Wendy Vecchi Autumn Greetings Thanksgiving Slimline Cards

Hi everyone, and happy Wednesday! We are getting closer to Thanksgiving in the U.S.A., and that means I've got to get cracking on cards. Today, I've got some using the new stamps, stencils, and dies from Wendy Vecchi and Ranger called Autumn Greetings. This set is so great as there are so many items to choose from for endless techniques and endless card designs. I decided to make four of the same this time. I wish the pictures did these justice, as they are so much better in person. Regardless, enjoy! 

  For four cards cut a sheet of 8.5 x 11 inch Specialty Stamping Paper in half (to make technique easier). Apply Potting Soil and Garden Patina Archival Ink directly from the pad onto a glass mat. Spray liberally with rubbing alcohol, and swipe SSP into the wet ink. Repeat with other sheet of SSP, and until you like the look. Clean mat and apply Tiger Lily and Orange Marmalade to glass mat, spray with alcohol, and add SSP. Tap the paper into the wet inks as well to create splotches. Repeat with the other colors until you like the look of both papers. Set aside to dry thoroughly.

 

Using another sheet of SSP, cut into four equal pieces. Repeat the above technique with three of the papers using only one ink per paper, Garden Patina, Tiger Lily and Orange Marmalade, and Potting Soil. Using a water brush filled with alcohol, apply inks that are same color as the papers to the glass mat and pick up with water brush. Tap brush over papers and create dots of color. Do this for each of the three pieces. Let dry.

 Taking the blank fourth piece of SSP, apply Potting Soil Archival to the paper directly from the pad until the paper is completely covered. Apply Garden Patina and Tiger Lily to mat, and pick up with the alcohol water brush and tap to add dots of both colors of ink over the paper.

Spray Antique Linen Distress Spray Stain over all four pieces of SSP to create blotches of color. Use a paper towel to absorb stain that you don't want. Let dry completely.

 

 Cut kraft card base pieces to 3 x 8 inches. Cut Gold Metallic Kraft Stock to 2 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches. Ink edges of gold with Potting Soil Blendable Dye Ink and an ink blending tool, and adhere to kraft card with two sided tape. Ink edges of kraft card. Cut the two pieces of SSP in half, and then cut all four to 2 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches. Set card bases aside.

 

 

 Taking the four long pieces of SSP you just cut, stamp the larger oak leaf (on a stamping block) from Autumn Greetings set randomly over the pieces using Orange Marmalade. Do the same with the smaller oak leaf using Garden Patina. Stamp the sentiments randomly over the papers using Potting Soil. Let these dry, as Archival Ink stamping stays wet longer on SSP than most papers.

 Taking the orange, blue, and whitish SSP pieces, die cut four pumpkins from each, as well as four small and four large leaves. Taking the brown SSP piece, die cut four of each, acorns, wheat sprigs, large leaves, and small leaves.

 

Stamp the corresponding images to the die cut pieces in coordinating Archival Ink and heat emboss using Gold Embossing Powder.

 

Color in pumpkin stem, acorn top, and wheat sprig using brown permanent marker. Arrange die cut pieces on the SSP card front and arrange them as they will go when adhered. Carefully remove the pieces and set aside, as you stamp pumpkin swirls above each pumpkin using Pot Soil Archival. (Please ignore the sentiment stamping here as I changed my mind on how I wanted to do this.) Ink edges in Potting Soil, and adhere this to card base. Adhere die cut to front of card using either foam tape, two sided tape, or Perfect Medium. 

 

 

As mentioned above, I changed my mind for the sentiment to this. Stamp 'Grateful' sentiment onto Gold Metallic Kraftstock using Potting Soil Archival and heat emboss with gold powder. Cut out in rectangle shape, ink edges, and adhere to card front above die cuts using foam tape.

 

Supplies: 

(Glass Mat, 91% Rubbing Alcohol in Sprayer, Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Ink Blending Tool, Perfect Stamp Block, Two Sided Tape, Stamping Platform, Die Cut Machine, Stay-tion, Heat Tool, Tweezers, Two Sided Tape, Foam Tape) 

-Ranger Surfaces: Specialty Stamping Paper, Kraft Cardstock 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink: Garden Patina, Tiger Lily, Orange Marmalade, Potting Soil 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain: Antique Linen 

-Ranger Detail Water Brush filled with 91% Rubbing Alcohol 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Stamp and Stencil Set: Autumn Greetings 

-Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Metallic Kraft Stock 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Blendable Dye Ink: Potting Soil 

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Gold 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Perfect Card Adhesive 

-Faber Castell Pitt Pen: Brown   

 

I'll be back again soon with another Thanksgiving make...I hope as I'm not quite finished yet. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Stamper's Anonymous Christmas 2020 - Forest Floor Bold Tidings Tag Banner

Hello All! Today, I have a Christmas project that was not on the Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Live, as I didn't have it ready. The new Bold Tidings Sets (there are four) are perfectly sized for a #8 tag, and I love each sentiment, so I thought why not use every one and create a banner. The Forest Floor Set is a perfect compliment to the large sentiments, and there are so many ways to layer them, but I stayed pretty simple and stayed with a pattern for so many tags.  I had a lot of fun making this, and it is a cinch to clothes pin them to a string for hanging. Enjoy!

There will be 17 tags total. Plan out banner as follows: the three sentiments that are less than two inches tall will be red (R) with the longest foliage; the seven sentiments that are between two to three inches tall  will be lime green (L) with medium length foliage; the seven sentiments that are over three inches tall will be white (W) with the shortest foliage, and the banner will go in order W L W R L W L W R L W L W R L W L. Using Jet Black Archival for all the stamping (embossing powder will cover up the color of ink so it does not matter here) as well as the stamping platform and using the anti static pouch (this is essential so your powder does not stick where you don't want it), stamp and heat emboss the sentiments using Red Geranium, Lime, and White Embossing Powders.  Then add the foliage using Lime, Fern Green, and Potting Soil Embossing Powders. When doing the pine needles and pinecone swag, stamp pinecones first and heat emboss, and then stamp on sticky note for masking before adding pine needles. 

 

 Using the end of the paintbrush, make all the berries red with Candied Apple Distress Paint, except the berries on the juniper swag, use Twisted Citron instead. Let dry. Add Picket Fence to the larger areas that are open on the pinecones. Use a white pen for the smaller areas, and to add snowy areas on the upper portions of all the foliage. Draw a line around the open borders of the tags.

 

Apply Stickles to the berries, and the snow areas on the pine cones. Let dry. Tie tags onto string or use clothes pins. 

 

This is the layout of the banner, and you can see what I mean about the height of the sentiments and foliage. Laying them with the same heights and colors makes the banner look more cohesive.

Please excuse the pumpkins. I am still set up for Autumn, but I wanted you to see the banner going across my mantle where it will hang during the Christmas season.

 Supplies: 

(Stamp Platform, Ruler, Anti Static Pouch, Heat Tool, Sticky Note, Scissors, Paintbrush, String, Clothes Pins) 

-Ranger Surfaces: #8 Black Tags

-Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set: Forest Floor, Bold Tidings 

-Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black 

-Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder: Red Geranium, Fern Green, Potting Soil 

-Ranger Embossing Powder: Lime, White 

-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Candied Apple, Twisted Citron, Picket Fence 

-Sakura Gelly Roll Pen: White 

-Ranger Stickles: Xmas Red, Lime Green, Star Dust

 

Thank you so much for stopping by, and I'll be back again this week. Until then, I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!