Last Week's Card & Cuppa - A Leafy Celebration

For last week’s Card & Cuppa class, I chose to design a more neutral project.

This project used the Natural Botanicals Stamp Set for the leaves and the Beautiful Butterflies Stamp Set for the sentiment.

As I wanted this to be a more neutral project, suitable for anyone, I used a combination of Old Olive and Basic White.

First, the larger leaves were stamped onto the backround with the stems towards the centre. These would be covered later.

Next, three smaller leaves were then stamped onto a separate piece.

All of the leaves were coloured with Watercolor Pencils, using both packs 1 and 2.

Each of the smaller leaves were then cut out (fussy cutting) and stuck behind the large Old Olive strip across the centre. Only the stem of the leaves were stuck to allow for a more 3D effect. Overhanging edges of the strip were cut away. This piece covered the stems from earlier.

Finally, the sentiment was stamped onto a Basic White Strip and added to the top of the Old Olive piece, again with the overhang cut away.

I think this project would look great in other colour ways, blues, browns, purples etc. Which colours would you choose?