' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Autumn Leaves

Sunday 7 September 2014

Autumn Leaves

The Craft Room challenge this fortnight is Something old, something new. Lots of choices lurking in my stash!

Have you noticed how watercolour has become popular in card making and scrapbooking these days? It's just as well, as I have lots of water colours, purchased a long time ago and begging to be used!
For my something new, no contest, it has to be a brand new  Memory Box die.
Since this die is a leaf and we are quickly running into autumn I picked autumnal colours for my make.


The card base is watercolour paper and I stamped it with a Harlequin stamp (Artistic Stamper). I used watercolour crayons as inks, mixing several colours on the stamp before spritzing and stamping. I love the distressed look of the stamped image.

I decided to splatter some more watercolour on the background, also quite trendy.

I die-cut the leaves from watercolour paper and rubbed watercolour crayons on the "inside" leaves and used a dark brown pen for the outlines. I intended my 3rd leaf to be gilded but in the end I thought it didn't gel with the natural, haphazard look of the rest of the card.

To finish the card I tried several arrangements of smaller die-cut leaves, twine, button etc.. but nothing worked so I added the sentiment and declared it complete.

I am also entering the Artistic Stamper and My mum's craft shop challenges.

Thanks for coming by,

8 comments:

  1. this is so creative! love it! thanks for sharing with us at Craft Room Challenge, Debi xx

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  2. Loving the splatters and the background stamping a LOT, your leaves are amazing and such fantastic colours. Love the autumnal palette, it is warm and inviting just like your card :-) xxx

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  3. They do say less is more, think your arranging proved it! Love the card and wonderful colours while the sentiment adds a whole new WOW factor. Thank you for sharing with us at Craft-Room Challenge XOXO Zoe

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  4. The colors on this card are fabulous and very trendy! I love how the leaves are the focal piece with the rest of the card being CAS. Thanks for joining us at the Craft Room!

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  5. A beautiful Autumn card!
    Thanks for sharing it with us at The Artistic Stamper.
    Alison xxx

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  6. Lovely card! Your colors are stunning! Thank you so very much for joining us at Craft Room Challenge ~ Christi

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  7. Elle est super belle, j'adore !!! Bises

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  8. A beautiful card, I love the leaves!
    Alison xxx

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