Our backyard, now completely blanketed with fallen oak and maple leaves, inspired this autumnal card featuring Cuddles Anya from The Greeting Farm.
I decided to try no line coloring to give a softer warm look to the Cuddles Anya and practice the dot Copic coloring technique to give the impression of fuzzy texture for the hat and teddy bear. I stamped the image with Momento Desert Sand ink, and these are the Copic colors I used:
Skin: E50, 51, 53, 11 and R20
Hair: E55, 57 and 59
Hat: E21, 11, 13, and 15 with 0 for highlight texture
Teddy: E53, 30, 31, and 33 with 0 for highlight texture”
Bubble skirt, jacket, tights and scarf: YR31, 61, 12, 04 and 07 with E13, R24 and R27 for shadow and depth
I used a Copic multiliner pen in 0.03 pt to draw back in the eyes, eye brows, noses and mouths of the hat, Anya and teddy bear since the pale Desert Sand ink would become invisible after the Copic coloring. 🙂
For the background, I rummaged through my paper scrap box and found some scraps in dark brown, a mustard stripe, and plain white card stock (onto which I blended on Delicata Golden Glitz ink) that I layered all off-kilter for some interest. The leaves, cut out with Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves dies, are sprayed, dry embossed and burnished with burgundy, red-orange, orange, brown and a hint of gold shimmers and inks. I love all the shine and sparkle of these leaves, and I even have a few clear Glossy Accents drops on a few leaves to mimic shiny dew drops. However, 
to mute the bold colors of the leaves where Cuddles Anya would be, I die cut a piece of vellum with an MFT Cross Stitched Rectangles die and layered that over the center area. This still revealed the beauty and detail of those leaves all along the edges beyond the vellum without detracting from the main focal point Anya with her teddy.
All of this was put on a simple kraft card stock card base to keep with the earthy theme. For the inside, I inked the edges of a white card stock liner with more Delicata Golden Glitz ink and used a tiny remnant scrap of a textured and inked die cut leave for a little accent. The simple “thinking of you” sentiment is die cut out from another dark brown scrap with the Tim Holtz Sizzix Celebration Words die set.
This card is being entered into the following challenges:
The Greeting Farm Farm Fresh Autumn Colors Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Shine Bright Like a Diamond Challenge
CAS-ual Friday Orange, Brown and Kraft Color Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Thinking of You Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes Challenge
Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge
Creatalicious Anything Goes Challenge
Just Keep on Creating Anything Goes Challenge
Very cute! Gorgeous colours and texture on the background. LOVE your card. Thanks for playing along Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge! Gayatri xx
Thanks so much Gayatri! I had so much fun playing with all those colors and textures (both real and visual). 🙂 tfstopping by and spreading crafty love! xoxo, Kristina
Fantastic no-lines coloring!!! This is adorable!! Thanks for joining us at TGF!!!
Thanks so much Rachel! I love this little Cuddles Anya and had so much fun trying to get the texture of the fuzzy hat and teddy with my Copic coloring! 🙂
A fabulous card and a cute image. The vellum is a great design idea to still be able to see the wonderful leaves.
Thank-you for joining in with the Crafts Galore Encore November Challenge “Anything Goes”. Good luck x
Thanks so much Andree! I really enjoyed working on this card. It took a while to get the layers and colors and focal point right, but in the end I really liked it. TFStopping by and spreading crafty love! xoxo, Kristina
Your card is adorable! I love the sweet image and entire design. Amazing coloring too! Thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.
Cathie ♥
Awww thanks so much Cathie! I really had fun practicing no line coloring and texture coloring. Also I am not normally a heavy layerer with my cards, but I do like how this turned out! 😀 lol
Beautiful Autumn coloured card,cute image and great background—-Thank you for joining us at 613 Avenue Create
Carol DT x
Thanks bunches Carol! I really enjoyed creating this card–so much fun no line coloring, practicing trying to get fuzzy textures colored, and using vellum too. These are all things I’ve had on my list to try! 🙂
A wonderful card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional anything but a card” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
I really had fun with all the layering on this card. TFStopping by!