Distress Oxides and Lots of AUTUMN LEAVES w/Dawn

Hello crafty peeps! I wanted to pop in today to share a couple of cards I created on World Cardmaking Day.

I shared these throughout the day on Instagram. However, thanks to that pesky Instagram algorithm, many of you may have missed them. I noticed when looking at the insights for those posts that they only reached a couple of thousand accounts vs. the 20+ thousand that follow. What can you do, right?

So, on to the goodies! I decided that I wanted to pull out my all time favorite stamp set for World Cardmaking Day - Autumn Leaves.

I just adore this set! I can pull this one out on any day of the year and come up with a card. No fail. I ended up with 4 cards all similar in design but unique in their own way by swapping an item or two.

For this card I did some Distress Oxide Ink stamping on Kraft cardstock. I used the timeless "rock n' roll" technique when inking. I inked up the stamp with one color and then added another color ink to the stamp around the edges and such before stamping.

I added a few splatters of ink to the background for a little interest since the layout of the card was very simple. I trimmed the panel and mounted it to a black card base. For the sentiment I used our Birthday Wishes stamp set and heat embossed it in Liquid Platinum.

The pattern stamping for all of these cards was created exactly the same way. I arranged all of individual images on my MISTI stamping tool. Then inked them up, stamped them. Turned my cardstock 1/4 turn, inked the stamps up in a different color, and stamped again. Turned the cardstock 1/4 turn again, inked in another color and then stamped.

For the next card, I again used Distress Oxide Ink. This time I skipped the multi-color inking and chose to stamp on our Coal Mine cardstock.

I'm in love with the rich sophisticated color palette and decided to swap out my sentiment to keep with the same style. Our Grateful Greetings stamp set was perfect.

I created another stamped panel, again on Kraft, but with solid inking. I wanted to switch up the orientation, so I went with a landscape orientation this time.

I stuck with the Grateful Greetings for my sentiment again. I stamped it in Distress Oxide ink and then clear heat embossed it. I added a little vellum behind the sentiment label and popped it up with a bit of foam tape.

And finally, just because I do love a good white card base, I had to create one on white. I used several of our PURE COLOR dye inks to stamp my background pattern.

I used the exact same layout as the previous card, but reached for the Birthday Wishes stamp set again for my sentiment. You can never have too many "birthday" cards!

I hope that you enjoyed todays cards! As always, thanks for stopping by!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list contains affiliate links.

Wplus9 White Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Black Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Shop at: SSS | EH	Ranger Embossing Powder LIQUID PLATINUM Shop at: SSS
Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts Shop at: SSS	3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Shop at: SSS	Wplus9 Kraft Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Coal Mine Cardstock Shop at: WP9
Hayride PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Pumpkin Spice PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Falling For Blue PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Grateful Greetings Shop at: WP9
Cranberry Crush PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag Shop at: SSS	Birthday Wishes Shop at: WP9	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad SPICED MARMALADE Shop at: SSS
Bazzill 40 LB VELLUM 8.5 x 11 White 25 Sheets Shop at: SSS	Hemptique NATURAL Bamboo Cord Set Shop at: SSS	Lawn Fawn Glue Tube Shop at: SSS | EH	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad CANDIED APPLE Shop at: SSS | EH
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad FOSSILIZED AMBER Shop at: SSS | EH	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad Mowed Lawn Shop at: SSS	Autumn Leaves Shop at: WP9	MISTI Precision Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | EH
Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Cracked Pistachio Shop at: SSS | EH

So Very Grateful Emerald Pencil Colored Leaves Background Card with Yana

Hello friends! This is Yana and I hope you are having a fabulous week!

For today’s blog post I decided to continue exploring DIY pencil colored backgrounds. Check out my first blog post in this mini-series HERE (please link to my previous post - Dream Big Indigo Pencil Colored Leaves Background Card with Yana).

I looked through my stash in search of large, outline images with little to no detail and came across these leaves from the Modern Peonies stamp set. You can also use leaves from other WPlus9 floral sets or try using other images altogether.

Once again I prepped my black cardstock panel with an anti-static powder tool and stamped leaves making sure to overlap them a bit, but not too much. Next, I covered my panel with Gold embossing powder and before heat setting it used a small dry paintbrush and cleaned away any embossing powder where my images intersected. See my previous post mentioned above for more details on this technique.

After heat embossing I picked 2 colors of green pencils from my Polychromos set from Faber Castell - Dark Phthalo Green and Emerald Green and started coloring the leaves. I wanted the base of the leaves to be darker, but I didn’t have any darker green colors, so I decided to use Dark Indigo to darken the colors and create shadows.

The coloring process went rather quickly and I can’t say it took me longer than 30 minutes. I am really enjoying this technique at the moment and I’m already planning my next card.

Once my coloring was completed I adhered my panel onto an A2 white card base. To create a sentiment I heat embossed "So Very Grateful" from the Grateful Greetings in same Gold embossing powder onto a piece of white cardstock and foam mounted it onto the card.

Have fun stamping!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list contains affiliate links.

WPlus9 Modern Peonies Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Grateful Greetings Clear Stamps Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Black Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ	Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils Shop at: SSS
Faber-Castell Polychromos 36 Pencil Studio Set Shop at: AZ	Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder PW100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ