CASology 240: FOLIAGE

Hello,

Need a little card inspiration this week? Leaf it to CASology to get your creative juices flowing:

I was inspired to pull out some beautiful Rubberdance stamps for this week’s Challenge and could not go past the ‘Pine fir Yew‘ and ‘Beautiful Words‘ stamps to create my card:

I love the etched effect of these pine needles, so wanted to reinforce that texture through through embossing and inking.

I partially stamped the pine needles across a card panel in Versa-mark and heat-embossed the image in white EP. An oval mask was created and applied around the image, before the negative space was sponged in blue and purple pigment inks. Once the mask was removed, the image was die-cut using an oval die one size larger than that used for the mask. This created a little white frame around the image. A vellum oval another size larger was also die-cut and layered beneath the stamped oval. This helped to create depth, but also helped to frame and contain my inked image, preserving white space. Finally, the sentiment was stamped on a snippet of vellum, and once it had dried, was applied, along with some sprinkles to the card.

I like the way vellum softens the tone of a card, and thought it was used to great effect in this card by Wendy, hence the inspiration behind this layout! So, thank you Wendy!

And that is it!

Take a look at how foliage has inspired the Design Team’s cards this week, and then, please join us in the Gallery!