Hi friends! During October, the Eileen Hull Inspiration Team is doing Fall Days projects. I have for some reason not done as many fall projects this year as I normally do this time. I don't know why, since I really like to do fall projects (so there will be more coming in the following weeks).
These photos of Leo, taken last fall, were on my desk and I decided to do a scrapbooking layout. The background consists of embossed sheets of paper, which is one of my favourite background techniques and a great way to use lots of embossing folders at once. As usual, the techniques work on many types of projects. The title of the layout translates to 'Fall days' and I wrote the journaling on the back.
Cut watercolor paper to 4 x 4 in and emboss in different folders. I used the Honeycomb, Sew Happy, Lace Medallions, Fantasy Flowers, and Basket Weave folders. Sorry about the grainy photo, I had forgotten to change the ISO settings on my camera.
The squares look great as is, or can be colored in different ways. In the past, I have for example, used ink and watercolor. Today, I used Paper Artsy Infusions. Working one square at a time, sprinkle just a tiny bit of pigment powder on the paper and mist pretty heavily with water. Very little goes a long way. You can dab off some of the color with a paper towel. I used Golden Sands, Slime, and a tiny bit of Emerald Isle.
Distress the edges of the squares and apply adhesive in the center only. Adhere to background cardstock and stitch around the edges with a sewing machine.
Die cut letters with the Homemade Alphabet die.
I die cut a lot of leaves with the Spring Leaves die from kraft-core cardstock, patterned kraft-core, paper covered with Deco Sheets, gold metallic paper and patterned paper. In the end, I didn't use all of these.
Fold and sand the leaves and ink with brown ink.
The bird and branches were die cut from felt, to get one more texture on the page. The felt is Eco-Fi from Kunin.
I particularly liked how the color remained more concentrated in the debossed areas. You can angle the paper to make the color run down the paths.
Here's another example of the color being more concentrated and darker in some areas than in others, highlighting the patters of the embossing folders.
Glue the bird together.
The leaves were tucked underneath the photos.
This is a favorite quote of mine and I have used it quite a few times before. It's from the One With Nature set by Simon Says Stamp.
Thank you so much for stopping by here today!
Happy crafting!
Anna-Karin
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