Happy Birthday To Me!!! And the MFP Fall card swap.

Hi Everyone!  Today is my birthday and to celebrate I was going to show you a birthday card I'd made, but I didn't have time to make one. For that reason I thought I'd show you some cards I made for the Fall Card Swap at MFP Speedy TV.  Its really fun because you send 4 cards made with an MFP set, and you get back 3 different card and an MFP set.  What's better than that?

As you can tell by the title the swap theme is 'fall' so as I was thinking of what to do for my swap cards I had remembered a card I had forgotten to post about:

I actually had the idea to make this card for the October blog hop as it uses one of the October sets - this one is called Autumn Splendor - but I didn't get it done on time, and then I didn't get around to posting it by itself.  It's too bad as I really like this one, and it isn't difficult to put together.  When I was thinking of a an idea for a fall themed card that I could make multiples of this is the one I thought of.  Here are the ones I made for the swap:

You can see how similar they are, but there are subtle differences.  This is because I didn't have enough of the supplies I used to make the first card to replicate four times.  Instead of the chocolate brown patterned paper on the first one, I substituted dry embossed chocolate card stock.  I also used different brands of coloured card stock, but the stuff I found in my stash is close enough.  On the swap card I used a different embossing folder on the orange that would better coordinate with the embossing folder I used on the chocolate brown piece.  Also, I didn't have any of the brown leaf ribbon left, or the narrow chocolate brown, so on the swap card I substituted some wider brown ribbon, green leaves, and instead of layering another colour of ribbon I just used twine.  I like the new version just as much!  Here they are side by side for comparison:

The one on the left is the original, the one on the right the new version.  I like the new version because the colours are slightly brighter, although I do like the pattern on the first.  When I water coloured the image on the second card I made the colours brighter without realizing it.  It worked out really well!

With the original card I didn't decorate the inside, but since the swap cards were going to others I didn't want leave them undone.  This is what I came up with:

There are two different colours, because I used what was leftover from the front of the card.  On the original card I was using a 6x6 pack, on the second group of cards I was using 12x12 sheets. I didn't have enough left to make the mats all the same colour so instead of cutting into a new sheet two cards had orange centres  two cards had green centres.  Waste not, want not, lol!  :)


Here are the supplies I used for my original card:

Card Stock:  Neenah Desert Storm, Fancy Pants Summers End 6x6 pad.

Stamp: Marks Finest Papers Autumn Splendor.

Ink:  Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan, Stampin' Up!  Chocolate Chip.

Markers:  Stampin' Up! Stampin' Write Markers Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke, Summer Sun, Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa.  Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star pen.

Embellishments:  Olive and brown ribbon from stash, May Arts leaves ribbon.

Adhesive:  Scotch ATG, foam squares, glue dots.

Tools:  Paper trimmer, bone folder, scissors, Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Paperlace II embossing folder set, Tim Holtz sanding block, Ranger blending tool, waterbrush.


These are the supplies for the swap cards:

Card Stock:  Neenah Desert Storm, Stampin' Up!  Chocolate Chip, Echo Park Playground Grass Stain, Echo Park Little Boy Lava.

Stamp:  Marks Finest Papers Autumn Splendor

Ink:  Stampin' Up! Chocolate Chip, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink Creamy Brown.

Markers:  Stampin' Up!  Stampin' Write Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun, Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa.  Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star glitter pen.

Embellishments:  May Arts leaves ribbon, May Arts jute twine, American Crafts Premium Satin Ribbon.

Tools:  Paper trimmer, bone folder, scissors, Martha Stewart Score Board,Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Paperlace II embossing folder set, Tim Holtz sanding block, Ranger blending tool, waterbrush.

I would like to enter my project into the following challenges:

1. One Crazy Stamper - Anything goes
2. Pile it On - Make it Sparkle
3. The Pink Elephant - Favourite colouring medium (watercolour with markers).
4. Paper Playtime - Autumn Colours
5. Papertake Weekly - Anything goes.
6. Everybody Art - Embossing
7. The Ribbon Carousel - Fall spirit