Themed Friday Cardmaking/Papercraftin Instagram Hop: Fall Inspiration Mood Board

 

How comfy cozy is this mood board!!  Yes, it's not exactly the colors or tone that I consider cozy...lol, so I did have to think outside my comfort zone for this week's project. I did use the tones of the mood board, but went for a more artsy style card.

I chose to make the base of this 5x7 card base from Stampin' Up! Basic Beige cardstock. I love their cardstock and highly recommend it! It's color rich and perfect weight. (You can order from me via my email address at the bottom of this post :)

I used a page from a super old book as the base of the composition for this card. I at first was going to use altered and embossed paper to go for a blanket look...but again, it just isn't "my thing." lol

I have been saving the most beautiful sheet of Rubons from 49 and Market called "Moonlit Garden" and the large cluster of white flowers was perfect to tie in the colors from the mood board, while sticking to the look I was going for. I also have been sitting on these amazing 3D urn stickers I picked up at Dollar Tree. And I grabbed my stash of fall leaves I made for this season's card making. They are all cut from the Altenew Mini-Delight subscription "Garden Friends" (check it out at the link to Altenew at the bottom of this post!)

I cut out the inside of the urn I chose so I could tuck in the leaves.

For a final addition to the urn I added an acorn cluster cut from the same set as the leaves.

The sentiment is stamped with Early Espresso ink from Stampin' Up! and a stamp from a retired Stampin' Up set, and cut from a scrap of "cozy" brown cardstock.

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I was so inspired by the colors from this month's inspiration photo!  I don't have a cornucopia, but thanks to my amazing crafty friends, I recently received the Altenew Radiant Blossoms Build A Garden Set and it has the cutest basket! It's a good size too, I can't wait to use this element with other sets and creations!!  So, I wasn't sure when I started this project exactly where it would go, so I started with the basket (which, as you can see from my finished photo, YOU CAN'T SEE IT ANYWAYS because I got carried away with the flowers and pumpkins lol). Oh well, it was fun to do.  Below are the steps I used to make the basket look as realistic as I could.

 I stamped the image in Toasted Mauve ink on craft cardstock to start with a good base.  Pro tip: stamping on colored cardstock gives a great base to inking if you are inking something in similar colors.

I used the Pink Sand ink pad to rub across the basket, to give it a little "wicker" texture. The Pink Sand ink is just a bit darker than the craft cardstock.

The set comes with stencils, so, for the basket stencil I used Toasted Mauve again and a mini blending brush to add shadows around the basket.

I added depth to the shadows by lightly applying Redwood ink around the shadows.

I added Redwood ink shadows on the inside of the basket as well- The stencil is amazing to allow you to add these details!!

I edged the basked using Altenew Artist Marker in Espresso

Then I finished the rim using Altenew Artist Marker in Sunkissed.

 

Came out super cute!!

Next was the flower cluster that comes in the set.  Since I don't have a lot of fruits and things as elements, I decided to fill the basket up first with the large flower cluster.  This I also stamped on colored cardstock.

Pro Tip:  When stamping and ink blending on colored cardstock, you definitely need to do some test blending with your chosen colors to see how they will come out.  I was going for a vintage tone for the flower cluster.

Pro Tip:  I used a mustard color cardstock as the base of this flower cluster. Instead of choosing green inks for the leaves, I used tones of blues because blue and yellow make green.  Yes, you can use greens, but working with the colored cardstock to blend a completely new tone of "green" with the blue inks kept the depth of the leaves in that toned-down vintage look.

Now I had a sense of the tone this project was going, so I used a muted light green cardstock as a 5 x 7 card base.  From there I antiqued it in vintage tones and gold.

Using the big blending brush I edged the card base face in Mocha ink. This large brush smooths out edge blending like a dream! No brush marks!

I used the Regal Beauty mask and stencil set from Altenew and a mini blending brush with the Mocha ink to add tone on tone details. Pro Tip: varying pressure with the brush gives the depth to the stenciling.

For some true vintage style I dabbed Altenew Enchanted Gold Pigment Ink. I used a micro mini blending brush to keep the gold on the stenciled areas. I also rad the gold ink pad around the edge of the card face.

(Whew!!  Yes, lol, this card took a while to put together...lots of juicy steps, lots of different techniques.... but it was so much fun to get lost in the process of building this card!)

Next comes to fun part!!  (I know, it's all the fun part lol) THE FILLER ELEMENTS!!!
 

I used pumpkin stamps and dies from an old, retired set from my stash. To keep with the vintage, washed out tone of the rest of the card, I stamped the pumpkins in coordinating ink on colored cardstock. 

I colored them with Prismacolor colored pencils:

 Next came the super fun part of picking washed out, jewel toned card stock to cut out the leaves and fillers.  I had some leaf die-cuts left over from a previous project, so I added those as well.  I used the leaf dies from the Altenew Mini Delight Garden Friends set and the Altenew Zero Waste Berries and Branches die. I cut them all out, then went over them with brown and gold ink, applied with a sponge:

EMBELLISHMENTS:  ASSEMBLE!!!!!

I cut a little slit in the basket to nestle the smaller pumpkins:

               

I played with the layout of the big elements and when I figured out where I wanted them, I went in with a mini blending brush and the Mocha ink and laid down shadows from the elements:

Last step was stuffing all the branches, filler leaves and acorns :)

 

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My take on the inspiration photo

First of all, I love all things unicorns!!  So, I was inspired by everything about this month's inspiration photo. But I loved the colors as well, amongst the white background. I wanted to create a rainbow with the colors in the photo. As usual I smashed my stash. I keep a box of small pieces of cardstock for occasions such as this. 

Using some old Spellbinders flower dies, I cut out flowers in all of the colors from the inspiration photo.

 This card is on a 5 x 7" card base to which I attached a panel of holographic white cardstock. On this I layered out the rainbow of the flowers I cut. 

The unicorn stamp and die are from my stash-I have no idea what company it's from, it's so old!!  But I stamped it using Stampin' Up ink in Cloud Cover and colored it with Spectrum Noir glitter markers in corresponding colors to the flower.

 The sentiment, also from my stash was cut from multiple colors and off-set layered for interest.

For a final magical touch, I added gem sparkles!!!

I hope you find inspiration to recreate this month's photo, and if you do, please remember to tag me on social media @scrappystampthefunup.  I can't wait to see what your take is on this month's inspiration photo. Good luck on the hop challenge!!  I'll see you next month!