DCM - October Elemental Inspiration

Morning!

It's the first Friday of a new month, so it's time for a brand-new elemental inspiration challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

Here's the image Sabneez has chosen for us:

The elements I went with were: Toadstools, textured surface, foliage, round aperture

Stamps: The Greetery - Opposites Attract, The Greetery - Print Shop: Floral Frame
Dies: The Greetery - Opposites Attract Script, The Greetery - Print Shop: Floral Frame, The Greetery - BotaniCuts Toadstool Garden

I started out by die-cutting the Toadstool Garden dies from Neenah 80lb cardstock and blending various Distress Inks and other dye inks on the die-cuts to create those vibrant pops of colour. I also splattered the colourful tops of the toadstools with white and brown Gansai Tambi paint.

While the toadstools were drying, I stencilled and stamped the Floral Frame with inks from The Stamp Market in autumnal shades. When I die cut the frame, I set aside the middle aperture and later blended over it with some Distress Oxide ink already on my blue blending brush to look like sky.

I used a neutral woodgrain pattern from the new Grain and Grunge paper pad by Honey Bee Stamps for the background to my scene.

I popped up the floral frame on some scrap strips of cardstock, and then fit the aperture back into the centre.

Then it was just a matter of placing the toadstools in and adding a sentiment from the Opposites Attract set to complete my card.

Make sure you check out the wonderful interpretations from the rest of the design team here, and play along if you can!

Happy crafting!

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The Greetery - Opposites Attract stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery - Print Shop: Floral Frame stamps and stencils Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery - Opposites Attract Script dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery - Print Shop: Floral Frame die Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG
The Greetery - BotaniCuts Toadstool Garden dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	Distress ink pad - Antique Linen Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Distress ink pad - Iced Spruce Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Distress ink pad - Rustic Wilderness Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)
Distress ink pad - Speckled Egg Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	Distress ink pad - Weathered Wood Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Distress Oxide ink pad - Tumbled Glass Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Lawn Fawn - Chili Pepper ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC | SHC (UK)
Lawn Fawn - Doe ink pad Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn - Lobster ink pad Shop at: SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn - Merman ink pad Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn - Minty Fresh ink pad Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)
Pinkfresh Studio - Sweet Mustard ink pad Shop at: MISC | SBC	PTI - Terracotta Tile ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Coastal ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Forest ink pad Shop at: MISC
The Stamp Market - Golden ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Mossy ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Pacific ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Papaya ink pad Shop at: MISC
The Stamp Market - Peach ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Rusty ink pad Shop at: MISC	The Stamp Market - Umber ink pad Shop at: MISC	Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC
Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: EH | MISC	Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | MISC | SBC	Honey Bee Stamps - Grain and Grunge - 6x8.5 paper pad Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC	Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36-pan watercolour set Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC
Tonic Studios Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC	Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK)
Taylored Expressions - Blender Brushes Shop at: MISC	Tim Holtz - Distress Sprayer Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Waffle Flower - Mini Media Mat Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC (UK)	Ranger - Artist brush set Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC
Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Sizzix - Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | EH | SBC

Comments

[Angelnorth]

Wonderful riot of colour Nat, perfect autumnal card!