Same but different - Best Pumpkin

Hi friends!  I have gotten together with fellow Polka Dot Orchard design team member Judy Markowitz to bring you something new!  We are doing a 'same but different' blog post!  We both start out using the same Polka Dot Orchard stamp set and color scheme.  Then we see what we each come up with.  I hope you find it a bit fun and exciting.  I having been wanting to do this for a long time and am glad Judy agreed to give it a go!

We are using The Best Pumpkin stamp set.

And I picked a past color palette from the Color Throwdown.  I love their color themes!

Now let's take a peek at the card I came up with!

I love the vintage feel to my card!  Not to mention, who says pumpkins always have to be orange?  I printed the stamp out onto Copic friendly cardstock.  This one is Cryogen White cardstock.  I love it because it itsn't a super bright white and it has a bit of a metallic shimmer to it.

Here are the Copic colors I used:

Pumpkins: E79, 77, 74, 71

Stem & Leaves: YG99, 95, 93, 91

Flower center: R29, 24, 22

Flower: Y19, 15, 11

I do list my markers in the order in which I color.  My preference is to color from dark to light.  Just thought I'd mention it!

After I colored the image in with my Copics, I used my Scan n Cut to cut the image out with a little bit of a border.  Now to get my card put togeter.

My card base is an ivory A2, side fold card.  I added to different patterned papers from Authentique's Gracious paper pad.  I'm not normally a vintage type gal but I really love Authentique's collections.  They are cut to 4" wide and together are 5 1/4" tall.  I had a pice of dark yellow organdy ribbon and a wrapped it around the pattern pieces right where they meet.  I added foam tape to the back of the pumpkins and adhered them right on top of the ribbon.  I made sure to keep the top of the pumpkins right below the ribbon.

The sentiment also comes from The Best Pumpkin set.  I printed it on the same cardstock I used for the pumpkins so the colors would be the same.  I didn't want the sentiment to be in one big block so I cut it apart.  Then I turned the Hello sideways so it would fit at the top of the card.  I snipped the bottom end off at an angle.  I then put the 'pumpkin' portion of the sentiment below the pumpkins.

For the finishing touch I added brown and matte gold sequins in assorted sizes.  That's it!  I really appreciate you stopping by and I hope you will head over to Judy's blog HERE to see what she came up with!

Have a fab day!

~Kristina

Supplies used: 

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Gracious paper pad - Authentique Shop at: SBC	The Best Pumpkin - Polka Dot Orchard Shop at: PDO
Copic Marker Y19 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker Y15 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker Y11 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker E79 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker E77 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker E74 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker E71 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker YG99 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker YG95 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker YG93 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker YG91 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker R29 Shop at: EH
Copic Marker R24 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker R22 Shop at: EH

A Grateful Heart

Welcome back to my blog crafty friends!  I am such a happy gal with all of the fall colors appearing all around me.  This IS my absolute favorite time of the year.  Which of course means I love to make fall themed cards.   Let's take a look at my latest project for the Polka Dot Orchard design team!

It features the A Grateful Heart digital stamp set from Polka Dot Orchard.

I was going for a no line look using Zig Clean Color real brush markers.  Here is a picture of my color palette for today.

I lightened the stamp image before printing it out onto Bristol smooth cardstock.  Then I got right to coloring.  I generally lay down a little bit of the marker and draw the color out with a waterbrush.  I have better control over the water that way.  Sometimes I'll use a lighter color marker to draw out the color depending on how strong I want it to be.

Coffee cups: Brick Beige and Persian Green

Pumpkins: Deep Brown, Brown and Beige

Pumpkin Stems: May Green and Olive Green

Leaves: Marine Green and Olive Green

Berries: Persian Green

I just took my time until I had the image colored in completely.  Once it was dry, I used my Brother Scan and Cut to cut out the colored image.  Now on to card making!

My card base is a natural ivory color.  Next I added an orange plaid paper from Echo Park's My Favorite Fall paper pad.  The brown layer is cut from Authentique's Gracious paper pad.  I spritzed it lightly with water before putting it into the fall embossing folder.  I hoped to keep it from cracking through the paper.  It did help but I still had white showing through.  To remedy that I took a sanding block and lightly sanded the raised areas.  Then I sponged a brown ink over it.  I love the texture and dimension that it added to the card!

I felt like I needed to tie in the Persian Green from the colored image with the card.  I dug through my cardstock stash and found a pretty good match.  I cut a 1/4" strip and adhered it all the way across the card.  For the colored image I added a bunch of foam tape to the back before putting it in place.  Onwards to the sentiment.

I played around with several different sentiments but decided on one from The Best Pumpkin stamp set also by Polka Dot Orchard.  I didn't have a space large enough for it to be in one spot so I just fussy cut out all of the words.  I was delighted to find out that the 'and' fit perfectly in the center of the colored image!  Bonus!!  I ran the words through my Xyron sticker maker.  Before I placed them on the card, I spattered the entire card front with copper paint.

For the final touch I add Midas Touch Nuvo Shimmer marker to the pumpkins.  I wish it showed up better in the picture but it's gorgeous in real life!

Thank you SO much for stopping by today!

~Kristina

Supplies used: 

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Xyron Sticker Maker Shop at: SBC	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper Shop at: EH
Brown 60 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker Shop at: EH	May Green 47 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker Shop at: EH	Olive Green 43 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH	Ranger Tim Holtz Water Brush - Fine Brush Shop at: EH
Gracious paper pad - Authentique Shop at: SBC	My Favorite Fall - Echo Park Shop at: SBC	Midas Touch Shimmer pen - Nuvo Shop at: SBC | EH	Persian Green 33 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH
Deep Brown 68 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH	Brick Beige 75 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH	Marine Green 400 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH	Beige 72 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH
The Best Pumpkin - Polka Dot Orchard Shop at: PDO	A Grateful Heart - Polka Dot Orchard Shop at: PDO