One of my favorite things about fall are the glorious colors you see up here in Northern Virginia. A few trees are turning but it should hit its full glory in about a month. So my youngest and I have taken the colors outside and brought it in with our watercolors. Then we tried a new (for us) technique where we placed cling wrap over our watercolor papers while they were still wet. Such a neat effect! Here I used one of the sheets trimmed down for my background and popped up a few asters on top. For my bud, I simply folded the smallest aster in half. Lastly, I embossed in black my Bible verse on vellum and sewed it onto my card.
Thank you for looking and hope you are inspired by one of our inspiration pictures at the Shining the Light challenge at Our Daily Bread Design!
Recipe:
Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 9
Paper: Watercolor and Vellum
Dies: ODBD Aster Dies and Fancy Foliage Dies
Accessories: Buttons, Twine
And make sure you check out my fellow DT sisters for more wonderful inspiration:
To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click here. You have until October 5, 2014 at 8:00pm EDT to join us. By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to be placed in a monthly drawing to win a $15 ODBD Gift Certificate good towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” on the ODBD website, or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge. The random prize winner will be posted on the first challenge of each month.We would love to see your creations.
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Love your flowers and leafy scrolls! Your bg paper is perfect with the inspiration photo to! I love the folded in half flower, so cute!! The verse you used is one of my favorites! Lovely fall card!
ReplyDeleteOh, Diana, what a beautiful floral spray you've designed, and how clever to fold the one flower die!! Great background technique too that I would have loved seeing you and your design make!! What a wonderful Scripture verse that is truly showcased so beautifully on your card!! It's stunning, as always!! Hugs, dear friend!
ReplyDeleteFun card, love how you and your child can work together to come up with such a pretty background, great technique!!
ReplyDeleteOoooh your outside colors in watercolor and the technique you used made an AWESOME background Diana! Love it and I bet your son enjoyed it too!!! Love this verse as well!
ReplyDeleteWhat a stunning card Diana!! I just adore your homemade golden flowers, the great water colored background you created and the vellum with the stitching!! Gorgeous take on the inspiration!!
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Chris
Beautiful Diana! Love the bold fall colors in your background and aster designs! I think you got hooked on stitching since our last challenge....looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteWow Diana. Your card is beautiful! I love the colours and thanks for sharing how you did the watercolour background - going to have to give that a try - sounds awesome! You're so creative - love how you folded one of the asters in half and your embossed vellum is perfect!
ReplyDeleteHow very pretty! I love your background technique. I will have to try that! Thanks for joining the Friday Mashup this week.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to share your talents with your children! Beautiful Card, Diana!!
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