Hi and welcome back to my crafty place! Today I am bringing you the popular dot coloring technique featuring the Joy Clair photo-polymer clear stamp set, Love Endures. The Love Endures stamp set has beautiful leaves, acorns and sentiments which are perfect for Autumn cards. I can’t wait to show you how the dot coloring came out on this card!
Before starting my project I admittedly did an internet search of fall colored maple leaves and found that not only do they have many colors, but they are speckled too. In my opinion this search helped because it made the coloring easier! I stamped the leaf images from Love Endures, twice in Memento ink as it is alcohol marker friendly ink, so that I would have plenty to make a bouquet and decorate the inside of my card as well.
I started out with a simple wash of yellow ink over all of my leaves and added green to some of the bases and others orange. Along the veins I outlined them in a dark red to give dimension. Once the basics were down I held my various markers upright ( straight up and down) and started making dots to obtain the textures and colors of Autumn leaves. Using the same yellow that I started with, I went over each leaf one more time to give it a good blend. I promise, dot coloring is the easiest technique to try, if you haven’t already!
I embossed an egg plant colored layer to add more texture to the card and matted that onto Solid Golds Stack Mat card stock. I used the same Gold paper to make a sentiment strip with the “thanks” from Love Endures and heat embossed that with black embossing powder. I popped the sentiment strip up on foam tape so that I could tuck some of the leaves under it and then layer some on top to create the dimensional bouquet.
Tip: Do you see how perfectly the twine matches the card stock? I typically color my twine with a matching alcohol marker!! It works every time!!
Okay I think that pretty much sums up this beautiful, but easy to create card! I hope this inspires you to take a look at the Joy Clair Designs Shop today!
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Leaves: R 89, 46, 24, YR 07, 04, Y06, 19, YG01, 03
Twine: RV19
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If you love Autumn themed cards, you may also like one of my older posts, The Color of Fall
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Lavinia world 35
World Wide Open DT Challenge September
Until next time…. keep crafting!!!!
Comments
9 responses
Lovely card and I agree with you dot colouring is a good technique gives it a different look Thanks for joining us at Creative Knockouts
This is just so beautiful. Nice work here.
Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.
Annette DT / Admin / Registered Owner for https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/
Thank you for joining the DL.ART Thankful Thursday #267 “Thankful” LINKY challenge the fall feel your card evokes
Thank you for your inspiration!!. Have a blessed day
DIANA L.
DL.ART
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com
What a fabulous creation Joy! Love the richness of the colors, gorgeous!
Thank you so much for playing along with us at Creative Knockouts!
Hugs,
Kelly
What a beauatiful card! I love the embossed background….so pretty! Thanks for sharing it with us at Lavinia World challenge!
That is such an effective use of that technique. It’s such a beautifully coloured image and stunning against that background. Thanks for joining us at Cardz4galz. Love Dawn x
Such a gorgeous card, Joy! The colors are so perfect for the season! Love this!! Thank you for sharing with us at Lavinia World Challenge!
Lavinia World DT – Bonnie
Such an exquisite project. Love the way you combined the colors and all the elements. Thank you for joining our challenge over at Lavinia World Challenge|! Huggies Alina DT
Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge. Your project is lovely and wishing you all the best with your entry.
Jodie DT for World Wide Open Design Team Challenge