Sunday, October 20, 2013

Autumn Birthday Wishes

My uncles birthday is this week and I needed to get a card done for him ASAP. The challenges at Sunday Stamps, The Paper Players and Freshly Made Sketches were perfect to play along with! It's been a long time since I've been able to combine 3 of my favorite challenge blogs so this was a fun card to make!

Sunday Stamps has a unique fall color scheme this week...Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie and Bermuda Bay. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to incorporate the Bermuda Bay but it ended up working quite well as the embossed panel behind the tree image. I embossed the panel with the Square Lattice EF and backed with some Pumpkin Pie. Since my uncle lives in Massachusetts I thought this tree would be a great image to use, not only because of October and New England fall colors, but because my uncle is strong and has been the roots that kept our family strong through the deaths of my grandparents and my father in the last few years.

For the sketch I used some burlap for the strip across the middle. It's the first time I've used the burlap since I ordered it and I rather like it! The panel with the tree on it is popped up with dimensionals and even though I *tried* not to do any sponging (my daughter says I'm addicted to sponging) I ended up using Chocolate Chip along the edges. It looked too plain to me without it!


The challenge at The Paper Players is to make a CAS masculine card....birthday card for my uncle fits the bill  and I think this card is pretty CAS!


Thanks for stopping by!



 
 


Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Happiest Birthday Wishes(retired)
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Bermuda Bay, Very Vanilla, Sweater Weather DSP, Chocolate Chip DSP, Pumpkin Pie DSP
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Burlap Ribbon, sponge, dimensionals

12 comments:

  1. Beautiful card Lisa. Love all the layers. Great way to highlight the tree and combind all thee challenges into one! Thanks for joining us again at Sunday Stamps. I'm sure you're uncle will love your card.

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  2. I LOVE your card! It is beautiful! All the colors are perfect for a Fall card. Love the burlap ribbon for texture!

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  3. Gorgeous card...that color challenge is perfect for your image as well as the sketch you used! Your uncle will love it! Thanks for sharing it with us for my Paper Players challenge this week!

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  4. Your card is perfect for a fall birthday! I love the colors and textures! Thanks for playing along with us at Freshly Made Sketches!

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  5. Lisa, great masculine card with so much color and texture. I just love this!

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  6. Wow, Lisa! I love the texture and the color on this one! Way to combine challenges! Thanks for playing with The Paper Players!

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  8. Lisa this is gorgeous. That tree image was perfect. Great use of the Challenge colors. Thanks for joining us at Sunday Stamps.

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  9. This is a fabulous masculine card! I love all the texture, especially that burlap. Thanks so much for joining us at Sunday Stamps!

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  10. You have done such an awesome job with the challenges Lisa. Love the colouring on the tree :) Thanks so much for playing along with us at Sunday Stamps, we sure hope you will join us again soon!!!

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  11. This is gorgeous, Lisa! That tree is incredible and I love all the texture you have going on! Thanks for playing along with us at Sunday Stamps.

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  12. Wonderful masculine card, Lisa! I love all the different textures of this card. Thanks for playing along with us at Sunday Stamps this fortnight--hope you can join us again soon!
    :) Marie

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