Thursday 16 September 2021

Block Leaves

Welcome to the new sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches, where this week our hostess is Cecile Ribon.  She has come up with a fun sketch for us and here's my card: 



After completing the Crushing on Cardstock class at Online Card Classes, I decided to play with some different cardstock techniques for my three panels.  The top panel is faux suede, the centre panel is embossed with a 3D embossing folder and the bottom panel is a tone-on-tone embossed panel.

The leaf is made from alcohol ink on acetate and die-cut.


Here's a close up of the different cardstock panels.


Thanks for visiting.  The DT have some gorgeous cards so I hope you'll check them out.

I'm entering this in the following challenges.

Tic Tac Toe - die-cuts, leaves, CAS. Inskpirational - autumn leaves  Addicted to CAS - leaf








Products used:

Stamps:  Rustic Linen, Many Thanks (Altenew)
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Sunkissed (Altenew)
Cardstock:  White, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold (PTI), Tangy Orange (MFT), Acetate
Dies:  Inside/Out Stitched Squares, Stitched Rectangle Stax, Layered Leaves (MFT)
Accessories:  Alcohol Inks (Butterscotch, Lemonade, Honeycomb, Sunset Orange, Statue Alloy); Modern Squares EF (Altenew)

Cheers
Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout out at Tic-Tac-Toe

11 comments:

Linda Callahan said...

This is fabulous! I love how you did your homework from class - worked perfectly for this challenge! Love your design and colors!

Dawn T said...

Awesome Karren. What a lovely card.

Vicky Hayes said...

What. A stunning result Karen! I love the different textures of your squares and the leaf is just gorgeous. Thank you for coming to play with us at Tic Tac Toe! Vicky x

Betty said...

fantastic card, Karren - love seeing it here at our TicTacToe challenge and hope you'll join us again soon!!

Jacquie Southas said...

The textures are amazing, Karen! Love the clean & modern feel of this design.

Marina said...

Great design and great details - lovely colours too. Thanks for joining in at Inkspirational Challenges.

Nora Noll said...

This is amazing!! I LOVE that you die cut out two windows and then used a die for the third square. That leaf is perfection!! I also like the embossing on your squares. Such lovely design.

Greta said...

Your card immediately caught my eye! Love the leaf, how you used 2 negative squares & the dry embossing! Great card!

Vicky Hayes said...

I'm back again Karren, and am still blown away by the textures, colours and different levels of your elements! Thank you for coming to play with us at Addicted to CAS. Vicky x

Jaydee said...

Oh, I love those color blocks with that gorgeous leaf. The colors are rich and remind me of peak of the color season. So glad you joined us at ATCAS this week
Jaydee

Toni said...

Wonderful design--I wasn't expecting the embossing on the squares. Lovely