Dreamweaver & Quietfire Awesome in Autumn! Finale!

Our amazing week of Awesome in Autumn concludes today! This has been a wonderful week playing with the Quietfire Design team, and their amazing images and sentiments. Their beautiful calligraphic style, quotes and thoughts are the perfect addition to our Dreamweaver designs. We hope you have followed along with us, and have left your comments for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages:

Here's what I've created for today's post:

Yesterday I showed you one corner of the beautiful Fall borders (LJ874) stencil from Dreamweaver Stencils. Today, I have used the other corner along with the Leaf texture (LG616) stencil (did you notice those two little leaves in the lower corner of yesterday's design?), and the same beautiful saying "Every blade in the field" saying (#5820) from Quietfire Design.

• Tape the pumpkin corner to the corner of Distress Antique Linen cardstock with removable tape
• Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Matte Yellow Embossing Paste over the stencil
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Let the paste dry
• Tape the Leaf texture stencil to the shiny side of a piece of freezer paper with removable tape
• Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Matte Yellow Embossing Paste over the stencil
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Let the paste dry thoroughly
• Stamp the saying on matching cardstock
• Use a Deckle edge scissors to trim around the saying
• Use Distress ink vintage photo around the edges of the saying, then edge a little darker with Distress ink walnut stain
• Mount on a piece of Distress Frayed Burlap cardstock that has been edged with ink too, set aside
• Place your clean, dry stencils back over the dry yellow paste and tape in place with removable tape
• Use small stencil brushes to add color, I used Distress inks mustard seed, spiced marmalade, forest moss, vintage photo, and walnut stain, as well as just a touch of Brilliance Rocket Red
• After the pumpkin corner is colored, Deckle the edge and ink with vintage photo and walnut stain
• Mount on a frayed burlap card front
• CAREFULLY peel different leaves off the freezer paper and arrange them along the bottom edge
• Once you like the placement, gently lift an edge with a toothpick and add a dab of glue to secure them
• Use foam mounting tape to adhere the saying
• Add a leaf to the saying too

We hope you have enjoyed our designs this week and have been inspired to create your own Autumn Awesomeness!

 Check out today's awesomeness which includes...

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheever

Holly Eastabrook

Yogi Grunwald

Robyn Josephs

Teresa Horner

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Jessica Griffin

Cyndi Bundy

Wendy Jordan

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy (you are here)

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Heidi Erickson

Laura Drahozal

Cherylynn Moser
Stacey Rumsby

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Happy Creating,

Louise

Festively Fall Week 2!

Welcome back for week two of our Dreamweaver Stencils challenge to create "Festively Fall" cards or projects. Fall is my favorite time of year so I have been really enjoying this challenge and have a fun technique to share with you today...creating embellishments with stencils and paste! I think you'll like the results! Here's the process:

Place your stencil on the shiny side of
a piece of freezer paper

Tape down the stencil with removable tape

Use the paste spreader to apply
Dreamweaver Matte Yellow Embossing Paste

Remove and clean your stencils,
let the paste dry

Tape your clean, dry stencil back over
the dry paste

Use small stencil brushes and ink pads to add color
use the Picasso (LL332) to create veins

Remove and clean the stencil

Repeat the coloring steps for each design

LS78-Maple leaf, LG728-Blowing leaves
LL3004-Falling leaves, LG616-Leaf texture

Carefully peel your pasted image off the freezer paper



Transfer it where you think you want it



You are still able to move it around at this point to
try it out around your design

Complete your layers and use Tacky Glue
to add your leaf embellishments!

Here's a close up!

The Pumpkins (LL515) were pasted on cardstock with the Matte Yellow paste, dried, then colored with stencil brushes just like the leaves. Extra color was brushed along the edge to create a more distressed, fall look. I used Distress Inks, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Vintage Photo, and Walnut Stain.
Remember, when you pick your stencil design, it has to be a complete image for this technique to work (no bridges, just open area).  I think the Cat watch stencil (LM266) would be awesome done in black paste (matte or glossy) and used as a black cat embellishment on a Halloween card!

Check out more great fall designs the rest of the team has created for you this week, and don't forget, we would really love it if you joined our challenge and linked your creation on the DREAM it UP! blog. You might win! You can also send a picture of your creation to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com and she will post it for you. You can't win if you don't play!

Dream It Up! blog
Pam Hornschu
Laura Drahozal
Cherylynn Moser
Terrece Siddoway
Kristi Van Doren
Georgia Sommers
Lee Kellogg
Liz Martin
Cyndi Bundy

One more thing! I've updated my class schedule for the rest of October and November so check for classes in your area!

Happy Creating,
Louise