{"id":32442,"date":"2019-09-07T21:25:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T02:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=32442"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:30:54","slug":"tree-in-a-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=32442","title":{"rendered":"Tree in a Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Congrats to Rebecca, the newest Featured Stamper (FS657) on Splitcoast! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS<\/a><\/span> card to case. I kept the fall leaf theme w\/ the \u00a0big central leaf, but I used different images, different colors & a different technique.<\/span><\/p>\n

For my fall card, I started by die cutting a large leaf shape & using the negative as a mask to sponge Distress inks in the fall colors. Then I stamped the Single Fall Tree in Distress oxide ink in ground espresso. I used a water brush & more of the distress inks to add a little splatter.\u00a0<\/span>
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For the larger bg, I used the woodgrain bg, but not in the conventional sense. I used a technique I learned probably 15 yrs ago but I don’t see it used these days. I wanted the bg to look a little more solid, so I used a hair dryer to slightly heat a piece of fun foam then pressed it to the woodgrain bg. What I got was a solid version of the woodgrain. (See pic below.) The green block is made of fun foam & I inked it so you could see it better. This works w\/ any stamp, it just looks better w\/ some. I will caution you, do not use a heat gun..it’s just too hot & will melt the foam into a solid hard mess. I have an old, not very powerful hair dryer I kept just for things like this \ud83d\ude00 . I used my solid foam “stamp” & Distress inks in vintage photo & walnut stain for the bg.<\/span>
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Here’s the inside.<\/p>\n


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Thanks so much for stopping by!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Supplies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stamps: DRS Designs<\/span> \u2013Single Fall Tree,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Woodgrain Bg,\u00a0Beauty of Autumn\u00a0\u00a0(inside<\/span>:\u00a0Goodbye Summer,\u00a0<\/span>Open Leaf<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>) {DRS is out of business}<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paper:<\/b> Staples 110# white<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ink:<\/b> Distress inks ripe persimmon, dried marigold, crushed olive, fired brick, walnut stain, vintage photo, Distress oxide ink in ground espresso<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accessories:<\/b> Misti, Rubbernecker\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Rectangle Stitch,\u00a0Deckle Rectangle, Splatter Leaves <\/span>dies, fun foam, hair dryer<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Congrats to Rebecca, the newest Featured Stamper (FS657) on Splitcoast! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the fall leaf theme w\/ the \u00a0big central leaf, but I used different images, different colors & a different technique. For my fall card, I started by die cutting a large leaf shape & using the negative as a mask to sponge Distress inks in the fall colors. Then I stamped the Single Fall Tree in Distress oxide ink in ground espresso. I used a water brush & more of the distress inks to add a little splatter.\u00a0 For the larger bg, I used the woodgrain bg, but not in the conventional sense. I used a technique I learned probably 15 yrs ago but I don’t see it used these days. I wanted the bg to look a little more solid, so I used a hair dryer to slightly heat a piece of fun foam then pressed it to the woodgrain bg. What I got was a solid version of the woodgrain. (See pic below.) The green block is made of fun foam & I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716,82,37,43,14,446,44],"tags":[594,156,168,680,448,578,187],"class_list":["post-32442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brass-bliss","category-drs","category-fallhalloween","category-masking-reverse-masking","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","category-sponging","tag-drs","tag-fall","tag-masking","tag-rubbernecker","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite","tag-sponging","tag-trees"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44289,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442\/revisions\/44289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}