Hi everyone!

We had a few days of unseasonably warm weather recently so I’ve spent a lot of time in my garden – weeding and getting it ready for winter. Today I decided I had earned a crafty day and felt that it was the right time to colour the image from the gorgeous Autumn Boots stamp set (31-013) that Penny Black kindly sent me last month. I will confess, I was a bit nervous to colour this image – especially the boots! I just want to do the image justice!

So I tried something different this time – rather than rely solely on my Twinkling H2O paints to colour, I got out some masking paper, masked off sections of the image and use distress inks for the boots and the pumpkins. Yes, it was a bit fiddly but totally worth it! I toyed with adding some coloured pencil details to the pumpkins in particular but decided to leave it this time.

As I had stamped the whole image onto making paper, I actually cut out some leaves and a bird and used them to mask off parts of the image when I created my background with the large circle stencil from the Background Basics set (25-021). I don’t usually do this when I create my backgrounds, but it meant that I didn’t have to lift any distress ink from the stamped image.

Penny Black has some amazing autumn sentiments but I just has to choose one of my favourites from the Autumn is Calling set (30-863).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.