DeeDee's Digi-s Autumn Praises

Good Morning, and we're on the downside of the week headed for the weekend. I've been taking a little blog break, doing a little technique playing & just generally being lazy. I'd like to welcome some new followers and thank them so much for joining me on my journey through Blogland.

Esther of Esther's Tickets

Desire Fourie of Doing Life

Liz of Crafty Sunflower

 

Please take a few minutes to visit & say hello to these crafty folks and enjoy some beautiful inspiring work. Esther & Liz are part of The Creative Blog Hop this week, so you'll be learning about what brought these ladies into crafting and Blogland.

 

 

The card today has one of DeeDee's Digi-s from the August 2014 release, and is one I really loved a lot. It was so easy to think of lots of ways to use it, and here's what my first idea turned out to be.

 

 

 

 

- DeeDee's Digis Autumn Praises  from the August 2014 release, precolored, but of course I added some copic shading. Printed several copies, cut out one and did the shading & a bit of stylus shaping. The 2nd image was die cut with a Cheery Lynn scalloped rectangle die, airbrushed the background with Copics E41 and E40. Used a mask to spray E55 just on the scalloped edges to make a little frame. Then popped the previously shaded fussy cut image over the top. After this a few WoStellas added some glimmer & shine.

 

- S/B pumpkin die used to cut a piece of Canson #98 mixed media paper. Covered with a clear gesso, let it dry. Used a Memory Box screen stencil to apply some white gesso in spots (I'm still trying with this stuff, and this is the first time I've achieved a decent result. I think because I just did the process in spots, quickly lifted the stencil straight up immediately. Usually at this point I managed to smear the works!). Let this dry for a few hours, then used a copper Stempel paint to cover the punkin part, and some green for the stem.

 

- the die cut letters were done with the Silhouette Cameo (my friend challenged me to get my backside in gear and JUST USE IT!) Well this is my first effort - ever - outside of class. I hope you'll see more of this kind of thing in future.

 

- Soda can leaf die cut, previously colored with alcohol inks.

 

- background papers from 2 autumn 6x6 packs- cut in triangles to fit the cardbase. EK Success notebook edge punch was added after my first photo showed just a smidge of the white cardbase at the very top. Daggone, thought the base had been covered well until I took the first photo, and peeking out at the top was a tiny gleam of white. Had to carefully lift the die cut punkin to sneak under that border trim to cover the white bit. Luckily it lifted ok, as did the letters. Whew!

 

DeeDee has a new September Challenge going on. This month, we're celebrating the (almost) start of Fall with our little chipmunk friend. He is keeping warm as the weather turns cooler with his fluffy, green sweater and his yummy cup of cider.

You can purchase this month's featured set for just $1.25 in the shop. If you participated in last month's challenge, you should have already received this set in your email. (If you participated but didn't receive the set, please contact DeeDee -- sometimes things do go wrong with email).Some of DeeDee's designers made projects to help get you thinking about how you might use this set. I love seeing what they do with the featured set each month -- don't you?!?! There will be more inspiration each week throughout the challenge as well, so be sure to check back!

Thanks for popping by to visit this morning, and do have a wonderful afternoon. It's certainly porch swing weather at our house, even though after several very pleasantly cool days, it got hot & muggy again. God Bless, and Many Hugs until next time.