SSS Be Bold, Nested Leaves Cover Two Ways

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Hi friends!  I've got several cards to sure today using my Nested Leaves cover plate.  I'm sharing two different ways to use this plate.  I'm also featuring my Be Bold sentiment set.  While this sentiment set can be used on it's own, it was actually designed so that all the sentiments fit perfectly in the center of the Nested Leaves cover plate.

This first group of cards utilizes simple innking.  For these first two cards, I blended Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn distress ink onto white cardstock panels.  On one of them I used Mowed Lawn around the edges of the panel, for the other, I used it in the center of the panel.  

For this second card, I stepped things up and popped the cover up with foam tape.  The sentiments were gold embossed.

These next two cards use the same inking technique - one with the darker colors in the center and the other around the edges - but this time I mixed things up to ink alternating pairs of leaves.  

For the blues, I used Marine and Cadette and for the peaches I used Cheeky and Blush.

The sentiments were stamped with Versa Claire black ink.

Next up, version two of my cards.  This time, instead of inking, I used cardstock to create the ombre effect.  Here's a look at the blue/pink version.

This involved a lot of die cutting.  After die cutting each of the colors, I cut a 'frame' for my inlay.  A piece of white printer paper run through my Xyron machine to add adhesive to the entire piece was then added to the back of this die cut frame, and the colored pieces were inlaid within.

Just as before, I switched up the orientation of card as well as the direction of the ombre for the second card.

Here's a look at the cards together.

Here are the green inlaid cards.

I was especially excited about how these turned out.  Having a good array of shades in any given color makes a huge difference don't you think?

As before for these darker cards I gold embossed the sentiments.

And here's the side by side look at the inked vs inlaid cards.

Phew!  That was a lot of cards and photos, but so much fun to make.

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