Among the Branches for As You See It Challenges

It's Friday, already! Where did the week go? And Friday means another As You See It Challenge! Amanda has come up with a great colour challenges this week! Take a look:

Carrots!!

I wanted to use the Woodland Embossing Folder again with some ink inside to highlight the design, so I also got out the coordinating stamp set, Among the Branches, and what ensued was a kind of sepia designed background with a pop of colour for the sentiment.

• When I inked up the Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, I knew I wanted the trees white and the background Tip Top Taupe, so I added the ink to the debossed side of the folder. When I ran it through the Big Shot, it came out like this - uneven. I was going to toss it and try again, when I took a second look. The variation in shading gave it a vintage look, especially with the Tip Top Taupe looking like the old sepia photographs! I decided I liked the effect and I would run with it.
• My second experiment was stamping various leaves from Among the Branches in the challenge colours and fussy cutting them to add to the background. But they took away from the vintage look, so I decided to just add the Tip Top Taupe leaves to it. By the way, the Woodland Embossing Folder and the Among the Branches stamp set come in a bundle. If you buy both products together you save 15%.

Here's a photo of the first design. See what you think. I just didn't like it:

• So I went with the sepia background and stamped the Autumn Wishes sentiment, from Among the Branches, in Pear Pizzazz, punched it out with the 2" Circle Punch and backed it with Tangelo Twist, punched out with the 2 1/2" Circle Punch. Ba-bam! Boy,does that pop!
• Now, I think this is the very first time I have used the 5/8" Striped Cotton Ribbon and though I didn't really warm up to it at first, it works really well on this card!

So there you have it, for what it's worth! I am madly preparing for my Holiday Catalogue Launch tomorrow. I looks like I'll have a crowd! Games, good eats, prizes and new retired merchandise for sail! If you're in my area, drop by from 1 until 3 pm!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Among The Branches Photopolymer Stamp Set [139823]	Among The Branches Photopolymer Bundle [140872]	Tangelo Twist 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133677]	Tip Top Taupe 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [138336]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin' Pad [138325]	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [131180]	Tangelo Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [133646]	Tangelo Twist 5/8" Striped Cotton Ribbon [138420]	Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [139673]
Big Shot [113439]	2" Circle Punch [133782]	2-1/2" Circle Punch [120906]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Glue Dots [103683]

Woodlands Sneak Peek for The Paper Players

So, while I was down in Salt Lake City for Inspire Create Share 2015, I was able, as a convention attendee, to order a selection of products from the new Stampin' Up! 2015 Holiday Catalogue. Imagine my excitement when my order arrived on my doorstep Friday afternoon! I had very little time this weekend to play with my new goodies, but I wanted to create a card for you today with one of my favourite products from the Holiday Catalogue, the **Woodlands Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (or TIEF for short)!  I decided to pair it with The Wilderness Awaits stamp set from the Annual Catalogue and give it a fall look with colours and textures, and I made the card a 6" square so that I could enter it in the latest challenge from The Paper Players:

Here's a closer look at the **Woodlands Embossing Folder:

This needs to be on your wish list! I have a hundred ideas for ways to use it and it is so versatile that it will work for many different seasons and occasions. It is one of the new 6" square folders so that you can emboss your paper in either landscape or portrait orientation and still have the trees going in the right direction.

• I wanted the background to be Whisper White, but it is very difficult to photograph so that you can see the embossing. In real life it is quite clear. You can show up the embossing a bit more if you sponge it with ink, but I really wanted the plain white background.
• I used the adorable fox from The Wilderness Awaits stamp set, stamped in Cajun Craze ink as the foreground and focal point, hand snipped and mounted on Stampin' Dimensionals.
• The Kraft corrugated cardstock, new this year, adds just the right amount of texture to the background, and I also used it, along with some Cajun Craze as one of the mattes for the little sentiment, also from The Wilderness Awaits. These panels were all die cut with the Tags and Labels Framelits.
• The thread is actually fibres from some Burlap Ribbon that I trimmed off the stitching on the side and unravelled. I love the texture you get from these.
• Another Sneak Peek is the **Into the Woods Elements, those adorable little wooden leaves, added with Glue Dots to the final project.

Want Your Own  2015 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue?

If you are a regular, active customer, your catalogue will be mailed out mid-August, in time for ordering starting September 1. If you have not been an active customer, but would like one, please email me with your address and I will see that you get one, as long as you live in Canada.

Sneak peeks will continue this week as I unpack more of my goodies. I may even make myself design a Christmas card although it seems like it's much too early! But tomorrow I will be showing you a card for a new baby!

  

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!    

                    

Product List

The Wilderness Awaits Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139365]	The Wilderness Awaits Wood-Mount Stamp Set [138962]	Kraft And White Corrugated Paper [138317]	Regals 12" X 12" Card Stock [131188]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad [126965]	1-1/4" Burlap Ribbon [132140]	Tags & Labels Framelits Dies [138282]	Big Shot [113439]	Paper Snips Scissors [103579]
Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

**Products from the 2015 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue, available for order starting Sept. 1, 2015:

Woodlands Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and Into the Woods Elements.