Focus on Faith with Sara Furr: Vivid Fall Wreath

Blessings my dear friends, and welcome to my first edition of "Focus on Faith" for the month of November. 

I have been in absolute bliss this fall with the spectacular weather we have been having here in the North East. The trees have been so incredibly vibrant this year, and I just love it! 

I wanted to incorporate those bright, vibrant, fall hues into my creation this month, so without further ado, here is my creation... 

To begin, I stamped the grapevine wreath from "Frameworks Set 1" on heavy weight cardstock directly in the center with Versafine Sepia ink. I then started stamping my foliage around the wreath in multiple generations. I used the leafy foliage from "Foliage Set 1," and stamped that in 5 generations of yellow ink, working my way around the wreath, and extending the foliage to the edges of my 5x5 panel. Then, I stamped the fern foliage from "Bible Foliage Set 2" in a dark orange, stamping off first, and then I stamped 2 generations. I stamped one of the smaller leafy foliage from "Bible Foliage set 2" in a bright red, stamping 3 generations. Lastly, I stamped the daisy flowers from "Flower Set 1" twice in orange, and 3x in a dark cherry red.

I colored the vine wreath with a light brown alcohol marker, and then took a dark yellow alcohol marker and using a flicking motion I started drawing out color from the vine wreath into the stamped foliage. This served to add in and blend my colors a bit that I had stamped in dye ink.

When I was happy with my wreath I moved on to stamping my bird from "Mercy Set". I stamped him on heavy weight cardstock with Versafine Onyx black ink, and then colored him with a mix of Prismacolor, and Crayola colored pencils. I love using colored pencils to color in small images as I feel much more in control. When I was done coloring him, I fussy cut it out, and popped it up on tiny foam squares. I placed the cut out bird where I wanted him on my wreath, but didn't stick it down. Leaving him in place I stamped 3 music notes from the "Praise Set 1" in black ink and also the sentiment "Praise Him" from the "Praise Set 2". Then, I stuck down the bird and applied some yellow rhinestone gems to the centers of the flowers, and here and there on my card front. I distressed the edges of my panel and then adhered that to a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 white panel that I also distressed the edges of. I popped the whole focal piece up on white fun foam, and adhered it to my 6x6 white card base.

I created a panel for the inside stamping the G Clef, and the SING from "Praise Set 1", and I also stamped in a sentiment from "Praise Set 2" with Versafine Onyx black ink. I again colored my images with colored pencils. 

That finishes my card for today. I hope you enjoyed it, and that you are inspired to create a Faith filled card with the colors of fall.

God bless you all, and I pray you enjoy the rest of our beautiful autumn weather while it lasts. Get out and enjoy the beauty of God's Earth!

Sara Furr- The Crafty Farm Chick

Additional supplies used:

White heavyweight cardstock 

Versafine Onyx black ink 

Versafine Sepia ink

Dye ink pads in bright red, dark red, dark orange, orange, and dark yellow

Alcohol ink markers in light brown and dark yellow

Colored pencils

Scissors 

Yellow rhinestone gems

Focus on Faith: Clean and Simple PRAISE sets by Sara Furr

 Blessings my dear friends, and welcome to the second edition 

of my "Focus on Faith" for the month of October. 

Today, I am excited to share with you a clean and simple Faith inspired card featuring the newest Bible Journaling stamp sets called "Praise set 1", and "Praise set 2".

 Now, if you know my work, you know that I love to make incredibly detailed, layered, shabby chic, square cards.... but I also love to challenge myself to work on techniques that I'm not very good at, so I challenged myself to create a clean and simple, A2 sized Watercolor hybrid. I'm not very comfortable doing Watercolor, so I like to mix it with mediums that I have been working with to get better at using, and colored pencils is one of those mediums. I consider myself a "jack of all trades" so to speak, when it comes to using different coloring mediums. I'm not strictly a Watercolor artist or strictly a marker artist, like most of the other Design Team members. I love to experiment with using multiple mediums to color my images and create my scenes.

 So, to start with, I stamped the girl with flowers and the two side florals in a soft neutral grey, and then colored them with colored pencils, but I watercolored the sky and green grassy area below the florals.

When it was all dry I applied self adhesive black rhinestone gems to the centers of the flowers. I stamped the music notes in a very soft light brown, and I stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx black ink. I cut down my panel and distressed the edges of it before adhering fun foam to the back, and adhering it to my card base.

For the inside I simply stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx black ink and then the G clef in the light brown ink, but I stamped it off once before stamping the image over the sentiment. 

And that's it. This was a fun challenge for me to do lots of things that I don't normally do. I really like how it turned out.

 Do you ever challenge yourself to step outside your usual comfort zone and try new things, or work at perfecting techniques you don't normally do? I do, it has really helped me grow as an artist! 

"Praise the Lord O my soul", "The Lord is my strength and my song"

Thank you Bonnie for giving us these beautiful Stamp sets! 

Blessings to you all my friends!

Sara Furr- The Crafty Farm Chick

Non Ai products used:

Tombow markers: 847, 131, 126, 192

Prismacolor colored pencils

Self adhesive Black rhinestone gems