Three Cheers for Autumn, October, and Me!

Guess what! I was selected to be the October Guest Designer at Topflight Stamps. I was so over-the-top excited that I made two fall themed cards that both feature Lavinia Stamps to start my reign as Miss October!

Here's my Green Man card!

Products Used:
Topflight Stamps Products Used:
Small Green Man Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Other Products Used:
Watercolor Paper by Strathmore®
Acorn and Pinecone Versa Fine Clair™ by Tsukineko®
Tea Dye, Frayed Burlap, Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs, Bundled Sage, Crushed Olive, and Forest Moss Tim Holtz® Distress® Inks by Ranger Industries
Brown and Olive Green Le Plume II™ Markers by Marvy® Uchida
Brick/Wood Embossabilities™ Set by Spellbinders®
Autumn from the Fall Words Die Set by Frantic Stamper
Green and brown cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Blender Pen
Stamp Platform

Instructions:

1. Cut brown cardstock to 6.25" x 9", score, and fold to form an A6 card.
2. Cut a piece of watercolor paper to 5.75" x 4".
3. Position the Green Man onto the Stamping platform, secure the watercolor paper, ink the stamp with Acorn VersaFine ink, and stamp. Re-ink the stamp with Pinecone VersaFine ink, and stamp again. Repeat if needed. Heat set.
4. Brush Distress inks, in the order listed above (mostly light to dark), to both sides of the watercolor panel, concentrating the darkest colors at the edges. Heat set.
5. Use Marvy markers (or other watercolor markers) to color the face of the Green Man image. 
6. Place the image panel into the embossing folder and let it take a ride through the die-cut machine. Wheeee! 
7. Position the "Autumn" die as desired. I used a magnetic platform, but you can always secure the die  in place with repositionable tape. Run it through the machine. 
8. Die-cut the word again with brown cardstock.
9. Edge the image panel with the darkest ink, then adhere it to green cardstock cut to 6" x 4.25".
10. Inlay the brown Autumn word into the image panel, then glue the inked watercolor paper over it.
11. Adhere the matted image panel onto the brown A6 card.

Here's my second card with the Oak Leaf Branch and Oak Leaf Branch stamps.

Products Used:

Topflight Products Used:

Hop Skip Jump Stamp by Lavinia Stamps

Oak Leaf Branch by Lavinia Stamps

Other Products Used:

Solar White Classic Crest® Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Brown Cardstock by Bazzill Basics®

Eclipse Tape by Judikins

Copic® Markers:

  Skin:  E000, E11, E21, E50, BV000, R20

  Hair: W1, W2, Y00, Y11, Y13

  Boots/Hat: E33, E35, E47

  Dress: BG70, BG72, BG90

  Stockings and Wings: BG70, B72, BG90, BV000, BV00

  Buckle: Y21, Y26, Y28

  Mushroom: R24, R37, E40, E42, E40

  Tree Branch: 374, E77

  Leaves: Y15, YR12, YR, 14, YR16, YR18, YR24, YR27, R24, YG01, YG03

  Grass: YG03, YG11, YG13

Summer Sky, Angel Pink, New Sprout, and Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®

White Deco Marker by Pébéo

White Gelly Roll® Gel Pen by Sakura

Brown Triplus® Fineliner by Staedtler

Scalloped Stitched Rectangles Dies by Gina Marie Designs

Instructions:

1. Cut a sheet of brown cardstock to 5.5" x 8.5", then score and fold to form an A2 card.
2. Die-cut the other half of the cardstock with the larger Scalloped Stitched Rectangles die. Set aside.
3. Using Tuxedo Black Memento ink, stamp Hop Skip Jump Stamp  onto white cardstock and onto Eclipse Tape.
4. Fussy-cut the Eclipse tape version, then adhere it over top of the image stamped onto white cardstock. 
5. Tear a piece of paper and sponge or brush Sky Blue ink horizontally over the image to create a cloudy sky.
6. Repeat this step with Angel Pink ink.
7. Flip the torn paper and sponge or brush New Sprout ink to create the grass around the mushroom.
8. Using New Sprout ink, stamp the Oak Leaf Branch onto the upper right hand corner.
9. Lift the mask and color the branch, leaves, fairy, and mushroom with Copic markers.
10. Use the green Copic marker to add grass over top of the sponged green background.
11. Use Copic markers to add some leaves into the grass.
12. Use the White Deco Marker to add white spots to the mushroom if needed. I needed as my reds bled a bit lot and turned my white dots pink.
13. Then discover that the red Copic markers bleed through the acrylic paint in the White Deco Marker. Get irritated. 
14. Use the White Gelly Roll Gel Pen to rescue the pink dots and make them white again. Say "Yahoo!" really loudly.
15. Trim the image panel so that it will fit behind the brown die-cut scalloped frame.
16. Adhere the scalloped frame over the image panel, then adhere the whole shebang to the brown A2 card.

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