I decided to put one of my gel plate backgrounds to use with this card:
The background was created using acrylic paints and a leaf stencil, onto which I also sprayed some Distress mica stain, add some dribbles of water, held the paper up to allow some drippage, and then let it dry.
I notice the mica stain seemed to resist the acrylic paint, so you can still see some leaves in the background.
The leaves are from a new Tim Holtz set, and the yellow parts are from an ink smooshing session, and that panel used to die cut the base leaves.
I decided to use red for the inner leave detail to really make them pop.
The sentiment is a foiled strip.
I am glad I was able to photograph the shimmer and shine of the distress mica stains.
I shall be entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – happy birthday
Color Throwdown – red, yellow, green, white
Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes
We Love 2 Create – anything goes mixed media
Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge – anything goes mixed media
Crafting Happiness – anything goes
AAA Birthday challenge – anything goes birthday
Here Is A Place To Start – anything goes – option trees and/or leaves taken
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Beautiful card! Love the gel printed background, and those leaves a gorgeous! Love, love, love! Thank you for sharing and playing along with us at AAA Birthday, hope you’ll join us again. Take care, keep crafting and have fun!
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I like this project! It is a wonderful response to our challenge this month! Thanks for sharing this with us at A Place to Start!
Hugz,
Chana Malkah, Owner
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A very striking card. The leaves look fabulous against the beautiful background.
Thank you for joining in with our August challenge “Anything Mixed Media Goes” at Creative Artiste Mixed Media. Good luck x
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Love the textured look of the gel background! Lovely CAS design! Thanks so much for playing along with us at CTD!
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Love that background!
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Thank you xx
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This is great. So colourful and a creative way to display leaves. The background is amazing.
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Thank you – I like a messy play occasionally. xx
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