Love of Leaves

Hi everyone, yesterday I shared two cards I created as part of a class with the talented Andrea Walford.   Today I am sharing the next two cards made for this class.  They use all of the same materials, and stamp sets – Love of Leaves and Many Mates, but we played around with the composition.  The cards below have been CASEd (Copy And Share Everything) from Andrea’s original class samples.

You can easily recreate these cards.  To make it even easier, I took a large acrylic block and placed all of the stamps (allowing enough space between them so I could easily die cut them all at the one time) on it.  I then inked up all the stamps, using the Sponge Dauber to add extra depth to the edges with another, darker colour.  This meant I had lots of leaves to choose from when I was assembling my cards.

Here’s the first card…

Here’s the second card…

Out of the four cards, do you have a favourite?  I think mine is the last one.  Will you give this technique a go?  I hope so!

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Supplies Used:

Listed below are the supplies used to create the above project. If the stamp set, die set, etc, also comes a part of a bundle or suite, I link to all so that you have choices.  I also link refills and basic supplies like adhesives which correspond with items used to make my projects.  These links take you to my online store.

Hi everyone, inspired by yesterday’s Stampers Anonymous October Blog Hop I created another card using the colours from our Colour Challenge – Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral and Pretty Peacock.  I stayed with the Love of Leaves stamp set paired it with the “Thanks!” sentiment from the Many Mates stamp set (this is such a good all-round stamp set to have in your collection).

This card is actually super simple to create.  Stamp the leaves across a panel of Very Vanilla cardstock in Pretty Peacock, Calypso Coral and Crushed Curry.  Next use the Stitched Leaves dies to add the veins of the leaves.  Spatter some Pretty Peacock ink over the panel (and be careful how you do this as the ink travels a very long way!).  I layered this panel on a piece of Calypso Coral cardstock which I had die cut with a die from the Ornate Borders die set.  This panel was then attached to a Pretty Peacock cardstock base.  I used the Stitched Leaves dies on this base to create a really interesting stitched look.

The final step was to heat emboss the sentiment from the Many Mates stamp set and add this to the cardstock panel.  A few Champagne rhinestones completed the look.

Here’s the card…

It’s funny – when I was first shown this colour combination I didn’t love it.  I’ve now made two cards with it and whilst I confess they are not my favourite cards, they are okay.  I challenge you to step outside of your colour comfort zone.  Try some new combinations (try this one!) and just see what happens!

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Supplies Used:

Listed below are the supplies used to create the above project. If the stamp set, die set, etc, also comes a part of a bundle or suite, I link to all so that you have choices.  I also link refills and basic supplies like adhesives which correspond with items used to make my projects.  These links take you to my online store.