CAS Watercolour Card Challenge - always kind & always giving

When I saw my card I made last week in the CAS Watercolour October Challenge Gallery, my fall leaves looked a bit greener than I thought. So I wanted to make another card using warmer colors.

I might have gone overboard this time and lost some CAS-ness, but it was a good opportunity to use the watercolour wash technique I learned at the CAS Mix Up Challenge last month. (I heat-embossed the leave images in clear, and painted the graded wash.)

The color contrast between the dark brown frame and the white square panel was quite stark for the watercolor background, so I layered a piece of vellum over the white panel to soften the contrast.

The sentiment was heat-embossed on the vellum.

CAS Watercolour Challenge's celebrating their 1st Birthday this month! 
Happy birthday again to Bonnie, Loll, Design Team, and the guest designers for the year!

Thanks for looking!


Stamp: Vintage Leaves, Me = Grateful (Stampin' Up!)
Paper: Canson Watercolor Paper (140 lb), Early Espresso, Whisper White (Stampin' Up!), Translucent Vellum (My Favorite Things)
Ink: Gansai Tambi Watercolor Paints (Kuretake - Red Ocher, Vermilion, Golden Yellow, Grass Green, Azurite), VersaMark (Tsukineko)
Accessories:Embossing Powder (Wow! - Gold Rich Pale), Stitched Rectangles Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Die-namics Stitched Square STAX (My Favorite Things), Square Collection Framelits Dies (Stampin' Up!)