Thoughts of Autumn

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter on the blog today.  The temps here in New England have started to drop into the 60's, which means that Autumn is starting to creep in.  I love this weather - it's my favorite tome of the year.  I was thinking of this as I was trying to come with an idea for card and, naturally, leaves came to mind.  I was looking through my stamps and saw the IBFS Woman's Head stamp and thought . . . bingo!  What if I used her as the base of the image and then had fall colored leaves on top of her head in place of hair to symbolize thinking of Autumn?  I grabbed the stamp and started to create.

Here's what I used to create it:

• Woman's Head stamp from I Brake for Stamps
  
• Autumn Leaves dies from Kat Scrappiness
• Piece of brown shipping paper
• Piece of word patterned paper from stash
• A2 size card base
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Old Paper, Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge, Scorched Timber
• Brutus Monroe Ornament Gold Chroma Mist
• Gold Acrylic Bubbles
• Old fashioned label maker

Here's how I made it:

• Stamped the image with black ink and fussy cut it.
• Took the piece of shipping paper and crumpled it up; smoothed it out and then adhered to the A2 card base with double sided tape and craft glue.

• Ran the Scorched Timber ink pad around the edges of the card; used a blending brush to add some Tea Dye and Vintage Photo inks to the card.

• Used double sided foam tape to adhere the stamped image to the card.
• Ink blended the word patterned paper with Old Paper, Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge, and Antique Linen inks; spritzed it with Ornament Gold Chroma Mist

• Used leaf dies to cut out leaves from the patterned paper.

• Glued the leaves down to the image starting at her hairline and building up until all leaves were used.
• Used a label maker to create the sentiment, "Thoughts of Autumn."

• Glued down three gold acrylic bubbles.

I really like the symbolism of the leaves with words on them coming off of the top of her head!  It's such a fun depiction of thinking about Autumn.  Sometimes the best ideas come to life when you just let your mind wander!

Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today!  See you again soon.

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When Life Gives You Lemons

I have always loved the phrase, "When live gives you lemons, make lemonade!" I also love the combination of yellow and black. 

Stamps used from I Brake for Stamps:

Lemons and Phrase Set (ibrakeforstamps.com)

Other supplies:
Watercolors Yellows and Greens
Watercolor Paper
Water brush
Parchment paper
Stazon Ink
Stamp platform
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray Vintage Photo
Die cut butterfly
AAll & Create Square die #41
Nuvo Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer Pen
Enamel dots

Cardstock: Yellow, black, and white
Dimensional Foam/Glue
Sticky Dots

Paint watercolor paper with blobs of yellow and green. 

Stamp image on copy paper to create a mask.  Lightly sprintz the watercolor paper with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray Vintage Photo

With Stazon Ink stamp lemons on parchment paper and fussy cut.  Using Sticky Dots adhere the stamped parchment to the area of the watercolor paper that was masked.

Stamp sentiment on white cardstock and mount on black cardstock.

Die cut black lacy mat using the AAll & Create Square die #41.  Adhere the black lacy mat to the card base. 

Die cut the watercolor paper with stamped lemons using the matching AAll & Create Square die. With dimensional foam attach the lemons to the black lacey mat.

Adhere sentiment with dimensional foam.

Apply Nuvo Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer Pen to the butterfly die cut from black cardstock. Add three enamel dots to the body of the butterfly. 

Randomly add enamel dots to the card. 

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