Hello there everyone! Here in New York it’s back to school time. My five year old is moving into first grade, and her first year in school ever (she was remote all last year). To say I’m worried, and excited for her and going to miss her and all of the other feelings go with it is an understatement!
So it’s that time of year, and time for Fall cards! Spellbinders has just the Collection for you! The new Happy Harvest Collection by Nichol Spohr is full of fall leaves, and pumpkins and autumnal goodies. Today I’m featuring the Welcome Fall set of dies, to create a fun scene, that I decided to leave sentimentless. It has a lot going on in it and I felt I didn’t want to add more.
I’ll walk you through the technique I used to get this look. I was going for a sort of 3D watercolor painting, and it does start off with watercolor, but then I did a few other things. All of my pieces were die cut from cold press watercolor cardstock (I used Canson XL). As they’re such small pieces, I decided to die cut all from the same cardstock, then color them separately.
I used a waterbrush and picked up paint from a watercolor palette for each of the apples and pumpkins and leaves, and added a base wash, a little lighter than what I wanted the piece to end up looking like. For the leaves I added different colors, roughly on the same leaf I could add a yellow and an orange, or a green and a little dark green. I used a super pale blue on the smaller pumpkins.
I then blended on Distress Inks (Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door, Forest Moss, Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo and Weathered Wood) to add depth and shading around the edges. The baskets are actually two pieces that adhere together, and the top. has a fun slit in it that you can slip things into the top to ‘fill up’ the baskets. I also adhered tops to the pumkins and leaves to the apples. You’ll see the tree branch is a little different – I die cut it three times from dark brown textured cardstock.
The background is a wood grain look cardstock, which I mounted on a white notecard, having flicked it with gold and white ink sprays. I also separately flicked the sprays onto all of my ink blended pieces, and when dry, created the little scene, with foam tape and liquid glue. I arranged the tree branches at the top, slightly bending up the branches for dimension, then scattered the leaves around the scene, including on the branch.
You’ll see I also added a little Glossy Accents to the tops of the pumpkin stalks. For embellishment, I added some tiny clear drops and a few translucent gold flake enamel dots from the All Aboard Christmas Card Kit by Spellbinders.
I really love how this turned out. I hope you do too!
Jenny x
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