Raspberry Suite Color Challenge

Dawn's Color challenge this week is right up my alley - I love the colors of fall and couldn't wait to get my stuff out to play (I am home again today getting a patio door and windows installed.  Yesterday did not go as well as it could have as there was a lot more damage from a leak than originally anticipated, but thank the Lord no structural damage)

So in anticipation of the changing colors here is my card:

I did a spotlight using the yellow orange.  I also used just the little piece of ground under the tree stamp and carefully extended  it across the whole layer.  I used the splatter stamp from the set for the leaves on both the silhouette image and the spot light as well as the background splatter stamping.

And instead of cutting out and layering that Top Note die cut, I used my E57 Copic and just edged it up to to the perforation line (same great layered look without all the cutting!)

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{Thinking of You card supplies}
Stamps: (SU!) Branch Out, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: (PTI) Dark Chocolate, Kraft, Cream, Summer Sunrise, Bitty Boxes patterned
Ink: (SU!) Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun, (PTI) Vintage Cream
Tools: E57 Copic, Sizzix die - Top Note , Big Shot

Spotlighting

I was checking out Gina K's blog and she was talking about the "oldies but goodies" - that first stamping technique you learned that really helped you on your way to where you are now. One of the first things I learned was spotlighting - where you stamp in a monochrome dark neutral and then stamp again, cut out a piece and color it to really show off that particular area of the image.

I decided to do that with my latest SU! order. I thought the Branch Out set would be perfect for this.

I stamped the tree image in Chocolate Chip, making sure the the part of the tree I wanted to spotlight was what I stamped on my small square. I added some Kiwi Kiss and Old Olive "leaves" on the spot light image to give it a pop of color. This stamp set comes with a great "splatter" pattern stamp that I used for the leaves.

The spotlight image is adhered with a foam dimensional to set it off a little more.

I needed a simple thank you card so I added a sentiment from my other new stamp set - Flight of the Butterfly.

I added some butterfly groups in chocolate chip to the large image and 1 in Riding Hood Red to the spot light image ... it really jumps out atcha don't you think!

This card just reminds me of all the trees I see budding in my neighbor hood, now that we finally seem to be getting some spring time in Iowa!

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{Thank You So Very Much card supplies - All SU!}
Stamps: Branch Out, Flight of the Butterfly (sentiment)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red
Paper: Kiwi Kiss textured, Chocolate Chip, white