Fall Fun with Apples and Hedgehogs

Hello and welcome!

Today a new challenge starts over at the Double Trouble challenge blog and I am sharing my second card as Double Trouble's Crazy Cousin a.k.a Guest Designer!

So here are the details this time around:

Thing 1 - Trouble Maker: (required): Something, Anything, Everything

Thing 3 - Twisted Sister: (optional): Let's make a fall project and include your favorite Fall harvest item(s), e.g. apples, pears, pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, grains, scarecrow, etc.

Thing 2 - Double Dare (optional): multiply the fun by linking your project with any previous partner(s) listed below. 

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge //Bitten By a Bug 2 // Color My Heart Color Dare // Crafter's Café // Crafting Happiness // 2 Crafty Critter Crazies // Creative Creases // Cupcake Inspirations // Dies R Us // Heart2Heart // If I Give a Crafter a Cookie // Kat Scrappiness

Retro Rubber Challenge // Stinkin'Inkers Challenge // The Paper Funday Challenges // Try Stampin' on Tuesday // Use Your Stuff

My favorite fall activity is visiting the apple orchard. So for my "favorite fall harvest item" I've included apples. My fall colors are "apple" red , brown and olive green. Maybe I should have colored "golden delicious" apples to make the card more fall-like, but I thought I'd color the apples in the colors of my favorite kind of apples, the Johnathan's, which are usually reddish with a bit of green.

I started out by stamping the Penny Black image Hedgie Gift on Bristol Vellum paper and colored using a mix of Zig Clean Color markers and Distress inks. I then stamped the image again on post it notes, cut out and used as a mask so I could ink up the background.

To make the background I simply inked up a large acrylic block using Peeled Paint and Tumbled Glass Distress inks. Slightly spritzed with water before stamping the acrylic block onto my Bristol Vellum paper. I did repeat this process a couple more times until I was happy with the outcome. Then removed the hedgehog masks.

Next I stamped the Penny Black flowers from the set Delicate Florals using Peeled Paint ink. I left the flowers uncolored otherwise to keep the main focus on the hedgehogs. 

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The sentiment is from the Penny Black Set Sweet Wishes.

Before adhering to the card base, I paper pierced along the edges using an old Stampin Up paper piercing template. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. And hope you'll join in the fun at Double Trouble!

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I'm linking up here:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - use PB stamps // 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Critters // Bastel-Traum - Watercolor // Crafty Animals - Animals // Cute Card Thursday - AG // Paper Shelter - Animals