Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Stampin' and Scrappin' and French Foliage

I love Fall, and I love the stamp set, French Foliage.  It is so easy to make the leaves look very realistic.
My first sample here is a scrapbook page of my son's school picture.  I took my cardstock colors from his shirt and went from there.  I had a couple of leaves already made, so I thought why not make a few more, and make the page with a fall theme to it.

Making the leaves is fun and easy.  First I inked up my stamp with so saffron.  I then used a dauber to ink up the stamp in a few areas with dusty durango (retired).  Lastly, I went around the outer edges of the stamp with old olive.  Next, I stamped and cut out each leaf.  After they were cut out, I again used a dauber and dusty durango to ink all the edges, and I used a sponge and old olive to lightly go over each leaf.  I think they turned out looking very realistic.
I used the same technique on the card below.  I also used the sketch from Stamping 411 and the challenge from Stampin' Sisters in Christ to complete the card.



Thanks for stopping by and please leave me a comment,
Patty Mickle
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9 comments:

  1. Great card Patty. I love the colors you've chosen. the crumpled card stock adds so much to this card.

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  2. Great card and lovely page, and one handsome young man :)Thank you for joining us at Stampin Sisters in Christ.

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  3. I love that it looks like a real leaf rubbing!! Beautiful!

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  4. Love the crumpled cardstock! It adds just the right touch!

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  5. Cute scrapbook page and card. I really like the job you did on the leaves. I'm a new follower from Stampin' Connection.

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  6. Beautiful work! That page is wonderful - what a handsome young man your son is. And that card is just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing it with us at Stampin' Sisters in Christ! We'd love to see you back next week!

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  7. Very pretty...love the technique on the leaves!

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  8. Patty -- love the touch of the distressed paper underneath the leaf -- so beautiful! Great job with the sketch this week! Thanks so much for playing along with the Stamping 411 Operators! Keep up the great work -- Happy Stamping! blessings, Gretchen

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  9. I love it all! The scrapbook page is very creative. I like that you don't have a ton of photos on the page. That's a very important picture! :D

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