Seasonal Leaves

Lost your mojo?  Hunting for your creativity?  We've all been there.  It may not feel like it now, but it will come back to you again.  In the meantime, take a look around your room - you may be surprised to find inspiration in something very ordinary that you normally overlook.

Finding myself in that very situation, I found inspiration in the little calendar that sits in the corner of my craft room.

Colorful Seasons stamp set, Seasonal Layers dies
and the Layered Leaves 3D embossing folder combine to create this card

 The other side of the calendar has a very different pattern - maybe I'll CASE that in the future!

My leafy card together with it's inspiration

Wondering how I cut the tops of the coloured 1"strips?  With the use of one of the dies in the Botanical Tags set - see below. 

Placing the Botanical Tag die to trim the top of the coloured strip

The card colours I used were Soft Sea Foam, Shaded Spruce, Granny Apple Green, Mango Melody, Cajun Craze, Merry Merlot and Blackberry Bliss.  It's a great way to use up some of those odd little bits of cardstock!

Thank you for visiting.
'Til  next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase in my online store

Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$16.00

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set

$47.00

Seasonal Layers Dies

$56.00

Botanical Tags Dies

$47.00

Stitched Rectangle Dies

$61.00

Versamark Pad

$16.50

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

$10.50

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Birch and leaves - A masculine card

My brief for myself today was to use the Birch stamp and to make a quick, easy and masculine card.  Here's the result.

A masculine card - suitable for most occasions.
It features the Birch stamp and foliage cut with Seasonal Layers and Nature's Roots dies

The base card is Sahara Sand with a layer of Early Espresso.  The card front is Soft Suede, stamped with the Birch image using White Craft ink which I softened a little by applying more white ink with a sponge brayer.

The greeting is from the Colourful Seasons stamp set, stamped with Early Espresso ink onto Old Olive cardstock.  I used the Layering Ovals dies to cut out both the sentiment and the Mossy Meadow layer beneath it.

The foliage is cut from scraps of Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze and Early Espresso cardstock using dies from the Seasonal Layers and Nature's Roots sets.

I only coloured the smallest leaf.  It's cut from Crushed Curry cardstock and sponged with Cajun Craze.  I drew on the veins with a Cajun Craze Stampin' Write Marker.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All products used in the project are available for purchase in my online store

Birch Cling Stamp

$28.00

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set

$47.00

Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies

$56.00

Nature's Roots Framelits Dies

$68.00

Whisper White Craft Stampin' Ink Refill

$8.00

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Soft Suede A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Card Stock A4 Crushed Curry

$15.25

Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Sponge Brayers

$14.00