Papierlisi

Hello, crafty friends!

How are you? Fall is almost here, temperatures are not that high anymore and in about a week, fall is starting officially around here. So what better than to play along in the latest bastel-traum's challenge when it is all about autumn/fall?!

My creation is pretty simple! For the background I used an embossing folder to create a wooden background. By the way, you will find all products I used linked below at the very end of this post. Okay, another helpful tip when it comes to embossing: a teeny tiny spritz of water onto the paper before embossing prevents the paper from cracking. And the embossing will be even more clean and crisp. Yay for that! :-)

Then I added some gold splatters (it's a watercolor pigment powder that you just have to dilute with water and your ready to go) for the extra shine. Then I diecut an oak leaves wreath out of watercolor cardstock. This die is super old, I believe it was from Memory Box. I put you an alternative product into the links you might use instead... Okay, I colored the wreath with regular watercolors (in half pans) in fall colors. I went over several times to achieve a good blend of colors and the leaves appear also more vivid when putting more pigment on it.

Then I heat embossed several different sentiments with versafine black onyx ink onto 125g vellum. some of the sentiments are cut in stripes and adhered on the back of the panel. For the round sentiment I used transparent glue (the one from Nuvo works great with vellum!)- Then I adhered the wreath with foam tape on top - this gives the extra lovely depth to the card, love that!

As a finishing touch, I added a twine bow in a natural color - makes such a difference.

I hope you got inspired and will play along with us!

Thank you so much for stopping by and have an amazing day!

Crafty hugs,

Products I used (or an adequate alternative)

Schmincke | Reichbleichgold

Hello everyone!

Summer is still in its full glory (yes omg, we are having the next heat wave around here 😆 ) so I was not able to create something that goes into the fall-ish direction, althoug the this month's theme on basteltraum's blog is "into the woods" might totally indicate that :-) But if you are in the autumn mood already, go for it :-))

So my inspiration was a night sky I saw lately in real, it had such beautiful purple shades! I simply had to recreate it :-)

I sponged some different shades of purple and black onto a piece of watercolor cardstock (you find all the colors and cardstock at the very end of this post) and spritzed some water for lifting up a bit of the ink. I let it dry for a moment, then I splattered some white liquid watercolor ink (I used ecoline ink) on it while covering most of the panel with some copy paper. I cut an uneven line to mimic a milky way... you might take a look on my snapshots for better instructions, hehe :-)

Then I added some more white stars in the night sky with a Posca marker. Let it dry for a while, it's worth it. Otherwise the paint will smear.

Then I painted freely some pine tree silhouettes over it. Begin the the stem, then add the branches by tapping the paint brush very slightly back and forth. I used regular black acrylic paint for this, nothing fancy :-)

The sentiment "Birthday wishes" (it was promotional stamp sold with a Big Shot machine) is heat embossed with a very fine detailed embossing powder.

I hope you got inspired and will give this round a try! I cannot wait to see your creation over at basteltraum's blog!

Happy crafting!