For today's sketch, I stretched the layout to be horizontal instead of vertical. This is also for Lori's HYCCT challenge to use warm colors and something fuzzy (my fibers in the upper right).
I started with some leftover pieces of card stock & my hot glue gun on the “low melt” setting. After burning myself one too many times on the hot melt setting, I figured the low setting would be perfect for melting on paper. On the long strip, I first sponged a little fall color on the white textured strip then drizzled the glue haphazardly. While it was still hot, I sprinkled on some sparkly glitter that has some pearl ex like powder in it, waited for it to cool, then brushed off the excess.
On the leaf piece, I puddled a bunch of hot glue in a circle, then melted it smooth with my heat gun. Immediately I pressed the small maple leaf into it, let it cool enough to pull the stamp out, heated it again with my heat gun a bit then sprinkled on the same glitter.
The greeting & maple leaves were copper embossed on vanilla. The greeting was die cut & the leaves were fussy cut. Some metallic copper layers and fun fibers were added to finish.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 GMT Views: 2170
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Thu, Oct 16, 2014 @ 8:31 AM
WOW, Julie....LOVE your glittery "squiggle"....and the leaf medallion is neat too. TFS how you did it...genius! Really lovely accents on this pretty fall colored card. I like the sketch turned and your elongated oval makes an elegant statement.