Fabulous Fall

Greetings fellow crafters!  Fall has finally arrived in my area and that makes me a happy camper!  I'm lucky to live where the trees turn ALL the different colors.  Since it feels like fall, I felt a fall themed card was definitely called for.  I dug into my stash of old and new products from Scrappy Tails Crafts to create this mini slimline card.

This card actually got its start many weeks ago when I was playing with my newest Distress Mica Spray stains.  I created a couple of gorgeous panels out of watercolor cardstock.

Then I took out the Fall Assorted Leaves dies and cut as many leaves and bits that I could get out of one of the panels.

Let's talk details.  I cut the large leaf vein out of copper cardstock and glued it to the leaf.  I used the long, skinny lattice like die from the A7 Book Add-on & Fancy Oval set to cut three different colors of cardstock.  Next I used the smallest layering panel from the Slimline Shadow Box dies to cut a piece of light tan cardstock.  Then I ran the panel through my die cut machine with the Slimline Tiki Pattern die.  I splattered the panel with Walnut Stain distress ink spray and gold acrylic paint.  Once it was dry I used the Walnut Stain distress ink and a blending brush around the edges of the panel.

The next step was to use the next largest die from the Slimline Shadow Box die set to cut a panel out of a dark tan cardstock.  I also used the Hello die from the same set.  I cut it out of the copper cardstock and the shadow layer out of the same light cardstock.  Now I have a bunch of parts and pieces ready to go.

This is the easy part.  I glued the three colored strips to the left side of the light panel and cut off the extra.  Next came the large leaf.  I used liquid adhesive to add it to the panel.  I glued the "hello" to the shadow layer and added foam tape to the back before adding it to the panel.  I also took the little ball-like flowers and leaves and glued it tucked under the sentiment.

I glued the light panel to the darker tan panel and then onto a mini slimline card base that measures 3 1/2" x 6 1/2".  For the final touch I added Copper Penny Nuvo drops.  Fini!

Thanks so much for visiting today.  May your day be excellent!

~Kristina
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Sunflowers and Sunshine

Hello there fellow crafters!  It's Kristina again and I've got a heap of sunflower cards to share with you!  My cards all use the new Harvest Blessings Deluxe card kit from Scrappy Tails Crafts.  You can buy all of the pieces individually except for the pearls.  In fact, I made SIX cards!  Let's take a look.

I was inspired by the May 2022 Sheetload from Call me Crafty Al.  Her sketch was in a vertical layout but horizontal worked better for me.  

I started by stamping one of the sunflowers from the Wild Sunflowers stamp set with black ink onto watercolor paper.  I stamped it six times.

Then I grabbed some Distress Inks.

I squished the ink pads onto my media mat and spritzed lightly with water.  Then I used them like watercolors and applied with a paint brush.

After I dried them with the heat tool, I splattered all of them with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I'm loving splatters so much right now!

Next I cut out all of my card pieces and gathered them together.  All of the patterned paper is from the Harvest Blessings 6x6 paper pad.

As I started putting my layers together, I decided to ink around the edges of the sunflower images with the Walnut Stain Distress ink.  I also added foam tape to the sunflower layers before adding to the card panels.

And here's a close up look at each of the six cards.

You can see in the pictures that I decided to add a sentiment after I put the cards together.  I stamped the sentiment from Wild Sunflowers with Versamark ink.  Then I sprinkled with gold embossing powder and melted it with my heat tool.  I adhered them with liquid glue to the panels.

I should mention that I couldn't decide on my card base color so three of them are on a natural color and three of them are on dark brown.  I did splatter the bases with gold paint before adding all of the card layers.

And I can't let you go without a close up of the sunflowers.  I was so pleased with how the watercoloring turned out!

Thank a bunch for stopping by today!

~Kristina

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