Guest Designer at Retro Rubber

 I'm delighted to have been invited to be Guest Designer at Retro Rubber - where the stamps we use need to be at least a year old - for the latest challenge which is Anything Goes. 

I decided on a distinctly Autumnal theme for my card. 

The main stamp I have used here is one of my oldest - and most often used - stamps, a Rubber Stampede one that is well over 20 years old. I stamped it onto a piece of a Master Board I had pre-prepared. To make the master board, I used a complete sheet of A4 card and applied shades of green, yellow, orange and tan ink in a mixture of sponging, spraying and direct to paper  techniques then sprayed the whole thing with green, copper and gold mica pearl sprays. Since I made a whole sheet you'll be seeing a few makes featuring it over the coming weeks. 

I fussy cut the image and curled the edges of the leaves slightly then added it to a panel of green card  with a sentiment stamped near to the bottom, wrapped the panel with twine, matted it on white and added it to the front of a brown card blank. I surrounded the leaves with "dewdrops" of clear liquid pearls. The bottom of the card looked a bit empty compared to the top, so I took a sycamore leaf stamp (this one only about 15 years old!) and used Stazon ink to stamp it onto shrink plastic, then cut and shrank it to make tiny embellishments.