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Fall Landscape

I really like the Tendril Collage (D1269) because it looks great using fall colors, but you can also change the color scheme to blue and silver to make a wonderful winter landscape.   Since I could feel a bit of autumn in the air today, I thought I would focus on fall colors.

To make this card, I sprayed a nonstick craft sheet with Butterscotch, Terracotta, and Cranberry Colorwash sprays.  I really like the Colorwash sprays because they give you such vibrant colors.  I spritzed the Colorwash colors with extra water the blend the three shades then placed a piece of 90lb watercolor paper on top of the craft sheet to pick up the color.   I heatset my paper with a heatgun and then stamped the Tendril Collage on top with black Versafine ink.  Once I cut out the collage, I decided to give my scene a bit of sparkle with some gold Twinkling H2O paint added to the sun and the top of the hill.  To finish the card, I added some canary jewels, a piece of Twilight paper, and a layer of gourd cardstock to a licorice notecard.

Has anyone felt fall yet, or is it just me?  Maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part.

I love all the Memory Box owls, and this one (Scalloped Owl C1293) is perfect for Halloween.  To color the owl, I stamped him onto 90lb watercolor paper using brown Versafine ink.  I then colored him with Gold, Nutmeg, and Persimmon Twinkling H2O paints.  It is hard to see the shimmer from the photo.  Here is a close-up that shows the sparkle just a bit better:

I cut out my owl and then layered him onto the Tendril Branch F1037 that I stamped in Chestnut Roan ink onto a Jack O Lantern notecard.  I added a strip of paper from the Twilight pack and adorned some of the stars on the paper with black gems from the Halloween jewel pack.  Finally, I stamped Happy Halloween B930 onto the card with black Versafine ink.

New Video

As promised, I am including a link to my new video.  It is a tutorial for stamping with Twinkling H2O's and features one of the new Memory Box stamps as well as some of the new papers.  A picture of the finished card as well as a close-up of the card can be found on Saturday's post.  If you would like a larger view of the video, you can watch it directly on YouTube here.  Enjoy!

Twinkling H2O Poinsettia

Happy Saturday everyone!  I spent part of the day making a new video that shows you how to make this card, but it isn't quite done.  I am hoping to have it for you Monday morning, so check back soon!

For today's card, I paired one of the new stamps (Poinsettia Silhouette E1282) with one of the new paper packs (Spiceberry).  Isn't this paper collection gorgeous?  I love that the paper pack has a poinsettia print that matches the stamp.  However, I didn't want the pattern to overwhelm the card, so I only used a strip.  My poinsettia was made by stamping onto cream paper using Twinkling H2O's.  I'm not going to go into too much detail because the video will show you step-by-step the process of stamping with Twinks.  I layered the poinsettia onto metallic Mars paper to emphasize the metallic sheen of my image and layered everything onto a Vanilla Bean notecard.  To finish the card, I added stome 24karat pearls.  Here is a close-up of the poinsettia so that you can see the metallic quality of the paint:

Have a great rest of your weekend, and be sure to check back Monday!