Frosty Pumpkins

My last two cards with the September Betterpress Society plate "Raining Pumpkins" were created from an idea I had to have the center of a card be uninked - just the impression only.  Once I had my two panels made, it seemed like the perfect idea to make two cards, switching out the middles.

The uninked panel was simply a Porcelain Cotton Card panel run through my machine - I would do this again, it makes a beautiful background all on it's own.  A second Porcelain panel was created after inking the plate with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink, giving the lovely grey background.  I used the coordinating stencils to ink the pumpkins in Faded Jeans and Iced Spruce, with Evergreen Bough for the stems.

I used the Scalloped Rectangle dies from Pinkfresh Studio cut in the Spellbinders Treasured Silver Glitter cardstock - cut twice, and layered with a frame of white for some extra dimension.  After cutting out the center of the panels using a rectangle die of a similar size, I adhered my panels onto card bases, switching out the middles, and adding the glitter frames.

The first card also got some vellum leaves tucked around the frame, and a pressed sentiment from the You Are Everything Betterpress Sentiment set.  Both cards got a sprinkle of silver sequins as well.

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Lots of Love Pumpkin card

My third card with the September Betterpress Society plate "Raining Pumpkins" from Spellbinders was designed as I went along.

I started by inking up the plate with Antique Linen ink, and Vintage Photo around the edges.  After pressing, I used the coordinating stencils to colour in the pumpkins with Dried Marigold, Antique Linen and Mowed Lawn.  I wasn't all that thrilled with the result, I thought the center area didn't have enough contrast.  While searching for something else, I came across this oval vellum diecut, and thought that it just might work on this card.

I die cut the Lots of Love sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio in brushed gold cardstock from the Spellbinders Treasured Gold cardstock pack, and mounted it on Chocolate cardstock  I was able to hide my adhesive behind the words, and attached the vellum to my panel.  A few gold pearls finished it off - I'm very happy with the end result!

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Raining Pumpkins

The September Betterpress Society plate from Spellbinders was called "Raining Pumpkins", and was this fun, full coverage plate of (you guessed it!) pumpkins, that are raining or floating.  I used it as a chance to create some fun ink blended backgrounds, so created two versions using the same colours:

For the first card, I used Distress Oxide inks (Ground Espresso/Aged Mahogany/Antique Linen/Crushed Olive/Peeled Paint) on a piece of Bisque Cotton Card, blending from the upper left corner, to the bottom right.  Then I spattered the panel with water to create the fun oxidization effect, and also spattered with some Ground Espresso ink.  The plate was inked up with Ground Espresso and pressed.

For the second card, I did the same blend, but this time did my ink blending on the press plate itself, then pressed it onto a piece of regular cream cardstock.  This left the pumpkins uncoloured, and created a lovely, colourful background.  The ink comes out a little more vibrant on the cardstock.  I used the coordinating stencil to ink in the stems using some Peeled Paint ink.

Both cards were mounted onto card bases, and a sentiment from the You Are Everything set of Press plates was added, and I die cut the same shapes out of glitter cardstock and mounted it behind them.  A few brown jewels added some extra glimmer.

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