Branch Out and yet another Halloween Hoot bonus

Happy Wednesday.  I can't believe that it's already Tuesday night and we are almost at "hump" day.  Ever since I was a child and was going through my "I hate school" period, I've really appreciated Wednesdays!  I'm sad to say that I won't be at the Stampin' Up convention this year.  Sigh!

Today, I have one of my all time favorite Stampin Up stamp sets to show you.  Branch Out!  There's a distinctly fall (autumn for my European and Antipodean visitors :-)….)feel to the air right now and it inspired me to use fall colors for this Stamping411 saturday sketch challenge 110.  For those of you who have visited my site before, you know I can't resist a challenge.  You should check out the submissions from the other posters, too.  Always lots of great inspiration for you.

 Once again, I loved the simplicity of the layout.  I used Really Rust for the card stock and the matt.  I stamped the leaves with Really Rust and Crushed Curry.  I stamped the tree with Soft Suede and used soft suede for the circle.  I used the textured card stock for the circle.

I decided to stamp the butterflies in Only Orange – it reminded me of the fact that we get a lot of Monarchs at this time of year.  (In fact we planted lots of Milkweed in our garden to help these amazing little things along!)   I used black StazOn for the tire.  It really gives such a crisp clear image.  I stamped all of this on Whisper White.  I love using the WW for featuring stamps as I like the way the ink takes and the crispness of the image I get when I use it.

The brad is from the Vanilla Hodgepodge collection.

Overall, I was really pleased with the way the card turned out and felt that it captured the fall feel that I was looking for.

As I have received even more requests for Halloween cards – here's today's bonus.  I used the Halloween Hoot…. again! 🙂 This time I used the witch stamp and decided to combine it with Humor in High Heels.  My friends will understand my absolute NEED to use this stamp….. My DH had to build an entire part of our walk-in closet just to hold my shoe collection!…..

I changed the exposure of these shots, so that you could see the detailing on the black card stock.  I ran it through my big shot on the polka dots and then used my sanding block to subtly highlight the dots.  For this version of the card, I used the retired Kiwi Kiss ribbon.  I also did a version with the Dusty Durango ribbon instead.  The witch image was stamped in black StazOn and I used my Aquapainter and colored the witches face with Old Olive ink.  I stamped the placard in black StazOn, and then stamped the "Best Witches" on Old Olive card stock.  For the inside, I decided to make her a "good witch" and gave her silver shoes!

As always, thank you for spending time in my little area of the vast and inspiring stamping blogosphere.  Your visit is much appreciated.

I wish you an inkspirational day, full of time to do the things you love – with those you love.
Peace
Jaydee