Carpe Diem

Good Morning everyone

Today is a stamped card.  I had the leaf background left over from last year when i made my dads card and did 2 sizes of background, this was the smaller one,  so I decided to finally use it.  

7x7" white cardbase.  After doing my leaf background - full details below.  I stamped with black ink the lavinia crows, hedgehog & cat stamp and doodled in the branch and some ground & added shadow with grey pencil.  The little spider and snail are stamp by card-io.  I stamped foliage around the outside edge with distress oxides in pistachio & patina which i think you can just make out in the rubbish photo! Carpe Diem stamped to finish.  Mounted onto dark green card and then added at a angle to the base card to finish. 

Just a close up

 To do the back ground I first made a leaf mask/stencil by printing a leaf outline out from the computer and using a craft knife cut around the leaf edge.  Using repositionable glue i attached it to white card that will take water.  I then painted inside the leaf mask with water and sprinkled on brusho's & mica powders, once dry i over stamped with various foliage and oxide inks.  Once completely dry i removed my mask and cut the the panel into a square. 

Items Used:

Lavinia Stamps - mooch, crows, hedgehogs

Card-io stamps - insects

Foliage stamps - magazine freebies

Sentiment stamp - katzelkraft

Brushos

Pixie powders

Oxide inks

Thank you all for stopping by.  I had a birthday at the weekend and had a lovely time as my 5 nieces put on a picnic for me so we had lots of fun & laughter.  Thank you to those who sent me a beautiful handmade card.  I was totally spoilt.  Hugs Emmaxxx

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