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Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday, and our wonderful leader Nancy has chosen things in a garden for us to add to our cards.
So many choices here!
Or you can play along with the anything goes birthday option.
My team mates and our party guest Hilary have some wonderful inspiration for you so I hope you can play along. We will also have a special guest for the fortnight Anagha so hop over to the blog and take a look.
We have a bush garden, full of gum trees, although we've cleared some due to the bush fire risk!
We also have chooks, raspberries and some veggies growing, but I thought I'd stick with the gum leaves and blossom.
I was inspired by this card by Yana Smakula.
I don't have any similar leaf stamps and used my Prismacolour pencils, (no polychromos), but I'm happy with the result! The gold embossing is really shiny in real life.
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I'm linking up to these challenges:
Retro Rubber, anything goes using a stamp older than a year.
I used a Kaszazz gum leaf stamp, there's no date on the package but the last time I used the stamp was
Krafty Chicks, all occasions
Supplies:
Kaszzaz gum leaf stamp; versamark ink & Wow metallic gold rich superfine ep; Prismacolour pencils; Stately embossing folder; sentiment sticker.
Thanks for visiting,
Cathy x
20 comments:
Such wonderful contrast with the black, white and gold. Love the rich green too and the textured paper. Simple and stunning xx
Wow, I love the creative way you colored in the leaf on black cardstock, it looks really stunning with the gold boarder. I will have to give this a try! Thank you for playing with us at C4Guyz.
This is very pretty and I love the contrast of the pencil coloured gum leaves and flowers on the black against the white and with the gold embossing, and the EF with the picture frame edge looks wonderful Cathy..a really elegant and beautiful card. x
I love how elegant this looks with the green and gold on black! Simply beautiful!
Great stamp and wonderful coloring. It makes such an impact.
Wow, that is a lovely floral image - so dramatic heat-embossed on black! All your scorelines add even more drama! Thanks so much for playing at Retro Rubber!
That gold embossing makes this a very classy card. It is marvelous and impressive too.
This is a wonderful example of heat embossing! I love how it pops off of the black and the green really highlights all the detail in the leaves. Thanks for joining us at Retro Rubber this time. Claire Retro Rubber DT
Thanks for playing along with our "any color medium" challenge over at Cardz 4 Guyz. You rocked our challenge with your colored pencils on that black cardstock...fantastic!! -Deb Horst, DT #C4G318
The choice of colors is fab! Wonderful card!
Cathy, this is so beautiful, and the gold makes is so elegant. Gorgeous card.
So elegant with the gold!
What a gorgeous card Cathy! Your gold embossing is done so well along with your coloring. Thanks for making my challenge look so wonderful!
The gold embossing on the black is so pretty. Great card Cathy.
Spectacular card! Love the gold embossed outline on black card stock; it really pops your colouring. I’m delighted to have you playing with the Krafty Chicks All Occasions Challenge this week. Hope you join us again soon.
Diane - DT
Gold embossing on black and colouring is so classy, and these gum nuts and leaves look fabulous!
I'm not sure I've ever seen a gum leave. This is stunning. You did a fabulous job coloring them, polychromos or not.
This is so stunning! The gold on black with the rich colours - so gorgeous.
What a nice card. I have not used Prisma Colors. Did you color directly on to the black cardstock? Thank you for sharing your creativity with us at C4G this round. Cheers, Jolanda - DT
I love the technique and your colouring. Thank for sharing with us at Sparkles Monthly Challenges. Caz. DT.
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