ID: Gilded - Fall Leaves - In My Thoughts
5"w x 7"h

Created: July 23, 2009
Modified:

Picked up this beautiful rubber stamp of fall leaves by the Stamp Barn and just had to do something with it. I also realized I've been doing a lot of side fold cards, so this one's a gate fold. The inside has a gold parchment stationary paper with the same leaf rubber stamped in the upper left hand corner with a Versafine stamp pad, mix of Olympia Green & Vintage Sepia.

I Stamped the leaf onto some Arches 90# HP watercolor paper and colored it in with Tombows. Used a Coluzzle - Nested Fat Ovals #44-4094 to cut my oval and then cut around the leaf shapes. Used a Distress stamp pad and sponging tool and Vintage Sepia to color the edges around the oval. Cut out another oval the same size from a deep brown cardstock and off set it under the leaf oval. drew in my lines for the gilding. I used La Dore adhesive and I'm not happy with it again. The batch I decanted is too thick and shows the brush marks through the gilding. In this case it's ok since the pattern I used are leaves. I really should throw this stuff away.

I used my Scor-It to score the folds for my gate fold. Adhered the oval off the edge of the left side. I used the same stamp and rubber stamped it onto more w/c paper, colored it with the Tombows and cut it out, eliminating some of the leaves. Adhered it to the right side of my card, leaving one leaf un-glued for the leaf in the oval shape to slip under and keep the card closed. Added one of my gold calligraphic Peel Offs sentiments

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