Fall-Inspired Watercolor

Happy Friday, stampy friend!  This morning it actually felt fall-ish (Such a relief from those 90+ degree days!), and I was inspired to create a fall card.  I hope you like it.

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The leaves and sentiment are from a set by Pink and Main called Doodled Flowers.  I arranged some of the leaves onto an acrylic block and stamped them with Versamark onto watercolor paper.  I heat-embossed the images with clear embossing powder and loosely watercolored the panel with distress inks.  The colors I used are Fired Brick, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn, Old Paper, and Mermaid Lagoon.  After my coloring was dry, I die-cut the panel with Waffle Flower’s Lacey Layers die and adhered it to my side-folding, white card.

I had an ivory die-cut circle on my desk, so I stamped my sentiment onto that with Versamark and heat-embossed it with Simon Says Stamp gold embossing powder.  I die-cut a circle from vellum using MFT’s Inside/Out Stitch Circle STAX die.  I popped it up with foam tape onto my card and popped up my sentiment on top.  I finished the card with some clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

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Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:  Pink and Main Challenge #13:  Autumn, TIME Out Challenge #65, and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge:  It’s a Stitch Up.

4 COMMENTS

  1. Sandie | 4th Sep 16

    This is stunning. I adore that background, perfect colouring and the double layer with vellum for the sentiment is the perfect match. So pleased you joined us at Time Out

  2. Andrea Ockey Parr | 5th Sep 16

    Wow! Another gorgeous card! I really like how this one has those traditional fall elements to it (falling leaves), yet you’ve given it a cool new spin with the circular framed-out sentiment and those blingy sequins! The metallic sentiment is so crisp and clean and elegant-looking and I adore that stitching detail around your circles. Brilliant use of vellum, too! Thanks for getting me into fall-mode (I hear you on getting a welcome break from the 90+ temperatures finally) and for supporting us here at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!

  3. Kimberly Jensen | 8th Sep 16

    Wow this is just gorgeous!! Love the pretty watercoloring and the colors you picked!
    Thanks for linking up your project this month!!
    Have a wonderful day!!
    Kimberly 🙂
    Kimberly’s Crafty Spot
    Pink & Main Stamps, DT Member

  4. Anita in France | 9th Sep 16

    So lovely, Andrea … there’s such a fabulous sense of movement in those loosely coloured leaves, as though they’re being wafted about by an autumn breeze … love the softness of the vellum with them … and the gold is gorgeous! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Time Out! Anita 🙂

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