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fall colours

Yesterday I posted to the As You See It speed challenge and after I had, I realized that perhaps I hadn’t met the challenge properly. The Challenge #355 – Lively Leaves clearly says speed stamping on the image and my card had no stamping on it at all. Given that AYSI is one of my favourite sites to enter I decided I had better make another one and this is it.

I started by using some inks on a plastic sheet and a wet brush and swiped the brush across the panel in curves at the corners and not bothering to be careful. Then I took the Altenew leaf sprig stamp and stamped the leaf over the top. This took several tries as my inks weren’t quite dry. Sentiment is from the same set. Using a new die set from Amazon, I proceeded to cut the layer and then did a second one in gold. Why dies don’t cut properly when we are hurrying always puzzles me, as I had to repeat the cut and then spend more time than I wanted on getting all the bits out of the gold layer. I did take time to add the enamel dots but they were easy compared to poking out the gold piece. Had the die cut properly my card would have been finished in 6 minutes (a record for me) but hey ho, it took more time and I finished the card in 8 minutes and 30 seconds.

I’m not sure I like the end result, as my colours are a bit darker than I wished, but when doing something for speed it is not easy to fix or change.

Thanks for joining me today, I hope your Sunday has gone well. Ours has been so hot being outside was virtually impossible, but we shall do a BBQ tonight and eat on the patio.

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  2. Gorgeous…..love the paint strokes with the stamped leaf sprig. An extra challenge poking all of those die cuts out of those intricate dies.

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  3. Great card with that abstract background! I would think that using those intricate die cuts was a challenge all of its own! Still a great time – thanks for getting speedy with us at As You See It

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  4. Impressive looking card with the gold and white scalloped borders and your bold colourful brush strokes. Perfect Autumn card!!

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  6. Aha – the dreaded die cut poking out problem again! What I love the very most about this card is your curvy brushstroke background. How very clever that it – I might have to give it a go sometime. Did you transfer the inks to paper from the plastic sheet or did you stamp on top of the plastic? The colours are lovely and I think the enamel dots are a good addition. Thanks for sharing with us again at As You See It. 🙂

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    1. Thanks. What I did was use the plastic sheet to add colour in rows that I could dip my brush into, then I just brushed the curved bits in the different inks. Didn’t waste the leftover inks either. Just sprayed them after I stopped the clock and put paper down to soak them up.

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  7. Very cool background! It looks very professional! I can see you’re a glutton for punishment, with more intricate dies in this card, with more poking out the tiny bits in store for you! It all came together within the allotted time though, so it’s all good!

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