Direct to Paper Leaf – Tutorial #543

Hey There,

Well I spent the last four days traveling to and teaching in Sacramento, California.  Met some super, super stampers and had a blast teaching as usual.  Now I’m back in my stamp room and I feel the Autumn season pulling at me creatively.  So today’s tutorial makes use of a beautiful leaf stamp image from from the Stampin’ Up! set French Foliage.   Also, images from the Stampin’ Up! sets Everything Eleanor and Affection Collection.

The background is done with the Direct to Paper technique.  I love to smear ink!

The full tutorial is below for this project.  Grab your favorite beverage sit back and give it a look and then give it a try.

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Now on with today’s tutorial. . . . .  . .

Project Supplies:

Stampin’ Up! Stamps: French Foliage (item number 121166), Affection Collection (item number 127949), Everything Eleanor (item number 124164)

Card Stock: Stampin’ Up! Very Vanilla, River Rock, Early Espresso, Soft Suede

Ink: Stampin’ Up! Crum Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Stampin’ Up! Sponges, River Rock and Summer Starfruit Markers, White Gel pen, piercing tools, gold brads

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Started with a 4.5″ square piece of Very Vanilla card stock.  Smeared Crumb Cake ink on the card stock and then smeared Soft Suede ink on the paper.

Used the long edge of an Early Espresso ink pad and and pressed it down onto the right and bottom of the main image panel to create two lines.

Stamped the flourish at the top left and bottom right corners from the Everything Eleanor set and the leaf from the French Foliage set using Early Espresso ink.

Stamped the dots stamp from the French Foliage set using Crumb Cake ink at the top right and bottom left corners.

Colored the leaf in with a River Rock marker and then added a bit of Summer Starfruit marker to the tips of the leaf and the sides of flourish.

Added White Gel pen to the flourishes to bring them forward in the scene.

Sponged Early Espresso ink around the edges of the main image panel.

Stamped the Sentiment from the Affection Collection set using Early Espresso ink.

Cut a 5.25″ square piece of Early Espresso card stock and sponged Basic Black ink around the edge.

Added a 5.5″ square panel of Soft Suede, the Early Espresso panel, a 4.5″ square panel of River Rock and the main image panel.  Also added 4 gold brads in the main image panel corners and a 5.5″ Very Vanilla card base.   Here is the finished card measuring 5.5″ square.

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Before I went on my last trip I cleared out my tomato vegatable bed before the frost got to the tomatoes that were left on the plants.

Now I have a large table covered in newspaper that has many, many green tomatoes on it rippening in front of a bright window.  As they rippen I will pop them in a freezer bag and into the freezer to make sauce out of when I get the time.  Anyone else do this or is it just me?

Also, while I was away we were blessed with the first two eggs from our hens.  Wooohoooo!

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May your day be filled with smiles.

Until my next post.. . . . .

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