The weekend is here and it's a good day to get inky! Why not join us at Inspired By...All the Little Things challenge? Each Saturday there is a new inspiration photo to get your mojo going! I just loved these fabric pumpkins and was inspired to create some texture on my card. I also wanted to use the bokeh technique which incorporates overlapping circles (aka overlapping pumpkins) sponged through varying sizes of circles die cut out of an acetate sheet. I call it my ghetto stencil - lol! I first smooshed some distress inks - Carved Pumpkin, Peacock Feathers, Weathered Wood, Peeled Paint, and Barn Door - on watercolor cardstock, dried with a heat gun, then sponged the circles with white pigment ink. After that dried, I embossed it using Cuttlebug's Pumpkin Harvest embossing folder. To echo the stitched pumpkins and leaves, I embossed a stitched line to border the panel. Papers were all from my massive leftover pile, so I'm not 100% sure what I used. The edges of the pumpkins were sponged with Carved Pumpkin distress ink. The sentiment is from Verve's recently released Autumn Blessings stamp set and I used Simon Says Stamp's Stitched Maple Trio and Stitched Pumpkins dies.
Date: Saturday, October 15, 2016 GMT Views: 153
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Sat, Oct 15, 2016 @ 3:01 PM
Ooh, what a pretty backdrop for the orange pumpkins with the complementary blue and greens. It's truly a little work of art, with all of its artistic details and creative scrap-using. I noticed its loveliness in the gallery and I am glad I took a closer look