Muse #186 - Neutral Leaves

Hi there

I'm thrilled that it's my turn to be your designer for this week at Muse.

The idea at Muse is to use the designer's card as your inspiration, and then create a project using one or more of the elements, e.g. layout, colours, technique, etc.  I always love seeing how you interpret our cards each week.

I had the rough idea of this card in my head and I have to say, I love how this one turned out.  I love neutrals and monochrome designs so I'm really pleased with this one.

I started with a panel of white cardstock slightly smaller than my card base and die cut a leaf from it.  After trawling through my paper pads I chose the brown/tan striped paper to use as my background.  I adhered the panel to the striped paper which I cut slightly larger, and then adhered these flat to the card base.  I then added a little gold gilding wax to the die cut leaf to give it some metallic shimmer and also cut another leaf from some clear vellum.  I arranged these around the negative leaf image and adhered the cardstock leaf.  I then heat embossed a sentiment in copper onto a strip of white cardstock, popped this up on 3D foam and used this to hold the vellum leaf in place.

Materials used:

• Die: Memory Box - Pointed Leaf
• Patterned Paper: Lawn Fawn - Let's Polka Mon Amie
• Stamp: Uniko - Fontiments Birthday
• Ink: VersaMark
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Copper
• Gilding Wax: Creative Expressions - Enchanted Gold
• Vellum from stash

Challenge entries:

Just Us Girls - Challenge #363 - Leaves

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
The Male Room - Challenge #45 - Leaves and/or Trees
Seize the Birthday - Soft and Simple

That's all from me today.  Hopefully my card will inspire you to play along at Muse this week.  It's a great challenge and the winners are chosen by votes from your fellow participants :)

Bye for now