Autumn Craft & Swap

This is my card for aMAZEing adventure frogs "Autumn Craft & Swap" tracker.  This is my 9th time to participate in one of these swaps and I am signed up for the winter one too.

I kinda cheated and used the exact same stamps from the card I made last year. HERE is a link to that blog post if you want to check it out.  My cards this year are called, "Autumn Leaf."

I found this technique on Pinterest and you can learn more here.  It is the second technique on the page.  I forgot to take a pic of the first step but I'll walk you thru what to do.
Take a cardboard box and put paper towels in the bottom.  Lay your watercolor paper in the box and the stencil on top.  Spray Ranger Distress Resist Spray on the stencil/paper.  You should wash the stencil right away and let the paper dry.

Then spray the paper with Distress Sprays.  I have a lot of the Distress Oxide Sprays and I used Fired Brick and Spiced Marmalade.  I think it would have looked better with plain Distress Sprays but I didn't want to waist and used the Oxide ones.  Once they were all dry I cut them to size.

Autumn Craft & Swap 2019: Autumn Leaf

For the leaves, I rubbed Distress Ink and Oxide pads on my craft mat.  I sprayed the ink with water and smeared the card stock paper thru the ink.  I tapped the paper around until I was happy with the colors.  I let it dry, stamped my stamp, and cut out the leaves.

I glued the leaf to the Distress Resist background.  And I glued that to white paper like in the blog post I was following.  It felt weird to have a white boarder but I like it.  I thought the cards needed something so I added my "Hello Fall" stamp.  I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

Try Something New LTCs

This is my card for brailleboxer's "Try something new" LTC swap.  My card is simply titled "wander."

My original idea was to paint a floral background with acrylic paint.  The only time I use acrylic paint is when using my gelli plate I thought it would be fun to paint a background.  But I wanted to add some texture and this card ending up being a mixture of cards I have made before.

Only one time before I used playing cards for my base and I did it again this time.  I glued down old text papers with Matt Gel medium.  Then I covered it with Gesso, laid down a stencil, and put the Gesso on in one area. 

Now I was ready to paint my abstract floral background.  But I got to thinking, if I paint with acrylic paint, it will cover the text papers.  I started experimenting with other things-watercolor paints, distress inks with a water brush, and distress crayons.

I really liked the bright colors of the distress crayons.  In the past, I had used the crayons more like watercolors.  But this time I colored with the crayons and smeared the color around a bit with a cotton ball. 

Try something new: wander.

I carved two stamps for this card, stamped them on vellum, and attached them with a small glue dot.  I am very happy with how my cards turned out. 

Just for fun, I left the Gesso off a few cards.  I like the look of them too.