Elegant Leaves Cards with Ana and Franci

Hello everyone! It's Ana here today sharing three cards featuring gorgeous Elegant Leaves stamps and coordinating dies as well as patterned paper packs from the newest fall 2019 release.

For my first card I have used Elegant Leaves stamp set and Staggered Circles Dies. To start, I have placed Staggered Circles Die on a piece of white cardstock and penciled the placement of each circle. I aligned the stamps onto each circle next, then used mini ink pads to create multiple colors on each leaf.

This technique is easy to achieve if you have a stamping platform and don't mind getting your fingers inky! As I stamped each color, I wiped off the rough edges mini ink cubes created. I started with the darkest color in the middle of each image and worked my way out to the lightest, making sure the colors mix. I did not clean the stamp between each color.

For the colors, I used several different brands of inks in dark and medium browns, rust, mustard, dark yellow and green.

Once all the stamping was done, I die cut circles using Staggered Circles Dies and adhered the panel on a piece of beautiful patterned paper from Colorful Autumn Paper Pack. I heat embossed the sentiments, added some splatter and few pearls to finish the card.

I decided to make a shaker card for my second project. I used Colorful Autumn Patterned paper for the background. I die cut a circle in the middle creating a shaker opening and backed the panel with patterned paper from Heroic Halftones Patterned Paper pack. For my shaker elements, I used rainbow Clay Flower Confetti. 

I stamped the Thankful sentiment (from Elegant Leaves stamp set) with 3 shades of blue ink, creating an ombre effect, then fussy cut it out. The leaves were stamped with brown ink, colored with alcohol markers then tucked behind the sentiment. I white heat embossed the rest of the sentiment.

Completed panel was adhered to A2 size card base.

For my third card I used Stitched Oval Dies to create white oval frame as well as an opening in the brown background panel. I used Dapper Diamonds Embossing Folder to create the pattern on the background panel then added white oval frame with foam tape.

I heat embossed the sentiment directly on the card base, added some shading with Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the sentiment, then adhered the background panel to the card base.

I heat embossed the leaves from Elegant Leaves stamp set, colored them with alcohol markers and die cut with coordinating dies. I arranged the leaves around the oval frame, tucked few inside of the frame, them embellished the card with brown gems.

Thank you so much for visiting today! I really hope you liked the cards I have shared today and got inspired. Have a wonderful day!

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Hello there and happy Wednesday! Franci here with you today with my first card featuring the new release which I adore!! Here I'm showcasing the new Elegant Leaves set with a special card, totally out of my comfy zone but super fun to make!

First of all I stamped all the leaves on to my white panel, I let them dry completely and I watercolored them with light colors. I also added some sparkle watercolors splatters here and there. I had this idea in my mind: making a dreamy fall leaves patterned paper - I'm so happy about how it turned out.

Then I die cut the word Hello twice out of chocolate cardstock, I glued the layers together and added a coat of Glossy Accents. I also die cut a little heart out of sparkle gold paper using the mini die included in the Comic Strip Everyday Dies set. 

I glued my panel on to a white card base, I added some white twine, some vellum and glued everything down. Finally I also added some white embellishments.

Hope you like my card and thank you so much for stopping by! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Hello Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dapper Diamonds Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Oval Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Staggered Circles Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Colorful Autumn 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Elegant Leaves Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Elegant Leaves Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio