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Autumn Border with Rachel Vass Designs

 

Hello everyone!  Happy fall!  The leaves are slowly starting to change in

my part of the world.  How about yours?  Are you welcoming cooler weather?

Today I am bringing you a beautiful and versatile design from:

Rachel Vass Designs

Autumn Border

I love this digistamp set.  It's so pretty and fall-like.  Let me show you

how I made my slimline card!

I composed my design in my computer.  I actually placed the design twice - 

side by side to make the design.  And then dropped in the sentiment.  I printed

it out onto Altenew 140lb Watercolor Paper.

I decided to use Prima Marketing Watercolor Confections in Terrain.  This

palette really has a fall feel to it and I love the colors.

I painted the background of the lower half in Maple.  My initial plan

was to paint the upper half as well, but when I was finished with the

lower half I decided to wait and see if that was what I really wanted

to do.

I painted the berries on the top and bottom with Blue Shadow.

Since the design is a mirror image, I wanted to visually break that

up and achieved that by alternating my colors.  I used the Sassafras,

Sourwood, Fern, Vine Leaf and Purple Smoke Tree for colors.

I was please at how this came out.  I wasn't too fussy about the

painting and I didn't shade everything - only some of the elements.

For the spruce branches I used my dot card from Iuile Watercolors 

and chose the Gold Finger to paint the center vein of each.

This gave the design a bit of sparkle.  I also splattered the top

portion of the panel only with the Gold Finger.

For my last bit of embellishment I used gold peel-offs from Love From Lizi

along the lines above and below the sentiment.

I cut a card base from Martini card stock from Brutus Monroe - it's a

gorgeous fall color.  I adhered my panel to the card base and

my card was done!

I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial.  I love making fall cards and

they one came out so colorful!  Find this digital stamp set and many others at

Rachel Vass Designs

I appreciate you stopping by today!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Rachel Vass Designs, 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.

 

 

New Dies with Brutus Monroe

Leafy Ribbon with Rachel Vass Designs

 

Hello everyone!  Today I'm sharing another beautiful design from the

January 2021 Release from:

Rachel Vass Designs

Leafy Ribbon

I love this digistamp set.  It can be used in soooo many different ways!  Let

me show you how I made my card today!

I started by composing my design in my computer.  I use WORD as a program

and it works great.  I made the main image a shade of gray just to knock the

black back some.  I left the sentiment in black.  I printed the image out onto

Neenah 80lb Classic Crest Solar White card stock.

I unfortunately lost my list of Copic colors that I used...sorry.  But

I started by using a cooler green mix. 

Then I added a warmer green mix.

The berries were a very pale blend of cooler greens.  I really didn't get

too fussy with the shading, but made sure I did have a dark base to

the leaves.  I used that darkest green for the stems as well.  I used the

paler greens for the shading on the sentiment banner.

My card base was a warm green and my background paper is

an echo of the design.  It's by Craft Consortium.  I made a base from

the green that was an A2 size top folding and I used it sideways.

I cut a strip of the patterned paper to 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" and adhered

it horizontally.  My main panel measures 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" and

I adhered that in the middle.  Along each side of the main panel

and along the top and bottom of the patterned paper I used very

thin green mirror peel-offs from Love from Lizi.  Just to add a tiny

bit of glitz, I used a shimmer pen on the pale green berries!

This would make a lovely sympathy card and as I was writing this, I

realized this would be amazing in an autumn palette!!!!!!  I might have to do that!

If you haven't visited Rachel's Etsy Shop go now!  It's Rachel's first

anniversary and she's having a sale!!!!  It's a great time to pick up some

amazing digistamp sets.  And there will be a giveaway as well....the

prize?...the entire first year of digital stamp sets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And,

don't forget the FREEBIES!!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope I've inspired your crafty

spirit to give this stamp set a try!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Rachel Vass Designs, 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.

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Fall Leaves

Hello everyone!  It's New Release Day at:

Rachel Vass Designs

Fall Leaves

This is such a fabulous new release!  I love making fall cards and this digistamp set

has so many possibilities!  

I decided to really work with my patterned for this design.  This paper pad comes from

Unity Stamp Company and it's gorgeous!  Yellow is not my favorite color, but this

paper is so yummy!!!!!!  I first composed my design in my computer and printed it

out onto a piece of the patterned paper by taping it onto a sheet of copy paper that

had the design printed on it, then running it through my printer again.

This is a coated paper and my printer is inkjet.  I actually let it sit overnight before

I started coloring, but I think you could hit it with a heat tool and it would help.

Even so, in my Copic coloring I was very careful with the outline...particularly with

light colors as they contain more blender.

Copic colors used:

Yellow: Y06, Y08, Y17, Y38

Brown:  E33, E35

Red:  R02, R14, R35

Orange:  YR15, YR07, YR16

I did not do any vigorous blending.  The ink sits on top of this paper and

it blended quite easily.

I made my card base out of some plain yellow card stock.  I made an A2 size

card base and covered it with another piece of the patterned paper leaving

1/8" on the top and bottom of the card base.  So that piece measured

4" x 5 1/2".  Next I trimmed down my printed and colored piece and that

measured 3 1/4" x 5 1/2".

For trimmings, I wanted them to be subtle so I used copper peel-offs

on the top and bottom of the printed focal piece.  I went over the veins in

the leaves with an orange glitter gel pen and used tiny orange triangle

bits instead of traditional sequins.  And that finished my card!

    

I hope you enjoyed today's project!  I just love the brilliance of fall

colors!  This design would look awesome on a slimline card!

You can find this design and more at

Rachel Vass Designs

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Rachel Vass Designs, 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.

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Hello Brutus Monroe fans!  Today I'm bringing you a glitzy sparkly card using

The Stencil of the Month

I started by taking a piece of Brutus Monroe Glitter Card Stock in Mermaid

and using the Stencil of the Month I applied Gold Glitter Glaze

I let this dry thoroughly and then trimmed it to 4" x 5 1/4" making sure to

center the square.  I covered a white A2 size card base with 

Black Suede Paper from Paper Wishes.  This paper added some texture and

it's very, very black.  I also cut a piece that was the same size as the square on

the stencil.  Next I cut an even smaller square out of brushed gold paper.

Onto to this small gold square I heat embossed with black a sentiment from the

Spring Wreath Stamp Set from Brutus Monroe.  It is the perfect sentiment for the

times we are living in.  I adhered this to the center black suede piece.  Next I

added black glitter and teal mirror peel-offs from Love From Lizi.  Then I added

a few black iridescent gemstones and my card was done!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial!  This was lots of fun to make...

so many shiny things!!

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Thanks for stopping by and sharing this fun project using products from

Brutus Monroe!

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.    

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