Gold Embossed Leaves - Sept. 2017 Paper Pumpkin Alternative

It’s time to be thankful! I love the gorgeous colors on the trees this time of year. And while it is almost 90 for one more day, tomorrow promises to be much cooler. I am getting a little excited to wear my hoodies again.

This card is made using the September Paper Pumpkin kit stamps. The leaf stamps are so pretty! And I realized the shape of the beautiful gold foil stickers matches the leaf from the Colorful Seasons stamp set from the catalog. I have been eyeing that one for a while, because it covers all four seasons quite wonderfully. And I am thrilled to have received these leaf stamps in this kit, along with the nice fall ink color Cajun Craze.

For these cards I took a Crumb Cake base card and stamped the smaller leaf all over the front in Crumb Cake ink for a tone on tone look. The card on the left is using cutout shapes from the kit and the one on the right was created just by using the stamps and cardstock from the catalog. For the small leaf I just embossed gold on Early Espresso cardstock and fussy cut it out. The tag was copied from the kit using Whisper White cardstock at 3/4″ x 1 5/8″, cut at the corners and hold punched. Then I laid the bottom onto my Versamark ink pad and embossed that part with gold embossing powder, then repeated that for a nice thick solid band.

To create the rainbow leaf I used Shimmery White cardstock (excellent for watercoloring). I embossed the large leaf stamp in gold embossing powder and heat set it. Then I stamped 4 colors along my F acrylic block, like a paint palette. I used Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Cajun Craze and Real Red. Using the aquapainter I wet the image and then added color to it. Since the paper was wet, each color blended nicely with the next. I did wipe off the brush tip between colors so the colors on the palette didn’t blend. I painted well outside the outline so that when I fussy cut the large leaf there would be no white border.

For the inside of the card I used an image from the Bunch of Blossoms stamp set that says, “Thank you very much.” It showed up well in Cajun Craze on the Crumb Cake cardstock, without having to add a white insert like you would with darker card bases.

Here is a YouTube tutorial on making this card.