Sweat Treat with Autumn Harvest! {Brutus Monroe

 Welcome back to my Friday inspiration box project! Today I am going to show you a cute gift idea using the Brutus Monroe Autumn Harvest Inspiration Box. 

I really just love these scarecrow and would put them on everything fall. They are so cheerful. This is so easy to make.I picked up the wood crate from the dollar store along with the wide ribbon that I used for the filler. 

I blended Walnut stain and Ground Espresso Distress Oxide all over the box.

Then I spritzed it with a little water to give it that weathered look.

After It dried completely, I sealed it with Distress Micro Glaze. Then I colored in my scarecrow images and pumpkins.

To make the scarecrows sturdy on the out side of the box, I die cut each of the images out of heavy cardstock to glue behind the images that I colored.

Once I glued them together and they dried, I attached them to the crate using glossy accents and foam tape. 

To finish off the packaging, I used a sentiment from the conversation clippings, ribbon from a past inspiration box and a leaf that I die cut at an earlier time using the Brutus Monroe Fall Leaf Dies that I had in my stash. I made them using pigment crystals.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Don't miss out on this adorable inspiration box! 

Kimberly

Hello Fall {Brutus Monroe}

Welcome back to my Friday Inspiration Box tutorial! I just love the colors of the fall! This shaker card features the Autumn Harvest Inspiration Box from Brutus Monroe. I just cannot get enough of these scarecrows! They are just too too cute!

To start, I colored up a couple of the scarecrows that I had stamped and die cut. {copics are listed below} Then, using an oval die from my stash, I cut the center out of the leaf patterned paper included in the box. I cut a piece of the brown cardstock to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and a small piece of acetate to cover the oval for the shaker. I also pulled a couple of the leaves I had colored for an earlier card from my stash, I love when I can do that!

Next, I colored up some pumpkins that I had stamped and die cut. To make the shaker part of the card. I placed my patterned with the oval die cut on a piece of white paper, (which I thought was centered, but you will see was clearly not), to stamp the sentiment where I wanted it to be seen through the shaker window. Then I glued it down to the brown cardstock panel.

Next, I added the acetate to the back of the patterned paper and foam tape. I put a little mix of sequins in the center of the panel that I mixed up from my stash. I really like to glue a few down so they do not all fall to the bottom when I stand the card up.

I attached the foam panel to the card base and finished up the card by attaching the colored in images. I hope you do check out the Autumn Harvest Inspiration Box before they are all gone. This is such a super cute set!

{Copics}

Pumpkin : G20, G24, G43 Y11, YR31, YR65

Scarecrows: Clothes: G20, G24, G43, T0, B32, B34, B37, E40, E41, E43

Face: E000, E00, E11, R20

Straw: Y02, Y21, Y26

Thank you so much for stopping by! I will be back next Friday with more inspiration box ideas! Be sure to stop back!

Kimberly

Happy Pumpkin Season! {Brutus Monroe}

 I just cannot get enough of this month's "Autumn Harvest" Inspiration Box from Brutus Monroe! These two cards were made using three of the pre printed panels from the inspiration box. Sometimes I really just do not feel like coloring. These two cards that are super easy to put together because there is no stamping and I did "lazy coloring". Let me show you how....

For the first card, I used the pumpkin panel in the kit. I started out by blending Distress Oxide over the pumpkins.

Next, I used the "Tangled Waves" stencil that I purchased separately and went back over the pumpkins with Carved Pumpkin Oxide. 

You do not need to be perfect. You will see I have a little "blending outside the lines".

Next I blended Twisted Citron Distress Oxide around the pumpkins.

I sprayed it with water and dabbed it off for some water drops on the background. Then I die cut the panel using a rectangular die. I didn't trim it down with my cutter because I am going to use the outside of the rectangle. I flipped them over and taped them back together using purple tape. 

Then, I put the "Tangled Waves" stencil back over the panel and added some texture paste in random areas of the green background. For this, It is important to use the smaller palette knife so you can have more control over the placement of the texture paste. The reason that I didn't do this step first and then die cut it is because I didn't want the texture paste to get squished or stuck in my die from going through the die cutter.

To finish the card, I glued the frame of the panel to a black card base and added foam tape to the center then adhered it. I trimmed three of the sentiments I thought went nice together from the conversation clippings and added foam tape to them before adhering them to the card.

My second card was just as easy! To start, I foiled the vine panel with "Green Deco Foil".

Next, I ink blended Scattered Straw and Carved Pumpkin oxides over the petals. It helps to use a small blending brush for this. I used these blending brushes you see in the picture.

Then I blended Gathered Twigs Oxide in the center of the flowers. To finish them, I did color the leaves with my Copics. but that was all the actual coloring I did on this card. 

Next, I fussy cut the flowers out and glued them to the foiled leaf panel. I added foam tape to the full flower and popped it up on the card front. I added foam tape to the sentiment that I cut from the conversation clippings and adhered it to the panel. To finish this card, I adhered the panel to a black card base. How Easy Peasy!!!!

The Autumn Harvest kit really has so many creative opportunities!!! Thank you so much for stopping by! 

Kimberly