And, if I'm being honest, I feel that it's the best brief season. Summer is the best season of all - don't get me wrong. HOT, DRY, SUNNY - that is the holy trinity. But a crispy, sunny day where things are colorful - that does pull a summer loving person towards a falling leaf. The only weakness of autumn is that it's a hostage situation - it's that place where you've left your one true love, summer, and you're hurtling towards your mortal enemy - winter. So it's sort of the bad boy, siren call season. And also a season we tend to skip in stamping and decor, which is a crime.
But it's pretty. And pretty wins most contests.
I was SHOCKED at all the color of autumns in upstate New York. Before I'd listened to 2000 hours of true crime podcasts, I spent most falls alone in one of the most beautiful cemeteries on the planet - the Mount Hope cemetery in Rochester. Susan B. Anthony is buried there. There were indigo buntings there, and ancient gravestones you could hardly read, and a field of military headstones. It would have been a sea of grey and white marble if it hadn't been for those spectacular fall colors. If only I'd learned to watercolor in college, I'd have a stack of lovely sketches to show for it.
Anyway - while I don't miss those temperatures, I will always think of fall as the MOST colorful of seasons. Even more so than spring, and so it's my favorite stamping season.
This card is from a video from a week or so ago (this year has been a blur) - and I had SO much fun making these crazy abstract backgrounds. I'll include the video below in case you missed it - but on this card I used this gorgeous large leaf stencil with this stamp set and my Gel Press to make this card. It really represents all the happy bright colors I remember from a pretty place that changed color a few times a year. I hand cut out the leaf after blending Distress Oxides on it with my life changing brushes (now they come in a two pack and a four pack) to match the background - Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed and Peacock Feathers - and matted it on black cardstock. The sentiment is stamped in Nocturne. ( I feel like I don't even have to say that - it's the one true sentiment ink.)
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So please, entertain me with your desert paradises.
And if you're looking for a sale - here's a great one - today and tomorrow and it includes lots of Concord & 9th, including this gorgeous songbird - 25% off all holiday stamps & dies!
Here's the video, ICYMI.
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I adore this technique!! You are always so inventive! And super kind to share your amazing creativity with us!!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite season is Winter, I was born in December and it runs through my veins. The colder the better. When visiting mom in New Mexico, before she passed, I would be outside in 32° weather in my shorts. My husband calls me Nordic Woman or Mrs. Freeze. Your card is SO pretty! I need to get the Nocturne Ink.
ReplyDeleteI love living where we get all four seasons, but without a doubt Fall is my favorite. There is something about the sun, the bright blue skies, the cooler air, and the colors of Fall. It's glorious.
ReplyDeleteLove this technique Lydia. And I love your card. I agree with you about the Nocturne Ink too. It's the only one I use for sentiments.
ReplyDeleteMwah ahh ahhh! I found the card and video I have been remembering seeing some place. I love this happy accident tutorial. Many mahalos. AND I have a brand spanking new gel plate because you addicted me. Haven't broke it out yet. Am seriously concentrating on learning watercolor right now... love ya!
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