Orange: For Fall and Christmas Too

I'm involved in a Growing in Unity and my week will be the week of December the 7th, and thought I would give ya'll a little tease. I really do like the style of their stamps and their sayings stamps are perfect for so many different types of projects. Today both of my projects are cards. The first card makes for a great fall card but the colors can be changed up so easily for any season. The branches/leaves were punched from a Martha Stewart punch and then sprayed with Shimmerz Baby's Breath spray to give it some sparkle. I watercolored the path in a medium brown then sponged in edges of the saying in three shades of brown. The first layer of matting behind the saying is a very thin dark brown c/s the mounted on the medium brown c/s that I crumpled and then sponged dark brown over it (I like how it gave it a faux leather look to it). I really like the clean and simple lines of the card.

Challenges I used:

Lord Have Mercy - sketch

OCC - color challenge

Hope Stamps Eternal - cupcake challenge

Stamp Stacular Sunday - reminds you of the outdoors

This second card uses the beautiful All Santa's Reindeer from Unity and is embossed in copper and watercolored to give it a little more depth on rust colored c/s. The saying was stamped in the same color and I sponged the edges with the rust color too to soften the edges. The blue was punched with another Martha Stewart punch (a snowflake border punch), sponged in a light brown, and then sprayed with Shimmerz Baby's Breath spray for a subtle sparkle. The base is a pumpkin color and I stamped different sizes of snowflakes on it in a matching ink color. The final touch is the rhinestones. I am really surprised at how this card turned out and that touch of soft blue really works with it. This is so not in my realm of color schemes for anything let alone a Christmas scheme, but I really am getting into this one. Kind of a modern meets vintage.

Challenges used:

Sunday Sketch and Stamp

Just Us Girls - color challenge (I've had to not play along with the last few challenges due to what we've been going through here and have found that I have really been missing this challenge blog)

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps - Christmas

Paper Take Weekly - Christmas