planned to cut the 'special nan' from brown cardstock but I decided the black looked better. You can click on the image to view it at a larger size (I have not yet got to grips with how blogger auto-scales images).
I would like to submit this card to the following challenges:
ABC Challenge - F is for Flowers
Allsorts - Let's Play Bingo (I have used the diagonal line to get Brads, Flowers and Ribbon)
Penny Black Allsorts - Colours of Autumn
Time to get back to my Halloween projects now!
Hi there
ReplyDeleteVery organised indeed!! I am well impressed.
Your card is lovely. Beautiful image and gorgeous flowers .. .. I am sure you Nan will love it.
Thank you for sharing with Penny Black at Allsorts this month.
Love Jules xx
Beautiful layout, lovely colours, fab card.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this with us at Penny Black @ Allsorts and good luck;-))m
Gorgeous card, love that image and the flowers are beautiful. Your Nan will love it. Thanks for your visit, and for joining us at ABC this time.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Donna x
Adorable card! I love Penny Black hedge hogs! Thank you for playing along with the ABC F is for FLowers challenge.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cutie!! Love the image and how you placed the words. Super cute!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for playing along at penny black @ all sorts, good luck with the drawing!
Wonderful card!
ReplyDeleteLove the layout you used and the colour scheme.
Thanks for joining us at Penny Black at Allsorts and good luck!
Hugs
Maarit
What a gorgeous card, a super image and the colours are just perfect.
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B x
Congratulations this is a lovely Autumn themed card and hedgehogs are just perfect of Autumn. Hope its woken the crafting bug for you thank you for sharing with us at Pennyblack@Allsorts. xx Zoe
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card Pootle. Great Autumnal colours and a very pretty image.
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Shirley
this is an amazing project. Thank you so much for joining the bingo challenge at Allsorts this week and good luck! And thank you also for joining the Penny Black at Allsorts with this creation.
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