I Pick You

It's apples galore today with a card made for the Color Throwdown challenge.

  

The apples in the mood board look scrumptious so I decided they were the perfect pick (pardon the pun!) for my card:

I started by die cutting a bunch of apples and leaves from watercolour card then colouring with distress inks. Initially they were to sit in a wheelbarrow so that was cut, coloured and assembled next - then I discovered the proportions were out and the apples looked rather giant in the barrow, lol, so it was exchanged for the barrel. I put the barrel together and arranged the apples then glued them in place, added the extra leaves and blossom, then stamped and cut the sign. Some gingham paper gives it a real country feel as well as more yellow.

Materials used:

• stamps - Berry Special (Lawn Fawn)
• dies - Autumn Elements (Karen Burniston), Bushel Basket (The Greetery), Essential Arches (Spellbinders)
• distress inks - twisted citron, mowed lawn, abandoned coral, festive berries, lumberjack plaid, antique linen, brushed corduroy, vintage photo
• other - blending brushes, Big Shot, Copic markers, Dimensionals, craft foam, acrylic dot, white gel pen, MISTI

I'm pretty sure colouring and assembling die cuts is my favourite crafty task, so you can be certain I had tons of fun putting this together!

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept - Harvest Bounty or Christmas Joy

It's time for another inspiration challenge at The Card Concept and once again there are two amazing images and colour swatches for you to choose from. 

I picked option a, taking the crate of apples as inspiration for my clean and layered mini slimline card.

The crate is a digital stamp which I printed with the quote (from Mother Teresa) alongside then coloured with Copics. The papers from Mintay were a match made in heaven and I love that soft blue, don't you?Once I had everything assembled it needed a little something to give that finished look, so I got out my trusty sewing machine and added two simple lines of stitching. 

Materials used:

• stamps - All Things Apples (Power Poppy)
• card - basic white, Apple Season papers (Mintay)
• Copic markers - R29,39,89; G24,28,43; E53,33,35; E13,23; B000
• other - small banner punch (SU retired), computer and printer, white gel pen, sewing machine and thread

I hope you'll be inspired to take part in our challenge and to check out what my fellow team mates created for you over on The Card Concept blog.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry