Oak leaf window card

Hi there! Thought I would share how I made this card with you today. 

I began by attaching the oak leaf inkable to a square of a 6 x 6" kraft card and sponged unicorn white ink through the aperture. 
 

Once this was dry I used blending brushes to make a sun in mustard seed Distress oxide inks then added spiced marmalade, crackling campfire and walnut stain around the yellow with the darkest colour at the edges.

next I used a white pen to go around the inner edge of the inkable, then removed it.

I placed the inner part of the inkable over the leaf shape and used a blending brush to add some Memento Espresso Truffle ink around the edges to create a shadow. 

I put the outer part of the inkable back in place and used a skyline inkable to add a few hills at the bottom of the leaf.

Then I stamped the Elder in the memento ink on to the leaf shape.

I removed the inkable and added a few sequins around it. I also added a few spots of clear stardust gelly roll pen to the elder stamp. I trimmed the card a little and inked the edge with the memento ink before attaching to a 6x6 kraft card. The 3d effect created by using the darker ink to make a shadow really made it pop, I think.

Here are links to the products I used:

6x6" kraft card

Inkable Easy Frame oak leaf 

Unicorn white ink

Distress Oxide inks

White pens

Memento Espresso Truffle ink

Inkable Skyline Horizon 1

Beautanicals Elder stamp set from the End of Line section

Gelly Roll stardust pen

Sequins

Thanks for looking and Happy Crafting! 

A Happy journal spread for Bee Crafty

 Here is a journal page spread that I created in my Dylusions journal using Bee Crafty stamps. I took a few photos along the way, so hopefully you will see how it came together.

I used

Doodle Art XL Mushrooms

Beautanicals Maple leaf

Wordage Ticker tape 1 

Beautanicals Oak leaf

Leafy branch d'inkable

Chalk effect acrylic paint in marine blue, pale green and dark green

Ecoline brush pens

Distress oxide ink in black soot

Archival black ink

White pen

pale green gel pen 

First I painted across both pages with chalk effect paint in a marine blue, pale green and a darker green. I put a layer of scrap paper under the pages each side to protect those underneath from my messiness!

I set this aside to dry and stamped and coloured a selection of beautanical leaves and doodle art mushrooms. 

Once coloured with ecoline pens, I cut them out

Now here is the bit I forgot to take a photo for. I stencilled some leaves at the top of the dry pages using the leafy branch d'inkable and black soot distress oxide ink. I also added a few smudges of black distress crayon as ground, before stamping some foliage from the doodle art mushroom set in archival black ink along the lower edge.

After spending a while moving the images around, I found where I wanted to put them and I stuck them down. Now I should have used a mat medium, but forgot and used PVA, which left a couple of little shiny marks.... To cover them up I used the sentiment and then added a few highlights in gel pen - a pale green for the foliage and white elsewhere on the page.  

 

Thanks for looking!