Hello Sunny Studio Stamps friends! It’s Bobbi Lemanski here sharing a new die set that is part of the NEW Fall and Holiday 2022 release. It’s called Autumn Greenery dies and it includes a number of distinctive leaves of common trees. I decided to color them for the autumn season and create a leaf pile on this 5″ X 7″ greeting card.
To make the leaves, I die cut them from 80lb Neenah Solar White cardstock. I used white so that I could color each one with Copics. I used a mixture of greens, golds, yellows, yellow-reds, deep reds and browns to create the fall look. I attached them to my muted watercolor background for high contrast. Three falling leaves were glued above the pile, too.
For the background, I painted a muted, watercolor wash and flicked color over the wash using my fan brush. I used watercolors in mauves, golds and greens. Simple black flecks were added over the wash like small specks in the fall air. Lastly, I stamped a couple phrases from the Words of Gratitude stamp set and attached the card front to a white, A7 card base.
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Bobbi,
I just had to pop over from the Sunny Studio blog to tell you what an awesome card this is. Your coloring on each and every leaf is fabulous. I’ve never seen a prettier pile of leaves!
Have a wonderful day!
Debi
Aw… thanks so much. I’m glad you like it. I like to actually take real leaves and mimic them in my coloring. Right now, we do not have fall leaves so I took inspiration from realistic photos on the internet instead. Thanks so much, Debi. Have a great day! Bobbi