Autumn Splendor

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends.

I am feeling blessed to have my immediate family with me and so glad that all my extended family and friends are doing ok during this time of the pandemic.

To celebrate this beautiful time of the Fall leaves changing and nature evolving, I wanted to create a card.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  I did some more bubble painting for my background.  I simply filled up an old coffee mug with water, then some Dawn dish soap.  Mixed that well and added some drops of Peeled Paint Distress re-inkers to give the colour.  (To see another bubble background I did go here)   
• While the bubbles dried, I looked through my sentiments to find one that worked.  This is an older one for a company called Serendipity that I believe is now out of business.  I love the font and it is the perfect sentiment representing the changing seasons. I placed the stamp into my Misti and stamped it with some Versafine Clair Noir.  I clear heat embossed it to make it pop against the bkg.
• Next, I got out my Leaf 1 and Leaf 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs and decided what leaves I would use around the sentiment. 
• I positioned the leaves and used my Distress inks to stencil them randomly around the sentiment.  I used Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Peeled Paint and some Aged Mahogany Distress inks for my leaves.
• I splattered using my black Posca pen and then mounted the panel onto a piece of black cardstock and then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Leaf Set 1

Leaf Set 2

Here are the stencils I used.

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Adding my card to these challenges:

CAS on Sunday- AUTUMN

My Time to Craft- AUTUMNAL COLOURS

The Male Room- QUOTE

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

I'm so grateful for all your visits and most encouraging comments.

Supplies

Stamp- Live Each Season (Serendipity)

Inks- Distress; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white

Accessories and Tools- Leaf Set 1 and Leaf Set 2 (A Colorful Life Designs); Dawn Dish Soap; 

straw; sponge dabber; Posca pen; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); clear eb powder; heat tool