Wednesday, October 19, 2011

SAS OCT SWAP


Holly chose this month's SWAP theme for our little SAS SWAP. We are to use orange, brown and a color of choice with a fall/harvest/Thanksgiving theme. I found the following inspiration photo over at Just Add Ink and got to work with my heat gun, trying to recreate the photo with my own flavor.

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Tangerine Tango is my new 'IT' color when reaching for an orange, I just love the warmth and it matches my living room decor! I wanted to pull the darker colors out of the photo, so I went with an Early Espresso for my brown and Basic Black.


I just love the new It's a Wrap Holiday stamp set and decided to stamp the "Give Thanks" image directly on top of the first, to create a side border. After stamping the image in Basic Black Craft ink and heat embossing, I added color to my leaves by sponging a bit of Tangerine Tango ink directly onto my image. The little acorns needed a smaller paint tool, so off to the bathroom for a QTip!

The Early Espresso background matting was roughed up with SU!'s Cutter Kit Tool.


SU! products used:
Stamps - Thoughts and Prayers, It's a Wrap Holiday
Paper - Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Early Espresso, Whisper White
Ink - Craft Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Early Espresso
Other - Basic Black Embossing Powder, retired Aged Copper Brads

3 comments:

Bronwyn Eastley said...

I love all the beautiful embossing on your card. Thanks for playing along with the challenge at Just Add Ink.

Jodene said...

Great card Dawn, I love your take on the inspiration photo. Thanks for joining us at Just Add Ink this week :)

NC Peach said...

Dawn, this is a great card! I love the embossing and the inking technique in the strip is fabulous! And thanks for stopping by the blog recently--it was great having ya!!