Fall Card

 Made a card today that is larger than my normal A2 size. This one is 5x7 and is landscape. Years ago I bought a large Memory Box wood-mounted pumpkin stamp and matching die. I have used it for all kinds of projects. Today I used it along with The Color Throwdown #662 color scheme of purple, orange, green, and kraft to create a fall card.

I used Carved Pumpkin, Tea Dye, Crushed Olive, Dusty Concord, Victorian Velvet, Seedless Preserves, Peeled Paint, & Rustic Wilderness Distress Inks to blend and watercolor my stamped images. 

I covered a piece of scrap cardstock with pieces of old dictionary paper, inked over it, and then die cut it using the matching die. After stamping, watercoloring, and fussy cutting the images from the Simon Says Stamp Delicate Flowers stamp set, I adhered them & popped them up on top of the pumpkin. I finished the card with a sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Thanks and Leaves stamp set, some splatters of Perfect Pearls Mist in Heirloom Gold, and a few iridescent sequins.

More Embossed Watercoloring

 I decided to play along with The Color Throwdown this week. The color scheme was a good one and could definitely be a fall or Christmas scheme and I decided to go with Christmas because I need a few cards outside our annual family Christmas card. 

For my card, I used Neenah Desert Storm cardstock as my card base & I die cut the Tim Holtz Holiday Green Thinlit Die with it as well.  I used a scrap piece of cranberry cardstock as the mat for my watercolor cardstock. It wasn't quite big enough, so I used gold striped washi tape to finish the mat and add interest. I love the look of gold embossing and kraft together, which is why all of my embossing is done in gold embossing powder. The doily background stamp is from an old Cocoa Daisy kit. The cranberry watercolored images were created using Victorian Velvet and Aged Mahogany Distress Inks and the stamp I used is from the Simon Says Stamp Delicate Flowers stamp set. The pointy leaves are also from the Delicate Flowers set and were stamped and embossed onto vellum.  I used a little Antique Linen Distress Ink to add a little khaki color to them. The card was finished with a greeting from a Christmas stamp set I picked up at Michaels, then I added Perfect Pearl Splatters in Heirloom Gold and sequins and gems from my stash.

I love how this one turned out! I'd like to try this color scheme again with a Poinsettia stamp, so I guess I need to find a good one and get it ordered quickly!