Grateful Greetings with Brutus Monroe

 

Hello everyone!  I am loving all the fall inspiration - it's everywhere!

Today I'm sharing a fall card using products from:

Brutus Monroe

Grateful Greetings Stamp & Die Set

Pumpkin Spice Paper Collection

I had sort of an idea when I started making this card, but things seemed

to want to go another way!  Let me show you how I did it! 

First I had chosen the piece of plaid paper from the Pumpkin Spice Paper

Collection.  It was so gorgeous!  I wanted the ink embossing to be dark

brown, not black.  I stamped the image onto a very desaturated yellow

card stock with a dark brown pigment ink and then heat embossed it with

a clear embossing powder.

Next I decided to use my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to

colorize my images.  So I went through my markers, testing colors

to see which ones went best.

I was really please with how well these colors worked with the

plaid paper.  I die cut the pieces before coloring.  One, because what

if I mess up the die cut after I've done all the coloring 😱 and 2

I would get a better idea of the overall look of the colored panel

on the plaid paper as I was coloring.

I liked how this looked with the 2 halves butted up against one

another, but I also liked the look of it split apart.

I colored my images and sometimes I used 2 colors on

a leaf and sometimes not.  This card stock that I was coloring on did

not have a coating like most of the white card stocks, plus the

Zig markers really don't blend well on much besides Strathmore

Bristol Smooth card stock.  So, I wasn't really fussy about the

coloring.  I was more intent on getting the colors down.

Zig markers used:  Mid-Brown, Oatmeal, Orange, Lt. Blue, Scarlet Red,

Pale Orange, Brown, Vanilla, Lt. Brown and Bright Yellow.

I decided to pair the plaid and pale yellow paper with 

Sea Urchin Card Stock.  Although the blue in the

plaid is quite desaturated, the card stock, being much more intense, made

the blue in the plaid more noticeable.  Using the sentiment, which I cut out

with one of the Circle Foundation Dies, I used it as a template to draw

a circle and then cut the circle out about 1/8" bigger.  

I gathered all of my elements together.  My card base - which is

a top folding A2 size base in the pale yellow, then the Sea Urchin

card stock cut 1/8" smaller and then the plaid piece which is

1/8" smaller than that.

I decided I would split the halves and use a strip of the Sea Urchin

in between.  

I also decided to pop up the leaf halves on foam tape.

I really like how this looked.  I added the sentiment flat on top of

the 2 halves.  Then I added various sizes of gem stones in autumn

colors plus some blue ones.  And that finished my card!

I love it when ideas come together.  This really looks better than

I had originally planned!  You can find these wonderful autumn

products at:

Brutus Monroe

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me inspire you!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Brutus Monroe, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.