Fall themed birthday card

I have done it again..been ignoring my blog again... *sigh* .. But it's so much more fun making cards than blogging about them, right 😜.. 

Anyways to get back to the card.. I recently got a leaf stamp set that someone was destashing and I immediately knew I wanted to watercolor the images.. Though its spring here in Melbourne, I wanted to try out some fall colors.. I stamped the leaves on a strip of White cardstock using some brown versa color ink. I am yet to buy some waterproof ink, but I was not too concerned of ink bleeding as I thought it would give a more realistic look, and it turned out better than I thought. I used my Zig clean color brush markers for watercoloring. I mainly used reds, yellows, oranges, greens and browns to stick with the fall theme. I also outlined the images with a light grey marker to make the images stand out better. This was how the panel looked before I adhered it to the card base.

As the panel was the main focus, I kept the card base simple. I dry embossed the base with dots embossing folder. I felt the panel was too simple, so I added a bit of silver glitter on the top and bottom edges. I adhered this to the card base using some foam tape to compensate for any warping due to watercoloring. Some sequins, a black twine tied in a bow and heat embossed sentiment finished the card..Here is the final look

This is also my entry for the YNS sketch & color challenge #48 where I chose the color scheme. Fingers crossed! 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers,

Tej