Let's start the 2nd year!

So, here we go - blog year 2 is off and running.
Thanks to my great blog buddy, Lori I found this cool video by Jennifer McGuire that I missed on Hero Arts, with a great technique using glossy accents as a mask, and knew I had to have a go.

So, last night I started it - it's an overnighter!

I started by cutting a shape out of card with one of the Tim Holtz dies , inking the edges and stamping a leaf (stampendous again,) in walnut stain, heat setting and then filling the leaves with glossy accents.

Put aside to completely dry. (this is the overnight bit!)

Today, when I got home from my lovely morning at Kew (it was nice and sunny, warm but not hot, blue skies, lush green after all the rain - perfect - photos tomorrow!)

Sorry - today, when I got home from Kew, I could finish it off.

Used my blender tools to apply distress ink in suitably autumnal colours - barn door, mustard seed, rusty hinge, wiping any off the glossy masked leaves afterwards.
Stamped a Wendy V sentiment, added some idea-ology bits and pieces and then - rather than adding it to a tag - turned it into a card, so I can use it!!

used a cream card for the base, and a piece of Lost and Found - it is a much creamier yellowy brown, than it looks in this photo! - cut slightly smaller than the card, and Tim's flourish stamp in walnut stain.