It's design team member Walter back on the blog today. I have so many fond memories of my family visiting a local farm in late September or early October to get our Halloween pumpkins. We'd get one large one that my father would usually carve and then my sisters and I would each get a small one to decorate. I looked forward to going to this particular farm because they had the best apple cider donuts and, of course, my mom would get some for us. We'd walk around the farm and have a great time. I miss those days and am so fortunate to have those cherished memories. My card today is inspired by those memories.
Here's what I used to make it:
- Pumpkin Trio Stencil
- Pumpkin Patch Word Art Rubber Stamp by Pam Bray Designs
- Chipped Saphire Distress Oxide Ink and Vintage Photo Distress Ink
- Prima Marketing White Gesso
- Distress Grit Paste
- Pearlex Mica Powders: Spring Green and Pumpkin Orange
- Delicata Silvery Shimmer Pigment Ink
- Brutus Monroe Faux Seaweed (for the grass)
- Silver glitter stars
- x-press it Adhesive Sheet
- Created an A2 Kraft card base and added grunge around the edges with Vintage Photo ink.
- Used an A2 sized piece of white card stock, adhered it to a piece of x-press it adhesive sheet.
- Took a scrap of brown shipping paper, approximately the size of the A2 panel, crumpled it up to create wrinkles, flattened it, and then adhered to top side of the x-press it adhesive sheet. This creates a card panel that is stronger than just the shipping paper.
- Ink blended the card panel using Chipped Saphire ink.
- Cut out a rectangle with a deckle edge die.
- Took a liberal amount of gesso and grit paste and mixed them together; formed two distinct piles of it.
- Added pumpkin mica powder to one pile and mixed it. Added green mica powder to the other and mixed it.
- Used a paint brush and colored pastes to create the pumpkin using the stencil.
- Lightly sprinkled additional green and pumpkin mica powder over the wet pastes and then dried the paste with a hair dryer.
- Once dry, lightly misted the panel with water to activate the mica powders.
- Stamped the words Pumpkin Patch with silver pigment ink.
- Adhered card panel to card base with double sided tape.
- Cut down a piece of faux seaweed and glued it to the bottom of the panel to look like grass.
- Glued down three silver glitter stars.
I really enjoy creating mixed media cards and this one was no exception! It's so fun to create different textures and colors using different mediums. The texture achieved on the pumpkin is exceptional - it isn't a smooth one-dimensional gourd! Using the faux seaweed for grass is so much easier than using a die to cut it yourself.
Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today! See you again soon.
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