Autumn's Splendor

I was playing around with my distress oxide inks today and here is one of my results.

supplies: white and black card stock, Bristol paper, Taylored Expressions Birch Tree cutting plate, Wplus9 Blessed die, Impression Obsession leaf die, Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker, fossilized amber, carved pumpkin, candied apple, and fired brick distress oxide inks, smooshed, adhesive foam strips, glue dots

Each of the 4 colors of oxide inks were smooshed separately, using just a tiny amount of the ink on my craft mat, diluted with a bit of water (I like lots of dots/splatters and white space), drying between each color.  While that panel was drying, I cut out my birch trees and sentiment.  The birch trees got strips of foam adhesive wherever I could hide them on the back, so that the trees are popped above the smooshed background.  The little leaves were cut from a scrap that had been previously sponged with regular distress inks (mustard seed, carved pumpkin, and candied apple), and attached with glue dots.

Here's a closer view:

I have no idea why, but fall is really appealing to me right now - I'll probably be burned out when it really arrives!  Thanks for visiting - enjoy the rest of your weekend.