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GORGEOUS LEAVES

Hello and welcome to my Monday August 16 post! Thanks for popping by.

All my posts for this week were scheduled late last week because today I am having my second knee replacement. If all goes according to plan, I will be home Thursday and be ready to make more projects to share with you.

For this post, I am featuring the Gorgeous Leaves Bundle.

GORGEOUS LEAVES BUNDLE

When I saw this stamp set and the coordinating dies I knew that I would be ordering it.

I started by choosing my colour palette – it was going to be full on Autumn (Fall). Basic Black, Brushed Metallic Foil, Cajun Craze, Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede and Very Vanilla were gathered together for this project.

The card base, foil and black layer were prepared. Then I used three of the ‘background’ images to stamp and cut the three panels that were added next.

The next step was to stamp and cut the leaves. They were then layered to create the leaf bouquet. I adhered them to the card front.

The greeting is from the Ornate Thanks Stamp Set. I stamped the leaf image on to the card insert and envelope. The finishing touch was to add some Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dots.

When Rob and I travel we love it when we see the changing leaves of Autumn. There have been some spectacular places we have seen. Unfortunately, where we live in Queensland , there are very few trees that have changing leaves.

What is your favourite time of the year?

Until tomorrow, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad
Garden Green Classic Stampin’ Pad
[126973]
$11.50
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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WINDOW SPOTLIGHT CARD

I wanted to use my ORNATE STYLE STAMP SET in a way that I hadn’t done before – to use it to create a spotlight card.

The idea was to have a coloured image on the front of my card and a stamped yet uncoloured image inside the card – with a ‘window’ die cut into the card front, using the LAYERING CIRCLES DIES.

The two sets of WARETCOLOUR PENCILS and a BLENDER PEN were used to colour the card front image.

As you can see, I used ORNATE GARDEN SPECIALTY DESIGNER SERIES PAPER to embellish the envelope flap and the inside of the card front (not photographed).

A piece of BUMBLEBEE GINGHAM RIBBOM was attached to the front of the card, before the DSP was adhered to the inside of the card fromt.

The sentiment used on the front of the card was from the ORNATE THANKS STAMP SET and stamped in GRANNY APPLE GREEN. It was trimmed and then popped up using dimensionals.

The envelope and inside of the card both had partially stamped images as the main image.

Finally, ‘for everything‘ was stamped on the inside of the card.

This was an interesting type of SPOTLIGHT CARD to make. What do you think?

Thanks for popping by … happy stamping.

These are the products I used to make this card. If you live in Australia, you can order any of them through me.

Product List
Blender Pens
[102845]
$21.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00