Stampin Celebration Challenge Time!

Hi there!  It's Stampin' Celebration Challenge time and I am excited to show you the card that I made with our sketch challenge this week.  

But, first I must tell you we had our first snow fall of the year!  Can you believe it?!  It isn't completely unusual to have some snow in central Ontario this time of year, but I am SO not ready for it and would rather be enjoying the beautiful fall colours we are having.


Because I created my card last week, I was totally inspired by the beautiful fall leaves that were all around and not Christmas or the snow that I saw yesterday.  That's ok, the snow is melting already. 

Before I show you may card, let me show you the sketch inspiration.....

 
and now here is the card I created....

I focused on the three triangles and thought about what I could use in 3s.  That's where my leaves came in and I loved how they turned out!

  I am not an experienced water colourer, but it was much easier than I thought.  Here is how I did it.....I brought out my water colour paper and my Aqua Painter pen.  I used the ink in the lids of my ink pads and blended Tangleo Twist, Hello Honey, Real Red, BlackBerry Bliss and Early Espresso.  I just blended and blended until I saw the colours that I wanted.  Then, I used my heat to to help my paper dry.  It is very important your paper is dry before moving onto the next step.  

Then, I took my Early Espresso Ink and stamped my leaves right over the water colouring.  If your paper isn't dry, your stamped image becomes very 'fuzzy' as the water in the paper changes the lines in your stamped image.  I know this from experience.  lol  Finally, I die cut them with the matching framelits.  

My greeting is from Acorny Thank you stampset.  I thought it was a cute match up with the 'falling' leaves.  lol  I punched out my greeting with my Decorative Label Punch - one of my all time favourites.  And to give my greeting some extra attention, I also punched out an Early Espresso label and cut it in half on the long side and glued it to the back of my label with the greeting.  This makes a little bit of a frame. 

I polished my card off with some Linen Thread and a wooden embellishment from the Into the Woods Elements pack. 

Be sure to stop on over to Stampin' Celebration Challenge blog and submit your entry.  We LOVE to see what you create!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy