Yay!! It finally cooled down to a lovely 64 degrees which means long pants, a light jacket and no more flip flops! I’ve been having lots of fun making all my fall cards but doing so in hot weather isn’t quite as satisfying! I made this beautiful card a few days ago using the Tree Poem stamp by Stampendous! It’s such a striking image and I decided to add “leaves” of flaming colors!I started with a piece of Bristol Smooth card stock and heat-embossed the tree in black. I then tapped some Faded Jeans oxide ink onto my craft mat, spritzed with water and pressed my card stock into it, moving it around to fill in mostly the edges. Next I tapped a small acrylic block into Fossilized Amber oxide ink then spritzed it with water and “stamped” it onto the tree in several places. This allowed me to control where the “leaves” went. I repeated this step with Fired Brick and Carved Pumpkin oxides, adding some to the base of the tree as well.When my panel was finished, I die-cut it with Stitched Oval dies and mounted it to a vanilla base card which I’d run through the Cuttlebug with my Fall Leaves embossing folder. I kept the overall design fairly simple so that the tree was the main focus!The final detail was to heat-emboss in black a sentiment from The Ton’s Basic Labels set onto a scrap of white cardstock then attach it to a strip of orange floral paper. I lifted it with a bit of foam tape for dimension. The leaves are just beginning to turn here but soon they’ll be aflame! I hope you enjoyed this card and are inspired to play!
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is to use a stencil in a card so I got on the bandwagon and created this! The stencil I chose is one I drew and cut a couple years ago and I think it makes a nice backdrop for these blossoms from Summer Flowers! On a white card base, I began by taping down my stencil, then with sponge daubers and distress oxide inks in Walnut, Fired Brick, Carved Pumpkin and Fossilized Amber, I filled in the spaces. The Broken China blue (distress oxide ink) speckles were made with a very old Stampin Up texture stamp! I set that aside and pulled out a piece of special marker paper and stamped the images from Summer Flowers with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then began to color with my new Copic markers. My colors are still limited but I have enough for flowers! After coloring, I added more texture by dotting on some black Nuvo Drops. Next, I fussy-cut the blossoms and leaves, cutting out some of the petals and curling the leaves a tad so I could stand them up a little for a more realistic appearance. I then arranged them on top of the stenciled design, gluing the pieces down with Tacky Glue. I stamped Thinking of You (The Ton’s Basic Labels) with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto a scrap of white, cut it out and mounted it with a bit of foam tape. I wasn’t sure how this would come together but I’m quite happy with it!
I just received this sweet little Anenome Cluster Mini by The Ton in the mail yesterday and just love it! After stamping repeatedly around the outer edges of my Bristol Smooth watercolor paper, I heat-embossed the images in white and colored with my Zig markers. I used a darker gray to go around the blossoms, then softened it with a watery brush. Gray shading is my favorite! The Hello sentiment is from Stampendous‘ new set called Big Word Thanks; I heat-embossed in black directly to the front of my watercolored panel, then heat-embossed the smaller sentiment which is from The Ton’s Basic Labels set! I popped the little piece up with a bit of foam tape…Oh no!! I just realized that I forgot to add my black splatters of paint! 😀 Before mounting the panel onto a white card base, I added a strip of black and white patterned paper at the bottom to accent. I really like that special little touch! BTW, the black and white striped tissue paper in my background is the packaging from The Ton! 😉
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