Hello makers! Let’s celebrate Fall by creating a new card.

Let’s gather all materials (Ranger Embossing Powder, Distress Inks and Oxide Inks, Distress Archival Inks, Distress Spritz, stamp sets (Stampers Anonymous). 

Take note: all colours, stamps, and the embossing folder are personal choices.

Step 1: Place the 3 x 3 inch watercolour cardstock onto the stamping platform. Place the script stamp onto the same stamping platform. Align the stamp with the card’s edge (here I used Botanic collage CMS447). Ink the stamp with Distress Ink Wild Honey, mist it with water then stamp it. Repeat this step as often as needed. Make the ink move by misting with water. Repeat this around the edge of the card.

Let it dry completely before the next step.

Step 2: Use a stamping platform for this step. Place your main leaf stamp in the middle of your card (Stampers Anonymous Botanic collage CMS447). Ink it with different Distress Ink colours, one colour at a time. Mist water onto the stamp after inking, then stamp it. Repeat this step for each colour as needed. Let it dry between each colour. 

The goal here is to move the colours out of the stamped leaf. Let it dry. 

Leave the stamp in place for the next step.

Step 3: Same technique as step 2 - use Distress Oxide Ink, mist with water, then stamp it. Repeat. The idea here it is to create a warm halo around the image. The water helps move the ink outside the stamped image. 

Let it dry. Important: Do not remove the stamp before the next step.

Step 4: Ink the same stamp with Distress Archival Ink in Vintage Photo. Stamp it. 

Then ink just a few parts of the stamp with Distress Archival ink in Black Soot. Stamp it. 

Leave your stamp on the stamping platform for the next step.

Step 5: Pour a few drops of Distress Spritz onto a non-stick surface.

Warm it up with a heat gun (at low mode). This step will allow the liquid of the medium to evaporate. Don’t let all the liquid evaporate. You will end up with more mica powder mixture. 

Lightly mist water onto your stamp before applying the mica mixture with your brayer. Then stamp it. Repeat this step until your reach the desired result. 

Take note for this technique: if the mica powder doesn’t stick to the brayer, mist either the brayer or the mica powder with water. 

Step 6: With a brush, splatter a few droplets of Wild Honey Distress Ink. Repeat with Fossilized Amber Distress Spritz. Let it dry! 

Step 7: With a sponge, apply Distress Spritz onto the card’s edges, one edge at a time. Pour Princess Gold Embossing Powder on the edge. Heat it to melt the embossed areas. 

Repeat this step for each edge of the card. If the embossing powder does not stick enough to your paper, wet the area with a clear embossing ink or with water. 

Step 8: Dry emboss the 4x6 inch piece of watercolor cardstock with a Sizzix embossing folder. Place the main artwork onto this embossed background.

Step 9: This step is optional and personal to your creative style! Idea-ology paper ephemera could be used for the finishing touches.

Have a colourful Autumn season!