SSS Oak Leaf, Take 3

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I've got one more Oak Leaf card to share today. This one is a super quick one layer wonder.

I started by very lightly inking the solid Oak Leaf stencil on a white panel using Celery and Limelicious. The colors were alternated as I worked my way around the card, and I did allow the leaves to overlap.

Next, I chose two of the leaf detail stencils. One was placed on the Celery inked leaves and also inked with Celery, with a firmer hand. The other was placed over the Limelicious leaves and inked with Limelicious  using a heavier hand.

The result is a really subtle patterned paper. 

To finish things off, I stamped one of the sentiments from my new Positive Thoughts set with Versa Clair black ink.

This would be a great design for mass producing, and you could easily mix up/change the color scheme.

SSS Oak Leaf, Take 2

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I've got another Oak Leaf card to share with you today. 

For this card, I inked up two of the leaves using Pawsitively Saturated Ink Trio 16, which consist of Lilac, Orchid, and Amethyst ink. These were then die cut with eht coordinating die.

I cut a panel of white cardstock 3" x 5 1/2" and adhered this to the center of a black card base.

The leaves were then arranged diagonally across the card, and popped up with foam tape. 

After trimming off the excess portions of the leaves, I die cut the sentiment, which is part of the coordinating die set, from black cardstock. The shadow piece was cut from white cardstock. These were adhered together and popped up over the leaves. I also added a secondary Sentiment Strip.

I love how the leaves pop against the black and white background!

SSS Every Happiness Release

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Hi friends! The Every Happiness release from Simon Says Stamp is now available, and I've got a few new products in this release, including my latest big leaf design, Oak Leaf.

The stencil set includes four stencils, and there's a coordinating die which also includes the blessed sentiment dies that you see here.

For this card, started by stenciling the leaf using the new Green Forests set of mini inks. There are two color families included in the set, and I used the Jade, Eucalyptus, and Juniper trio.

To add some elegance and interest to the leaf, I used gold paint pen to trace along segments of the lines in the leaf.

Next, I fussy cut the leaf. Of course there is a coordinating die, but I wanted to give it a faux gilded look, so I fussy cut the leaf, and used the coordinating die to cut a solid leaf from Gold Matte cardstock. The leaf was adhered over top. This gives it such a pretty look, seeing that Gold Matte peeking out from behind.

For the background, I cut a panel of Glossy Black cardstock. I used some Tim Holtz Gold Alcohol Ink Mixative which was mixed with a little bit of blending solution, and then splattered onto the panel. 

The leaf was popped up with foam tape. The sentiment was die cut from Gold Matte, and the shadow piece from the Glossy Black, and the completed sentiment was then popped up over the leaf.

I'm so pleased with how this turned out. I kind of want to gild all of my leaves now!

I'll see you back here tomorrow for a fun blog hop. Until then, be sure to stop by Simon to see the full release, including my other new products: Positive Thoughts and Desert Horizon.