Falling for Fall...RGStudio360 Announcement!

Hello there inky friends!  Today I'm excited to share some fun news with you!  I was recently invited to join the RGStudio360 Design Team.  WOOP WOOP!  RG and his team announced the news on his social media channels by sharing my first of many projects.  I decided to play with the gorgeous new set called "Fall Wreath". To create my card, I used the digital version of this stamp set.  Did you know that when you purchase a stamp set through RGStudio360, you also receive the digital download for free?  YEP!  It's great that you get both versions! 

While I waited for the stamp set to arrive, I got to work on playing with the digital set.  I love that I can manipulate the images- resize, and layer the images easy-peasy and then can print the images on my computer.  Once printed, I can design my cards any way I wish! 

I wanted to focus on the "nutty" part of the wreath so I enlarged the wreath, twirled it around and offset my image so that I could have the image fill the page.  After cutting out this wreath panel, I colored the wreath with my Neocolor2 Aquarelle watercolor pastels.  I love the vibrancy of these artist pastels and they are so fun to work with. 

After coloring the image, I colored some additional leaves so that I could have a collection for future cards as well as for embellishing touches to my fall themed cards.  I selected one of the leaves to embellish over the ribbon touches.  After coloring these additional leaves, I splattered some blue aquarelle watercolor onto the panel using my fine paint brush.  Next, it was on to glossing up and making things shiny...Yes, I sure do love the shine and the "invitation for touchy-feely experiences" with my cards.  I added glossy accents to the berries, the pinecone, the nuts as well as the extra leaves.  

After creating this panel, I attached a little strip of gold cardstock along the left edge of the panel and added a few golden flat-backed pearls.  Perfect little finishing touches!  To finish the card off, I curled a few of the edges of this panel up with my finger and then mounted it onto a dark green card base (with a topfold).  

Thanks for popping over to check out my first project featuring RGStudio360 products.  I am excited to share a few more projects with this stamp/digi set with you again so please stop back over to my blog again soon!  :)  Have a great week!