A Vintage Challenge - Bountiful Harvest

Fabulous new challenge over at A Vintage Journey

Sandy is the host and here's her challenge description

With Halloween's passing we step into fall.  For this challenge let's think about the harvest.  

It seems that pumpkins, wheat, corn and even the Harvest Moon could be in order. 

For us in the US -  a Thanksgiving theme could work but not necessary

A beautiful and bountiful time of year for all, with an abundance of produce in fabulous rich colour tones. I have used a bounty of Tim’s Dies and texture fades for my project

I had a wonderful frame that was designed and cut by the lovely Lisa at That Craft Place; she will cut any shape and has a huge variety of products and materials available

I started by applying DecoArt Crackle paste around the edge

Then started arranging the embossed die cuts, I used Tattered Leaves and embossed them with Textured leaves texture fade, the other dies were Holiday Greens and Weathered Clock

These were applied to the frame and then I applied my bounty of mini pumpkins, these are Pumpkinos, Pukka seed pods and mini pine cones and acorns and leave's made from paper clay
Detailed with half pearls for the berries all applied with Liquitex Heavy Gel medium, one dry I covered with DecoArt white Gesso

 I applied DecoArt Carbon Black, Black Plum and Plum from the bottom to the top graduated

 One dry, I dry brushed with Titanium white, and repeated until I was happy the the coverage

Once dry, I applied Quinacridone Gold acrylic, which is a wonderful transparent but highly pigmented paint, repeating and building up the intensity in areas, particularly the leaves, pumpkins and pine cones

I hope you have enjoyed my project, please pop back to A Vintage Journey to see more of the fabulous Design Team Projects

Jools : )