More Long Line Leaves

I made another card using Kristina Werner's Long Line Leaves set while it was still out on my craft desk.

This time I went for a tone on tone effect, starting with a pale green cardstock base, and stamping with green Pinkfresh Studio ink.  I used the coordinating inks to stencil shades of green onto all the leaves, then cut out a frame using Spellbinder's Nested Postage Labels & Tag dies.  I stacked two other frame die cuts underneath it when I attached everything to my card base.

I used a Betterpress sentiment from the You Are Everything set from Spellbinders - Lisa Horton's Copper Pot ink pressed onto a Bisque Cotton Card panel, which I adhered over a copper glitter diecut.  A few irridescent pearls finished it off.

Shades of Grey

 Only two, I'm afraid :o)  I am up on the Art Impressions blog today!

I've veered away from my usual style of bright colours and patterned paper today... to try a little sponging.  Art Impressions has a wonderful collection of "scene building" stamps which I have been itching to use... and as you can see, once I got started, I couldn't stop:

I've used two shades of grey ink and paper, with the occasional bit of black thrown in.  The first few cards are using Deer (Sku#H3236) and Grove of Trees (Sku#H895):

 

And this one is using both Lg. Mountain Fir (Sku#J3238) and Mountain Fir (Sku#G3237):

I kept my cards very CAS, so that they can be used for any occasion - I even thought about adding a little glitter to some of the snow so that they could be holiday cards.  The card bases are bright white in reality, even though they appear a little grey - but when I edited them any more, the detail of the sponging disappeared in the photo.  Here's a shot of how I masked the rectangles and moon:

 

Happy Stamping, everyone!