Autumn

 I am pretty excited about making Autumn cards again, since it is my favorite season.  Our stamp group got together for our monthly teams meeting on line and we did a fold and a technique.  We started with watercolor paper and sponged on some Distress Oxide inks, then we took leaf stamps (I used clear stamps and my stamp positioner) covered the whole background with them, spritz the stamps with water and then stamped, pushing down a little bit and letting sit for a few seconds to let the water settle well into the paper. 

 I will have to say that you do want a good quality watercolor paper, because the others turned out really nice and you could barely see mine, I used Artist Loft brand watercolor paper. They suggested I try a thicker paper, and I did have some Tim Holtz mixed media paper and that worked well as you can see.  So just a tip if you want to try this and if it doesn't seem to work well, try it with another paper. It gives a nice ghosted background and I used lined stamps, not solid like it looks.

• Crafter's Companion - Tumbling Leaves stamp for background sentiment heat embossed w/gold
• Distress Oxide - Lucky Cloves, Candid Apple, Rusty Hinge and Spiced Marmalade for background
• Tim Holtz - Leaf Fragments cut from smooshed background
• Gold Paint splatters

The inside is a fold, we added a die cut piece to either side of the fold, and then added our stamped images to that, also added a die cut on the left and on the right I will hand write my sentiment.

• Spellbinders - Foliage die set and Labels 20
• Crafter's companion - Tumbling Leaves stamp and die set
• Scrap strips of paper at the fold

I had done the inside before added the front panel which was a mistake because I applied my front panel with the card upside down so my stamped leaves are upside down, I wanted them the other way but I guess it works. At least I added the fern last so that is facing the way I wanted it too :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie