Magical Fall Foliage Card Class

1. Magical Fall Foliage Card Class: Welcome to the magical fall foliage class. I'm Cheryl. I'll be teaching you this class. Here's what we're gonna be covering. Let's go take a look. So this is a peek at some of the cars that were going to be creating in this class. Now we're going to be creating six cards in this class. You see eight here and I'll explain in a minute. I'm going to be using Linda's magically in this class. What I like about them is they're a nice pigment powder that have some shimmer to them or the ones that we're using in this class do anyways. And they have some color variation and it's just fun to play with. So I'll show you how to create different backgrounds with them, how to color papers, how to use them in different ways. We'll use them on some different dye cuts. In this one here, we use impressed slits. There's another one that was done with impress. Let's, I'll show you some different ways that you can mix them up with other products and how to use them on their own in a little different way, as well as how to use your dyes to create stamps. You can also use them for water coloring. So we had to have that in their class. Then I also use them with a stencil. Now these are part of the same section. This is the sample card that I created and then I chose a different stencil to use in the class just for some variation so that you can see how they're different. Stencils looked and reacted with the powders. And then last but not least, I don't create this card in the class, but I do talk about it a little bit and figured I'd show you here another variation that you can create with the supplies that we're creating or with the backgrounds that we're creating for this class. So this class does come with a supply list that lists all the supplies made for each are used for each and every single card. And those supplies are linked to where you can purchase them if you choose. They'll also have pictures of the sample card in there so you don't have to keep notes or remember which card goes with what supplemental. Let's go create some fun magical all cards. 2. Creating Magical Backgrounds Part 1: Now before we get started creating cards, let's talk about what we're gonna be using in this class. So I'm going to use some Lindsay's magical powders. Now these are pigment powders that have a shimmer to them. These ones that we're using in the class have a shim it to them. They also have some that are called flats that don't have shimmer to them. But I'm not using them in this class. I like the shimmer and I tend to gravitate towards those. Because you may have noticed when I open this, because the color doesn't really reflect the actual color that it ends up being. I made samples and I die, cut them and put them on the bottom of my jars. So that way you can see exactly or I can see exactly what the color looks like when it's on the paper. So the paper that I'm using for this class is some distress mixed media, heavy stock. You could also use watercolor. For these backgrounds. Whatever you use, you want to use a paper that can handle some water. We're going to be putting the powders on as well as putting a lot of water onto, have them flow and move around. And so you need a paper that's going to handle that water and that's designed to handle that water. Otherwise, it's just not going to react the same way. So the very first one I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do with this crimson color here. Now. The first one I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do it and how I normally don't do it to show you why I do what I do. So for this one, I'm just going to spray the paper. Then I'm going to take some of the powders. And I like using this fan brush because you get just a little bit of powder dropping from it as you're tapping the handle? Normally when I use powders, I'll use it like a sloppy straw or a little scoop. But I found that I got it a little bit too clumpy when I was using it that way. So so far, we're doing pretty good. I like to add more water, more water or more water and let that powder move around a little bit. Now, what I find and it's not happening right now, of course, because I'm trying to show you that it happens. What I find is when you use paper, whether it's big media heavy stock or whatnot, it starts to curl and it's doing a tiny bit, but not to the point that it normally does. So what I tend to do, I'm going to leave this one and move it towards the side in a minute. I tend to do is spray my surface first and then put the paper down and then start doing it so that that paper or that water is on both sides of the paper and it tends to stop it from curling too much. Now, you also end up getting a little clumps up the color. So I'm just using a watercolor brush to help break that up a little bit. You don't have to do this if you don't want to, if you want to leave your color, those little drops or whatever, if you like that and you want to leave that there, you can absolutely leave it there. I'm just going a little bit more water to get that moving around a little bit. You can also lift it up and move them. You'll notice there's different colors that come out. The crimson one comes out, mostly Crimson. But my favorite one for colors and they're surprising colors. Make sure you have paper towels to sop up excess water is the brown one. So let me show you what I'm what I mean. So depending on how much water you use for these is going to make a difference on the dry time. And I tend to use a whole lot of water, so it takes quite a bit of time for them to dry. I'm actually doing this the day before I wanted to create the cards. They have plenty of time to just sit and dry. So you see how as I'm sprinkling this brown powder, you got pink, there's blue, there's yellow, There's all sorts of different colors coming out of here. And they kinda explode like fireworks. They're kind of mesmerizing to watch, in my opinion. Alright, so spray the water on them. And I'm gonna do the same thing as last time. Just I'm and I'm just tapping up and down. I'm trying not to affect how the colors move, but I'm just trying to break up those clumps of color. If you want, you can spread the color around the outside. Most of these backgrounds are gonna be used to die cut. They're not gonna be backgrounds for cards. But I still try to make sure that the color goes pretty much all the way to the edge. Just gives you a larger area to choose from when you're doing your die cutting. If you decide you want a little bit more color, you can add a little bit more. This brown is really pretty because it's got a bit of a copper tone to it. The metallic or the shimmer in it is kinda coppery, which I really quite like. I'd like to spray water and then put the powders on and then spray more water. You could just put the powders on and then spray. I'll do that with the next one. In my opinion, I like the way the color spreads a little bit more. When I put water down, first lecture, I have only one piece of paper. Put some water down. Alright, so let's use the orange one now. The set that I'm using is called, what's it called? Autumn. Autumn leaves. So they're all fall colors, which I thought was really appropriate for a fall leaf themed class. I'm the type of person I tend not to do Halloween stuff, but I really like Falstaff. Alright, so we've got some dry card stock here, put it, put the orange down, and then spray. Once again as much or as little water as you want and the same with powder, you can do as much or as little as you want. You want darker, brighter colors, you can add more. But I love how it almost looks like fireworks when they're exploding in the water there. And then once again, just trying to get that color just to the edge. And the color tends to keep moving a little bit as it dries. Because I use water on both the top and the bottom, like I said before, it takes a long time for it to dry just because I do use a lot of water. I liked the color to spread out a little bit more. Just a personal preference. I like to see those colors spread around and not as concentrated. I don't really want to see as much of the background, so I tried to make sure that that's totally covered. I just lifted up those two sides when I was moving it. So I'm just trying to get those down. And the color on them. Then the next one. So I'm gonna do one of each color and then I'm gonna do one with all five of the colors. I still have a lot of water sitting on my surface here, so I'm not going to spray, I'm just going to use the water that's already there. I think it's probably gonna be enough. So the next one I'm using is called pines olive. I got a little bit of color from that was on my table here, but that's gonna be okay. I love the way. The reason I love these powders is the fact that they do have different colors that come out of them. These techniques will also work with perfect pearls. Parallax, the pollex though they, because it's not meant to be used with just water, you'd have to use Gum Arabic with it to get it to move and flow. But we'd have a nice shimmer with it as well as the perfect pearls. There's also brush oh, crystals. Those ones also have the different colors in them. But as far as I'm aware, they don't have the shimmer to them. The one I use them many years ago, they didn't have any shimmer to them. So if you have those and you also have perfect brush, you can kind of combine them together to get the different colors as well as the shimmer to them. That would be really, really pretty. Alright, let's move this over. Move this over. 3. Creating Magical Backgrounds Part 2: Then the last color that I haven't done is the teal. Now I'm not using the teal very much for this class because in my opinion, it's not really a full leaf color where I live anyways, we don't have any leaves that are TO, but it's really pretty with the other colors. I forgot to put water down first, but that's okay. You can see from the one that I did where I didn't put the water down. It really doesn't make a difference for how the Expo, especially with how much water that I add to it. This one, oh, I got some splatters on there, which is totally fine. This one would be really, really pretty. It kinda reminds me of a peacock feather. And like I said before, I'm tapping into these clumps just because to personal preference thing, I rather they not be there. But if you like the way they look, absolutely leave them. Alright. So the last one I'm going to do is I'm going to do a combination background with all of the colors in there. So let's start with the teal just because I have it here first and put water down. I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching them explode in the water. It's really fun to watch. And now the blue and I tend to see I close the containers every time and that's so that I don't happen to get water in them when I'm spraying. It did end up spraying water on my brush here. So the one side's a little bit damp. But I'll wash it off when I'm done and then let it completely dry and it'll be fine. Last one, the crimson. You can see how the color kinda settles into the center of the card stock. It repels the outside a little bit. Now, personally, the one with all of the colors is not really my favorite. It's kind of like the colors get all muddled. I think if I were to combine more colors, typically when I combine the colors, I'll only use two or three. If I were to combine more than that, I'd probably choose ones that were more in the same color family or around the same area of the color wheel just so that they don't end up making too much brownish colors. But for what we're doing in this class is going to be fine because there is some brown and some fall leaves. So I'm going to leave those there to completely dry. And I'll see you in the next video once theater dry and we'll do some embossed backgrounds. So this is how they all dried. There is the crimson one. Believe that one is the brown one. And then the orange. I loved the variation of color. I love the shimmer in them. The green. I love how there's some blues in there as well. And then the blue, I absolutely love this color just doesn't really go with a whole leaves class, but I love, love that color. And then that is all of the mixed colors together. So now in the next video, we'll do some embossing. 4. Creating Embossed Magical Backgrounds: Alright, so now we're gonna do some embossed patterns. So I'm using some 3D embossing folders for this, we're gonna do three different backgrounds for the backgrounds of cards. And this is just going to give them time to dry. I don't use quite as much water with them as I use with the flat backgrounds. Mainly because I I spray the water on here and it goes into the cracks while we're embossing it. So it doesn't take quite as long as those backgrounds to dry. But you still want to make sure that they have lots of time to dry because you're not gonna be able to glue anything if it's not completely dry. So I'm just brushing the powders into the crevices on my embossing folder, my pieces of paper that I'm using, I'm still using the mixed media paper. They are four and a quarter by 5.5. It's a little bit bigger than what I need, but I will just cut those pieces down once they are done. I'd like to do it after they're done so that if by chance the folder has an edge or the paper has a bit of an edge from the folder. I can cut that part off and I don't have to worry about how it's laying in the folder. So only need to put the powder on one side of the folder. And before I did it, I checked and look to see which side I wanted the powder to be on and what as in which side to put the Bowers. And I'm going to move these to the side so I don't get a spray on them. So there's two ways to do this. I can put the paper in, emboss it and then spray it. I tend to like to spray the folder, put my paper and try not to move it, close it. And then I've got my big shot here. I've got the top tab if my multipurpose platform open and we only need one plate. For this. Like I said before, I'm using 3D in Boston Children's, and that's mainly because I have these and they have a fall foliage foliage theme to them. You could use regular embossing folders as well. So look how pretty that is. The nice thing about the embossing folders is the pigments and the colors don't move quite as much. You can put as much or as little as powder you want. I tend to put a thin layer because I don't really want to waste them. The one thing to keep in mind, though I'm gonna move that to the side to dry, is you're going to have moisture still in your embossing folder and on your plates. You will want to clean that off just with a paper towel before doing your next one to keep things nice and neat. So I'm just going to put this to the side. Move my machine away. Then we'll do the next one. The next one I'm going to do is this wood grain one. I'm gonna do this one with the brown. I'm going to do it the same way for this one here. The other one, I went in whatever direction it didn't really matter. This one because the wood grain is going one way. I tend to brush it with the wood grain. And the only time I go to the side or to a different direction is when I have some excess on my brush there. I tend to cover the whole thing. You don't necessarily need to if you don't want to, if you just want it in certain areas, you can absolutely do that. These ones here I am using as backgrounds. So I kinda want the color and the shimmer over the whole background. Then once you have them completely covered, like to close my bottles so that I don't miss water in there accidentally. I'm going to spray it again. I tried it the other way once. Did the powders and then sprayed it. I just found that I liked the way that it looked this way better. For me. I had a little bit more even coverage. I just like the way the ink flowed, but try them both ways and see which way you like them. Alrighty, So here's this one. This is the brown one. So this one has the different colors in it. I love how that looks in the background, the shimmer part, you tend not to see a whole lot of it until it is completely dried. Now once again, let's get all this moisture out. If you've got Mike and stuff like that or pigment in your folder here, you just run it under some wondered and under the tap. And that will clean it right off. You definitely want to get it off of your plates and stuff like that before. For this project is not necessarily going to matter if you happen to get some of this on to something else. But you definitely wanna do it before you're working on a different project that you don't want to get contaminated. Alright, so for the last background, I'm going to use this leap folder here. So it's basically just a blown in version of a leaf. So I'm going to use this public basically, I'm going to use all the colors except for the blue. Not going to use a ton of the crimson because I find that it overpowers. But I'm gonna do the green in the center. This one I tend to go any which way because of the pattern. I find that it works fine. And for the other colors I like to do the green in the center of the other colors. I kinda do them. Really any way. Fall leaves. So there's not really a rhyme or reason for the way that the colors move into brown next, and then I'm gonna do the crimson. I'm doing the brown around the edges to frame it a little bit. This is one of those things that you plan it to a certain point. And then the colors are gonna kinda do what they're going to do. You don't really have control over what they do and how they flow other than where you're putting your powders. So for the red one, I'm just going to tap it in and then brush it so that I get it a little bit. The whole thing. And I do like to brush it in here because I don't want clumps of powder. Alright, so let's spray it and then put to my paper in there. Grab my machine. So by doing it this way, you can get a bunch of backgrounds done in a short amount of time and then you're just waiting for all of them to dry rather than doing each one separately. And then having to wait for each one to dry. Go. With this one ended up having a lot more red in it. Then the, I'm gonna move this out of the way. Then the background for my card, but I love that. Now, this part here doesn't have any color in it. I can take my sprayer and just spray it just to get it. I just didn't want it to be the the plane cream color. I wanted to have a little bit of color there. Once again, I'm going to let all three of these dry. Let's grab all three of them so you can see them together. That way when we're gonna do those cards, they are ready. 5. Oak Leaf Impresslit Card: Alright, so this is the very first card that we're going to make for this class. We've already got our background done. I've cut it down to four inches by five and a quarter inches to fit on the card base. And then we're going to use these impress lips to cut out some leaves. I've got two different styles here. I'm going to do it out of the piece or the background that we did, all of the colors on. And then I'm just gonna choose which leaves that I want to use based on how they turn out. So impressed this are like an embossing folder as well as the dye in one. So I'm going to need to missed the paper before I die cut it. And then I'm going to, once it's done die cutting, I need to let it dry clay and he's led the paper. Sorry. Once it's done die cutting, I need to let the paper dry completely before assembling the card. So I'm going to put my background and boss piece onto my card. And I put glue over the whole thing. And because of the texture, what I like to do once I've got it centered how I like, I like acrylic block on it and then a weight on it just to hold it down. Otherwise, I have to physically hold it. Pull the card out of the way and grab my dad cutting machine. So just like the 3D embossing folders, I need only one acrylic plate and I know that my platform, the top tab open. So I'm going to put my pieces of or my embossing folders rate and my machine, I'm going to lightly miss both sides of the card stock. Now, this will remiss the magical is on here, but it's not going to move them around a lot because I'm not putting a lot of water on there. I'll put a little bit more on the back. And then I want to put the colors side down facing the dye part of the embossing folder. Little bit trickier but using two at one time. And if you're more comfortable with it, you can cut the piece of card stock in half and then do it. I'm going to have to do that because it's not liking this. I'm just going to leave the paper in there for a moment just to let me know where to cut it. Now in progress, Let's have actually been discontinued by physics. But at the time of this recording, you can still find them in stores. And it's just not wanting to. I still have my other cleaning here. That's why sometimes they're so clear that you just forget that they're there. Much better. If you ever have that with your machine that is just not working. There's clearly something wrong. And even if you've been using one for years like I have, it's still possible to have issues. I like to tap them. And often they will come out if they don't. You can use little depict to help get it out because the car or because the paper was misted, it'll be flexible. A pretty those are move this one to the side. Make sure the dye in here is completely covered. Both came out at the same time. I love these because not only do they die cut the leaf, but they impress the texture rate into there. I'm going to let those completely dry. The other thing we're going to use for this part is this thanks die. This particular dye has a shadow with it as well. I could have cut the two pieces apart, but I like to cut both at the same time. And then I just mix and match my sentiment. So I'm gonna do the red 1 first and lower the smaller one that stayed in the DEI survey stayed in the paper. Sometimes words are heard. Alright, I'm going to put that to the side. Then I'm going to take up my green one. And these paper or these backgrounds are big enough that you can get two of each out of it. Go get the machine out of the way. So for this card, I'm going to use the shadow out of the red and the words, the smaller area or whatever, out of the greed, the sentiment. So these are all fall cards. And for me, thankful are grateful or whatever would be perfect for them. But I don't have a dye or a stamp that says that. So we changed it to things. But really can use whatever sentiment you want on them. And obviously these techniques will work for cards that are not fault either. I typically like using weight. It's just dress collage medium for this. Just because if any oozes out, it's nice and clear and it's Matt. But I just tried it a moment to go and it seems to be clogged. It's a brand new bottles, so I will fix it off camera and then use it for the rest of the class. But it is my preferred glue for this because I don't like to see the shine of glue that has seeped out. But there we go. I'm going to tuck that aside and then let my leaves dry and I'll see you when they are completely dry and we'll complete the card. Alright, My background is glued down and my leaves are dry, and I think I'm going to use the oak leaves just like I did for my sample. I really like how these ones turned out. But I like how this has more of a contrast to the background. I've gotten my glue working. It really only took about, I wanna say 15 minutes or so for that glue to dry, that glue to dry the water to dry that I missed it on my paper before putting it through my die cutting machine. So it doesn't take that long because I just wanted enough moisture on there for it to be malleable and push into all of the detail of that impressed lit. And I see that I have not taken the center of my K and S out. Definitely want to do that before it gets glued down. Alright? And then just a simple things. Because those are cut out from the same backgrounds we made with the magic goals, they match perfectly. The reds a little bit brighter, but that's because these ones blend it in with some of the other colors, changing the color a little bit, but a very simple, but very textured thank you card. 6. Diecut Leaves Card: The next card that we're going to make in this class is this one here we've got the leaf background, I've already glued it to the background and my card, it's done the same way as the previous card. That way it's going to have time to completely dry before we glue or leaves on. The leaf dies that I'm using are these fun dies? It has an outline die, but it also has an inside die for the detail. You can use them together, you could use them apart or you can even just use this and cut basically windows into your card. So for the first paper, I'm going to use the detailed ones inside of the outline ones. So you wanna make sure that they're placed exactly how you're wanting them to cut. There is a little bit of wiggle room in there. Then I'm going to put my paper on because there's a bunch of detail in there. I do run it back-and-forth a couple of times. There we go. So the die is do tend to stay inside that paper. I'm going to take the background out. Then it does get a little bit finicky taking these bits and pieces out. But I just take my die pick and poke them and then gently take them off. If you wanted to, you could save the little detail pieces from inside and glue those down on a card. That would be really, really pretty, haven't done that yet, but I think it'd be really pretty. So there is one of our outlines. I'll do the rest of them off-screen, but I will take my solid outlines and will die cut the next piece for that one. So the first one I did the orange background and is very little difference between the orange and the brown, but the brown has a more coppery look to it. So I'm doing a solid ones. The brown because it's just an outline. I don't need to go back-and-forth. Detail is super simple so I can just run it through one time. There we go. Then I'll show you what I'm gonna do with this one, and then I'll do the rest of the other ones off screen just because it's almost like watching paint dry to see the same thing over and over again. So I'm going to put glue on the whole outside plus anything inside that could possibly stick out and catch on something. So those little ends there, I put glue on. You can see there's a little bit of glue seeping out, but that's okay. This is the distress collage medium, so it's going to dry completely clear and it's gonna be met. You're not even going to see where that glue is. Some of those lines are so thin that it's hard to get a small enough amount of glue. So that's one leaf it done. I'll do the other ones. There'll be back in. The background is dry on here and so are the leaves. So I'm just going to lay them out without gluing them down first. And then I'm going to glue them down. This way I can adjust them as I glue them or completely move them around to suit what I want. It looks wise, I'm gonna get that right into the corner. I'm going to shift this up a little bit as I'm gluing them down. And I'm putting a generous amount of glue on the back just because of the texture of that embossed background, I want to make sure that there's enough adhesive making contact with it. Then I'll probably put that acrylic block on there again to dry. I probably won't add my jar of beads because it doesn't need to be that heavy, but just something to give it a little bit of pressure to make sure what I'm going to put that in a little bit so that it fits into a normal-sized envelope. And I'm going to put this up again a bit as well. There we go. So I'm going to let that dry completely. So this one here, I didn't chose not to put a thing on the front. You absolutely could, could, there's definitely room there. You could also just put a sentiment on the inside of the card. But there you go. I love all the beautiful shimmer that you see on the texture of that embossed background. 7. Diecut Gel Medium Leaves Card: So now we're going to create the paper to die cut these leaves out of. And what we're gonna do is we're going to use some gel medium and mix the powders with it. Now the great thing about the powders, as you don't have to use them just as they are. You can use them with other mediums as well. I've got another class on here called Mica powder techniques that has a bunch of different ways of using my powders that are different from the ones that are in this class. So check that out. There's other ways that you can use them as well. I'm going to put some powder on my gel medium. I'm going to mix it on my surface here. As much or as little as you want. I want to see the kind of coppery color coming out of here. So I'm using the brown one. So it's the one that has the PID of a copper look to it. In all honesty, it looks horrible when you put it on the paper like this. But it dries and has more of a coppery look to it, which is really cool. And I'm not trying to have a smooth background. I want to see a little bit of those colors, streaks. Because I am die cutting the leaves that are here. It doesn't need to be all the way to the edges. But I do want to make sure to have some good coverage. And I'm trying to be a little bit random with my palette knife strokes. If there's a bunch of streaks with blue here, I want to just kinda break it up a little bit basically until you like it. So I'm going to leave that to dry like that. Make sure to clean your surface and your palette knife off first. Or while they're still wet so that you don't have to clean up dried stone can see how super easy it is to put these cards together. Once you've got all these backgrounds completely done and ready to go. But the three dyes from this set that I'm going to use, this particular set has five different dyes in them, but they don't all fit on one card, so you can choose which ones are your favorites. And there's not really a certain part of the background that I'm going to use. So I'm just putting my dies down the paper on top and then die cutting. There's really no secret or anything to die cutting a background that's got Joe medium on it. It die cuts beautifully with no issues at all. So I'm just going to pull the paper out and then take my die out. And you see how as I'm pulling them out, the paper kinda curves a little bit. I really liked that when I was making the sample. So I decided to embrace that. And you can see when I go and glue the card or glue the leaves down, I add some foam dots behind some areas. And then I glue it flat on other areas to keep some of that texture that those leaves got those to the side, I'll pick the pieces out later. Then the last thing I need to die cut well, I've got my machine out is my thanks. Die again. This is a background I made when I was creating the class. This background here with a bunch of different colors. And it was just too busy for a background in my opinion. So I just chose to use it and die cut those pieces out. For some of the sentiments, you lose some of the embossed texture. There's still a little bit there. So for this particular use, it's more about the color that came out these pieces here. I typically throw them away unless there's something there that's big enough to die cut for another project. I'm going to take the thicker of the two out for right now because that's just what we need for this card. I'll take the other one out later because I do use that on another card. I've already got my embossed background on my card base once again is the same as the very first card. I just cut it down to four inches by five and a quarter and then glued it down and then wait it down. Because of that texture, I wanted to make sure that it was pressed down really good while it was trying to tuck that to the side. Now, I'm going to choose which. I think I'm gonna do the same layout as I did for my sample card. So there's my phone dots here. So these foam dots aren't super, super thick. If you wanted to use thicker ones, you absolutely could. I didn't want to make the card too thick and have to use a different type of envelope or pay for postage or whatnot. So I left it. Thinner. Pop dots. I haven't issued today talking while I'm doing something else. Alright, so I'm only going to put glue on the end and the stem of the leaf. We go and I've got those foam popped out stages, leave it raised a little bit, which I like because it gives it that extra little bit of texture. Makes those leaves look a little bit more natural. And I'll do this regularly if I want. Dy is to have a little bit of movement or whatnot to them. This is one this is a 1 second here. This is a card that I did yesterday. It's got a feather die, but I put foam pop dots here and there and then I glued in the three areas so that it's just got some it looks better than flat. It's got some texture to it. It's got some movement. Little bit more interest in my opinion. That's not to say that just gluing them down flat is wrong or not interesting. But just sometimes it calls for a little bit. Oh, I forgot to put the glue on the ends. Sometimes it calls for a little bit, something a little bit different and unexpected. There we go. And then last but certainly not least. And clearly this background, the color changes a little bit while it's drying. It looks so much better once it's dry than it did when that gel and the magic of the brown magic goals were wet. It was definitely not a nice look that way. So I was quite pleased that it turned a little bit concrete as it dried. The tape backing of these leaves his or fighting me today. There we go. I just placed them kind of as if they were falling from the trees. Get them a little bit of movement and I try not to put them all exactly the same way. This one here I tucked in, I think for this card I'm going to glue it to the front. And I actually think I'm going to use some of the pop dots to give it a bit of dimension. Just for something a little bit different from my sample card. Should be good enough. Now I have a little bit about popped up showing through. So I'm going to take my scissors and I'm just going to snip it because I don't want to see that from the front of the card. It looks a little bit messy. And there's another one here that's showing on this slide there. So just make sure to check on that because you don't want to see that adhesive through it takes some of the niceness of your finished card away. It's always nice to have a nice finish. Alright, there we go. Put that on there. So that's got a little bit of dimension to it. There you are. One that has the thanks popped up and one that it's tucked in there. Both absolutely beautiful and I love the different texture that the gel medium gives those leaves. And I also love that you can see the different little colors from those magically in that gel medium. Definitely gives it a more interesting look for sure. 8. Stamped Magical Leaves Card: So now we're going to use the dye cuts and the magic was a little bit differently. So I'm going to use my dicots to create a leaf stamp. And the way I'm going to do that is by taking my dies and I'm going to cut some foam that has adhesive on one side. If you can't find the phone with adhesive on one side, you could just do regular foam and then glue it onto your basically stamp base, whichever one you want to or whichever way you want to do that. The fun foam sets very, very easily. So I'm going to put my leaves in here and I'm choosing to live the leaves that I didn't die cut for that stamp so that I can use it for something else. And you just die cut them. Like I said, they cut super, super simple. You don't even have to go back and forth. It cuts all the way through. Most of those foam pieces are going to fall rate out and the ones that don't, they're super easy to pick out. Then I've got them glued onto it. Just a little piece of wood that I got at the dollar store and I cut it down to the same size as I'm a card front because I think I did it four by four and a quarter by 5.5. Note four by five and a quarter. Just because I knew that for most ways that I would want to use this. I would it would be a little bit smaller than the card base because they typically have a mat around it or typically put this onto the card base. I'm gonna get some scrap paper here. And I'm going to grab my brushes. I actually only need one brush because I can use the same brush for all of the colors. And I'm going to use the green, the orange, the brown. I'm going to leave the red and the blue out of there. Don't want too many colors because it gets a little bit really too colorful. So I'm just taking an embossing pad and tapping it on here. This one happens to be a color box one. Typically I use versa mark. I'm trying to use this color box one because they no longer make them anymore. So I'm trying to just use it up so that I can free up some space. But the verse of Mark will work exactly the same as this. Put it wherever you wanted on your card. And just like other stamping, I hold it in one place and then press around it. And then we're going to use our powders. Now I have another class on this platform that's called Mica powder techniques. And these madrigals were worked for all of those techniques. So the ones that I'm showing you in this class are not the only thing that you can use. These powders with. You can use them with other things. So check out that class because you'll get even more ideas. I could do this whole thing with just one powder color. That would be really cool too. But I just thought, why not choose several? Since fall leaves tend to have different colors on them, these extra powders, you can't really use them for anything, especially since I'm mixing up different colors here. So when I do take the excess powder off of here, That's pretty much going to be thrown out, but I'm trying to make sure not to use too much excess. And I'm typically just pouncing it where that ink is. Now that ink isn't enough to just stick these powders where they are and have them stay. I need to mix it with some water. So before I do that, there's a lot of excess powder around where that ink isn't. A Swiffer cloth is your best friend for that. And you can just rub that rate off to the side. I can toss the powder so I don't get it on my craft task. And then I'm going to close these. Now I'm going to lightly miss this and then let it dry. Now that missed the water is going to activate the binding agent in these powders. And then once they're dry, I can use them on my card and I don't have to worry about them rubbing off. That's about all I need. There were some larger dots. That's fine. I'm just going to leave it where it is. And I think, I think I got it on this leaf, but I'm just going to go from this side a couple of sprays and then let that completely dry. Before we move on, this piece is a quarter sheet, so it's four and a quarter by 5.5. So I do need to cut it down to 33 quarters by five inches. I'll have all these measurements on your supply list. But I'm going to let that dry completely before I cut it down because then I can choose exactly where I want to cut it and I don't have to worry about possibly smearing anything. Alright, our background here is dried and I'm going to cut down. My card stock here, and I think I'm going to just do a little bit off of each edge. I like the way that it's kinda centered on card stock. This is actually a mixed media heavy stock, same as the backgrounds. And the reason for that is because we missed it the water I wanted to make sure that it can handle being miscible with water regular card stock for this might have been okay. But I just wanted some continuity. I'm going to take some Walnut Street stain distressing and just lightly go over the edges. I just want to frame at a tiny little bit because the water is all dry. Don't have to worry about messing up my leaves. If I run my finger over it, I'll get a little bit of the Micah on my finger. And that just happens. But I'm not gonna get a whole lot and certainly not as much as if I hadn't missed it with water. I've got my card base, I've got my mouth already glued down to it. And I'm going to glue this piece on. Then I'm going to hold it down with the acrylic block wall. My sentiment together. Second, Great Go. And holding it down with an acrylic block, like be like I said before, it just saves having to hold it with my hand. That way I can work on other things while that is drying. I'm going to put the glue over the back of my sentiment here, glue it to the shadow. These are just ones that I die cut from previous videos are from previous cards, I should say. Either way you knew what I meant. Alright, there we go. Now glue this to the back and then this card is done super simple. This technique would work with stamps as well. I chose to die cut and create stamps out of my dicots just because they didn't have any leaf stamps. I also wanted to show you that you can take your dye cuts and create stamps out of them. I'm obviously would work better than others. But just know that, that, that's always an option. So beautiful, simple leaf card. And I just loved that shimmer. I just can't get over that shimmer. So I'm gonna put my acrylic block on that to let that completely dry. There we are. 9. Watercoloured Magical Leaves Card: Now we're going to use the magic goals in another way with water. So we're going to actually do some watercolor with them. So the very first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to stamp boss my images. I'm embossing them with gold powder. Because I think that'll be pretty with these magical colors as well as it's perfect for fall. So I'm doing three stamps at the leaf image. And then I'm doing one of this sentiment and I just chose one that says it's your special day. Then I'm going to embossed them all at once. If you're more comfortable, you can do each piece individually. And I'm using black watercolor paper here. You could also do this with white watercolor paper or cream watercolor paper. Doesn't necessarily have to be black. I just like the way this looked on the black background. So I've got a little bit of embossing powder here that's stuck to the paper. I'm going to brush that off before I embossed my image. Otherwise, that will melt rate on the card stock as is, and I don't want it. There we go. I'm using a heat gun here to emboss. A heat gun is not like a blower dryer. It emits heat, so it's going to melt that powder. You'll notice too, that while I was embossing, I would just kinda slowly moved my heat gun around. One thing that a lot of people do is they do this. Not just spreads the heat around. It doesn't actually make an embossed faster. It takes a little bit longer actually if you do it that way. So if you just patient and move it around slowly as the powder melts, you'll have a better a better embossed image. You won't have to go back and touch it up. So I'm going to put a little bit of each of these powders in my little watercolor palette here, you will need something that has a little bit of a dip in it or else you can use old sour cream litter or something like that. That would work as well. And if you happen to make too much watercolor, they do, they do dry up in your palette so you don't have to worry about it staying wet. I'm only using a little tiny bit here just because I still have some in my tray here. And I'm just going to spray a little bit of water in there and get that going. Not using the blue, I'm just using the green, the orange, the red, and the brown. I've got my watercolor brush here. I like this one because it has water in the handle. So as I want a new color, I can just squeeze the water through my brush and it cleans the tip off. But you could also use one where you dip it into water as well. So the one thing with turning these into watercolor paints is you don't get all the different dots of color within the color that all mixes up. And I chose to do this on black watercolor just for something a little bit different. Also works on white. And obviously also works with other images as well. I did this one here. So this one here is on Black, same colors. And then I also did on white. On white, you definitely see the different colors of the pigments a lot better. But some people don't know that black watercolor paper exists or that you can use it or whatnot. So I just figured I'd try something a little bit different because there's that shimmer in there. It does make the gift, the paint some opacity so that you can see the color on a dark background. And there's not really any rhyme or reason as to what color I'm painting the leaves. I'm just going in and randomly doing some and some colors and some of the other colors. I'm choosing to do each leaf a different color rather than mixing colors on a single leaf. But you can absolutely mix colors if you want it to. These leaf stamps are a little bit smaller. If they were bigger images, I probably would mix the colors, but this is what I had for leaf stamps. So I'm going to leave that for a few minutes for the paint to completely dry before gluing it onto my card base. I'll see you in a moment. Alright, the watercolor is dry now and it really only took a few minutes. Because those areas were not very large. It didn't take very long. So I'm going to glue my image piece to the background. I go. I am going to take my acrylic block just to hold it down while I'm doing the bow. I kinda thought it looked a little bit plane without something, basically holding it together, whatnot. So I chose to do a bow. I have just a ribbon scrap here that I've had for a very long time that matches the colors and then also has a gold trim. Obviously, any ribbon color would work. Depending on what stamp you choose. You may not necessarily need to have a ribbon on there, like there was butterfly ones. I didn't need that. But for this, I just thought it suited it a little bit better. Now, I'm going to glue that ribbon on there. I do need to leave this card alone without touching it for a little while just because the wet adhesive with the ribbon, it's going to take a little while for that to dry. There we go. Very, very simple, very easy. But another way to use your magical or your Micah powders. 10. Stenciled Magical Leaves Card: For the last card, we're going to use the magical with stencil. The sense that I use for my sample card was this one here. I believe they're ginkgo leaves, but I'm not with my plant names. So for this one are for to demonstrate I'm going to use this stencil just so we can see what how the different stencils look. Because I'm curious too. Similar to the backgrounds. I'm just going to dust some of each of the colors and I am going to use all of the colors for this because for the stencil, I liked the look of the different colors all mixed together. I'm just putting a little bit of each over the whole surface and then I'm going to spray with water. Now, you'll notice from my sample that some of the water did seep underneath this tensile. I'm fine with that. Don't I don't know if there's a way to completely eliminate that. I think if you used a product like pixie dust or pixie spray sorry. On the back of your stencils. It's a temporary adhesive. I think that might help, but I actually don't have any to try it out and it's not a product that I've ever personally felt that I've needed. So haven't tested and see if that would work. I know that my pencil is lifted in some of the areas, so I know for sure anywhere that is lifted, It's definitely going to be seeping under the stencil there. But either way, it's going to create a beautiful background with that shimmer. So I'm just closing all of my magic goals, my powders up so I don't get any over spray in them. Them to the side and then I'm going to miss the water as much or as little as you like. I'm just doing it until I see the colors moving around in the different areas. And there we go. Now we don't touch a thing. We let that completely dry and don't move anything until that is dry. Alright, so the background isn't a 100% dry, but it's dry enough so that the paint isn't going to be moved. And I have to admit I already peeked, saw that it the color snuff underneath, but the cool part about it is a lot of the Micah stayed within the stencil. So I actually really quite like how the background turned out and like I said, it's not completely dry. So I'm going to set that aside to dry. But one thing I did want to mention is in my sample, because there was a lot of whitespace in here. I added some splatters, and obviously that one is not going to have the whitespace in there. So just so you know how I did it, I took a splatter brush, took my little palette that I had my watercolor micas in. And I just plotted them over the background where I wanted them to go between the colors. I dried the brush off just so I wasn't contaminating the colors. And then you can go into a different color and then just let them dry. So it's a good way to just add some sparkly dots. It doesn't necessarily need to be with a stencil image. It could be with a stamp damage or whatnot, but just a way to add some of that color to the background in a way that's not going to overtake the actual image. So just wanted to address that for a moment. I'm going to let that dry completely and then we'll continue on with card. Alright, My background is completely dry and I have cut it down to four inches by five and a quarter. Let's glue it onto the background. Let's go and grab the acrylic block to hold it down. And then glue the sentiment together. I've already cut those exactly the same way as I die, cut all the other ones in my sample. I don't have anything else other than the sentiment. But for this one, I thought I changed it up a little bit just because the background is so cupboard and there's not the whitespace. Alright, let's glue this to the card. Hold that down for a moment. So these are the leaves that I made in, I think it was the first, the first section that I really, really like. These are the ones that I made when I was doing the sample card. And I think I'm going to use these ones just because it's the colors a little bit more bold. But I'm going to glue these to the back of the card. Same design as the first card, but just with this tensile background rather than an embossed background. Once again, I put a lot of glue on the back there. And I just got to put some more on there just because there's a lot of texture there and you want to make sure that the glue does have contact. So I'll just put a little bit closer to the edges there. There. Same here. Put a little bit closer to the edges, make sure it's got some contact with the paper below. Does need to sit too dry. But there we go. I really love how that background turned out as well and how the Mike I kind of stayed mostly within the stencil. I'm going to set that to dry. And then one thing I wanted to show you while I was waiting for that to dry. So the cutouts from the leaves from this card here, While I was waiting for that to dry glue them onto the blue background that we made when we were doing the backgrounds. And that's what they look like. Little bit fiddly to do and tedious to do, to place them altogether and glue them down. But it does look really, really cool. I think I'm going to take another one of the leaves from what I was doing, the sample cards, I still have the pieces from that and glue it right in here just because I think four is a weird number to have on there. But I just figured I'd show you that in a card. 11. Magical Fall Foliage Card Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the magical fall foliage class. I hope you enjoy learning the different techniques in this class and it's inspired you for some future projects. I hope to see you back in class soon.