Today’s project shows one way of using Gilded leafing in Card Making

The theme of this blog hop from The crafty Collaborations was “Case a Friend”. I had a look around at some of the beautiful projects my fellow Demonstrators were creating and a card by Emma Goddard – the Coastal Crafter caught my eye.

Her project used the Boughs & Blossoms bundle and you can watch Emma creating her card on a recent Live here. I decided I would swap the flowers for leaves and I used the Love of Leaves stamp set and coordinating dies.

Using Gilded Leafing in Card Making

The Basic White card stock mat is cut narrower than the Evening Evergreen card base and embossed with the Bark 3D embossing folder. The leaves were stamped in different shades of green;

• Old Olive
• Just Jade
• Garden Green
• Soft Succulent
• Evening Evergreen

The coordinating dies add a lovely stitched detail to the leaves. On the ends of the Just Jade leaves, I added some multipurpose adhesive and rubbed some Gilded Leafing onto the sticky surface.

The leaves were arranged down the edge of the embossed white card with a mixture of glue and dimensionals. The sentiment was heat embossed in Gold. A bow of gold thread was attached to the back of the sentiment before attaching it with dimensionals. The finishing touch was some Brushed Metallic Dots.

Let’s Hop

I hope you have enjoyed my project. Do leave a comment if you can, because it certainly makes my day. Then it is time to hop around all the other projects

How Can I help?

This Love of Leaves stamp set is so versatile and I love the coordinating dies. Just by substituting leaves for flowers you can make a more masculine feeling card. You can see a card for Dad using these dies on an earlier blog post

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if I can help with your purchases, or if you have a crafty question.

Meanwhile stay safe and stay well

Helen xx

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