Light & Wonder Dies for As You See It Challenge #357

I don't think I have ever been this late getting my card done for the As You See It Challenge! We were camping all last week, and it was perfect weather for camping, by the way, and when I got back last Saturday, everything hit the fan at once! There was a lot of stuff to do for our Strata Council (too much!!), stuff to do for a Crop we're holding in November, and stuff for the Challenge and it all happened at once. Throw in a bunch of appointments and events where food was needed and it was a perfect storm. But I got it done, and that's what matters!

It's a colour challenge, my favourite kind, so take a look at the challenge banner:

The challenge is called Gentle Sunset and you can see why. It's a beautiful combination, designed by team mate Joanne, using 3 of the 5 new In Colours. When I looked at my stash to decide what to use, the Light & Wonder bundle caught my eye again, however, this time it was the dies I was thinking about. This is what happened with that:

• I started with a card base of  Secret Sea and mounted a 5 1/4" x 4"  panel of Cloud Cover on that.
• I die cut the large evergreens from a piece of Secret Sea, and the small evergreens from a piece of Timid Tiger and glued them to the piece of Cloud Cover. 
• I blended some Secret Sea ink between the two evergreen panels using a blending brush.
• I die cut the three cloud shapes in both Cloud Cover and Pumpkin Pie cardstock, thinking to layer them with the Pumpkin Pie showing at the bottom of the Cloud Cover like the sunset was lighting up the underside of the clouds, but it didn't really give that effect well, so I just mounted some Pumpkin Pie clouds and one Cloud Cover cloud, and that looked better to me.
• The sentiment from the Paper Tags stamp set, was stamped in Secret Sea ink, and die cut with the Stylish Shapes dies. It is mounted using Stampin' Dimensionals, with a twist of retired Night of Navy and Gold Glittered Ribbon underneath.

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Product List

Paper Tags Cling Stamp Set (English) [165454]	Paper Tags Bundle (English) [165462]	Secret Sea 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [165624]	Cloud Cover 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [165621]	Timid Tiger 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [165626]
Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [105117]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]	Secret Sea Classic Stampin' Pad [165285]	Blending Brushes [153611]	Night Of Navy & Gold 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Glittered Ribbon [162011]
Light & Wonder Dies [165762]	Stylish Shapes Dies [159183]	Light & Wonder Bundle (English) [165763]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]
Stampin' Seal [152813]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Mini Glue Dots [103683]

Delicate Pines & Lights of Aurora for AYSI #356

 This has been an amazing year for anyone who wanted to see aurora borealis (or the Northern Lights). Because of the sun's electromagnetic forces being extra active this year, Aurora was seen often and very intensely. Except for me! I haven't really seen it much myself, due to light pollution where I live, and I really, really want to. So I have to make it a priority to get out of the city on a night when it's predicted to be strong and go where I can really see a show!

Anyway, when I saw the sketch for this week's As You See It Challenge, The new Lights of Aurora came to mind right away as a great way to show off those horizontal strips. I was a bit stumped as to what to make the circles in the sketch, but then I saw the Delicate Pines stamp set and it gave me all sorts of options.

Here's the Challenge Banner:

So, I manipulated the sketch by turning the card on it's side and changed from portrait to landscape orientation, but kept the rectangular strips horizontal. I did this because to trim off any more of the pattern from the DSP, would have ruined the effect in my opinion, and that would have meant that the strips would have taken up the whole width of the card front if I had stayed in portrait orientation.

Take another look:

• On a regular cardbase of Pretty Peacock cardstock, I added a 4 1/4" x 3 1/2" piece of Lost Lagoon cardstock that was embossed using the Soft Waves 3D Embossing Folder, to the upper left hand corner, as you see it.
• From the design you see of the Lights of Aurora DSP, cut three 1" x 4" consecutive strips from the design. Glue these in the right order on the Lost Lagoon cardstock, top to bottom, as shown.
• Using the Delicate Pines stamp set, stamp 3 of the small pine stars in Pretty Peacock on some Basic White cardstock. Die cut them with the coordinating die from the Delicate Pines dies.
• Add them to the left of each rectangular strip using a Stampin' Dimensional. Add a Frosted Iridescent Dot to the center, as shown.
• On Basic White cardstock, stamp the sentiment in Lost Lagoon ink. Trim out the sentiment with the Paper Trimmer. Add to the bottom right using dimensionals. Add two more Iridescent dots.

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Product List

Delicate Pines Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [166067]	Delicate Pines Bundle (English) [166074]	Lights Of Aurora 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [165755]	Pretty Peacock 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150880]	Lost Lagoon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133679]
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]	Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad [150083]	Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad [161678]	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897]	Frosted Iridescent Dots [165766]
Soft Waves 3 D Embossing Folder [164695]	Delicate Pines Dies [166073]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Paper Trimmer [152392]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Amber Autumn for As You See It Speed Challenge #355

Well, it's another speed challenge at As You See It Challenges and this time the theme for it is Leaves, which is appropriate as the fall season approaches, at least in my part of the world. With more stamp sets and bundles hitting the Last Chance list, I find my stash of current stamp sets dwindling quickly, which is a problem when I try to find sets to match a theme. Luckily, I had just ordered and received the Amber Autumn bundle from the upcoming Sept./Dec. Mini Catalogue, so I was able to use that even though some of my choices were probably a bit time consuming for a speed challenge. Here's the challenge banner:

 

And here's how it turned out:

• The card base is an 5 1/2" x 11" piece of Timid Tiger cardstock, scored and folded at 4 1/4". 
• On the card front the large 4" x 5 1/4" die from the Amber Autumn bundle was used to die cut the leaf cut outs. The extra pieces were removed using the brush attachment to the Take Your Pick Tool.
• A piece of the Autumn Toile DSP was glued just behind the leafy cut out to provide contrast to it.
• Using Tuxedo Black Memento ink, the leaves and acorns image was stamped on Basic White cardstock. I started by ink blending some Crumb Cake and Timid Tiger ink on to the image, to save time, but I wasn't happy with the outcome, so I brought in some Stampin' Blends Combos to even out the colour: Gray Granite, Timid Tiger, and Strawberry Slush. That took up most of the time.
• I die cut the image and added it to the card front with dimensionals.
• I stamped the sentiment, from the same stamp set, in Tuxedo Black ink and trimmed the sentiment strip with the Stampin' Trimmer.
• I added the sentiment with dimensionals and also some Streaked Dots as embellishments.

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Product List

Paper Trimmer [152392]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Take Your Pick Die Brush Tip [149655]	Timid Tiger 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [165626]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154886]	Timid Tiger Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack [165291]	Strawberry Slush Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack [165290]	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116]
Timid Tiger Classic Stampin' Pad [165278]	Blending Brushes [153611]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

*Amber Autumn Stamp Set and Dies, *Autumn Toile DSP, *Streaked Dots  

* New products that will be available Sept. 1 in the new 2025 Sept/Dec Mini Catalogue!