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Seeds and Acorns

Challenge #336 – The Seeds of A Corny Theme

The past couple of weeks have been hectic and I haven’t been very motivated from a creative standpoint. I’ve been trying to do Christmas cards, sort of successfully, but I’m still very behind. I didn’t want to miss the challenge at As You See It because my goal is to enter each one this year and it would be a shame to fail now.

I pulled out a scrap piece of Kraft CS and two stamps from a YNS set along with one from Lavinia Stamps and a sentiment from GKD. I stamped the acorns and then randomly added the seed head here and there. Using some shimmer watercolour paints I added colour to the acorns and outlined some things with a sparkly gold Sakura pen. With a small sponge I added some gold ink to the seed heads. Then I used a die from StampinUP to cut the Kraft piece down slightly and a gold background piece as well. These were angled as you see in the photo. In my scrap file I found my last piece of CTMH hound’s-tooth paper and used it as the background. In retrospect it may have been better to use a Kraft piece for the sentiment as the white seems a bit stark. I may tone it down a bit, but too late for my post.

Thanks for spending time with me today, and thanks too, for any comments you may leave.

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  7. Seeds AND acorns! Double win. 🙂

    I’m so impressed with the resolve you’ve shown in entering every challenge. Well done! I like the warmth of the neutrals in this card and the sweet details of the dotty edge to the die cut panel. Thank you for all your entries this year at As You See It. Are you going to try for two years?

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    1. Thanks Jan. And most likely I shall try for next year too. I like your challenges and if you ever advertised for a new DT, I would apply. I think your team is lovely.

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