Fall Card With Watercolor Pumpkin

Today's card features Technique Junkies Pumpkin image.

I decided to use non-traditional colors to paint this image.  

 

 

These are the Technique Junkies stamps I used:

Pumpkin 

Own Kind Of Beautiful 

Tulips With Text 

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Here's how I made my card:

• On watercolor paper, I stamped the Pumpkin  image.  I used distress mini ink pads to ink the image for stamping.
• I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor to paint the pumpkin. 
• For the background, I created a blue haze around the pumpkin by diluting the blue and brushing it on with a lot of wat

  
  

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• I added the shadows with brown watercolor paint.
• When that was dry, I inked some of the script portions of the Tulips With Text image, and stamped them intermittently on the background. 
• Lastly, I stamped the Own Kind Of Beautiful  image with Memento Rich Cocoa ink. 









Inside


• INSIDE:  I stamped the Pumpkin image with blue distress ink, added some distressing and white highlights.
  

 

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I was inspired by the fall displays I've seen in the craft and home stores.  Non-traditional colored pumpkins are popular, and I have seen lots of the blue ones in the displays.  So, I tried it!

Challenges:

Krafty Chicks Challenge - Any Occasion

PaperFunday Challenge - Autumn/Fall

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

 

Blessings,