Autumnal Splendour with Astrid

Hello Shimmerz friends, today I am sharing a Fall inspired little canvas.

Autumn is my favourite time of the year and while creating this I was inspired by all the beautiful colours we can find in nature. I used loads of different Shimmerz products this time round, I'll list which ones as I go through;

Like usual I started with my background:

I layered some texture paste through a couple of stencils, when dry went over the whole canvas with gesso and when that was dry added colour with the help of  3 sprays: Vibez Egg Noggin and Palm Reader and Spritz Bamboo Leaf

Next I started work on the embellishments I was planning to use, first the leaves.

First I simply die cut them. Then I coloured them with the following paints: Inklingz metallic set: Miner Miner and Penny 4 Your Thoughts and Shimmerz Celery and Crimson Tide. To deepen the colours I also used some Vibez Sunset Strip and Hot Fudge. I just played around until I was happy with the colour result, then put the leaves back in their respective dies and then embossed them, highlighting the raised bits with some Espresso Archival Ink. (If you emboss your leaves before colouring, you lose the detail when using the wet media)

These images were stamped, fussy cut and then coloured with Aqua Huez: Ivy League, Perfectly Purple and Very Blueberry

Then all I had to do was put it all together and I was done.

Below a few details.

A little rose from my stash, to finish the leaf and berry cluster

Some of the stencilling darkened with a Distress Crayon

And that was pretty much it.

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Thanks for visiting today and see you next time!

xxx