Saturday, October 16, 2010

Autumn Splendor

This is my 3rd post today.  I have been able to play in my craft room most of the day!  What a wonderful thing!  Fall is definitely hitting here on the Oregon coast.  Beautiful morning, somewhat warm.  Then all of the sudden the clouds showed up, it cooled off and feels like rain.  Oh well, that pretty much describes most of our fall days.  LOL
This card was made by masking the top and bottom portions.  Memento inks in 3 depths of color were sponges on to make the background.  The trees were stamped in the lightest and 2nd lightest colors.  Then the masks were removed and the trees stamped again with the darkest of the colors.  The image was allowed to go into the blank areas at the top and bottom.
A sentiment was stamped, a piece of scrap ribbon tied on and Ta-Da!
A simple (and I think elegant) card.  This one will go to my dad along with some cookies at Thanksgiving.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:
Lots to Do Challenges:  Plain and Simple
Crazy 4 Challenges:  Fall-Autumn

9 comments:

Tammie Edgerton said...

Definitely elegant! Your dad is sure to love it!

crafty creations said...

Absolutely stunning perfect inking and masking - so elegant I love it

Thanks for sharing with the Lotstodo Challenge x Hilda

Cynthia Schelzig said...

This is a lovely entry for plain and simple at lots to do....like it very much1

Lorraine said...

oh wow i do love this card i love this style of an autumnal scene its beautiful.Thankyou for joining us at sweet stampin this week xx

Amy said...

a lovely vision!

Anonymous said...

A beautiful autumn card! Great design!

Zoechaos said...

FLovely card and yes it is very elegant, congratulatons on all that pristine white can be so hard to leave alone LOL thank you for sharing with us at Lots to do xx Zoe

Shairon said...

Elegant is the only word to describe this card. Really beautiful work!

Jaqi said...

What an elegant card , its beautiful