From tea to leaves

With walks in the woods and all the challenges with great Autumnal colours and pictures you can hardly fail to be inspired.

I used the colour picker on CraftArtist to match the autumnal colours from the inspiration and colour challenge photos (seee photos at end of post!!) I then made the various leaf papers using the colours (using either leaf backgrounds coloured using my pallete or using the falling leaves brush). I then added the faux stitching on computer and colour matched it. I also played around and made the tag. I then printed the papers and elements off.

I stamped the tag with my LOTV Wishing you sunshine all year through stamp with brown ink. I used a clear brad and coloured it with Pumkin Promarker to match the card which I used to fix the tag. I had to swap the orientation of this for the layout I was using as it didn’t look right on the bottom right corner (hope that it is still ok for the challenge!)

I used the Autumn Hapiness digi stamp from Wee Stamps (so cute!!). I coloured using Promarkers and felt I did a good job of matching them for the colour challenge. I also tried colouring the background using a technique I saw in a Letraset demo on Create and Craft tv to hint at the sky and ground without using solid colour.

I was inspired by lots of challenges so I may as well enter them all! Thanks to all these challenge blogs for firing my imagination.

CES Challenges- Forever Autumn
Rainbow Ladys Challenge- Falling leaves
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle- anything with leaves
Stampin for the Weekend- colours of Autumn
Charisma Cardz In Stitches
Crop Stop- Falling Leaves
Cute Card Thursday- Treemendous
I love Promarkers Fall Colours
Color Throwdown

 Papercraft Star Inspiration photo

Just Add Ink Inspiration picture

Pals Paper Arts Inspiration Picture

Cardabilities provided the sketch (first I’ve tried!)

22 thoughts on “From tea to leaves

  • October 16, 2011 at 3:03 pm
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    What a cute dragon! Very pretty. You really did an amazing job on it.
    Thank you for joining us at CropStop Blog Challenge

  • October 16, 2011 at 4:39 pm
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    What an adorable image and card! Love the sketch. Thanks for playing along with our CropStop Challenge Blog.

  • October 16, 2011 at 6:04 pm
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    What are you talking about??? not good enough – never … this is stunning….. I love it… thanks for playing
    Love Cynthia x

  • October 16, 2011 at 7:06 pm
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    I love the dragon πŸ˜€

  • October 16, 2011 at 8:01 pm
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    Cute, cute fall card. Thank you for joining this week’s challenge at Crop Stop Challenge Blog!

  • October 16, 2011 at 8:49 pm
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    stunning card jellie.i love the fab image and your autumnal colours are gorgeous πŸ˜€

    xx coops xx

  • October 17, 2011 at 12:47 pm
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    This is a cute card!!! The image is so adorable, and you have colored it beautifully. Thank you for sharing your project with us over at the Papercraft Star.

    Anitra

  • October 17, 2011 at 3:45 pm
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    This is darling! Fab job bring that cute dragon to life! Thanks for joining Pals Paper Arts this week!

  • October 17, 2011 at 7:12 pm
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    Cute digi! Love the fall colors! Thanks for using the sketch at Cardabilities!

  • October 18, 2011 at 7:10 am
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    He is such a cutie, thanks for sharing with us this week at Rainbow lady’s Challenge. Elizabeth x

  • October 18, 2011 at 2:29 pm
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    Great papers and lovely take on the sketch, thank you for joining us at I♥Promarkers this week
    Ruth x

  • October 18, 2011 at 8:11 pm
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    He’s so cute and beautiful colour combo. Thanks for joining us this weeks CES Challenge!
    Clairexx

  • October 18, 2011 at 9:05 pm
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    super card hun!!
    thanks for joining us at Charisma this time hope to see you next time too
    hugs
    laney

  • October 19, 2011 at 1:00 am
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    Well what a great and fun card! Thanks for playing with us at Color Throwdown!

  • October 19, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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    Fun card and lovely fall colors! Great interpretation of the sketch. Thanks for playing with us at Cardabilities.

  • October 19, 2011 at 11:27 pm
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    Beautiful card!
    Many thanks for joining in the Cute Card Thursday Challenge this week!
    have a great day, Debxx

  • October 20, 2011 at 2:56 am
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    Super cute image and coloring! Great job combining all those challenges!

  • October 20, 2011 at 5:18 am
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    Your card is outstanding! Love the great job you did with the sketch.

  • October 30, 2011 at 5:41 am
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    super cute card! I love this cute little dragon so much (have it as a rubber stamp myself) and you did a great job with this card πŸ™‚
    Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful card with us at Cardabilities!
    Sylvia xx

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