This ended up being my favorite of the five I made this week. I really like this darker pattern from the Autumn Opulence DSP with the mushrooms on it and the retired cork paper just really compliments it so well.I used the Faux Suede Technique to distress the Blackberry Bliss strip and I really like the look of that as well.
I started the cards I'm going to be sharing this week by smooshing a watercolor background on a 4-1/4" X 5-1/2" piece of vanilla cardstock. I took my Golden Glow, Pretty Peacock and Blackberry ink pads and tapped them onto the huge "F" acrylic block. Then I sprayed the block with water and tipped the block to let the colors mix a little. Not a lot. I didn't want the colors to become mud. Then, I took a piece of 4-1/4" X 5-1/2" Very Vanilla Cardstock and layed it over the ink and let it soak it up. I am impatient, so I used a heat tool to dry it.
After the watercolor cardstock was dry, I used the Lustrous Leaves Hot Foil Dies, Copper Stampin' Foil and the Stampin' Hot Foil System to make copper watercolor leaves. I was then left with a piece of copper foil that had leaf images in it, so I applied that to a piece of vanilla cardstock with the Reverse Foil Die so that I could have both the positive and the negative copper leaf images and not waste the beautiful foil.
Cardstock:
Pecan Pie: 8-1/2" X 5-1/2", scored at 4-1/4" and folded in half on the long side Basic Beige: 4" X 5-1/4" for inside + whatever you need to stamp and die cut your sentiment DSP:
Cork Natural Touch Specialty Paper (retired): 1-3/4" X 5-1/4"
Stamp Set & Dies:
Autumn Leaves Stamp Set (sentiment, retired)
Ink:
Hot Foil:
Embellishments:
DMS Embroidery Floss #3371
My Most Used Tools (Used Almost Daily):
