We’re blog hopping at Brutus Monroe today and sharing some of our Fall Favorites!! Halloween isn’t my favorite holiday but making cards for fall is! And I do love making backgrounds with distress oxide inks! For this card, I tapped out Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber and Black Soot onto my craft mat, sprayed on some water then just dragged my watercolor paper through the ink. You know the drill! 😀 Of course, I dried between colors! I then heat-embossed in black the skull image from an old CTMH set called Thriller and stamped the other images using Raven Detail ink.I have some fairly large alphabet dies and cut the letters from the panel with my Cuttlebug. After popping out the die-cut letters I adhered a strip of the beautiful Tangerine Glitterstock behind the openings. I then reattached the letters by lifting them with Thermoweb’s 3D Foam Squares.I heat-embossed the sentiment right onto the card front then attached it all to a black card base. I used the All-Purpose Craft Glue to attach a few sequins to accent the shiny Glitterstock! Bring on the fall!! Let’s take a peek at the Inspiration Team’s Fall Favorites! BERINA HEATHER B. MARIE JESSICA
I’m having so much fun choosing which Glitterstock color to use for a new project and decided to use Tangerine for this card! The color itself prompted a Halloween card with it’s gorgeous rusty-orange glitters! To begin this card, I tapped Carved Pumpkin distress oxide ink onto my craft mat then spritzed it with water and dragged my watercolor cardstock through it. After drying with my heat tool, I used Black Soot next, again drying before adding my final color, Dried Marigold.
If you look closely you can see the faint impression of Winnie & Walter’s Scenery stencil which I foiled using Thermoweb’s Deco Foil in Copper! It made me think of a spider web! Anyway, after dusting the surface with my Embossing Buddy, I heat-embossed my Inkadinkado stamp in black right over all the colors!I have a skulls and crossbone stamp which I use on my biker cards, and thought it’d make a fun accent so stamped that in Raven Detail ink over the background. Next I used my Stitched Rectangle dies to cut the panel and also cut the edge of a strip of Tangerine Glitterstock and attached them together with Thermoweb’s Sticky Tape Runner, then mounted it to a panel of white card stock. I used my scissors to rough up the edges of the white paper.I adhered the panel to a black card base which I embossed with Tim Holtz’ Gridlock Set folder, then added some copper sequins for a bit of bling to accent the Glitterstock on the left! The sentiment is from a retired CTMH set called Thriller and I heat-embossed it onto white scraps, trimmed it down and mounted it with Thermoweb Sticky Dots! I love how all the pieces came together in this card! If you’re looking for a great glitter card stock, be sure to consider Brutus Monroe’s Glitterstock! It comes in a variety of colors, doesn’t leave glitter “crumbs” at all and cuts like a dream!
I’ve been on a bit of a watercolor kick lately and created this fall card with Winnie & Walter’s Renee’s Leaves stamp set and their cool stencil, Scenery! As usual, I had no idea what I was going to make, but began by just sponging distress oxide inks (Broken China/Faded Jeans) onto my watercolor cardstock then dripped water onto it and dried with my heat tool. I placed the stencil over it and sponged more Faded Jeans oxide ink through the center portion.On a separate piece of watercolor cardstock, I heat-embossed several of Renee’s Leaves then colored them with Zig markers and a watery brush. I fussy-cut them out and then attached them with bits of Thermoweb’s 3D Foam Squares for lift.Black spatters of paint and some drops of Black Nuvo Drops added interest! My sentiment is from The Greeting Farm. I like how the geometric pattern of the stencil compliments the organic falling leaves! Happy Fall!
“Down, down, yellow and brown, the leaves are falling all over town!” That’s a little song I used to sing to my girls and although the leaves aren’t falling here in Vermont yet, a few maple trees are beginning to change colors! It’s hard to believe fall is just around the corner, especially as we’ve had temps in the 90’s recently! But as much as I hate to see the summer end, I do love fall and everything about it! Today’s card is watercolored using Winnie & Walter’s Renee’s Leaves stamp set and Zig markers. On a piece of watercolor cardstock, I randomly stamped a variety of the leaves then heat-embossed them in black.
I LOVE coloring backgrounds and usually begin with that first, as I did here using a couple shades of blue Zigs. I then colored in the leaves and used a watery brush to move the ink. When the panel was dry, I spattered (of course I did!!) white and black paint for a little added texture, then adhered it to a white card base. I found a piece of yellow vellum in my stash and heat-embossed my sentiment (a dollar find from AC Moore!) onto it then attached it to my watercolored panel using Thermoweb’s Sticky Strip Runner. I had a leftover fussy-cut leaf from another card I’d made so lifted it with a few little 3D Foam Squares from Thermoweb! I guess I don’t mind fall coming after all!
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