From My Garden

Welcome

So happy to have the weekend to play.

I hope you aren't getting sick of seeing all the Gel Plate leaf prints I have been making.

I made a bunch of them while playing so now it's time to make them into cards.

This was a super simple one using my Distress Oxide inks.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut my white cardstock for the panel, then pulled out my Gel Plate, brayer and some Distress Oxide inks: Rustic Wilderness, Evergreen Bough.
• Next, I took the fern and laid it flat onto my work surface.  I inked up my brayer with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink, being sure to cover all the surfaces and then laid that onto my plate pressing over it with a piece of scrap paper to make good contact.  I carefully lifted the leaf off and pressed my cardstock onto the plate to pick up the impression.
• Since this was going to be a simple print, I wanted to add some interest to the background, so I inked up the Leaf Ledger background stamp from Impression Obsession with the inks mentioned above and stamped directly onto my plate, then rubbed the leaf print back onto the plate.  >>watch that your stamp doesn't slide or you won't get a good image impression<<  
• I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment, then splattered the whole panel with my black Posca pen.
• I mounted it onto a white card base.....easy right?

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studios); Leaf Ledger (IO)

Inks- Distress Oxides (mentioned above); Versafine Clair Nocture

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Gel Plate; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); leaf from garden; black Posca pen