This is the card I made as the make and take in our Shoe Box. I made the background paper using brown paper, acrylic paints and ink!! The brown paper was given to me by my SU demonstrator - Catherine. They receive all of their product packed with this paper so they have it around all the time. It is strong and thin - love it!! I started by adding large brown dots using brown acrylic paint brushed onto bubble wrap and stamped on the paper!! COOL!! Next, I added smaller orange dots using a smaller bubble wrap and orange acrylic paint. Afterwards, I added leaves using a foam leaf die cut (TH Tattered Leaves die) which I painted with acrylic paint and stamped in an all over pattern. I used a mixture of gold, copper and brown paint. It still needed a bit of something so I added script using a stamp and Old Olive (SU) ink. To help connect all the design elements I just used a foam brush with clear water and painted the whole surface which caused the green ink to run just a little and it did the trick - a nice cohesive collage!! Cut it up into quarter sheets and paired it with brown or green cardstock. The focal element is a digital stamp I downloaded from Meljens Designs and printed on white cardstock with my laser printer. I watercoloured the images, layered them on coordinating cardstock and adhered them over the fiber I tied to the card front. I provided a variety of different greetings but several of the girls decided not to a greeting. They will add an appropriate one when they use the card!!
We have been enjoying the fall colours but with the rain and cooler weather last week they are duller and starting to fall!! Still seems like a pile of treasure when I walk through them!!
Therese
