Autumn Feels

 Hello there,

I'm sharing a few autumnal cards today, my favourite to make as the colours mother nature showers us with are just gorgeous. I've discovered and become obsessed with colouring die cuts with Distress Oxide inks... the colours are intense and I love the chalky matt finish when they are dry. I've used this technique for the first two cards...

This card uses dies and alphabet stamps from Concord & 9th... and the die cuts below are by sizzix... isn't that toadstool cute :) 

It just so happens these next two cards are both water coloured and are stamps from Colorado Craft Company, I love their large images for practising my painting..

This oak leaf image is my favourite, it's been a great year for acorns, lots of seeds and nuts in fact. I've been collecting the acorn cups when out walking so I can needle felt some acorns to go in them... not sure what I'm going to do with them yet but I quite like the idea of a garland :)

I hope you've been enjoying the autumn colours too :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Wildflowers for Mum

I love the look of loose watercolour but I'm not good at freestyle watercolour myself so I was excited to see the new Wildflower Stems Sizzix Thinlets by Tim Holtz... all I had to do was add colour...

I die cut them with Bristol card stock and left the cut pieces in the card whilst I 

added the watercolour... this made it much easier as they are quite delicate.

Whilst they were drying I swooshed pale green paint on the card base and added splatters in pinks, greens and purples. After a bit of faffing I managed to arrange the stems how I liked them and then glued them down..... not adding glue to all areas so the raised edges give a bit of dimension.

I love how this turned out :)

You can find more details on my Seven Hills DT blog post here

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Wildflower Stems #1 & #2 - Sizzix

So Happy - Avery Elle