TCC221 Gather Together

 

Hi Friends!

Today, we are starting our November #221 Give Thanks Challenge at The Card Concept today and I was inspired by the colors, autumn elements and theme from our photo this month to create two cards (see this post for the first card I designed for this challenge).

We hope that you will take a moment to stop by our challenge blog and check out how the rest of our fabulous Design Team was inspired as well!

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have not had a chance to create cards lately, so I decided to pull out some of my older Autumn stamp sets and created two cards at the same time.

For this card I used the Artistic Outpost Seed Packets Background stamp (still available at 70% off at Divinity Designs LLC) and paired it with a sentiment from the retired Painted Harvest stamp set from Stampin’ Up!  

To create this card:

De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, ink the Seed Packets Background stamp with Versafine Black Onyx ink, stamp onto the prepared cardstock paper and apply clear embossing powder.

Heat set the powder with a heat tool and once cooled, use an AquaPainter to watercolor the image with distress oxide inks (the colors I used are listed below),

Once you are satisfied with the coloring,“antique” the image with a stencil brush using antique linen and stone ink.

Trim the image close to the edge, mount onto aqua cardstock, trim again and mount onto black cardstock.

Adhere the entire panel onto a white card base.

Add a few pieces of burlap strings under the layered/embossed sentiment (from the Painted Harvest stamp set) to finish off the card.  FYI- I had a few of these strings hanging around, and thought I would use them, lol! 

Stamp Sets:  Seed Packets Background (Artistic Outpost), Painted Harvest (retired Stampin’ Up!_

Inks/Mediums: Versafine Black Onyx, Distress Oxide- Rusty Hinge, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Crushed Olive, Peacock Feathers, Antique Linen, Pumice Stone

Cardstock/Paper: White, Black,  Bermuda Bay (retired Stampin’ Up!),

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., MFT Banners Dies, Stencil Brush, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

I hope you have had a chance to stop by The Card Concept to see how the rest of the Design Team were inspired as well as check out the other challenge gallery entries- gorgeous inspiration from all!

We hope you are inspired to create a card and join us for our Give Thanks Challenge at The Card Concept!  The deadline to play along is Monday, December 8^th at noon EDT.