It’s Hero Arts turn with their Happy Thanksgiving exclusive set for STAMPtember by Simon Says Stamp! I was inspired by German illustrator Ira Sluyterman van Langeweyde; I love the warm tones she uses in her paintings and thought the style would fit with my an autumn pumpkin patch :D I’ve linked all supplies at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used.

I often stamp with Versafine Onyx Black when I’m watercoloring but for this card I wanted to go with a more muted brown to match the colors so I dug around in my old ink pads and found this cube of Versafine Vintage Sepia which fit the bill perfectly. Using post its as a mask where needed, I stamped five pumpkins from the Happy Thanksgiving set on Arches watercolor card and then sketched in pencil a background of tree and bushes.

Then I let my watercoloring be heavily influenced by Ira’s style with warm tones and leaving the sky and foreground without color and added some shadows and details with Prismacolor pencils. I cut the watercolor piece down to fit on the front of a Fog card base and stamped ‘the season of thanks’ from the Happy Thanksgiving set in Versamark ink and white heat embossed. I mounted the watercolor panel above with foam adhesive.

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Hero Arts HAPPY THANKSGIVING Set STAMPtember Exclusives Tsukineko VersaFine VINTAGE SEPIA Versamark WATERMARK INK SSS FOG Card Arches COLD PRESS WATERCOLOR PAD 9×12 SSS Prismacolor COLORED PENCILS Hero Arts WHITE Embossing Powder 3M MASKING PAINTER’S TAPE 3M DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE MINI MISTI Martha Stewart MINI SCORING BOARD SSS SMALL TEFLON BONE FOLDER Crafter’s Companion GAMSOL BLENDING SOLUTION Loew Cornell BLENDING STUMPS

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