Colorful Paper Mushrooms

Hi crafters! Today I have a fun project to share, filled with colorful paper mushrooms. I made a small wall hanger, but you can also make a card or a tag.

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I had this idea of wanting to fill something with colorful mushrooms in different sizes, using mainly, but not only, autumn colors. The base is a wood panel in size 2.7x7.1 in. You can also use cardstock, mat board or a tag. The mushrooms were die cut from very inky and textured papers and I also stamped even more texture on some of them. The inky papers are useful for many types of projects.

Start with a layer of gesso and make marks with a palette knife. Let dry.

Apply texture paste through Simon Says Stamp Bubbles stencil.

When dry, paint with watered-down Distress Paint.

Stamp with Tim Holtz School Desk, alphabet stamp.

Mist the background with Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Spritz. 

Next, the inky papers, which require a bit of patience. Smear Distress Ink on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press Ranger Heavystock cardstock into the ink. Let dry. 

Repeat with orange and purple shades.

When the paper is dry, repeat the process and let dry again. 

Repeat the inking steps again until you are happy with the look. For the last layers, I used mainly darker inks and only lightly patted the paper into the ink. The final layer is Distress Oxide Ink, which you only want to get here and there. Don't press the paper into the ink, only lightly touch the ink, to get more texture.

Die cut Simon Says Stamp Mushroom Stems from the inky papers. I also added a few similar papers from my scrap pile. 

Do the same with Simon Says Stamp Tall Mushrooms.

White emboss the dot pattern from Tim Holtz Grunged on most of the mushrooms. Stamp some of them with Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background, using a darker shade of ink.

Die cut a whole lot of mushrooms using Simon Says Stamp Pocket Full of Mushrooms. 

Shape them with Tim Holtz Shaping Tool kit and add Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape under the cap of the larger mushrooms. I used some of these on yesterday's Sunflower Garden project.

Shape the larger mushrooms too and add foam tape under all the caps.

I added Tim Holtz Small Talk stickers as sentiments.

The background has lots of texture and shimmer. You can see how the Distress Spritz have formed halos around the texture paste dots. 

There is Distress Spritz on some of the inky papers too. I used up left over spritz which had ended up on the stencils during yesterday's Sunflower Garden project. 

The color and texture of the mushrooms looks great all together. 

The white embossing adds a lot of texture and also makes the mushrooms look a little poisonous. These mushrooms should not be eaten. 

I tucked in Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Opal Gems here and there.

I tied organza and twine under the mushrooms. There is also cheese cloth behind them, dyed with the same colors Distress Ink as used on the background.

I adhered some of the mushrooms with foam tape and glued the rest. The project is quite dimensional.

Thank you for visiting my blog today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Sunflower Garden Scene

 Hello stampers! I hope you had a fun weekend with lots of crafty time. 

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This week we have a Use more than one stencil theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! It is also the last week for our September guest designer Debbie Emmons.

We have an absolutely fantastic sunflower plant and I hope the frost will stay away as long as possible, so that we can enjoy it longer. This page is all about that plant, with the addition of a picket fence (which we do not have unfortunately), greenery and lots of cute mushrooms. I used three stencils for the background.

Start by coating a page in Dina Wakley's Ledger Journal with gesso. I added a thin coat, since I wanted the text to show through. 

Paint with watered down Mermaid Lagoon and Salvaged Patina and mist with more water to blend. 

When dry, sponge Mermaid Lagoon through Tim Holtz Flourish stencil. 

Mix a little Ripe Persimmon into texture paste and apply with a palette knife through Simon Says Stamp Bubble stencil.

When the paste is dry, mist Saltwater Taffy Distress Spritz through Tim Holtz Bubble stencil.

Die cut Simon Says Stamp Garden Fence from inky or watercolored papers. 

Die cut Simon Says Stamp Little Sunflower Bloom from inky yellow and brown papers. I also die cut some smaller flowers using Wildflower Bucket. Mist with Distress Spritz Squeezed Lemonade and Walnut Stain.

Ink the edges of the back part of the fence. Shape the sunflowers with Tim Holtz Shaping Kit and assemble.

Die cut lots of leaves from inky papers using Simon Says stamp Lively Leaf Corner. Mist some of the with Distress Spritz. 

Shape the leaves. I made more than I needed and will use these on future projects. 

Die cut Simon Says Stamp Pocket Full of Mushrooms from inky papers. You will see some of these on a project tomorrow too. 

Shape the mushrooms and assemble. I used Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape for the larger mushrooms.

Stamp the sentiment on inky paper with Tim Holtz Nature's Wonder.

Combining stencils with different media adds interest to the background. Here you see Distress Paint, Texture Paste mixed with paint and Distress Spritz. 

The text in the background shows through, but only enough to give texture. The foliage comes from Simon Says Stamp Harvest Heirloom.

I dyed cheese cloth with Distress Ink and glued under the fence. These Pocket Full of Mushrooms are so cute. 

I die cut the stems from Simon Says Stamp Divine Peony.

The flowers are very shimmery from the spritz, but it doesn't show well in the photos.

 

The title was die cut with Simon Says Stamp Beautiful from inky paper. The stamped sentiment comes from Tim Holtz Tiny Text. 

I used mainly neutral mushrooms with the addition of a few colorful ones. Tuck leaves in here and there. 

I also added Simon Says Stamp Cottontail sequins.

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Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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