Just Because it's Autumn

Hello... yes it's Jenny back again this week as I've swapped with Taheera and I have 

a couple of autumnal cards... a twofer one...

I've used the Thankful Leaves Turnabout and stamped a pattern onto a piece of 6x6 kraft card using Distress Oxides. Instead of keeping one colour to one leaf or turn, I've multi inked the leaves so they're a rainbow of autumnal colours. I then cut five strips from around the edges of the large piece and adhered them to the card at different heights.

To make the water-coloured leaf embellishments I took the turnabout and stamped the

 three large leaves again in multi distress inks and heat embossed them with clear 

powder on watercolour card. The sentiment and banner comes from the Just Because die set.

I trimmed down the remaining piece of leafy cardstock and used the frame from the Just Because dies to cut 

out a central panel. I love how this die cuts a narrow frame so I layered it with another 

frame and adhered it inside the aperture.

I used the remaining two watercoloured leaves and then a sentiment from

 Altenew's Signature Words die.... that raised frame just adds an extra dimension to the aperture :)

Those colours are just gorgeous.... can you tell Autumn is my favourite season :)

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Autumnal Friendship

As the leaves are turning around us now, and the heating is on, its feeling very autumnal so I thought I'd make an autumnal card with the ADORABLE new deer stamps from Neat and Tangled as the focal element (do they remind anyone else of the Babycham deer adverts or am I just showing my age now!)

I started with my background, stamping the Thankful Leaves Turnabout from Concord & 9th directly onto a kraft card base using red, orange and brown inks and yellow embossing powder (as the yellow ink dried too pale so I just re-inked it and embossed it)

To add the circle for the deer to sit on, I used the new birthday balloon stamp, also from Concord & 9th as I love the "not quite perfect circle" shape and I liked the idea of having an embossed circle rather than a die cut circle for a change.

For the deer and the word deer I stamped onto vanilla malt card and coloured with pencils before fussy cutting (I use a finger knife for the centre of the letters), the friend word is stamped directly over the top of the embossed circle with versafine ink.  I love the expression on the deer - so cute!

NEWS FROM THE STORE

We will have the current release from Flora and Fauna in store early this week

Altenew have another release on the 27th September - not stamps  but I can't say what it is yet as they haven't revealed it - but we hope it will ship early this week so we will have it shortly after release (no restocks on this order as it was a last minute release we had to order quickly but we will also have the reinkers for the markers in this delivery)

We have also ordered the latest release from Lil Inker Designs - Laura has changed the way she releases now and has closed her wholesale arrangements with the majority of stores, but we were lucky enough to still be allowed to stock her.  From now on though we can only order once the release is available in her own store so we will get it a little while after and not on release day anymore.

That's all we're expecting over the next week or so, until all the new releases for October start again shortly!

Catch you later

Tara