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Festive Fall Greeting Cards: Doodles, Watercolor, and Fall Themed Puns for a Happy Mail Gift

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Festive Fall Doodling

      2:37

    • 2.

      Supplies

      2:53

    • 3.

      Drawing the Outline

      7:11

    • 4.

      Doodle Shape Review

      2:16

    • 5.

      Doodling Whimsy

      13:50

    • 6.

      Watercolor Palette

      4:30

    • 7.

      Coloring with Watercolor

      9:52

    • 8.

      Coloring Part Two

      6:39

    • 9.

      Swash Technique

      3:43

    • 10.

      Gel Pen Accents

      3:37

    • 11.

      Finishing Off

      4:51

    • 12.

      Festive Fall Collage

      9:11

    • 13.

      Wrap Up

      1:31

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Aww-tumn! Fall-elujah! It's Time to Doodle Whimsy Art!

Enjoy a "Gourd-eous" time with pen and paint in this Festive Fall Greeting Card class! Create little pumpkins and acorns with a whimsical flair and color them in with a touch of watercolor paint.  Apply your creations on top of a simple collaged card and then send them on their way to say I'm "Nuts About You" or that "Nuttin' is Better than Being Together"!  With just a few supplies, you can add a personal touch to your gift giving.

Drawing doodles is a way to re-connect with your childlike creative side.  Just stopping a moment to fill in a few small pumpkin and acorn shapes can help reduce stress and at the same time stimulate the brain in seeing things in a new light.

I've collected over a dozen fall puns and sayings for you to choose from that you can add to your happy mail this season.  Use the doodling and coloring with watercolor techniques to add a special touch to your paper crafting projects.  Use the mini pumpkins to decorate your Thanksgiving table name cards, or set one on top of a bookmark to peek out of your latest thriller read, or adhere a couple whimsical acorns to a border frame of a family photo.  These are just a few ideas as you start preparing for the holiday season and want to share your creative side with others. "Carve Out Some Time" and Enjoy!

Check out these other related classes including:

Doodling 101 Create an Idea Book

Whimsy Doodle Owl, Mushroom, and House

Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards

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Tammy Prara

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Hi Friends! My name is Tammy and I am an empty nester who discovered a love for modern calligraphy and watercolor painting after the kids left home. Today, I embrace mixed media collage and have become an avid paper collector! I have been crafting for many years and am a self taught artist, which is a good thing since I consider myself a life-long learner! I think we each have a desire to learn and to try new things whether it be through reading, or art, or a new recipe, or assembling a new outfit. Ideas come together with action and we create! Creating something means we have left our mark in the moment, or even generationally. I see art as a way to move from chaos to beauty.

Everyone is creative and I encourage experimenting, and like Edison, you will either ma... See full profile

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1. Festive Fall Doodling: Hi friends. Tammy prayer. Thank you for joining me today. I have a great simple collage project where we really focus on doodling. I'll walk you through step-by-step, how to create the shapes were using and doodling and putting in some watercolor. I hope I take all the intimidation out of it for you. It's something that I truly believe in that we are all created to create. And I think this goes back to my earliest memory is when I was a child. I want to coloring contest in elementary school at a local mall. And since then I had painted with my mom, crochets with my grandmother. And when my children were little, I got into that scrapbooking phase just even four years ago, I embraced collage and mixed media. So that's a little bit about me, but my biggest purpose for you today is to come away with something you are proud of. But mostly that you spent some time, time engaged with your creative side. I hope I give you some tools that you can use in other projects as well. I hope you really embrace the Happy Meal trend. That's such a lost art right now. And encouraging others through your creative side and sending it through the mail is such a positive experience. But maybe you like bookmarks more or little sayings on your desk to inspire positive sayings, happy mottos to get you through the day or to stay focus on a goal. Any way you use these skills that I'm teaching today will go a long way for creating joy in your life and a peaceful calming experience. And that's what it's given me. And as a skill share teacher, that's what I want to bring to you. So come along with me as we make a collage, especially using doodling. 2. Supplies: Supplies. How to make these cute but very simple doodling and watercolor collage cards. In fact, I'll be showing you how to make this one right here. First off, we need some watercolor or markers or colored pencils. But today I'm using watercolor and I have my own palette. I'm using a size one, Kaufman painting details. And this is my own palette. There are Winsor and Newton professionals. And I have a very simple palette of maybe five or six colors. You probably already have something similar in your collection. We're going to need glue for our collage. I like a stick in a liquid glue. I like distressed oxide ground espresso and a daughter to get that effect across the sides of our cards. Card stock. And I'll talk about that in just a minute. You're going to need an archival ink. I'd used a here we go, Here we go. An O2 Pigma Micron scissors using ribbon as an element. And I found these at my local craft store. They were clearances out. So I grabbed a couple in some fall colors. And now for the index paper, I'm not using a real card stock or watercolor. This is index paper, that's a £110. I can run it through my printer because I have supplied a PDF of the shapes were using tissue paper. What colors do you have on hand? Pull it out. We're going to use tissue paper and our sings. Come up with your own. Or I have a selection on a PDF ready to go for some fall ponds and sings. Now my index card is cut to 3.5 by five and it's folded. So that's ready to go when we start our projects. So you might want to prep that before we begin. 3. Drawing the Outline: First thing we have to do is draw some pumpkins and acorns about mechanical pencil, I'm using a 0.9 Pentel. It's just a thicker lead. I want my drawing to show up for you on the camera. Generally, I would use something much thinner, pumpkin shape. Well, because these are going to be whimsical. I'm just doing kind of a blob, but I don't join at the top. I'm going to put a little arc right there. I'm going to bring two lines up. And the cut mark of this stem, we can make pumpkins tall. There are tall shapes. Then again, I'm going to leave a space, make a little arc and put in two curved lines. And the cut mark, maybe you want a really flat and wide one. So let's start and get a little lumpy. I'm gonna make my arc, I'm going to draw my stem a different direction. Now you can leave it that way or you might want to do a curve over the top of that. That's up to you. We're going to leave the details for right now. But I wanted to draw a couple acorn. So my acorn has two part. I'm going to more or less a straight side the curves and you can add a tip to it and come up. That's the bottom of our acorn. Connect the two and make a top. Another little point. If you want to. Maybe this acorn will be more around. And it's Kappa, be much taller. And that's the joy of a pencil. We can erase what we don't like. I like that it's little tip is to the side and not exactly symmetrical, gives it some character. Now I did say I wanted to make more of a squat. So let's make that much shorter. Let's connect. Let's draw up and make just a tiny little hat. Now, you could add a bit of a stem for your acorn to just be aware that you're gonna have to be cutting that. And it might be really thin, but that's okay for now. This is totally fine. Going to use a micron. This isn't O2, so fairly thin. And I'm going to outline my shapes. And at this point, if there's anything you don't love about your drawing, make a correction with your pen at this point. Just follow along, trace along your lines. If they don't match. Not an issue because we are allowed to erase. And that's what's great about these archival ink, these microns. They are water resistant and really great for drawing. And then hence, you can erase what's behind them that's not going to smear. I really liked that part about it. I think I'm gonna leave that off my stem for now and cut across. Looks like it's a little Bray, doesn't it? Come back? I made it a little thicker, so it would be easier to cut. Now this one, even my pencil lines didn't even match, but that's okay. It all gets corrected with your marker. I'm going to go more right across my cutoff, that pencil line right there. And my last one. Now, here is a secret. I probably drew 30 of these before I bring this project to you or more. Do as many as you need. In fact, put them in your idea book. And that will give you way more practice on figuring out what shapes you really like. Like I said, erasing time. I want to make sure that that is completely dry because it will smear if it's not completely dry. So just a paper test to double-check that. I have this Staedtler Mars plastic. It's the hard white rubber. And as you can see, no smearing of my black line, the pencils coming up just fine. Gonna get that cleaned up really well. Excellent. 4. Doodle Shape Review: So we have our pumpkin outlines, which is great. But I want you to take a moment and think about some design elements. And if you have your ADEA book, then let's do a little flip through and remember, what are some shapes? Zigzaggy shapes, looping shapes. How to do some fills, straight lines, curved lines, hash marks a here at the ends for shadowing. Oh, all are funky circles. The loop de loops, the little tiny arcs. Here. I did practice my pumpkins Like I told you many times. Oh, some stone works, zigzag lines. Some dots to tiny circles to larger circles to ovals, curves, okay? Lots of floral ideas, loops and leaves. Shapes inside of shapes. See how dots just add a little extra something. The curved lines and then multiples of the curve lines work together. Let's see all the swirls. Okay, so here's some new fill ideas. Alright, the shapes within a shape. Okay, I think I have some ideas that I want to try and go ahead and you can look things up online. You can make your own idea book. And let's see what we can come up with. 5. Doodling Whimsy: I'm ready to doodle and I do have an idea book. And I have a paper, not card stock, but actual copy paper and make as many of these as you'd like. From my PDF that's included with the class. I actually practiced some more. And you could either trace these as you hold it up to a window. You could trace it that way. Or you could take this and put index card stock in your printer and actually make a copy of this. Or let's just draw directly onto the card stock. Again, I'm using my ode to Pigma Micron. Feeling like you can re-create is awesome. Go ahead and experiment some more if you haven't drawn a handful of these, just continue on, continue on. But I think I will use my drawings from my first page and recreate them over here. One was just little elongated sees, maybe a few more on one side than the other. I really liked a tall round like a little hobbit hole kind of door right there. And filling in a few dots along the top. This is a curve is slide and just a loop. And out with a loop on the end. That's all it was. This would look really good with a more smaller tip, maybe an O one or a 0.005. Now this may be wave it up and make a tall leaf on this side. Maybe even a second one. And over here, my idea was to have some little tendrils coming out. And when I was coming up from the bottom, I'm going to add one. And then I thought, well, that actually doesn't look bad having little little tendrils along the bottom. Now look, I really didn't give myself a lot of room for a window. I think I might just do a bit of a circle window. Some crossbars to it, adhere. It was just little loops across the top of the stem. So they don't have to be exactly alike. You can take the best things that you did like and recreate it. This one does look very busy. I think I will tone it down a bit. But each of those tiny spaces can be a really great place to color. I started with making ribs, those lines on a pumpkin. And they're just long curves. From the top to the bottom. I just drew the tiniest circles down one side of the stem. They almost look like buttons on his shirt, don't they? For one of the areas, it was a bit of a zigzag, just a back-and-forth with a bit of a curve to it. And my very last one, I made a big loop, de loop there at the bottom. Another idea is vines, flowers, different shaped plants. This is just an easy loop and loop. Maybe a few things coming down from the top. I do like groups of threes, fives, a single odd numbers seem to look really nice together. Some diamond shaped. This will have to be a real tiny one right here. Maybe a tendril coming up here. And one the other way. One really Curly, right? They're not filled in that middle section of the pumpkin. Now the last time I did this, I did these loops, these bumps on the opposite side. This time I'm putting them on the right-hand side. Maybe giving a circle to each one. Little less busy, right? Because I've been so curvy, I thought I would do more linear shapes. Something with points. And so these diamonds come down this side of the rib. Few dots. More loops. A third larger. And because I've made them so large, I can do something inside them. An extra shape mimicking, but just a bit smaller. This pumpkin I did have making it look like a little house shape over the doorway. Think I want to make it a curve, an extra tall curve over the top. And I liked this idea of a window on top, maybe a real high window up here. This one has many tendrils. And you can add leaves or dots or curly cues about a heart at the end. This one has a leaf just coming out at the side of the pumpkin. And this was a curly cue that I hi to go back on itself. Came up and back down like a really tall blade and gave it a curly Q right there down the side. It was more of a wave. Maybe dropped down a few more hearts. Just wherever your imaginations going. This one I gave the stem bit more of a realistic look with the the ribs on the stem part for the pumpkin, I'm going to come down here. And on this cap of the acorn, going to just give it a wave. And then a second wave. And a third or a fourth. Giving this big space is going to look really great when we paint and color that in. And the idea that came to me for this one had to do more like icicles. Hanging down from the top. Straight lines, dots, very squiggly line with the diamond at the bottom. And a straight line with maybe a bigger circle coming down. And along the bottom. Just a grouping of tiny circles that lead into dots off to the edge there. This idea actually came to me as leaves. Like maybe a strawberry or orange sections. I don't know, It gave me an idea of a fruit. And then I just drew a quick and release press and lift up to put the vein of that leaf. And then I added two little leaves of an acorn in there. This idea was meant to be a bit of a just a hash marks, a grid lines, and next to something that's a grid line, a heavy wavy line. So when I mean heavy, I mean thicker, fuller, not very tight. And from there, I actually looped up and across and looped over m on the other side. I didn't draw them individually. It's really one big squiggle. Then the third thing I did was add a line and each bump that came out. And it gave it a bit of a leaf effect. Now I can darken in this line of the cap. Give it more of a wavy definition there. Let me give this pumpkin a leaf, but I'm going to bring it out to this side. And there again, little diamond shapes, curvy, funky diamond shapes. What I really liked was these elongated ovals. That was one of my happier ideas on how this turned out. And then when I came out here, I just made them the full circle, the full oval. And the more I came out of the middle, towards the middle, I just got smaller and smaller. So this side was more densely filled. This was a fun look. It's just a Gosh, I'm sure there's a plant that probably does look like this. But it reminds me so much more of a Dr. Seuss effect. I added a diamond on the side. And these little dots kinda came up the side like one of the ribs. Now I did try an experiment of a window that went sideways. And I wasn't a big fan of that. So I think I might just do more. Foliage from the bottom. Easy loop on the top of each stem. Easy to do. Fact, I might even add one here in the middle. I'm going to fill in this line to be a little thicker. But here are three pumpkins and three acorns. Ready for more details. 6. Watercolor Palette: Hi, I am prepping, getting ready to paint, and I have some paint brushes, some water, my paint palette. I do have some paper towels. And I just wanted to go over a little bit about the palette. I'm going to be using this as a palette I bought off of Amazon. It's, um, or dean, it was empty. And each one of these pans I filled, they are all Winsor Newton, professional watercolors. And so I'm going to add some water to the colors. I'm mostly just squirt into the few pans that I like or all of them because I want to keep my options open. But I'm going to focus on these colors and these goldfish colors and some of my orange, a little bit of red and a couple of grains. And I'm going to use my palette blending right down in here. Oh, I do like some of those purples. So I just squirt it in my water to activate my dry paint. A couple of yellows case I want to oh, you know what, maybe some blue. Okay. Practically my entire palette is now has a little bit of water. And this is just a tiny tube. You could spray your palette, whatever works for you. I am using some really, really tiny brushes. And I've got a 0, also have another 012. And it just has to do with the size of the feral. How many hairs that will have inside these are all round. And I think I got this one off of Amazon when I was beginning. These are Cotman, Winsor Newton brushes and I do have a Princeton round. I am going to activate some of those already to show you what I have. This one is called a perylene violet. And as you can see, rather dark, but it will lighten up with a lot of water. That's how you can get your light and dark effects. I'm rinsing my brush in-between with my jar of water. Another one of my favorites, quinacridone, gold. I love this one so much because it's one of those colors that comes across brown and then yellow. I get multiple colors. Just from using that one. I am going to use some permanent sap green. Now, look how Brighton yellowish that has when you mix it with your other colors, It's going to meld into a really beautiful green for autumn, Winsor red, maybe a bit of Windsor red. That one's rather opaque, meaning it's not going to be as translucent as say my permanent sap green, Winsor yellow. And look how that one is completely very, very transparent. Windsor violet dioxane. It is so dark and so vibrant. But it's going to be a lot of fun to play with. Putting these out here to show you the color palette and will be blending a few of these together. If you have markers, use your markers. If you have water-soluble watercolor pencils, use those. Here's a few samples of me doodling and painting. And basically that's that color palette that we're using. They came out pretty good. So I'm going to continue with that off to the side for my inspiration. And I'm ready to paint. 7. Coloring with Watercolor: Noticed I didn't even pull down any orange. And here I have three great pumpkins. So to make these fantasy whim z, I am going to have some fun and play with this. I want you to have fun and play with this as well. Experiment. Get your colors out if you haven't gotten your colors out in a long while and just start placing it. Try to stay within the lines. Not a huge deal if you can't or prefer not to. Now, card stock is very different than watercolor paper. It's going to soak up the color like crazy. I'm going to put in that quinacridone gold. And because my file it my undoes that. Yeah, that violet perylene violet was still a bit wet. I'm going to fill in both of those spaces with that gold, some green along this. Maybe stick within my, my wave shapes first. I could probably even use my 0 brush. Right now I'm using my one. I'm going to keep that green and fill in my leaves. Well, how typical, right? Not very fantasy when z is it. But that's okay. Just going with the flow, just experimenting and playing more quinacridone gold. And please Winsor Newton, don't shoot me for not saying that word correctly. The lookout, a cub brownish, it's coming out with a deeper amount of paint. Something I just love about that color. So if you do get to come across that, I hope you find it. Now. I I just I don't know what it is. I just love creating things and small. I like things that go quickly. I like making something. And it didn't take me days, weeks. Now I had mentioned I have crochet made and I am not a huge fan of creating something that does take days. So I've actually learned how to make a beanie. In this Winsor red is really vibrant. So if you thin it out with water, you can get a, a pinkish hue, see how the colors have changed. And that's all based on the amount of water that's on my brush. This is something else about me. I love to clean my brush. I I don't know what it is. I really like a clean palette. I like my colors staying true. Unless I purposely mix them for a different, different kind of color. But I'll wash this palette off. There's other artists who loved to keep them filled with paint and dip the brush into many colors. Oh, that just drives me nuts. Are you that type two. Now, I did get that quite, quite wet. And I'm going to take a tab, a bit of my paper towel and I just mopped up that extra water. Really lightened up. You can almost see it. It's like a completely different color. I think I may fill this area in with the green. Now, I've watered this down several times now and with water on my brush that also lightens it up. I do have those itty bitty tiny circles and I'm okay filling those in. Because we can go back with gel pens. Maybe we could put white on those spots, gold, or fill them in completely with black or come back when it's dry and add another color of paint. All right, Do I dare this vibrant, vibrant purple? I think I dare. Now, as I said, vibrant and then watered it down so much. It's coming up very pale. And that's okay. My experiments with this color has really led to an almost black. This color can be almost black. And here it is. Such a faded soft. But that's what autism is, right? The colors have faded, connect widowed. Now sticking with this palette, I am using my, my perylene violet. I'm gonna come over here to this one and then I tell you, it's fun. Watercolor is, it's just fascinating to me. Really. So many colors can come from just one pan of paint. Now, I had bought these all-in tubes, like I said, and I filled a pan with color. I do not paint from the tube. I do not use the wet watercolor. This just can last forever and ever. It, for as much as I paint. Other artists love that straight color. And I tend to be a bit on the conservative side and my painting and my art. I'm not someone who's a huge, vibrant color person. I think I want to fill in my dots. Now. Here you go. Now. My clinic. And then come down with much lighter. Did you see me wipe my brush on my hand. Instead of a cross a paper towel. I have such little water on my brush when I wash it out. I don't mind just touching the tip to my hand so that that any drip, any excess will just just touched my hand and my brushes more dry. That's a way to keep the color, stronger color on the brush and less water. But sometimes you want more water, you really want to thin it out. And you can see we used more water on the bottom and less paint. I wanted these little stars and diamonds to stand out. I just take this yellow bit of Winsor yellow and have something much more contrast. Something bright. You go, I filled in that space. And maybe my little diamonds need a hint of yellow. That's great. That's kind of a, you get a Harry Potter field going on with that, with that maroon. 8. Coloring Part Two: So I think I'm going to bring in, um, Winsor orange. I'm going to add it to that cad yellow deep. I know I said I'd stick to that pellet. But I want you to use your colors. What do you have that you haven't used in awhile? What's coming up that says, Hey, this piece needs to be something different. Go ahead and go for it. You know what? It's an experiment. This is actually one reason I made six different images. Because when it comes time to art with them and make our collage, I may actually feel like doing something different. This moment, this time and space right here. This is you spending time with something you really love or are coming to love. Maybe you are so new to art. You just don't even know where to begin. And really just begin. Start splashing your color around. Adding lots of water, not using a lot of water. In fact, I think I'm going to try blending this orange out that I had laid down. And yet I was able to activate just enough that one had some bleed through, but that's okay. That dark orange I put on the side decided to play with us. And that's okay. In fact, I think then I'm going to fill in right there. Just the lightest touch. I'm going to bring it on the stem as well. Taking some of this green and work it into the stem I have over here. And maybe this stem I have over here. This green and orange look great together. Really do. Don't forget purple. Purple's fun with orange. I'm going to dab that again like we did before. Because it was a bit dark and I couldn't see. My heart. Wanted to be able to see that heart shape. So just a touch of color. And look, you can paint over. And I'm gonna give this side of the door, oh, very light wash of that purple quinacridone, gold. It's very similar to the orange. I see that. I think what will really help? Let's put in a bit of that red. I think I'm going to add it to that. Orange and orange red. Muddy up my palette. Because I've blended two colors. There you go. Maybe here at the top. Putting your color in multiple places, that really gives it a good balance. Now as we begin our last two, I've actually added some yellow turquoise down here in my palette. I just felt like I wanted to play with blue. So we're going to play with blue, pumpkin, and three acorns. How did you do? 9. Swash Technique: The other suggestion was to do a swash and splash and mess it up. So let's go ahead and do that with the quinacridone gold on it still has a bit of yellow in there. I'm going to smear it across the page. And maybe a bit of orange bladder. There you go. We can do it all right on top of that when that dries, no skill required because I worked out these doodle shapes. I'm going to translate them over to my card stock that I pre painted with swatches of color. Remember this pumpkin just had a few circles down the side, reminding us of a buttons and some ribs down the side. Starting at the top and going towards the bottom. And this I actually got kind of wavy with they weren't extra, extra strong, clean lines. Lots of space. I think I might add in flower. Right there in the middle. Here we go. 10. Gel Pen Accents: Here I have several jelly rolls. Did you know the whites come in different sizes? 70508, a tan. I have a couple. Sarissa, I have a gold and a white. I also have just a colored pencil. This is a current arc and it's in a soft white. So we're going to see what's going to work for me today. Sometimes my white jelly rolls do not want to play nice. So we'll see what I can get activated here. Going to just make my dots white. I decided to try that. See, it's not playing very nice. It's not showing up like I want. But it does give an extra element and that's okay. I'm going to switch over to my goal. If I can get that activated. And I can see it, I don't know if you can see it. Little bit, little bit little bit good enough for some up-close details. How about that? Fact and just etchings scratching out a few lines here. And I can definitely see the gold where we've left different elements. You can make design patterns in those empty spaces. Maybe a gold heart instead of the Purple Heart. Fill that in and fill in a bit there. And if all you had were gel pens, art with your gel pen. This coloring time, this time to play with your pains. It's all part of an experience. That's what I liked about creating. Once I became an empty nester, was really appreciating the time I had alone that I didn't have for all those years raising kids. And if you can EQ that out now while you still have a busy household, more power to you, good for you. Maybe a scratch of gold in the window right there. And I'm going to fill in this one space of the door that all the doodling I'm adding, I'm ready to cut out. 11. Finishing Off: Hope that you have scissors met for paper, that they don't cut anything else but your paper. And as your freeing, rough cutting, your designs for our collage. Keep your elbow in. Keep the paper turning. I'm going to record each of these out and decide which one I want to put on her collages today. For the small work, I'm going to use my tiny, tiny scissors. Like I said, you keep your elbow close and close to the body. And these are so omega sharp and pointy, it can really get into those crevasses. Now, this is an option. Do you want to stay close to your black line or give yourself a border? If you feel like you've messed up any of your painting, you want to get nice and tight to that black line. I have a trick for helping that along. Now, definitely among these outer elements, I am making them a bit wider so that they don't stay super fragile. If I have more of a base to work with, it really helps with glowing and not any tearing or ripping. I am going to work out this tiny little triangle right here. Here is my one trick I want to share. I'm going to take one of my Micron pens and fill in any white and make my border look bigger. Make my outline of my object stand out. And I actually think this helps. If this is going to be your focal point, the image on your collage, having that definitive space, that black line will really help it to pop. It kinda covers up any of your painting that you didn't like. You could even reshape your element right now. I'm going to cut out a few more of these and you do the same. I've cut out my pieces. I have a couple still to outline, but my one final tip is to save your scraps, your painted scraps and maybe a little bit of white as a collage or you may want a little bit of element, a little bit and do dads something. And there'll be great to have those on hand because they perfectly coordinate with what we've created. Now I'm going to finish outlining where I had cut a little bit past that black line and fill it in and make it dark. And we will collage right when we get back. 12. Festive Fall Collage: And now it's time to collage. I have all my supplies out. And this is what I'm going for. Cute, right? I have my card stock. It's already pre-cut. I have some tissue paper ready to go. I have my sayings, ready to go, my ribbons, scissors, my glue, and a little bit of inking and my cutout shaped and my scraps are ready to go. So the first thing we will do is I'm going to glue down my green tissue paper and it has a bit of stamping on it. It was from another project I was working on. Getting glue on here. And on my card stock. Tissue paper is kinda finicky. It will adhere very quickly. And if you don't like those bubbles, you can smooth them out with a credit card gift card. I found this at the dollar store. And I'm going to trim away that excess paper. Back, ground is done. That's the first element of collage, is you're backing paper. Next I want to add in some ribbon. I think I'm going to stick with this gold versus this brighter gold, because I think it matches better with my elements. And I'm going to decide where it's going to go. So one thing I'm going to do is cut me a strip and then decide if I want long or cross. I guess it depends on what shapes I'm going for. I'm I going to use my colored. Am I going to use one or two? You know what, that turquoise really stands out nicely. I want a pumpkin or another acorn ago with it. Oh, oh, yeah, I really like that. That's really pretty okay. And one trick I'm going to use this because I really don't have those little dots people put behind to make their elements stand up is I want this layering effect. I'm going to have it covering part of the ribbon. But the back of it needs to be just as high as the front of it. So I cut a tiny strip to lay that a corn on. I'm going to glue that down with my liquid glue. This is something I found on Amazon. I'm not sure I love it only because it seems to clog quite a bit. I'm always seeming to fight to get glue to come out. And I thought I liked this up above my ribbon so that acorns going there, That's the magic warm hand press. Let's see if I can get any glue to come out from my ribbon. Not as much as I want. I'm always fishing for a pen to clear that out. And we're working on the second element of collage. That's that midground. The midground here is my ribbon. My I found this at Hobby Lobby and they're calling it frayed trim. So I'm guessing that's what it is. Frayed trim. Get something here. For my top part. So it will lay up tall when I glue it here to the ribbon. Come on. I know I'm going to need quite a bit because I'm working with that ribbon. And I need definitely need some on the top part as well. I gotta get my ribbon up here to glue down. Okay, That's plenty, plenty. I just love that overlay effect over that bar to make corn and that top acorn. Now here's one reason I said the save some of your scraps because I'm going to pick a saying, I've got my pumpkin wind, nuts, nuts about you. Let's go nuts. Fall it a day. Happy fall you are I'm going to stick with this one. Api fall y'all. Using my acorn on for this. Now it could stand alone. But I'm thinking maybe I should grungy that up a bit. I have ground espresso on a little pad. I think I found this at the Dollar Store as well. If you have any makeup applicators. Definitely a good use for that as well. I have any more colorful scraps, something with a bit more color I do, I do. In fact, I might even just gonna terrible things. Look a little too fishy to you. Maybe I'll cut that off later that up. There you go. Okay. I hope my glue is still flowing. I liked this. Yellow and orange on top of the green. That looks really nice. And I'm thinking rules of thirds here. As far as placements, enough glue on, they're going to off-center it a bit. Use the warm ham press right there. I'm okay with this frayed edge on this side. How about you? I'm going to leave that the last step I want. I'm going to get this lid off of my ground espresso. And let's just throughout this side. Got it. A little dirty. Nothing says Fall like a grungy, not dirty enough your project, right? How's that? And rehab. Collaged doodle card. Congratulations. 13. Wrap Up: Now what will you do for your class project? Will you make a card for a friend for fall? Let's go nuts. How about squash, goals and encouragement card? Any happy card you make, a friend, family member will love it. So show me in the project area. What did you make? Did you use my acorns and pumpkins? Or did you create your own? Please share it in the project section so we can cheer each other on. We can squash those goals of being more creative. So thank you for joining me. I appreciate your time. I believe we've all been created to create and please share that side of you. Asked me any questions. Leave your comments. I will respond to each and every one of you. I would love to hear from you and you can follow me on Instagram, share your projects there as well. So thank you again. Have a great day.