Weekender with Wanda – Happy World Card Making Day!
Happy World Card Making Day! I’m so happy and delighted to be back today with a new edition of Weekender with Wanda, and what a marvelous occasion too! Are you getting together with friends today to stamp and create? Will you send out some cards in honor of WCMD 2016? I am definitely going to be in my studio crafting away today. Let’s take just one second to go WOW about Stamptember! That was the best month don’t you think? It was crazy keeping up with all the awesome new stamp sets and the inspiration, but I loved it all. it’s going to seem really quiet now! We hope that you enjoyed it too!
Today in honor of the first day of October, I’ve created an Autumn watercolor card to share with you. I used loads of beautiful Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Dies and Stamps. I used a couple of new things from Stamptember as well as some of my tried and true favorites. Everything was inked and colored with Distress Inks for a soft effect. All the supplies and colors I used are listed at the bottom of the post.
I started with an A2 card base made from Neenah Desert Kraft paper. Next I die cut a Stitched Rectangle from watercolor paper and set that aside. Then I die cut all the pumpkins and leaves from watercolor paper. Finally, the Autumn word die was cut from rich brown cardstock.
Since all of the elements were die cut from watercolor paper, they took the Distress Inks beautifully! It was fun to watercolor everything with gorgeous Fall colors. I used a paintbrush and lots of clean water and did a quick and easy wash of color. For this technique I ‘smush’ some Distress ink onto a clear stamping block and use that as my palette!
The words in the background were stamped using the gorgeous new SSS Exclusive You Matter Background stamp. I inked the stamp using Corduroy Distress ink. Once the ink was on the stamp, I used my water sprayer to mist over the ink (right on the stamp). Then I stamped it off center onto the watercolor cardstock. I gently set it aside to dry. That’s how all the imperfections appear. I think this came out really cool!
Once I had the pumpkins and leaves attached to the card front, I used a glue pen and tweezers to adhere the “Autumn” word across the front of the pumpkins. This sentiment die actually says “Autumn Blessings!”
Here is my little pumpkin patch forming on my desk…
I wanted just a few little accents. I thought about adding ink speckles, but the finally decided on some pretty matte gold sequins and a few orange rhinestones.
Thanks for joining me today on this first October weekend! I’m so glad to be back sharing with you! Take care and I’ll see you soon!
Love your card and those pumpkins!
WOW your card is beautiful!!!! Love it:)
A very nice card.
This is a really pretty card! I love the simple ‘Autumn’ word over the pumpkins :)
Lovely card! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love how your vibrant colors just pop of the card! I checked my spam folder, but alas there wasn’t an email for me. Congrats to that lucky, lucky winner!
it just started to rain , bit of thunder and lightning, dark in the house…feels like autumn alright ;-) your card is perfect
What a gorgeous fall card! I love the background and the beautiful pumpkins!
What a beautiful card! i love autumn cards.
What a gorgeous card! I love your colors and everything about it!!
Your card is truly a work of art!
SO pretty, Wanda! Love your watercolored pumpkins and leaves!
Pretty, pretty fall card Wanda!
I agree…it truly was a wonderful Stamptember!!…such a beautiful card, really showcases the beautiful Autumn colors!!
Gorgeous card, Love the autumn die cut.
Love the fall card, gets you in the mood for the falling leaves and the trees changing colors!!
Beautiful card Wanda, love it!
Fabulous card! Thanks for the how-to.
This is beautiful, Wanda! The first thing I noticed was that yummy word background. I love how it turned out.
*And darn, no email or spam to me so I’ll say Congrats to the lucky winner of the craft room giveaway!! Woo-hoo!!
I love how you colored the leaves and pumpkins! Beautiful card Wanda! TFS
Happy World Card Making Day!
Such a stunning card!!!
Great card!
Happy World Card Making Day!
A beautiful card. I love the autumn die cut.It is perfect floating over the pumpkins. I think I will have to try die cutting watercolour paper and play with painting them.
Beautiful card. My “most favorite” ever of your cards ! :)
Wow!!! Really Gorgeous card!!
Beautiful card love the colors
Cool layout. The vertical text stamping divides the background nicely and the beautifully colored die cut cluster looks great! Well done as usual, Wanda.
Beautiful card! Love the autumn colors and the stamped background is great too!
Beautiful card!
What wonderful Fall Card! I love the sentiment background and the wonderful leaves and pumpkins–what great dies!
This is very pretty! I’m loving all of the Autumn inspiration using Distress inks as of late.
Fabulous card. Love it!
I love this fall beauty! Pure eye candy!!
Beautiful fall card!
Love that you are back!! This card is really pretty. I love fall and the colors that come with it. I am excited for the winner of the craft room. I’m sure it isn’t me. However, SSS sent me a b’day present so I’m pretty stoked about that. It isn’t so bad getting older. Have an awesome week my dear Wanda and happy October! (p.s. I picked up my Halloween postage yesterday, the stamps are really cute.)
Wow, gorgeous card!
Beautiful—such a perfect card for Oct. 1st!
These water colored pumpkin die cuts are so pretty…love it!
Swoon! This card is simply gorgeous!
Love the fall colors!
Gorgeous watercoloring
and love the whole
design of your card.
Carla from Utah
Gorgeous card! Love the fall colors and those dies and stamps are just beautiful! Thanks for sharing and Happy World Card Making Day! :)
Lovely fall card–and just checked my spam filter–no luck!
Fantastic autumnal card – such a lovely design!
Pretty Card!
Love all the smooshing!
Nice card! I like how you only used a section of the you matter text background.
Love how you stamped the text. Hugz
Great Fall card. Love those gorgeous leaves!
Lovely fall card. I follow the SSS blog.
Perfect Autumn colours on this card!