Full Bloom Christmas
4 hours ago
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
These fit several current challenges but were made for a KCUK tag swap – scraplings as accompaniment.
I love leaves – though had forgotten quite how much – and I also love autumn colours. I spent a blissful couple of hours stippling and stamping with Fluid chalks on the tags. I used Brilliance Galaxy Gold to overstamp and edged with Krylon pen.
The best thing of all about chalk inks, is that they’re permanent once heat set and will never fade, unlike Distress ink and Adirondacks, which I usually use. I’m veering more to permanent inks (and other mediums) at the moment because I want to be able to flick through my journals in a few years and see where I was up to now!
I used Adirondacks on the cards, with some stamping in Archival Sepia and, of course, some gold embossing, perfect for this time of year.
Then I got out the Brilliance ink, over Dylusions backgrounds, and made these.
Two more pages for the Journalling Mingle
and another card to accompany them, this time using Gold Leaf.
It’s far from perfect, but I actually like the imperfection and my Stamp’n’Bond is pretty old and lumpy! What I love most about Brilliance (which is also a pigment ink and therefore permanent) is the pearlescent watermark effect you get from the understamping, which only shows when you tilt the card.
Challenges I’d like to enter are:-
Try it on Tuesday – Autumn Colours
All Sorts Challenge Blog – Autumn Leaves and Trees
Fashionable Stamping Challenge – Shades of Autumn/Fall (thanks, Lynne)
and one I haven’t heard of before…
Visible Images – Inspired by Autumn
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35 very kind comments from lovely people:
With you all the way on the 'love autumn' theme. Colours are beautiful and the embossing is perfect.
Ann B
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Fantastic, love those colours, so rich and warm
These are gorgeous!!
Cor, lots of wonderful creations to pour over here :) Love them all, the gold embossing really enhances the image over the background colours. I especially love the hexagon card, such gorgeous colouration of the purple and orange. Pxx
Love the autumn theme too - just love the colours and your pieces are simply gorgeous. Elizabeth xx
These leaves are really autumn Cath. Brautiful work, love it.
Lovely greet
Marja
Great to see you getting inky and creative again Cath. All are fab and such lovely colours but my fave is the first tag.
Sam xx
oh wow so fabulous.. I love the colors and composition of all this pieces and the golden Enbossing makes ist pop!
xxx Susi
Looking at the last image is reminiscent of gazing into a piece of amber- all the depth and layers...and those deep warm colours. Gorgeous.
Sumptuous colours. The gold embossing looks stunning against the backgrounds.
If you would like to join us at FSC this fortnight we would love to see you there.
Wishes
Lynne
Beautiful leaves and lovely colour shades. The shadow effect is very effective. I love the new white background of your blog which makes your lovely work pop out so well.
Jo x
WOW - love the vibrant colours and the gold images which look amazing against those gorgeously inked backgrounds..Thanks so much for sharing with us at FSC..Esther xx
Wow, these are so beautiful. Love the golden leaves and the beautiful colors of autumn!
Thank you so much for taking part in the challenge at Visible Image
Beautiful leaves Cath and the colors are great.
Greetings Janny
Wonderful "Indian Summer" look, gorgeous assortement of art works.
Groetjes Anja
great work, beautiful with an almost etheral feel. thank you for sharing with us TIOT.EE
Youve created some lovely backgrounds! thanks for sharing your card with us at allsorts Tracy x
So much smudgy blendy leaf-stampy fall color! What a great collection of projects.
You have captured lovely warm colours of autumn beautifully.
Thanks so much for joining in our Autumn Leaves and Trees theme at Allsorts this week.
B x
Great Indian Summer, love it
Gorgeous autumn feel...Your leaves look amazing ...
Greetings, Alie :-)
Just popping back on to say a big thanks to Cath - these pages are sitting on my desk now and they are absolutely beautiful - photos do not do them justice.
Can you see I like them?
Ann B
xx
Love how the gold jumps out! Great colors! Thanks for joining us at Visible Image!
Just love these Cath, gorgeous rich colours. Thank you for joining us at Allsorts this week x
Wow! Fabulous creations. Love all the colours of autumn and the leaves look amazing in gold. Thanks so much for entering our 'Inspired By Autumn' challenge over at Visible Image
WOW! These are all gorgeous! Great colors and stamp work!
Wonderful leaves and colours, great pieces.
Hugs
Anke
Beautiful collection of Autumn leaves and in such vibrant colours.
Thanks for sharing with us at FSC
Avril
Wonderful tags! I love Autumn leaves and their marvelous colours, too!
beautiful autumnal feel pieces
So many wonderful fall feeling pieces, love the colors and the use of the golden embossing powder.
Thanks for joining us at FSC.
Absolutely beautiful work. I love how alive they seem as the colours resonate (hope that doesn't sound mad!). Also, I didn't know to heat set chalk ink so many thanks. Nicola x
These are just stunning Fall creations. Beautifully done!!!
Glad you joined us this week at FSC! Your card and tags are just gorgeous! Best wishes, Yvonne
Wow! This is full of inky goodness! Love the embossed leaf, just everything about this is gorgeous! Thank you for taking the time to link up with us at Visible Image
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