Guest Designing with Blessing Ink and A Muse Studios

Hello Everyone,
Welcome!  Today's post is the third post for my Guest Designing spot on Chris' blog: Blessings Ink.

Chris is an A Muse Studios Demonstrator and hosts weekly challenges with  weekly winners and top picks.  The weekly winners are eligible for the monthly prize.   I will be posting projects for each of the weekly challenges all during the month of September.

The Theme of the current challenge is:

Fall Foliage

****Just a few Guidelines for entering  the Challenges:

 2 entry limit and no digis please!

■Link your creation to your paper crafts blog, gallery (SCS or Flickr) before midnight of the following Sunday.

■Use any product but please follow the challenge criteria.

■Double your chances to win by using A Muse Studio products (just leave Chris a reminder in the comments please)

I used a non-fall stamp to make my Fall Foliage.  I just used fall colors instead!! I made three cards using the same stamp set.  Take a look.

Materials List:

Stamps: Floral Duet set from A Muse Studios

Pigment Inks: Nutmeg, Poppy, Papaya, Orange Pigment from A Muse Studios

Cardinal Versa Color

Distress Ink: Dried Marigold

Clear Embossing Powder

CS: cream, kraft, brown, rust, dark red

Buttons: A Muse Studios

Ribbon: Orange and Papaya from A Muse Studio; sheer brown; sheer white

 Instructions:

• Make a card from brown CS
• On Kraft CS, stamp the large flower several time with Nutmeg pigment ink and heat emboss
• Add this background piece to the card base

• On cream CS, stamp the large and the small flower with Nutmeg and Cardinal inks; heat emboss
• Cut out the two flowers and add to card with dimensional adhesive
• Add a button to center of the flower

• Tie sheer brown ribbon in bow and add to card

The second card is made in the same manner:

• On Cream CS, stamp the large flower with Poppy, Nutmeg, Papaya, and Orange inks
• Heat emboss
• Stamp a large  and small flower on another piece of cream CS using Orange and Cardinal pigment inks
• Heat emboss the two flowers and cut out
• Add to the card
• Wrap Papaya ribbon around card and tie bow in Orange ribbon
• Place  buttons in the center of the flower and under the bow

The third card has a distressed background and uses the same ink colors.

Three cards from one stamp set..now that is really using your stamps potential.  LOL  Now, I have three nice cards to send out to someone this fall.

************A few fun Challenges for my Fall Floral cards:
Sisterhood of Snarky stampers: distress

Bloggers: fall colors 

Card making mamas: vintage or shabby chic

Simply create too: fall or autumn

4 Krafty Girlz: anything goes
Alphabet: P is for pretty petals

Is it feeling like Fall in your little corner of the world?  Cooling off a bit here but I like the cool!!  So, I am happy!  Thanks for stopping by!!  See you next time.

Karen