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Tuesday with Tara {take 119}

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Happy Tuesday!

I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving weekend and found time to relax and enjoy good food, family & friends!  My husband and I took a road trip to see some autumn colors and while we saw a lot of beauty, I think we were a few weeks ahead of all the color changes!  I did see a few bits of ‘ripe persimmon’ type shades on some trees, but they are not quite showing off the full glory of autumn!  I’m not sure what it’s like in your part of the world, but temperatures are still very warm here in the south.  I’m eagerly anticipating the change in temperatures and colors… so today I’ve created a set of simple cards celebrating my favorite season 🙂

I pulled out some shades of Distress Ink that I’m most looking forward to seeing in nature and used them as my palette for these two simple cards featuring the beautiful Lace Leaf Stamp Set by Concord & 9th.  Very little explanation is needed here- I simply stamped on watercolor card stock.  The large leaf with multi-colors was misted with water before stamping to enhance the watercolor feel I was aiming for.

I pulled out my current seasonal fave Honey Gold Nuvo Glitter Drops to add some shimmer to the leaf and the sentiment.  It really plays well with the autumn colors!

The second card was directly stamped without misting with water, I changed ink colors without cleaning my stamp to get a bit more color variety in my simple pattern.

Both cards were embellished simply with ribbon or twine… and a cute metal embellishment added the balance I was missing on the larger card.

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

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Tuesday with Tara {take 118}

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Happy Tuesday!

I had a few bits & pieces laying around from my last card and decided to do a little bit of creative play in my Dina Wakley Mixed Media Journal!  This was my first time creating on one of her canvas pages and I had a bit of fun with it!

I started with a large butterfly die cut from the Botanicals set and the stamped sentiment I had on a scrap of paper.  After deciding where I wanted to place them, I used the back side of the butterfly as a mask, which I brushed paint around.  I had a mix of elephant & umber on my palette and picked up a mixture of them randomly as I went across the page.  After that, I chose a couple lines of text from the affirmations stencil that fit with my ‘be courageous’ sentiment by Concord & 9th and brushed them on with umber paint to make it pop.  I wanted a bit of color in with all the browns, so chose to highlight the green & blue in the butterfly wings, adding some washi tape in three spots to direct the eye towards my focal point.  I used matte gel medium to adhere some torn book paper, then stenciled a leaf in the open space above where my butterfly would rest.  Again, I used a mixture of colors, this time it was lime & turquoise.  I brushed a small amount of the paint that was left on my brush over the washi tape.

Paint dried quite quickly on the canvas, so I didn’t have to wait long before adhering my scrap with the ‘be courageous’ sentiment.  I used gel medium again.  The butterfly was the final thing I did on the page, I placed it down before attaching it and used the fine tip applicator on my Penny metallic paint to scribble some circles in a few spots across the page.

It was fun working on a new medium in my art journal!  I still have more exploring to do in this journal,  haven’t even attempted any art on the burlap page yet… but I’ll be sure to share it with you guys when I do!  I’m very blessed to be taking a class with Dina Wakley herself in less than two weeks, so I’m sure I’ll have plenty of fresh inspiration after that! If you’ve got one of Dina’s journals and have been creating in it, I’d love to see what you came up with!  Feel free to comment on this post with a link to inspire us 🙂

 

Painty hugs,

Tara

 

Materials Used:

Dina Wakley Mixed Media Journal

Kindness is Classy Stamp Set by Concord & 9th

Botanicals Layers Die Cuts by Tim Holtz

Honey Gold Nuvo Glitter Drops

Dina Wakley Media paints in Penny, Umber, Lime, Turquoise, Elephant

Dina Wakley Fine Tip Applicator (for the scribbly circles in Penny)

Dina Wakley Gel Medium

Dina Wakley Affirmations Stencil

Dina Wakley Foliage Stencil/Mask (discontinued)

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Tuesday with Tara {take 117}

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Happy Tuesday!

Today’s card is an autumn inspired ‘pocketful of posies’- a simple gift card holder/card combo that you can put together quickly and easily using die cuts like these vintage inspired botanicals by Tim Holtz!

I started by stamping text from the ‘kind is classy’ set by Concord & 9th on olive card stock and highlighting the script ‘courageous’ with my fave Honey Gold Nuvo Glitter Drops.  My card background is a fun coffee filter paper I created way back at Easter, and I used it as my color inspiration.  I cut a large square layer of olive, added a smaller brown layer and adhered the stamped piece on three sides to function as a pocket.

I pulled out a variety of yellow florals & butterflies from the Botanicals Layers by Tim Holtz and played around with the arrangement until I was pleased with it.  I wanted the gift card folder (which was an old one pre-printed from Starbucks) to blend in nicely, so I adhered one of the die cuts so it could slide behind it.  I wanted as much variety and texture as possible, so made sure to adhere the die cuts at various angles and with a bit of overhang at the edges.  I also added a bit of those Nuvo Glitter Drops to the pieces to tie it all together 🙂

Here’s what the card looks like when the gift card folder is removed.

Because most of the pieces for my card were pre-cut and pre-printed, this card was assembled very quickly once I settled on a design!  Stamping, adding glitter and edging with Distress Ink are all touches that allow me to feel like I didn’t cheat when I made this simple card 🙂  I love the ‘pocketful of posies’ concept and would like to try it with some other color combos from this set of die cuts– there’s a LOT of shapes in each package, making it a great value!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope something here today inspires you to get creative… or at least inky!

 

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

Materials Used:

Kindness is Classy Stamp Set by Concord & 9th

Botanicals Layers Die Cuts by Tim Holtz

Honey Gold Nuvo Glitter Drops

Olive & Brown Cardstock

Brown Distress & Archival Ink

Starbucks Gift Card & Paper Folder (or create your own!)

Background paper- mine was tie died making Easter Eggs!

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