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Acrylic paint on watercolor paper Lynn Whipple's lesson leaf printing tags!Leaf prints were so beautiful I had a hard time stopping and also didn't want to mark them up! I did leaf prints on both sides. I decided to use these as place setting cards as well as gift tags. I think they would look lovely on Thanksgiving. I may go back and write words of things I'm grateful for, but I also may just provide pens and let people write their own. I did get inspired by the kids, especially one little boy who didn't give up and made some drawings! I drew on three as birds seemed to lend themselves well to my leaves but one bug came out. I also thought providing pens and letting people draw their own leaf drawings would be fun at a dinner party. So that is what I have planned for my leaf prints. I did a whopping 32 tags and considering I printed both sides I spent a lot of time at it! The leaves I used were: roses, lemon cucumber, melon, lantania, dandelion, fig, scabiosa, violet, wisteria, trumpet flower, lilac (new leaves are lovely heart shapes), apple, oak (birds keep hiding acorns in my yard and the seedlings hatch I love the leaves), tangelo, Buddlia/butterfly bush, pineapple sage, peppermint (it bruises easily and is a one shot deal), and a houseplant that I believe is called arrow plant. I miss my herb garden leaves like parsley and basil. They make lovely prints but I do not have an herb garden this year as CA is in a drought I am trying to keep alive and hang on to what I have so that means perennials and established and not planting extras. We did do the annual pumpkins for the neighborhood kids and grandchildren they will be small this year. Melons were an extravagance but are very small and few. When the drought is over I want a big potage garden with fruits and annual flowers as well as perennials!
leaf prints 4
Acrylic paint on watercolor paper Lynn Whipple's lesson leaf printing tags!Leaf prints were so beautiful I had a hard time stopping and also didn't want to mark them up! I did leaf prints on both sides. I decided to use these as place setting cards as well as gift tags. I think they would look lovely on Thanksgiving. I may go back and write words of things I'm grateful for, but I also may just provide pens and let people write their own. I did get inspired by the kids, especially one little boy who didn't give up and made some drawings! I drew on three as birds seemed to lend themselves well to my leaves but one bug came out. I also thought providing pens and letting people draw their own leaf drawings would be fun at a dinner party. So that is what I have planned for my leaf prints. I did a whopping 32 tags and considering I printed both sides I spent a lot of time at it! The leaves I used were: roses, lemon cucumber, melon, lantania, dandelion, fig, scabiosa, violet, wisteria, trumpet flower, lilac (new leaves are lovely heart shapes), apple, oak (birds keep hiding acorns in my yard and the seedlings hatch I love the leaves), tangelo, Buddlia/butterfly bush, pineapple sage, peppermint (it bruises easily and is a one shot deal), and a houseplant that I believe is called arrow plant. I miss my herb garden leaves like parsley and basil. They make lovely prints but I do not have an herb garden this year as CA is in a drought I am trying to keep alive and hang on to what I have so that means perennials and established and not planting extras. We did do the annual pumpkins for the neighborhood kids and grandchildren they will be small this year. Melons were an extravagance but are very small and few. When the drought is over I want a big potage garden with fruits and annual flowers as well as perennials!