Sunday, September 13, 2009

Fall Leaf Print Tutorial

For this technique, I used a green leaf
that was moist and pliable, my brayer and post it notes.
I have a limited supply of ink,
but what I used was yellow, green,
orange, red and brown (cabin fever is my brown).
I also used my acrylic block.


I inked up my brayer using the brown.



I placed my leaf with the top side of
the leaf face up on my acrylic block.
I brayered over the leaf making sure
that the whole surface of the leaf was inked.




I cleaned my brayer. I placed the leaf, ink side
down on my cardstock. I then used the
brayer to push the leaf onto the paper.






I carefully pulled up the leaf and reapeated the steps
a couple more times.






After inking the leaf, it was time to make the
masks for the leaf prints. I traced around the
edges of the leaf with a pencil.



I cut the leaf masks out.









I made tape loops to put on the back of the
masks. To make the tape less sticky I put the tape
on the back of my hand first.









I place the masks over the leaf prints. I then used the post it
notes to do the retiform technique that I described in
a previous tutorial. I used the inks in this order:
Yellow, Green, Orange, Red and lastly Brown.







Here is what it looked like when I removed the
post it notes.










I stamped little flourishes with the brown ink.









I used my itty bitty background stamp with
brown ink to add some texture.












These four cards were made with this technique.













3 comments:

  1. Absolutely awesome, MariLynn!!

    I'm headed out to find some leaves!!!

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  2. MariLynn this is so cool. I have never tried this. My brayer doesn't like me.. Great job..I need to try this.

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  3. Wow! it is so cool. I will definitely try this.

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