LEAFY TREE HANDMADE CARD

Autumn will soon be here and my Nephew has an Autumn Birthday so I thought about using one of my new SWEET POPPY STENCILS and using INDIGOBLU FLITTER GLU with their YORKSHIRE DALES GILDING FLAKES onto Black Card. I also heat embossed  "Birthday Wishes" with COSMIC SHIMMER LAPIS BLACK AUROURA EMBOSSING POWDER onto the black card.  I then matted the card onto Gold Mirror Board. 

The background card is a mirror board from CARLEY at CREATA and was embossed by using one of SHEENA DOUGLAS LEAF EMBOSSING FOLDERS.  Then with one of the leaves I added RANGER ADIRONDACK colour GOLD ALCOHOL INK and outlined this leaf with STICKLES colour PATINA.  To finish the card off I matted all of this onto another piece of Gold Mirror Board and edged this with a TONIC PUNCH and added a few black and green gems and a gold bow with a button.  The finished card is an 8 inch square white card.

Sometimes I don't know what size of card I'm going to make and just start of at making the Topper first, then simply just matting and layering until I'm happy.  I then add all this to a card I have in my stash, sometimes having to cut a card down to size, or even make one from scratch.  I find it easier to make the Toppers first, than stare at a blank white card and wonder where to begin and what with.

I hope you like it.  The photo doesn't do the gilding flakes justice. They are actually greens and golds and very light reflective, but not on this photo I'm afraid.