Fall in a round

I love fall, or should I say autumn colours and I have to say the more I look the more colours I see.

Beate Johns recently created a tutorial over at Splitcoast for a Twisted Circular Easel Card so that is the design I chose for this one today.  My hands are multi-coloured now but it was quite fun with all those distress inks - nothing like Beate's clean design!

I used the tree from MFP Tree Selections, the maple leaf stamp from MFP Scenic Selections and the sentiment from MFP Daffodil Greetings. The circles were all cut with dies and the sentiment was cut with Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles.  The leaves were cut with one of my original Spellbinders dies.  Ribbon and fibres from my messy stash.  The border inside was punched with an EK Success wide border punch.

Front - detailed view

I am entering this card for the following challenges


Stampin Sisters in Christ 161 - use a tree
Jugs 158 - emboss resist technique used with maple leaf stamp
OCC - Fall in the Circle

Inside - detailed view

The distress inks I used were
Wild Honey
Spiced Marmalade
Peeled Paint
Dusty Concord
Aged Mahogany



Thank you for checking out my card - I really do appreciate your comments.

Please Pretend it is Monday - FOSTV 37

Apologies for the lateness of this post - too busy enjoying myself and lost track of the days!

The challenge at FOSTV this week is to CASE a card from someone you admire.  My card is CASE'd from a beautiful card made by Beate Johns a few weeks ago.  Her card can be found here.  I love Beate's work and have admired what she does for many years - she encouraged me to post my first card to Splitcoast!  Please take a look at her blog Fresh and Fun

Well it is your turn now to consider whose work you might like to CASE and produce a card fro this week's Friends of Speedy TV challenge.  There is a stamp set to be won called New Pines - a really pretty set.