I’ve been participating in a lot of challenges this week; it really is a lot of fun to take a specific set of colours and see what you can make with them. Today I’m using the colour challenge from the Paper Players. This week there are four colours which can make things a little more tricky, but with my current, let’s call it, attachment to the Stampin’ Up! Sheltering Tree set, I knew what I wanted to do.

And here’s the challenge banner

I started by stamping the tree in crumb cake on a crumb cake piece of card stock and then added the leaves in so saffron. I then used the little flower head stamp and crisp cantaloupe to add more of an autumnal look. I stamped the grass bank in wild wasabi and stayed with the muted look for the sentiment by stamping it in crumb cake. Since the inks look a bit different on crumb cake than on white, the only mat that worked was the so saffron; the others seemed to be totally different colours! So there’s a skinny mat of 1/16 inch of so saffron. I mounted this on a crumb cake card base. For a change, rather than lining the envelope I decided to dry emboss the flap. It was really easy with my newly acquired texture boutique. It’s less bulky than the big shot and you don’t have to change plates. I don’t know about you, but every time I want to use my big shot, I seem to have to change between cutting and embossing! I used the retired pretty print embossing folder.

See you tomorrow,

Liz