Autumn - challenge

This autumn theme has been done on a large piece of stampbord, rather than a card. I coloured the base with mustard, green and red dye ink. Then I used EI stamp on top but only lightly inked the stamp so as not to cover the background too much.

Then using an homemade mixture of UTE clear which was mixed in three batches with butterscotch, lettuce and red pepper alcohol inks to make a transparent coloured UTE. I inked the corners with versamark and then just added layers of the above embossing powder to give a deep cover, into which I stamped the chrysanthemum EI stamp coated with a copper brilliance ink.

I then went over the leaves and flowers with pigment powder to give some definition and sparkle.

This artwork is for rainbowlady's autumn challenge

Geisha -Sketch Saturday

First of all thanks to those of you who posted comments on the ATC's, sorry I've been a bit late in getting to them but had a few problems with Internet, your comments are very much appreciated.

I've been a bit pre-occupied with other things this week so have not had chance to get into my craft room. However this is my first challenge this week for 'sketchsaturday'. Having had a slight tidy up of my craft room!!! I found some clear acrylic stamps that were in the bottom of a draw and took the inspiration from them.