Autumnal ATC

Here's an autumnal ATC I made last night so I could join in with Week 797 of the ALLSORTS CHALLENGE where they want to see you using Autumn Colours (or you can choose the Anything Goes option).

Artist Trading Card measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

Card Info:

• Magazine snippet glued to piece of packaging measuring 2 3/8" x 3 3/8".
• Using my finger I applied orange and blue acrylic paint to the magazine paper, mixing those colours in places to create green.
• Once the paints were dry, I stamped over the top with various stamps by PaperArtsy; Kaisercraft and IndigoBlu using black Ranger Archival ink.
• I rubbed some white gesso over the top so that the leaves would stand out from the background.
• A white snippet of card was used to die cut the stem using the "Hidden Leaves" set by Sizzix. It was smeared with paints left over on my non-stick craft sheet from creating the background. 
• Black splatters were stamped on the die cut stem using a stamp from SU's "Gorgeous Grunge" set (discontinued) and black archival ink. 
• Shadows were created by using a black Stabilo All pencil and a waterbrush..
• Finally I stamped the  word "Flourish" onto a white snippet, cut it out with scissors and glued it on. The word is from Aall & Create's stamp set #628 "Spread a Little Happiness".
• Then everything was glued onto a white snippet of 300gsm card measuring 2.5" x 3.5" for the correct ATC size.