Hello, hello! Did you see? Simon Says Stamp has a brand new release called Sweet Wishes. You can find the complete collection of products right here. Simon Says Stamp generously sent me the beautiful Sketched Leaves stamp set and I created two projects with the set. I went full on autumn colors mode for both projects. Let's have a look at the first one.
For the card I started off by stamping the maple leaf on watercolor paper with VersaMark watermark ink, applying gold embossing powder and then heat setting it. I then used my Tonic Studio Aqua Flow pens in autumn shades of red, yellow and brown for the background. Once the piece was dry, I die cut it with a rectangle die and then sprayed it with distress mica sprays in Harvest Moon, Mulled Cider and Fallen Acorn. I roughed up the edges for a more rustic look. I embossed the sentiment in gold on vellum, trimmed it down and tore one edge. I wrapped the other edge around the back of my panel, secured it with glue dots and tied the bow. The panel was then adhered to an off-white cardstock base. Adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to add texture.
I really had alot of fun creating my next project. Let's have a look at it.
When I first saw the stamp set I knew that I wanted to create a decor type piece with it. I went with a tag design using a Stampers Anonymous #8 thick board tag with a distress #8 heavy stock tag on top. For this piece I used distress oxide inks in Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber, Bundled Sage and Gathered Twigs. I blended on the inks to my liking and then splattered the tag with water. I let the tag dry for a bit and then stamped on the three leaves using VersaFine CLAIR Acorn ink. I finished the tag with lots of splatters foundry wax in the color Gilded. I heat set the splatters to give them shine and make them permanent. The edges of the tag were also roughed up for a more rustic look. You don't see it in the photo, but I used some Tim Holtz washi tape to cover the sides of the thickboard tag for a more finished look. Then I adhered the inkblended tag using Multi Matte Medium and let it dry.
For the leaves I used the same oxide inks on a piece of cream colored heavy stock cardstock. Once I had the inkblending done I stamped each leaf using the Acorn ink and then trimmed out each leaf. There are
matching dies that you can find
right here, but I don't have them (yet!). Since the leaves are fairly large, trimming them out was pretty quick and easy! I also splattered the leaves with lots of the Gilded foundry wax. The edges were roughed up and then I glued each leaf on top of the image stamped on the tag by adding glue down the center of each one. To finish I stamped the sentiment in VersaMark watermark ink, applied gold embossing powder and heat set. The sentiment was then die cut with a cute little fancy shaped tag from Simon Says Stamp. The edges roughed up and it was adhered to the tag. I also added a little bit of inking to the edges of the leaves before gluing them on. Some Memory Box fairy drops in autumn shades were added, along with the ribbon bow. I custom colored the ribbon using the mica sprays in Harvest Moon and Mulled Cider. I really love how this tag turned out!
The challenge at
Just Us Girls is to create a project based on the word leaves. My tag fits the challenge perfectly so I will be posting it there. Love it when things work out like that!
That's it for me. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!