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Friday, October 26, 2012

Welcome to the Orange Blog Hop!




Welcome to the Third Annual Fiskateers ORANGE Blog Hop!  If you're hopping along, you should have come from Debby #2852.  (If you are joining us in the middle, go to www.fiskateers.com to start from the beginning.)  

Today we are celebrating Fiskars' signature color, ORANGE.  Almost everyone is familiar with Fiskars' famous orange-handled scissors, but Fiskars makes so many other wonderful products for crafting, sewing, gardening, and more.  Each stop along our Hop will feature different Fiskars' products with a big helping of ORANGE!  

Here is Happy 10,000 (Fiskateers have over 10,000 members!) I made with just a few of the Fiskars products for crafting, sewing, and gardening. 




For my project I made a fall Fisk-a-day Day Card and of course used lots of ORANGE. 

I Know this picture is really bad and I apologize but my house just does not have any good lighting and I couldn't get directly over it so I had some Keystone Distortion which I tried to correct in my photo program. I found out the hard way that you can not use that on a card. Why? Look at the left side of the card (right side does it also but not as bad because of where I was standing) not the ORANGE but the BLACK and see how in the middle it like pulls in. Almost looks like it was cut curved inward in the middle. I assure you it is not really cut that way and the card is actually laying flat and the sides are really straight. I need to work on my lighting in here. (Hey, bet you didn't think you were going to get a lesson in photo editing and what NOT to do....LOL)


I started by cutting a card base out of ORANGE paper and then I took a piece of Glossy Paper not photo paper because that won't work, I know....I tried. I really don't know the name of it (my guess is "Glossy Paper") but the only place I can get it is from Stampin Up. I had a stamp of the background trees which I stamped on using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Then I took out my Fiskars Cloud Punch and punched 5 of them. I used these as a mask. Then I used a makeup sponge and blotted Stampin Up Marina Mist Ink at the top, Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight in the sky and paid special attention to make sure I did the clouds well. I used Crumb Cake for the ground. Once that was done I took the clouds off and cleaned off the glue. Then I used my Copic Markers to give the clouds some depth and highlights. I also used them to add the color to the colored leaves that fell off the trees and some grass on top of the ground. Then I used my Fiskars Tree Punch and punched 2 trees which I put through my Fiskars Crimper. I used my Copic Markers to color this tree brown and glue dots and stuck the two trees together and then glued it on my card. 



I used some Creative Paperclay and made a leaf pile that goes around the trunk of the tree. Once it dried I glued it down with Glossy Accents and I used the Copics to give the leaf pile color. At this point I matted it on black and glued it to my card base. I then used my Fiskars Nutty Border Punch on white paper which I colored brown with the Copics. This is so I could use the 'debre' acorns in the leaf pile. I glued them down with Glossy Accents also. (I also used it on black paper which went on the bottom of the card.) I cut out a rake (I know it looks like a shovel but it is suppose to be a rake) and glued it on the leaf pile in a way to look like someone leaned it against the tree and it fell onto the leaves.


I glued down my bottom border, used the computer for the sentiments and then used a couple of small, detailed plant-type stamps with Memento Cottage Ivy Ink (used scrap paper so no ink went where I didn't want it) on each side of the leaf pile.

Here is one more look at it. 



For more information about Fiskars and the Fiskateer program, you can go to http://www.fiskateers.com/join/.   

Now, hop along to the next stop!  Jean #8889 .

In case you get lost along the way the line-up is:

Fiskateers www.fiskateers.com
Cindy #4113 www.cindyderosier.com
Groovy Deb #2644 www.ifitsgroovy.blogspot.com
Jennifer Ashley #6361 www.asecretvintage.blogspot.com
Sue in CT #6150 www.sueinct.blogspot.com -----------(You are here)
Emily K #7021 http://emily.kincke.com
Pamela #8040 www.cottagebelow.com
BerylM #6388 www.berylmorgan.com
BerylM #6388 www.berylmorgan.com
Fiskateers  www.fiskateers.com

36 comments:

  1. SO much detail Sue! I Love Fall and your card is perfect! Have a Fisk-a-day! Michelle #7586

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  2. It's beautiful! And don't apologize for a lesson in photo editing! I need all the help I can get in that area and I'm sure I'm not alone. ;)

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  3. My goodness Sue - what didn't you think of for this card?!? And no your rake looks like a rake not a shovel! I LOVE your card so much!!! I love that you even took the acorns from the boarder punch and used them so appropriately! Your attention to detail is AMAZING! I think you could frame this and make it (or make another one) into a beautiful art piece.
    #6558

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  4. Beautiful project Sue. So many wonderful details. TFS
    Hugs, Rosalee #5977

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  5. Wow...Love this Sue!!! This is so amazing. Love all the detail in it!!! Wonderful job.

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  6. fun card...love the leaf pile and the nut border punch!

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  7. Great card, Sue! So many great details!

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  8. So much detail...beautiful card.

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  9. What a great card. I love the scene you've created. TFS.

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  10. WOW! Love the way you did the trees and the dimension! Awesome card.

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  11. Where does the weeder/pruner come in? I was waiting for it to show up in the project description since I've never used *that* tool on my paper projects before. Did I miss that part? :)

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    1. The beginning of the post says, "Almost everyone is familiar with Fiskars' famous orange-handled scissors, but Fiskars makes so many other wonderful products for crafting, sewing, gardening, and more."
      The picture is of the crafting, sewing, and gardening items to make the "Happy 10,000" it has nothing to do with my project.

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  12. Beautiful card. Love the dimension of your leaf pile.

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  13. I love fall - my favorite season :) i love the colours of your card...and that border punched edge on the bottom adds the perfect accent!! Love it! :)

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  14. Terrific, Sue! Love the effects! Jean#8889

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  15. This is a great card! I especially like the pile of leaves.

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  16. This is really cute Sue and I love your pile of leaves with the fallen rake. Yes, it does look like a rake.

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  17. Great card Sue!!!

    Thank you for sharing the details of how you crafted it - I love learning new techniques :)

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  18. The dimension to your card is just awesome! I love the leaf pile and the rake---great job with all of that inking!

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  19. What a wonderful card! I really like that acorn border.

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  20. Oh how sweet, I love that tree punch.

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  21. I love the acorns across the bottom, it screams Fall.

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  22. A fun project with lots of details!!!

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  23. Can't wait to try this one, lovely.

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  24. You are very seriously the Copics queen! I always love how your cards turn out when you add the color with those :) Cute punch you used!!!Deb♥

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  25. Very cute! Love the punches you used. Great job

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  26. Your coloring techniques are amazing! I can't imagine getting that much dimension out of my cloud punches. Just beautiful, all of it!

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  27. Fantastic-I always learn something new when I visit your blog.
    Thank you for the wonderful inspiration.

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  28. Fabulous Fisk-a-Day card! Love how you made the background.

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  29. Great dimension on your card!

    Tanya #5407

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  30. Sue,
    You really did a fiska-fantastic job on your card! I love all of the detail you added to each element! Great card!

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