Hi, everyone, and happy weekend! It's finally cooling off down here in the deep south and I happened to get a decent photo of my girls at the end of last month, so I thought I would scrap it for my seasonal entry table display. I have a wrought iron easel on that table, which usually holds a seasonal art piece.
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Julie's fantastic new Autumn Acorns stamp set was used to create the "patterned paper" look to my 8-inch page. Here's how I created it:
1. In one corner of the 8-inch Neenah Desert Storm cardstock I stamped My Favorite Things Woodgrain Background with Versamark Dazzle Champagne Ink. Then I stamped the large solid leaf from Julie's set in Memento Love Letter and Pear Tart inks:
Something to keep in mind when stamping onto a non-white cardstock is that the colors may appear a little darker than they normally do on white or ivory, so be sure to test them out first.
2. Next, I stamped the large leaf again in Potter's Clay and the smaller leaf in Rhubarb Stalk:
3. Then I stamped the small leaf in Bamboo Leaves and the large solid acorn with the Versamark Dazzle Champagne:
4. Finally, I stamped the berry outline in Delicata Golden Glitz and let it dry for a few minutes. Then I stamped the solid berries in Rich Cocoa:
Here's a close-up of how the berries turned out -- I love that sparkly gold ink! Hopefully you can also see the pretty shimmer in the acorn's Versamark Champagne ink, too:
For a little accent in the lower left corner of the page, I die cut two of the hole reinforcers from MFT's Blueprints 9 Die-namics (the large tag shape from that die set is what I used to frame the photo, which I'll get to in a moment), and then tied some of Lawn Fawn's Golden Sparkle Hemp through them and into a bow. Above you'll also see a tab from the same Blueprints 9 die set that I cut from Ellen's beautiful Curious Metallic Gold Leaf Cardstock and added to the bottom of the photo tag -- I'll do a little personal journaling on that later.
Next, to create a little divider between the woodgrain stamp and the leaf pattern I created, I wanted to use this pretty Little B Thin Gold Stripes Tape but it was thinner than I wanted and it disappeared into the background more than I wanted, so I did this: I placed two rows of it onto Neenah Solar White cardstock and got a thicker 1/4-inch fun look I was going for!
By NOT lining up the stripes perfectly, I created a new checkerboard-like pattern AND now the pretty gold shows up on the white background (and page!):
The page title was created with the stitched rectangle from the Blueprints 9 Die-namics set (I trimmed the fishtail out of it), cut from more of Ellen's Curious Metallic Gold Leaf Cardstock. The words were created with MFT's Little Letters Uppercase and Little Numbers Die-namics, cut from Bazzill Card Shoppe Peanut Fudge and Candy Corn cardstock. To adhere small die cuts like these, I like to use Copic's X-Press It Glue Marker:
And now you can get a good look at that pretty, large tag I used to layer the photo on to. It measures 4" tall (in the sideways orientation I have it shown) x 5.25" wide and was cut from Bazzill Red Hots cardstock. Then I added the month with MFT's Accent It-Months of the Year Die-namics set and popped it up on Copic Foam Tape.
Thanks so much for joining me today! ~Sharon
