Monday's Card

This is the card I made on Monday for the Technique Lover's Challenge. We were to make a 5 layered punched button. I made a punched out leaf. I did the leaf print technique and used the magical marquee technique to make my card. I made it for my friend Amy. She went dumpster diving to get parts of musical cards for me to use in my card making endeavors. Now that is a friend.

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.