Happy Saturday! WOOOO HOOOOOOOO! Yes! I'm all about sleeping in, crafting, and college football today! OMG I needed a weekend. How about you? Hope you had a good week and that your weekend is off to a smashing start. You know I have been in the Fall mode lately - lots of leaves and seasonal themes. Today when I sat down to make something I thought 'how can I maybe make something a little bit different for Fall?' So it came to me! A Fall bouquet of flowers! I love it when people make those pretty arrangements with flowers and leaves mixed together...and that was the inspiration for my card.
I started off by making a background using the awesome Tim Holtz Harlequin stencil and some distress inks. For this technique you stamp the ink pads directly onto the back of the stencil and then spritz the whole thing with water.... Then you smush it down onto some watercolor paper. The ink soaks in and leaves uneven edges - very cool!
After I made my background, I had fun using different inking techniques - some wet and some dry - to color in the Tattered Florals flowers dies and Leaves dies (All from Tim Holtz too). I just played around with everything until I got a nice rich color combination...
Here's a work-in-progress shot!
This is the best part...assembling everything! I stamped the FALL letters using some Hero Arts letter stamps. The font is perfect! I used a nice rich brown ink. Here I am just gluing down my leaves as the bottom layer.
I crinkled everything gently with my fingers to look worn and crisp - you know how fall leaves look when they fall to the ground.... Added some brown buttons to my yellow flowers.
I used some pretty off-white confetti paper for my card base. I left a big border around - kind of like that clean look it gives. I mounted my panel on foam tape as well.
I reallllllly like how all this texture and color came together! I hope I have inspired you to get your craft on today! Now I need to scurry off because I have a lot of projects to make! (So many fun things coming up on the blog!)
The absolute highlight of my week was this little beauty that arrived yesterday! YEEEESSSSSS! My old iPhone was three years old and dying a slow death. Now I have a pretty, brand new gold and shiny iPhone 6! YEAH!!! I stayed up until 2:30am last week pre-ordering it so it would come yesterday. I AM SMITTEN! Oh yes, we are going to do great things together! LOL.
Your gorgeous fall cards are really touching my heart - thank you so much!!
Posted by: Taunya Butler | 09/24/2014 at 01:52 PM
Fall is such a lovely time of the year. Your card captures that very, very well. Thank you for sharing
Posted by: lmcburney | 09/24/2014 at 08:00 AM
What an absolutely stunning fall card I love it ! I also love your phone 😄
Posted by: Char | 09/24/2014 at 06:21 AM
OMGosh!! WOW!! I LOVE every Fabulous Fall detail Miss Wanda!! Well, you know I am a big huge Fall Lover too! ;-) So You know I am soooo Loving your Gorgeous Fall bouquet! And you're watercolory BG is so Perfect too! Just love the whole autumnal ensemble!! And Yay!! So happy for you on your new I-Phone, Hubby and I will be upgrading soon! Yay!! 8-)
Hope you are doing Fabulously!
Big Huge Hugs
Shannon
Posted by: Shannon White | 09/24/2014 at 01:12 AM
Look at your gold phone!! And LOOK at that gorgeous card! I LOVE it, Wanda! So, so pretty and just perfect for fall. I adore the background you made with the stencil, and the golden leaves mixed in with flowers is stunning!
Posted by: Audrey Pettit | 09/23/2014 at 05:15 AM
gorgeous! and sounds like you had fun too! :)
Posted by: Monique Stam | 09/21/2014 at 07:16 PM
Love the card. I am inspired to make some fall themed cards before winter arrives. I laughed when I saw your post about the iphone! I posted about my new baby today too! I also got up in the night to pre-order and I also got the gold one. Love it!!! Enjoy!
Posted by: linda monroe | 09/21/2014 at 04:59 PM
Very nice!
Posted by: Chris | 09/21/2014 at 01:17 PM
Love this card...the colors, the leaves, the watercolor paper effects! Kinda like your new iPhone too!! I'm trying to keep up with our football teams.
Posted by: Fonda Jo | 09/21/2014 at 10:19 AM
Loving this card soooo much! I have the flower die & a harlequin stamp. I will some how create such a gorgeous card as yours! Enjoy your new "golden" baby!!!!
Ig- dmdevout
Posted by: Lynda Paredes | 09/21/2014 at 10:05 AM
gorgeous card..have a great weekend!
Posted by: Holly Saveur | 09/21/2014 at 03:17 AM
Gorgeous card--I love the colors. Enjoy your weekend--looks like your mojo is back!
Posted by: Julie | 09/20/2014 at 04:21 PM