Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Fabulous Fall Thank You Card for The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog


Sara Emilyl Barker https://sarascloset1.blogspot.com/2019/11/fabulous-fall-thank-you-card-for-funkie.html Tim Holtz Pressed Foliage Perfect Plaids Card 1

Hello, and welcome! Thank you for all your lovely comments on my creative journey through the Halloween season! Whew! It'll be Christmas before you know it! But first, it's time for the latest challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog where the talented Ginny is our hostess. She calls her challenge 'Fabulous Fall', and this is how she describes it:

It's the wonderful season where the leaves are changing and the air is crisp and our thoughts turn to pumpkin spice everything.  For this challenge create a Fall inspired project.

As always, the winner will earn a chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team. Please see the blog for details.

For my project, I made a super simple autumn themed thank you card. I don't have any step by step photos, sadly. It was one of those times I was just playing around with my products while waiting for the pasta water to boil.

That gorgeous background panel is water color paper on which I stamped one of Tim Holtz Perfect Plaids in Black Soot ink. After inking the stamp, I generously spritzed it with water before making the impression. I stamped it twice, side by side because this is a large panel. This is so easy to do using the Stamp Platform. I dried it with my heat tool and splattered it with watery Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide.  Finally, I blended with a bit of Peeled Paint ink and inked just the side edges in Black Soot. I love this set of plaid images, and I can see them used year round, especially for fall and Christmas crafting.

Sara Emilyl Barker https://sarascloset1.blogspot.com/2019/11/fabulous-fall-thank-you-card-for-funkie.html Tim Holtz Pressed Foliage Perfect Plaids Card 2

This leaf stamp from Pressed Foliage really stands on it's own, needing little embellishment. I inked it with Picket Fence Distress ink and then with Versamark using the Stamp Platform. Using the platform ensures you will get a crisp image. I heat embossed with white powder and smudged the image with Distress Crayons for a hint of fall color: Peeled Paint, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo. I love these detailed stamps--they are my favorite from Tim's fall releases. You can see other ways I've used the leaves in this Saturday Showcase tutorial.

The sentiment is a Poppy Stamps die I won from ScrapyLand (Thank you, ScrapyLand!), and I cut it out of a piece of scrap Metallic Kraft stock I cut my bats from for my Tombstone. I adhered it with Distress Collage Medium Matte. Before adhering this to the orange panel (colored with Ripe Persimmon oxide and Black Soot ink) I stitched it with my sewing machine--not 'sew' well, I'm afraid.  I'm still not familiar with the tension setting on my newest lightweight model. That's really the only embellishment this card needs with all the fine detail of the stamp and the busy base background.

We don't have much fall color here in my neck of the woods, going from green to pretty much brown fallen leaves with just hints of color.  We have one tree that will be blazing around Thanksgiving, and I'm looking forward to that.

Sara Emilyl Barker https://sarascloset1.blogspot.com/2019/11/fabulous-fall-thank-you-card-for-funkie.html Tim Holtz Pressed Foliage Perfect Plaids Card 3

I hope you enjoyed my simple card--now hop on over to The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog for even more Fabulous Fall inspiration from my talented teammates. Then, it's over to you! I hope you will join us for this challenge--I can't wait to see what you create! Crafty hugs! Sara Emily
 Challenge shares:
The following products were used and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:
Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Metallic Jewels Kraft Stock
Tim Holtz Cling Stamps - Pressed Foliage
Tim Holtz Cling Stamps - Perfect Plaids
Distress Ink: Black Soot, Peeled Paint, Picket Fence
Distress Oxide: Ripe Persimmon
Distress Crayons: Sets 1, 3, 5, and 7
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte
Ranger Embossing Powder - White Super Fine Detail
VersaMark Watermark Ink Stamp Pad





12 comments:

  1. Mmmmmmmmm...so yummy! I thought your inked background was TH designer paper, so well done, you! This is so gorgeous. It has a serene, nostalgic vibe that speaks to my soul. Just the perfect amount of color. I love the simplicity of this card...and I know first hand how hard it is to pull off a really good CAS card. This is that. Standing O!

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  2. Gorgeous fall card, love that plaid frame!

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  3. Wow!! This is so gorgeous Sara! The background panel is amazing with wonderful colour and is the perfect base and frame for main black panel. That leaf .. Oh my, that leaf is stunning!! Perfectly stamped and embossed and I totally agree, it certainly needs no extra embellishment! Clean, simple and totally awesome card!! hugs x

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  4. Gorgeous Sara, love the plaid background and that leaf is WOW!

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  5. Beautiful! I thought it was patterned paper. :) I should have known it was some Sara Emily magic instead! Love the leaves they shimmer with that touch of color you built in. A wonderful autumn inspired card!

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  6. That leaf is stunning and love the plaid background...would love a shirt like that! Way to go playing around with ink in between pasta cooking too...lol!!!

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  7. I just LOVE what you've done with this awesome skeleton leaf stamp. I haven't gotten it yet, but am drooling here for sure. Your background is inkyliscious and I'm crushing big time! Amazing my friend!

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  8. What a gorgeous leaf stamp and card Sara Emily. Thanks so much for joining our hand stamped Nov challenge over at Country View xx

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  9. What a pretty card, Sara Emily! That leaf is so delicately beautiful!

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  10. Gotta love this Fabulous Fall card Sara Emily! The colours in that wonderful plaid background work perfectly like a heritage tartan, and I love the treatment you gave the beautiful leaf. White with a hint of rust is so dramatic against that black background. It's incredible what you can cook up alongside your pasta! xx

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  11. Lovely card ! Thanks for playing along in our November Challenge at Country View Challenges!
    Corrie x

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  12. It really is a stunning leaf stamp - and you've made it look even better! Great plaid panel in the background too - fabulous card.
    Alison x

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