Fusion Challenge -- Autumn Leaves

I have a soft spot for leaves and after seeing blogging friend Michele's card and finding out

that Fusion's latest challenge is all about leaves, I had to join in. 

At Fusion you can play with the sketch or with the inspiration photo, or both. I went with

the photo--such gorgeous colors!

 

A pad of Altenew patterned paper made quick work of choosing the colors, and I

used a retired set of leaves from MFT. A dark brown panel was embossed with

an Altenew folder and the leaves were adhered and pulled up for dimension.

I die cut the "thankful" from white card stock, then inked it in ombré colors and

adhered it to the shadow piece. The sentiment was then adhered to the card.

Thanks to Michele for directing me to the challenge and thanks for stopping by!

Fusion Card Challenge -- COCOA

I'm joining the first Fusion Card Challenge of the new year!  

 

Here's my card. I played with both the sketch and the photo. I turned the sketch to a

landscape format, and picked up the plaid and mugs from the photo.

At first, the mug looked like it was filled with coffee, so I threw in some marshmallows for 

good measure.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

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Edited to add: My card was chosen as an Honorable Mention! Thank you, Fusion! 

Fusion Card Challenge -- BUTTERFLY

I'm playing along with the new Fusion Card Challenge. Because butterflies.

You can choose to play along with just the sketch or the inspiration photo or combine
the two. I combined the theme and the sketch.

I inked up three butterflies in rainbow colors. A (recycled) strip of textured kraft
paper was stamped with the sentiment then adhered to the card base. The
butterflies were adhered per the sketch.

Hope your week is going well. Thanks so much for stopping by!


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Edited to add: Honored that my card was chosen as Honorable Mention.
Thank you, Fusion Card Challenge!

Fusion Card Challenge--GNOMES

I'm playing along with the gals over at Fusion Card Challenge because....GNOMES!

It's serendipitous when you're packing up a bunch of gnomes from Christmas and a
challenge pops up on your feed. I think I may have squealed.

I looked through my gnome stash and picked out three that were dressed in
more non-Christmasy colors and chose to work with the sketch.

I ran the card base through a woodgrain embossing folder, added a stitched
circular frame then topped it off with the gnomes. The card was finished off
with the awesome reverse sentiment strips by CZ Designs.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you are staying crafty and well.

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Edited to add: My card was chosen as the Zen Master at Fusion!
Thank you, Fusion Card Challenge!

Fusion Card Challenge--Christmas Eve Ride

I'm joining the last Fusion Card Challenge of the year mainly because I "discovered"

the Neat and Tangled Cover Plate in my box of NBUS (Darnell's fun acronym for
Never Before Used Schtuff).

You can either use the sketch or the inspiration photo, and I decided to sort of

do a combination of the two.

After cutting out the entire cover plate of houses, I inked them in bright  colors

with Distress inks and decided to leave the trees white. 

I arranged the houses per the sketch, and added the trees, too. The sentiment was

white embossed and I added some snow with a white pigment pen.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Edited to add: Big thanks to Fusion for the HM shout out!

Supplies:

Neat and Tangled Warm Winter Scene Cover Plate

MFT Snow Globe Sentiments

FUSION Card Challenge One Year Anniversary Celebration

Have you heard the news? FUSION Card Challenge is celebrating their One Year Anniversary!

Sweet and talented Kimberly Wiener invited me to be her guest and I was thrilled to accept.

If you're not familiar with FUSION, use either the photo or the sketch, 

or both, to create your card. Here's the challenge graphic:

Feeling super inspired by the photo, I created TWO cards for the challenge.

Here's my first.

I used one stamp set--WPlus9's Twenty Fifteen and created a New Year's card.
The sentiment was white embossed on watercolor paper and I dabbed several colors
of distress inks over it for the resist effect.

The small and medium sized triangle images were stamped in gold ink once,
and gold embossed a second time to resemble banners.
I finished off the card with gold spatters of ink and a few sequins.
 

For my second card, I was inspired by the chalkboard in the background.

I used the same WPlus9 stamp and created a chalkboard flag.

The banners were created with a Reverse Confetti die, cut from

watercolored paper and metallic cardstock.

Visit FUSION Card Challenge for all the details and deadline, and to see
how the rest of the design team and their guests were inspired,
and join the challenge if you can. Also, visit Kimberly's blog to see her card.
I'm sure she rocked the challenge as she always does.

Thanks, Kimberly, for the honor of guesting with you--I had a blast!

Fusion Card Challenge--Hypothesis #8

This is my entry for the latest Fusion Card Challenge and

once again I'm going with Lesley's inspiration photo.

I don't remember exactly what I did to get these results

but I did use Avery Elle's Petals & Stems Clear Photopolymer stamps

and a bunch of Distress inks.

Some flowers were inked and misted with water, some were sprayed

with a lot of water, and some were just stamped straight on watercolor paper.

My hubby's one word reaction: "Whoa!"

And I think I found the perfect sentiment to go with it.

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Fusion Card Challenge #6

  

For Fusion Card Challenge #6, I chose Lesley's inspiration photo

of stacked tea and coffee cups. I stacked a dozen macarons from Avery Elle's
Bonjour Clear Photopolymer Stamps using various colors of Hero Arts' mid tone inks.

This time, I used some white enamel accents and drew in

 a bit of macaron filling. Yum!

The sentiment is also from the macaron set and lastly, I added
a little puffy white heart sticker.

Thanks, always, for stopping by!

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