Graceful Watercolor Leaves with The Greetery!

Hi there my creative and crafty friends! Happy weekend! This past week I had the honor of having a project featured over on The Greetery Blog! I wanted to make sure to post my card here for you as well. I know we're switching between a lot of things lately...Fall, Christmas, Halloween! Tis the season for sure! My Greetery project is an ode to fall....because my heart is still happily in Autumn mode and I am excited about falling leaves and crisp mornings... This is what inspired my card for today! I tried to capture the serene mood of a Fall morning with a bright blue sky and pretty trees.... I kept it clean and simple and graphic....

My finished card is an A2 white card base that I covered with Woodgrain cardstock. The rest of the card pieces are all watercolor paper for a nice creamy look. I am featuring one of my favorite Greetery stamp sets - Autumn Sketches! I used the matching Autumn Sketches dies along with the beautiful A2 Arches dies and the Blessed Blooms Stamp Set.

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I used one of my favorite techniques - which is stamping with Distress Inks and then water blending the inks to mimic watercolor painting. This is such an easy and fun technique that gives great results! I started the project by using Distress Ink pads to do my layered stamping - one layer brown for the branches, and then yellow and orange layers for the leaves. After I was done stamping, I die cut out the branches/leaves clusters. I then took my water brush and "painted" over my stamping! I also went back in and added a bit more color to some of the leaves....

I die cut out an arch, using the A2 Arches dies. I again used Distress Ink Pads in blues (smushed onto a stamping block) with a wet on wet watercolor technique to make my blue sky background. The sentiment is very simple to match the mood.... I used my MISTI and brown ink for perfect placement. For my finishing touch I added some clear enamel dots.

That's it for my card for today! I hope you are enjoying a happy Autumn season.... I'm wishing you a wonderful and creative day and I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! XO Wanda

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