Autumn Spray
By Sue Mears
Materials Required:
Smooth White Card 12 x 12cm.
A4 White Watercolour Paper.
Poster/Acrylic Paint:
Gold and Silver.
Large Paintbrush and Tissues.
Tracing Paper, Pencil and
Carbon Paper.
Scissors and Ribbler.
UHU General Purpose Adhesive.
Brown Bead 8mm Diameter.
Card Mount: AP04G Brown/Gold.
To Make The Card:
Begin by painting the 12cm
square of card to make a back-
ground. Lightly wash over the
whole surface with gold paint,
scrunch up a tissue and dab off
the paint until you are left with an
effect you like. Set aside to dry.
Paint the A4 watercolour paper in a
random way using the large paintbrush.
Allow the background white to show
through in some areas, sometimes
overlapping the gold and silver and
sometimes just leaving a single colour.
The diagrams of leaves on the left are
shown with the quantity you need of
each. Cut strips of tracing paper 2.5cm Feed each leaf still folded through the
wide and place over the diagram with ribbler. It is important that the leaf is the
the left edge along the dotted line. right way round to get the correct pattern,
this should be stem end first and at an
To trace extra shapes of those you
angle. Test on some rough pieces first.
need more of, simply move the strip up
or down and trace the shape again. Mount the background into the
aperture and glue the flap closed behind
Cut the painted paper sheet into 5cm
it. Assemble the leaves onto the card
wide strips and fold each in half with the
mount, gluing with UHU. Open out each
painted side inward. Place the traced
leaf without pressing the fold out so it
leaves with the dotted line edge against
keeps some of its shape.
the fold line and, using the carbon paper,
transfer these designs to the back of the Glue the bead into the centre and add
Actual Size
painted strips and cut them out. a greeting sticker.
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