Fabulous Fall Thank You Card for The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog

Hello, and welcome! Thank you for all your lovely comments on my creative journey through the Halloween season! Whew! It'll be Christmas before you know it! But first, it's time for the latest challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog where the talented Ginny is our hostess. She calls her challenge 'Fabulous Fall', and this is how she describes it:

It's the wonderful season where the leaves are changing and the air is crisp and our thoughts turn to pumpkin spice everything.  For this challenge create a Fall inspired project.

As always, the winner will earn a chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team. Please see the blog for details.

For my project, I made a super simple autumn themed thank you card. I don't have any step by step photos, sadly. It was one of those times I was just playing around with my products while waiting for the pasta water to boil.

That gorgeous background panel is water color paper on which I stamped one of Tim Holtz Perfect Plaids in Black Soot ink. After inking the stamp, I generously spritzed it with water before making the impression. I stamped it twice, side by side because this is a large panel. This is so easy to do using the Stamp Platform. I dried it with my heat tool and splattered it with watery Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide.  Finally, I blended with a bit of Peeled Paint ink and inked just the side edges in Black Soot. I love this set of plaid images, and I can see them used year round, especially for fall and Christmas crafting.

This leaf stamp from Pressed Foliage really stands on it's own, needing little embellishment. I inked it with Picket Fence Distress ink and then with Versamark using the Stamp Platform. Using the platform ensures you will get a crisp image. I heat embossed with white powder and smudged the image with Distress Crayons for a hint of fall color: Peeled Paint, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo. I love these detailed stamps--they are my favorite from Tim's fall releases. You can see other ways I've used the leaves in this Saturday Showcase tutorial.

The sentiment is a Poppy Stamps die I won from ScrapyLand (Thank you, ScrapyLand!), and I cut it out of a piece of scrap Metallic Kraft stock I cut my bats from for my Tombstone. I adhered it with Distress Collage Medium Matte. Before adhering this to the orange panel (colored with Ripe Persimmon oxide and Black Soot ink) I stitched it with my sewing machine--not 'sew' well, I'm afraid.  I'm still not familiar with the tension setting on my newest lightweight model. That's really the only embellishment this card needs with all the fine detail of the stamp and the busy base background.

We don't have much fall color here in my neck of the woods, going from green to pretty much brown fallen leaves with just hints of color.  We have one tree that will be blazing around Thanksgiving, and I'm looking forward to that.

I hope you enjoyed my simple card--now hop on over to The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog for even more Fabulous Fall inspiration from my talented teammates. Then, it's over to you! I hope you will join us for this challenge--I can't wait to see what you create! Crafty hugs! Sara Emily

 Challenge shares:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Thanks/Thanksgiving

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Country View Challenges November 2019 - Hand Stamped

The Artistic Stamper November's Creative Challenge - Mix it Up

The following products were used and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:
Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Metallic Jewels Kraft Stock
Tim Holtz Cling Stamps - Pressed Foliage
Tim Holtz Cling Stamps - Perfect Plaids
Distress Ink: Black Soot, Peeled Paint, Picket Fence
Distress Oxide: Ripe Persimmon
Distress Crayons: Sets 1, 3, 5, and 7
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte
Ranger Embossing Powder - White Super Fine Detail
VersaMark Watermark Ink Stamp Pad