Sending Fall Hugs by Tiffany Pryce

Hey Poppy friends! Anyone else in the mood for fall? I know, I know, we shouldn't rush the seasons, but I love fall. It is my favorite for so many reasons - cool weather, cozy sweaters, pumpkin everything, apple season, Halloween, my birthday, Thanksgiving, and so much more. Here's a card I made inspired by the beauty of changing leaves.

To start, I ink blended two panels with a variety of autumn inspired dye inks from Catherine Pooler. I blended one of the two panels a little lighter than the other. Since the inks are water reactive, I splattered both panels with water for a little texture. One panel was used as the background, and the other was used for my leaf silhouettes and die cuts.

I tried a new (to me) technique with my Poppystamps products where made a stencil with one of the Whittle dies. I covered a piece of scrap paper with masking tape and die cut the Whittle Oak Leaf multiple times to create a pseudo stencil. With the DIY stencil, I blended the same ink colors randomly on half of one ink blended panel, and then trimmed the panel in half. From the trimmed half of the panel, I die cut several leaves as normal. I added additional ink on the die cuts to deepen the colors.

To further differentiate the background, I dry embossed the Lattice Plate die for texture. And I popped up the leaves with foam tape for dimension. For a little sparkle, I added Fairy Jewels in coordinating colors.

For the final touch, I heat embossed a sentiment from Whittle Everyday in white embossing powder. I ink blended the sentiment strip with the same yellow and orange inks that I used in the background.

Hope you enjoyed this fall inspired card and I hope you try something new in your next make. See you next time!

 

Supplies

 

2124 Whittle Oak Leaf

2427 Lattice Plate craft die

CL484 Whittle Everyday clear stamp set

Comments

Beautiful background and layout TFS

Posted by: Gail Scott | 08/21/2021 at 07:07 AM

this is the most gorgeous fall card, Tiffany - and thanks for the stencil idea!

Posted by: Betty | 08/21/2021 at 08:20 AM

This is awesome, Tiffany! Can't wait to give this a try. I'm ready for Fall too!

Posted by: Bonnie | 08/21/2021 at 08:43 AM

Gorgeous!!

Posted by: Diana W | 08/21/2021 at 09:41 AM

Absolutely love this card!!!

Posted by: Dorrine Conrad | 08/21/2021 at 11:27 AM

Hi Tiffany, I love how you have created this card, your background inking and inking for the die-cuts is beautiful, I love it.
Take care.
Lots of love from Patricia xx

Posted by: PATRICIA HOWARTH | 08/21/2021 at 02:42 PM

that is gorgeous, love the colors and pretty leaves, I too love fall, once the kids start going back to school I start getting in the mood :)

Posted by: Connie Griffin | 08/21/2021 at 10:47 PM

This is gorgeous!

Posted by: Vannessa Osbourn | 08/24/2021 at 03:20 PM