Nature's Elegance

Hi there,

Back again to share with you one of my cards from the awesome October Reveal. Today I am using the beautiful set Lovely as a Leaf Set 869. So appropriate for this time of the year and there are lots of Nuvo products used on this card too.

I began making the background and the leaf embellishments by embossing Tonic Mirror Cardstock Rose Platinum and Harvest Gold with the Darice Foliage embossing folder. I die cut the center out of each background using Sizzix Framelits 661840 Die Set. I fussy cut four of the "gold " center leaves out using my 5" Tonic Mini Scissors. The leaves were used as the embellishments to the Rose Platinum background and then I had the opposite set for another card.

The leaf stamp was stamped with Acorn Brown on white cardstock using the Tonic Stamp Platform.

The lid was removed, and the image was colored with Aquaflow markers, keeping the image in place on the platform.

An acrylic block was used as a paint palette for the markers. The Nuvo Aqua Brush Pen was used as the water brush.

Once the image was dry I applied the Anti Static Bag before applying Nuvo Clear Mark to the stamp again and then returning the lid to the platform the image was stamped over the top of the image and heat embossed with Clear Detail. This gave a nice raised shiny appearance to the leaf.

The same process was done with the sentiment. First Acorn Brown and then Nuvo Clear Mark was heat embossed with Clear Detail.

The leaf image was sponged with Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Lemon Sorbet.

Autumn Frost Velvet Glitter was used to make my ribbon twine. I took a piece of 1/4" Tear-ific Tape and rolled it up and dipped it in the glitter.

This was then used for the little bow for my leaves along with a copper brad.

Three of the leaves were tied into a "bouquet" with a copper brad and then the sentiment was added with mounting tape and the last leaf was added on top with tear-ific tape. The card front was layered to a black card base and some Nuvo Honey Gold Glitter Drops were added to complete the card.

Here is a list of the products used for my card today. These can all be found on the SNS website for sale just by clicking on them:

Lovely as a Leaf Set 869

Clear Detail (EP280)

Nuvo Hybrid Acorn Brown

Anti Static Bag

Nuvo Clear Mark

Aqua Flow Markers: Lemon Zest, Spiced Ginger,

Fresh Green, Rustic Oak, Red Apple, Evergreen Fern

Aqua Flow Water Brush

Tonic Mirror Card: Rose Platinum, Harvest Gold

Tonic 5” Mini Scissors

¼” Tear-ific Tape

Autumn Frost (GM2031)

Nuvo Embellishment Mousse: Lemon Sorbet

Tonic Stamp Platform

Nuvo Honey Gold Glitter Drops

Hope you've enjoyed my share today!

I'd like to play along in the following challenges:
Double D Challenges: "Leave: it to me
Crafty Sentiments Designs: Leaves Challenge
Ike's World Challenges #99: AG + Autumn
The Crafty Addicts Challenge Blog #41: Autumn Colors
Dies R Us Challenge Blog #83: Leaves

See you next week,

Hugs,

Shona