Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Fall Foliage


It is time for the next challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog and Jenny is our hostess for this one. She is calling it Fall Foliage and here is how she describes it:

According to most search engines the Fall season has officially begun so we should be starting to see the emergence of all those beautiful Autumnal colours, unless Mother Nature throws us a curve ball! Let's celebrate them anyway by creating a vintage or shabby chic project in traditional Fall shades that includes some form of foliage like leaves, berries and so on

I just received a fabulous sketched flower stamp set by Dina Wakley called Always Flowers and that became my inspiration for this card.


I started by covering a panel of card stock with some Melange Tissue Wrap and then I distressed the edges.


After carefully adding the lovely tissue wrap, I proceeded to cover most of it with some Texture Paste - lol.




I forgot to take photos along the way when I altered the textured panel but the steps I took were:

1. Patted some Wild Honey, Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink on a kraft sheet, spritzed with water and pounced the panel on the puddles
2. Added some texture paste through a Bubble stencil
3. Used Jet Black Archival ink to stamp some text from the Entomology stamp set


Next I used Jet Black Archival ink to stamp the flower images on watercolor card stock. Each flower was then fussy cut.


To colour the flowers I used a variety of Scribble Sticks - Lime, Evergreen, Olive, Cheddar, Tangerine, Ruby and Lemon - with a watercolour paint brush. The method I use is to spritz a tiny but of water on my kraft sheet and then rub the stick in the water to create a little puddle of colour that I can dip my brush into. If I want a little more concentrated colour I wet the brush and rub it right on the stick.

To assemble the card I distressed a panel of rusty red card stock and added that to my card blank and then topped it with my textured panel. Next I added my flowers, a strip of burlap and a Small Talk sticker inked with Vintage Photo DI. Finally I added a loopy bow created from Burlap String.

This bright card will likely be heading to my Niece for her birthday, which happens not long after all the bright colours have faded and fall is coming to a close, just when she might need something cheerful in these difficult times.

I hope you will join us for the challenge, which runs until 11:55 pm EDT on Tuesday, October 13th. One randomly chosen winner will receive a gift certificate to shop at The Funkie Junkie Boutique and the Design Team will choose their Top Picks with the overall winner receiving an opportunity to be a Guest Designer with us at a later date.

Supplies list:

Dina Wakley Media Stamp - Always Flowers MDR66224
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Entomology
Ranger Texture Paste Opaque Matte INK44444
Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs, Wild Honey
Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black AIP31468
Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Bubble THS002
Burlap String
Scor Tape
Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams IBT40965
Tim Holtz Melange Tissue Wrap
Tim Holtz Small Talk Idea-ology Stickers

6 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card! I love these flowers and your colors are beautiful! The background is so lovely. Fabulous fall inspired card!

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  2. Love your card Cec, so many interesting layers to investigate. This Sketched Flower stamp is really pretty too and I love the colours. I have some of that Melange Tissue wrap, I unearthed it at the back of a drawer a few months ago and wondered if they still sold it but I'm guessing not as I couldn't find it anywhere, and now I see you also have some in your stash :) Like gold dust lol Thanks for commenting on my blog today too! Elle xx

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  3. That textured background is scrumptious, and I love the touch of burlap setting off the quote. Lovely colouring of the flower too.
    Alison x

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  4. Cec that beautiful textured background provides the most wonderful backdrop for your stunning autumnal flower. Your watercolouring on it is superb and what a clever idea to use the burlap string to create the bow x

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  5. Cec, there is so much incredible depth to your mixed media background, and what a perfect backdrop to your stunning fall colored flower cluster. Great details in the sentiment, too! Each of your makes becomes my new favorite!

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  6. Hi Cec!!! I've strolled through all the posts I hadn't seen before (life has been busy) and everything is wonderful!!! Truly, I mean that!!! And I Love this card!!!!!!!!!!!! So beautiful!!!!

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Cec