Autumn Grunge

It’s time for my Visible Image Design Team post and I’m channelling autumn vibes on today’s grungy card.  There’s lots of masking and stamping on today’s card to give perspective whilst creating a totally flat card.  You can use masking paper but I use sticky notes as they’re nice and thin so are easy fussy cut.  I stamped and clear heat-embossed all the images to resist the metallic sprays added at the end.

When stamping and masking, it’s important to think about what you want to sit in front of, or behind, other elements and start with the foreground, where I stamped the flowers.  I used the small daisies from Daisy Grunge but the small flower from Sunflower Grunge would also work well.  After masking the daisies, I stamped the large pumpkin from Happy Halloween, masking the face when inking the stamp.

A mask was created for the pumpkin and the daisies stamped again so that they would sit behind the pumpkin.  More daisies were stamped behind them too. 

The leaves from Erika’s Maple were also added together with the words and I added a few sketched lines to the pumpkin.  At the end of all the masking and stamping, this was the panel.

For some quick colour, I used Distress Spray Stains in red, yellow, orange and green together with red and gold Mica Stains.  I used the Autumn Leaves stencil to mask the area around the  large leaf.

Some of the definition was lost during the spraying so I added colour to the small leaves and flowers using alcohol markers.

After edging the panel with a black marker, it was backed with yellow card and glued to a kraft card blank.