Saturday 20 October 2012

Autumnal Trees

Over at Less is more, the theme is autumn.  I love the autumnal colours, and as the weather changes, my mind turns more to indoor pursuits like crafting.

I've two cards to share - both using an old SU stamp set, three trees.  I bought mine on ebay from the US - I was looking for a nice stamp of tree trunks - and loved the sentiment that came with this set.  Funnily enough elder daughter spent a year in New Hampshire as part of her university course, and had just returned home when I bought it from someone who was living about 10 miles away from her!

In both, I've stuck to a simple design just using the trees and the sentiment from that set.  The trees are cut on a bit of the same card stuck down with a matt to match the ink - possibly the use of the ribbon makes it slightly outside the scope of less is more! But sometimes, as my youngest daughter would agree, you just need a ribbon and a bow to add that final touch!


I did the same sort of thing in green and blues (because I liked the colours and the sentiment) - one of my friends has a birthday next week, and I'm giving her a stash of cards, some of which could be used for a variety of occasions. 




Photographing my cards reminded me, I've still photos from our holiday and our trip to Cornwall to take youngest daughter to Uni still on my camera - whoops, must do something with them!

10 comments:

  1. These are both great and the ribbon is just fine... It still looks CAS.
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    Less is More

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  2. Both of these are lovely, I do like the greeny-blue one!

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  3. Helo
    Fabulous cards.....
    Hugs Sylvie xxx

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  4. I love both your cards. Thank you for your kind comments on my blog. I totally understand about photos on camera. Tracey x

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  5. Two lovely cards, Anna. Two different looks!

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  6. Love the greens and blues ... I agree, they're great colours! Anita in France

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  7. Hola Anna, gorgeous cards, i like the colours, beautiful stamp and the sentiment is wonderful, well done.
    Hugs from Palma de Mallorca

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  8. Two stunning cards, and two very different looks. Great job! xx

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  9. That's a fabulous tree stamp...and both cards are very lovely!

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  10. Lovely card Anna and surprising how different it looks in different colourways,....

    Anne

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