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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Autumn Burned Brightly

Autumn burned brightly, 
a running flame
through the mountains,
a torch flung to the trees.
               - Faith Baldwin

This is just one of those cards that refused to come together for me. I created it for September's My Favorite Things Guest Designer challenge which is to make the sentiment the main focus of the card.  Not sure I really succeeded with that.  I didn't have an MFT sentiment stamp so I had to computer generate the one above that I printed onto a walnut inked tag.  I paired it up with the MFT Sheltering Tree and Leaf Trio Die-namic.  This is my third card using this die-namic little die! I skipped the embossing part since the cork paper already had texture. To make the focus more on the sentiment I created a visual triangle around it with buttons and stickpins, plus the tea-dyed cheesecloth left over from a previous project. 


Products: Cosmo Cricket (Earth Love and Mr. Campy) pp, Basic Grey (Max and Whiskers) pp, My Favorite Things Die-namics, My Mind's Eye buttons, Maya Road stickpin (gold one is an Etsy purchase), Spellbinders Nestabilities

I hope you've had a great weekend. Ours has been nice and relaxing but it has not been a good one for my diet! Ever have those days where you just want to eat everything in sight?  Well, I've had two days in a row of that! I need to get back on track next week.  

And by the way, I just now added the Goodle Friends Connect button in the sidebar so please consider following me if you want to! 

6 comments:

  1. Very Nice Nancy!!!! The colors are great and you DID succeed in drawing focus to the sentiment!!!! ;) Those pins are SO cool!!!!!!

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  2. love all the colored leaves on your tree and what a fun sentiment too!

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  3. Gorgeous card Nancy! I love the quote and your tree is amazing, you're definitely have me in the fall mood! :)
    And I'm so glad you added the Follow feature, your blog is a must see!

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  4. Oh I find this card so warm and cosy... I love fall, great colors. your tree is amazing and love those stick pins....Very nice..

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  5. This is beautiful, Nancy. Autumn to a tee.

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