Hello and welcome to the latest challenge at The Paper Players! LeAnne's Harvest themed challenge last week brought some gorgeous entries into the gallery. I'm hostess this week with a colour challenge for you, and I hope you'll enjoy playing with it. Will you make an autumn card with these rich colours or something else entirely?
I'm really enjoying the Friendly Foliage bundle, one of the new Online Exclusives for November. I've done a few things with the framed leaves stamp and die and wanted to concentrate on using the extra leaves in the die set. There are a couple of skeleton leaf type dies in the set. Ever since I saw my team-mate Joanne make a card that inset the dies, I was wanting to have a go at something like it.
For this inlay die technique you need three things.
- You have to be slightly mad
- You need to have some patience
- You need to own a take-your-pick tool.
I started by cutting out several of the leaves in all of the challenge colours, making sure to keep all the little bits that fall out of the leaf outline.Then I picked three long pointy skeletons and two of the rounded leaf ones and adhered them to the Basic White card front, evenly spaced out.
Then came the part where steps 1-3 come in. I had a smear of liquid glue on my silicon mat, picked up random pieces with the sticky end of my take-your-pick tool and inserted it into the corresponding place in the outlines. Carry on like this until all the outlines are filled in.
Once that was done, it was plain sailing. Add the sentiment in Early Espresso. Adhere the panel to a pice of Mossy Meadow DSP. Adhere to an Early Espresso card base. Add embellishments - in this case, three of the green Sparkle Dots.
It really isn't as pernickety as it sounds to do this, especially if you can lift off the skeleton outlines of the leaves and leave the cut out bits still sitting in place on the cutting plate. Then it's easy to see where they fit back in. Anyway, if you give this a go I'd love to see how it turns out for you. 😀
You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry on The Paper Players page.
Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:
- Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
- Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
- Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
- Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
- Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!
Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.
Anne Marie Hile (on leave)
Jan Clothier - You are here
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