Finding Some Creative Mojo

 My card making Mojo had gone on a walkabout but I think it is coming back.  Thank goodness.  I do admit I have been doing some other creative things such as art journaling and mixed media.  I do love getting messy also.

Today I am playing along with the current challenge at Twofer.  This challenge is where you use the same stamp, die, stencil and made two different cards for two different occasions.  Each card must have a different design.  This month the challenge is leaves - one of my favorite subjects to craft with.  I did get carried away (in a good way) and made four cards.

I had a die set in my collection which had never met the die cutting machine.  Today was the day I used it.  It is a pretty group of leaves.  

Here are my two cards for the Twofer challenge.

For this card I die cut the leaves out of a piece of card stock and made a stencil.  For my card, I first did a little ink smooshing to give a little color to the background.  I then used my handmade stencil to stencil the leaves around the card front.  I used four different colors of distress oxide ink.  I die cut the panel, matted it with brown and then added a gold mat.  I added a die cut word to the front for a Thanksgiving card.  I completed the card with some gold splatters.

On this card I die cut two of the branches out of kraft card stock and then smooshed them into several different shades of distress oxide ink.  I never did use a blue ink on the leaves but one of the colors has a blue undertone.  I love the color on the leaves.  I ink smooshed the background.  I trimmed one branch a little and then glued them on a diagonal across the front of the card.  I heat embossed the sentiment, added a twine bow, added a green mat and added the sentiment strip across the center of the card.  The card front was matted with green and added to a kraft card base.  I added ink splatters of one of the greens.

 

Here are the bonus card.  This was the panel which I cut the stencil from.  After I had finished stenciling the first card, I did a bunch of ink smooshing of oxide inks to achieve the fun color on the front.  You can not even see the color left over on the front from stenciling.  I die cut a branch from red card stock.  The front panel was matted with a goldish and red card stock.  I inlaid the red branch into the opening.

I colored this branch the same way as the branches in the second card.  I was thinking I might need three branches for that card.  I did not need a third branch so I had a leftover branch and I had to use it.  I ink smooshed my background, die cut the front panel and matted it with green.  The sentiment was heat embossed onto the card front.  

This was a productive day for me in the card making department.  I ma happy with how the cards  turned out.

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