my favorite autumn cards yet

I was so excited to use these pumpkin images.  I simply stamped them in brown chalk ink (Dark Brown Fluid Chalk Ink), then painted them with orange paint mixed with glaze.

 On this one, I heat-embossed the whole panel of paper after stamping and coloring it.  I colored the pumpkins using 2 colors of regular (Stampin Up dye-based) markers.  I did 2 coats of embossing, then crackled the paper, then rubbed brown ink to get it into the creases.

Hmm, I just have to keep this one for myself :)

Autumn is so fun

Here are a few more fun autumn cards.  This scarecrow image was just an image cut from scrapbooking paper.

This was made using the same acrylic paint technique described in my previous post.

Beautiful papers from the Recollections line bought at Michael's last year...

 Heat-embossed leaf using "pirate's gold" embossing powder.

This stamp was only $1 at JoAnn. :)  I made lots of all of these cards to send to OWH (Operation Write Home) which then sends the cards to active US military all over the world.

Autumn please come!

So, it is so frickin' hot in Texas (like, 108 degrees F on any given day) that I was dying to make some autumn cards, hoping that it would usher in the cooler weather.  I was really happy with how this card turned out!  AND it was rather inexpensive to make.  First I stamped the leaf image using light grey ink on a white panel.  Then I used cheap, diluted paint to paint the green and red/orange colors onto the leaf.  I actually used some leftover paints (acrylic) from my son's paint-by-number kit that I got for 40 cents at JoAnn's!  After it dried I stamped over the image again with dark brown chalk ink.  Then I masked it and sprayed blue ink on the background and stamped some autumn words as well.  The beautiful leaf images are from an Inkadinkado set that I bought at JoAnn's for $6 on sale!  You can't beat that.  Background paper is from K&Co. Twine from Hobby Lobby.

Here are some other variations of the same card.  It was really fun getting out the paintbrushes and creating any type of leaf variations I wanted.

On some of the cards I painted over the leaf with a gloss varnish (like Glossy Accents or Diamond Glaze, but I used another brand).