Autumn Greetings
"You're
in My Thoughts"
Booklet
Card
W 4 1/2" x H 4 3/4 "
This is a multi insert type booklet card. The cover and back are done using Arches 140lb watercolor paper with a deckle edge. It was painted wet on wet with color washes in butterscotch, terra cotta, walnut ink and a touch of lettuce green, then sprinkled with sea salt and rubbing alcohol. The lettering is a funky style done using a rheostat and low wattage iron and embossing powders in gold and carnelian. The leaves are punched out of some gold painted watercolor paper. The booklet is tied closed with a golden ribbon interwoven through the cover.
This card is
entered at the Heritage Park 2005 Fall Fair in the Handmade Themed Greeting Card
Category.
The 1st page shows the
start of the word "Greeting" and the start of the word
"Autumn:, as well as the start of the quote by Henry David
Thoreau.
The booklet holder is made using Fabriano Ingres Paper "Verdastro #606" and origami folds.
The word "Greeting" is done using My Sentiments Exactly "Retro Caps" rubber stamp letters and watercolor crayons then shadowed with a brown brush pen on cream toned 65 lb card stock.
Detail Of the Letter
A in "Autumn". Using cream toned 65 lb cardstock I cut
out the negative areas of the letter. Several layers of embossing
powder in clear and Gold glitter over several tones of chalk
pastels and color box inks in yellows, salmons & reds. The
leaf is punched out of the excess from the cover paper and adhered
to the letter to stabilize the weak leg of the A using the
embossing powder as a glue. The words are a Neuland hand, done
using FW acrylic ink in Antelope Brown and a pointed nib.
