Hot Foiled Watercolored Colorful Fall

Happy September, friends and the Design Team is back from our summer hiatus and ready to inspire! Today's challenge is The Card Concept #159: Colorful Fall:

What a gorgeous picture and this year you can be inspired by the picture or the colors shown or both! I was inspired by the beautiful colors and leaves to create some Mixed Media cards and a bookmark using gold foiling and watercoloring:

When you start playing with your Spellbinders Hot Foil Glimmer Machine, of course you have to make multiples! It's heated up and ready to go, so I kept dropping plates and sentiments down until I had several to use.

They were foiled with Spellbinder's Gold Hot Foil onto Ranger Watercolor Paper - the smooth side for better adhesion with the foiling. I watercolored with The Stamp Market Color Crush Watercolor Palette. Lovely colors!

I tried to capture the beautiful shine from this foiling system in these pictures:

I love making bookmarks. I read books - just old school I guess!

Here are some of the rest of the products I used for these projects:

1) Spellbinders Picot Petite Rectangle Etched Dies

2) Crimson Fall, Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month (plates only)

3) Autumn Leave Border - Glimmer Hot Foil Plate

I look forward to seeing your creations on The Card Concept site. The challenge is for 2 weeks, so come play along!

I am also submitting to:

1) NBUS

2) Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

3) A Perfect Time To Craft

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