Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon

Set a stylish and rustic tone for your Thanksgiving feast with these beautiful Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon. Explore her creative process and techniques using Tim Holtz Stamps, Distress Spray Stains, and more in this tutorial.

  • Materials
  • Instructions
Tim Holtz Distress® Watercolor Cardstock 
Tim Holtz Distress® Archival Ink™ 4-pack: Ground Espresso 
Tim Holtz Distress® Spray Stain Wild Honey
Tim Holtz Distress® Spray Stain Kitsch Flamingo
Tim Holtz Distress® Spray Stain Evergreen Bough
Tim Holtz Distress® Spray Stain Brushed Corduroy
Tim Holtz Distress® Foundry Wax Kit #1: Gilded
Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
Tim Holtz Distress® Sprayer
Ranger Heat Itâ„¢ Craft Tool
Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stamp Sketchy Leaves
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Kraft Stock Metallics Classics
Tim Holtz Distress® Woodgrain Cardstock
Other:
#8 Tag Die  
Tim Holtz Sizzix Alphanumeric Tiny Type Lower Thinlits Die Set

 
 
Instructions

Hello there crafty friends! It’s Cheiron Brandon and I am here with another tutorial for you. This month, I am using my favorite stamp set of the season, Sketchy Leaves in some fun colors to match my fall table - of course you can use any colors you like! I am using Distress Archival Ink to stamp my leaves, then coloring them in with Distress Spray Stains to get quick and beautiful color, adding some Gold Accents and personalizing each one.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 1

Step 1: Gather your supplies. You will need Sketchy Leaves, Archival Distress Ink in Vintage Photo Distress Spray Stains and Gilded Foundry Wax as well as metallic cardstock and some letter dies.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 2

Step 2: Begin by stamping the leaves using Distress Archival Ink onto Distress Watercolor Cardstock. I always stamp on the smooth side of the cardstock.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 3

Step 3: Cut the leaves out carefully using a small pair of scissors.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 4

Step 4: Inside of a splat box spray your leaves with a mist of water using a Distress Sprayer and then Distress Spray Stains. I used Wild Honey, Kitsch Flamingo, Evergreen Bough, and Brushed Corduroy. 

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 5

Step 5: Let the leaves dry or dry with a heat tool.

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 6

Step 6: Use a foam blending tool to ink the edges of the leaves.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 7Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 7a

Step 7: Inside of splat box splatter the leaves with Gilded Foundry Wax. To do this, mix a few drops of the Foundry Wax with some Isopropyl Alcohol and use a brush to splatter. Tip: keep a brush just to use for this technique.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 8

Step 8: Heat the leaves with an embossing gun to make the Foundry Wax permanent and see it really shine.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 9

Step 9: Die cut your letters to create names out of Metallic Kraft Stock. To make it easy adhere your cardstock to some adhesive sheets beforehand.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 10

Step 10: Arrange the letters on the leaves.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 11

Step 11: Cut tags from Woodgrain cardstock and splatter with Foundry Wax. Heat just like in Step 8.  
 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 12

Step 12: Ink the edges of the tags with Distress Archival Ink.  

 

Distress Thanksgiving Leaves Place Cards by Cheiron Brandon Step 13

Step 13: Adhere leaves to tags and tie with twine at the top.

 

Cheiron Brandon has been creating handmade cards for over 15 years. She loves to create cards that incorporate Tim Holtz Distress products and mixed media supplies. She has done design work for many companies in the paper crafting industry including Tim Holtz, Simon Says Stamp, Reverse Confetti, Hero Arts, AALL & Create, Mama Elephant, Neat and Tangled, Dina Wakley, and Ranger Ink. She currently contributes a monthly feature to the Ranger Ink and Simon Says Stamp blogs. Cheiron lives in New Jersey and shares her art (almost) every day on Instagram @cheiron and other tutorials on her YouTube Channel.

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