An Autumn Wave

Aloysius is happily waving at you through the tumbling Autumn leaves, I hope you are waving back!

I stamped the gorgeous Aloysius and then drew him an arm as he wanted to wave at you. I gave him some colour, and then fussy cut him.I was very careful not to nip him.

To make a small exploding canvas, I painted the inside back of the box canvas, I used Indigoblu paints in Hot Cocoa and Leather Corset and I also added some Penny dreadful luscious to give an Autumn gleam.

I Used Warm Tan To paint  the front of the canvas and when the paint was still wet 

I crumpled up some copy paper and pressed it onto the paint.It left  lovely texture from the creases.

I cut the middle section of the canvas into four diagonally.

I then created a background for Aloysious using the same texture technique as before.I repeated this process again on another sheet of card to create my leaves from.

I die cut numerous leaves from the  painted card and after crumpling them up, I added flitterglu and Chocolate Box megaflakes  to make them truly shine.

Aloysius made himself comfortable on the background card, and I added some leaves  around him.

Next I adhered each of the four flaps to the front of the frame and proceeded to decorate the frame with lots of leaves, small pine cones, and twigs.

I adhered the background to the back of the frame.

 A sentiment or message could be stamped onto card and then cut out and added onto the canvas. If you do not have leaf dies or punches you could draw and then cut out the leaves.

Take a peek at the Indigoblu blog to discover what the rest of the wonderful Indigoblu team have created.

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

Craft Stamper  Anything Goes with stamping.

Penny Black Close To Nature

Stamping Sensations Autumn Glory

Country View Crafts Mixed Media with Autumnal Hues 

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies

Words To Craft By Autumn 

Vintage Journey Autumn Colour 

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