Fall Flower thank you

 

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!

I needed a few customer thank you cards and decided to 

go with a fall theme. I am all about wishing Fall to arrive early, hence all the Fall

cards I have been making.

This one uses the Tasteful Touches Bundle.

I have used the dies in this bundle a lot but had not used the flower at all!!

I know shocking.... a flower stamp I had not used, but when you stamp it, it is so dark I feared it would not color up well. I was wrong!

I also decided to use my blends for this, I have been investing in getting the Blends the last few

 months and haven't really played with them much. 

I am mainly a water colorist, it is my medium of choice and where I feel most comfortable.

But I figured if I am buying the Blends I need to use them right?

I did find out I have a heavy hand and may have messed up a couple of the Blends while doing these, I tend to push way to hard. But once I figured out a light touch is better it went well.

I started by stamping several of the flower images onto thick Whisper White with Black Memento ink.

 

I picked out several colors I thought would be pretty for Fall and stared coloring.

I used Cherry Cobbler, light and dark, Pumpkin Pie, light and dark and Daffodil Delight, light and dark for the ones here.

 I did a few more in other colors that may turn up on another card soon, we'll see?

The ones here are my favorite that I colored. I did also use the Color Lifter Pen to lighten the highlight areas a bit on the darkest ones.

I really think they turned out so pretty, can't go wrong with Fall colors in my book.

I fussy cut them out and put aside to do the rest of the card.

I used Crumb Cake and Early Espresso for the base and mated embossed layer, which was made with the Pinewood  Planks EF.

I used my Early Espresso ink pad and gently rubbed it over the EF before adding my Crumb Cake card stock.

The leaves and the sentiment are from the Beautiful Autumn stamp set.

The two labels are cut one with Early Espresso card stock and the other with Whisper White and come from the Tasteful Labels Dies.

I finished up with a few Gold Gilded Gems and the Gold twine around and under the flowers is from the Wonder of the Season Combo ribbon pack.

 

Listed below are the "ingredients" used to make this project.

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Vicki